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The original was posted on /r/paranormal by /u/just_wanna_share_2 on 2024-11-04 18:28:42+00:00.

I have shared this story again from a throw away and from 2 banned accounts , they had gotten pretty famous so I say this from now if you think the story seems familiriar

When I was maybe 8 years old , my wee brother and my parents went to our village house for Christmas vacation . And before we start I should try give a small layout of the house and area . The house is located up in the mountains and it’s part of a small village of maybe 50 residents , every house is pretty far away from one another since they are being separated either by forest or olive trees , the house is shaped like the letter L ,at the top of the letter is the only bedroom which had 2 beds and a double bed , at the low part where the 2 lines connect is the only door and livingroom/ kitchens and at the other top after a small hallway is the bathroom, the walls are very thick Abt a meter , and the place is ancient . Now to the story

I could never go to sleep from a very young age , I would be tossing and turning till the dawn since my earliest memories .

Day 1: I have nothing to do in the night other than play out the day in my head or find any activity in silence to no disturb the others sleeping in the same room . usually after trying to sleep for a hour or 2 I would hear the window above my head circling from the cold , I would just stand up on the bed and look at the snowy biome and make scenarios Infront of my eyes , childish fantasies . I am already standing for Abt an hour when I notice it , looked like a guy but I couldn’t be sure , he was maybe 300 feet away next to a tree , he couldn’t be a person I though , he was as tall as the olive tree roughly at 8 foot and he didn’t have human proportions . And for the 90+ minutes that I was standing he didn’t move an inch .First thing in the morning I tell my father what I saw and he told me that it’s most likely just the cloths we tie off trees to separate where our land ends , well it was far away and dark enough it could easily be a trick of the eye but I insisted and he agreed to take me where I claim I saw this guy , when we reach there there was nothing , and my father proclaimed that there must had been a trick of the eye cause there are no markings anywhere in the snow .

Day 2 : The day was nothing out of the ordinary , played around , was with my father when he cut some wood for the fireplace and had some family time in the afternoon since there is no signal in the area to download some movie on the family laptop . At night the exact same thing , trying to sleep but I got up by the cricking sound of the window , I get up very happy since I was already daydreaming what to play around with but when I stood up I froze, there he was , my eyes picked him in fractions of a second , Abt 100 feet away he was standing partially behind a tree , his arms were stretching far too low , his back was Hunched and he was butt naked in freezing temperatures surrounded by snow , I decided to have a staring competition with him for a good 10 minutes before coming to the realization that I must wake my parents up from behind me , and I don’t want to brag but I will , I was very smart as a kid and in my head I had the irrational fear that this wasn’t a human so I shouldn’t treat it as one , I kept my eyes on it and yelled for my parents to wake up , after some convincing my dad got up and stood on my bed to stare , the second this happened I almost fell due to the weight shift of the mattress and i looked down , looked back out and there was nothing … It had completely vanished and I got in panic mode , I knew what I had seen and even if my father was dismissive my mother disclaimed the fact that I wouldn’t wake them unless the house was on fire . I couldn’t sleep that night , I slept after lunch the next day and got waken up by visitors at around 11 at night ,its Christma day

Day:3 I had nothing to do with 4 old relatives I had never seen again in my life so y’all can guess what I did and no I wasn’t playing with my 6 yo brother , I was staring outside of the window . Absolutely nothing , an hour goes by and nothing , I was trying to find him in the picture , closing on 90 minutes I start getting disappointed and I couldn’t stand up anymore and I see him , he was walking , paralel to the house Abt 100 feet away , he came out of the dencer Forrest, I observe him for no more than 15 seconds that felt like ages , and he does a shift 90° turn and he is heading directly at the house . I get off the bed and yell immediately . THERE HE IS, HE IS COMING TOWARDS US . no ever said another word and they jumped off their chairs and rushed outside , my father grabbed the rifle also and rushed outside , no one even grabbed a coat , I was standing at the door and after some time I show them where I saw him exactly , again , not even marks on the snow . Instead of dismissing me this time no one said a word and my mother even instructed me to try and sleep , I was given a tea she made and minutes later I was asleep

Day 4: woke up very late and felt groggy , I didn’t want to do much in the day but after dinner my mother gave me another tea and soon I was asleep , I woke up due to the cricking sound made by the window , I stand up and face stuck to the window it was him , eyes black and tiny like peddles , mouth too wide like it’s painted on , eyes way too far apart , head way too big to be human , he was bald with some facial hair , all white like the snow , I fall back on my bed crying from the shock and they both wake up immediately they try to cool me down and my mother went to make another tea , they wait for me to drink it and lay on my bed and they go to sleep , 10 minutes pass by and I can’t sleep cause I want to pee , I was too afraid to even move from under the sheets but I though to myself that I can’t pee here so I must get up sooner or later . I get up and I go to the hallway and hunch down to reach st the doorknob , the door is made mostly off glass and you can see very clearly into the small space before the bathroom, but the doorknob is Abt 1foot off the ground for some reason , I open the door and my head hits something and I fall back , he was inside the small hall , his shoulders were touching the ceiling and he had the same frozen face , I couldn’t even make a sound so I crawled out as fast as I couldn’t and fell on my brothers bedside cabinet and this woke everyone up , I look back and he was again vanished , then I got to the crying part like every kid would . I was hugged and was told that everything is ok and they waited for me to sleep this time . Woken up early and my parents said that we will celebrate the new years day in back at home ,I felt relieved but getting up I found something on the foot of my bed , a small makeshift like doll made out of rope , I kept this till I was 14-15 which got lost after I changed rooms to get a bigger bed , my mother most likely found it and threw it away

The story would end here normally but since I last posted this maybe 4 years ago I have learnt something new . At some point my mother had came in the room during a family gathering where all my cousins were and I was telling them Abt paranormal stories I have from my life , I said 5 of them that night and j will post all of them soon , I closed with this one I say here and my mother sat and hear it . Finishing what I had to say she very casually said that my grandfather had seen the same at the same age as me , so did his father . The parameters were always the same , the house is in the middle of nowhere and it must be snowing , the kid who sees is is under the age of 10 and some found some “toy” the morning after . She had given me valerian tea cause she knew how these stories ended and wanted me to not experience this , and another thing I heard from my last post is , yes the story sounds like the yule man but I had first written it online at age 13 before he was ever a thing , this thing js a running legend of the area my village is and it’s said that he is a bad omen and an evil spirit and 1 kid sees it each year in the 4-5 villages around , he has been seen for centuries . And my village has-been the center of MANY events that I will share if y’all want