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The original was posted on /r/paranormalencounters by /u/Traditional-Way-6508 on 2025-02-18 21:21:17+00:00.

So a lot of this is very hazy as I was so young at the time, but the core encounter will always stick with me. I know that I was only five as this was verified by my parents as they were both present when I had my sighting. So it was the spring or summer of 1988. My older cousin was staying with my family. She was about sixteen or so and a very troubled young woman. She would get into frequent fights with her mother ( my aunt) and would routinely stay over my family’s house until things blew over.

During one afternoon, I remember I was in the backyard with my parents. I went back inside the house to grab a drink from the fridge. While I was doing so, I remember hearing a distinctly male voice coming from the porch at the front of the house. Being a naturally curious kid, I walked over to see who it was that was talking as there were no other men in the house besides my dad, who was still in the back yard.

I walked over and looked out the screen door to see my cousin sitting on the front stairs. All I could see was the back of her head as she was primarily facing the street. This is when I heard the gruff sounding male voice again. My cousin turned her face ever so slightly and her profile came into view. I swear to this day, I will never forget what I saw next. The face I saw was definitely not that of my cousin. It was a sickly pale color, with swollen lips and a featureless black eye with no pupil. I only saw it for a split second, but I was so freaked out that I immediately ran back through the house and outside where my parents frantically tried to figure out what was wrong and why I had been so frightened.

My cousin only stayed a few more nights and I refused to go near her. Later on, when my dad was cleaning out the basement, he discovered some of my cousins drawings, keep in mind, she was a very talented artist. The drawings depicted people burning in some kind of pit. My cousin later admitted that she had been heavily into occult witchcraft at the time.