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The original was posted on /r/paranormal by /u/The_Decked_Blev on 2025-06-17 21:31:41+00:00.
This is my first reddit post, so please bare with me as I try to tell this story. For context, this all happened to me and my friend in late October of 2024. One day, me and her decide to take a late night spontaneous trip to some local hot springs in the mountains.
The whole hike there and back went pretty smoothly, and there was nothing eventful other than some odd people we met there. But everything changed as we got to the parking lot- this is where things happen that I cannot explain, and to this day I still don’t know.
As we were finishing our hike, we can now see the parking lot and are about 1/4 mile away from it. I’m telling my friend a story of mine as we are walking towards the parking lot. Then, suddenly out of absolutely nowhere, this unexplainable, unnatural, tremendously overwhelming sensation of absolute fear, and pure absolute evil completely enveloped me in every way possible, as if walking through some sort of invisible wall into the territory of something paranormal and evil that we were not welcome to. It took over my entire mind, soul, body, everything. It was as if my entire being was screaming “get out, now. You’re in danger”. Nothing could adequately describe the unimaginable magnitude of evil I felt then. I knew at that exact moment that we needed to leave immediately otherwise something horrendous was going to happen. I didn’t want to worry my friend or cause panic, so after a moment of silence when this evil completely enveloped me, I tried to continue talking about my story as we got closer to the car, but ultimately I just started to hasten my walk as I was cautiously looking at my surroundings in the dark, but saw nothing.
As we got closer to the car, I realized that my friend has grown silent, she then turns to me and said “things just started feeling really weird.”
When I realized we both were feeling the same thing without having mentioned it, I knew that something was seriously wrong. I said “get to the car” as we started running. As I entered the gravel parking lot, I could now see that there was a single car with closed curtains, the windows looked foggy, indicating that someone was likely inside.
We got in and locked the doors immediately and I asked “do you feel that too?” And she told me “yes, we need to leave right now”. Without skipping a beat, I turned on my car and floored it out. After exiting the canyon, we felt safe and began talking about what we felt. There’s nothing else we could describe it as besides something absolutely pure evil and unnatural and paranormal. I saw nothing, heard nothing, but felt as if Satan himself was preparing an attempt on my life.
For months I would check the news to see if there was anything that happened at the Hot springs, but nothing ever came up.
I will never forget what I felt like seemingly walking through a visible wall of some absolutely pure evil beings domain. It felt as if it knew my presence was there and I was not welcome and was under extreme danger. I don’t know what, but we encountered something that I think is not human that night.