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Welcome to Paranormal Night
Shift your home for all things
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that go bump in the dark and
your fan stories told here.
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Why do we write off folklore and
mythical creatures?
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Why do we act like these things
that have been told stories of
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for generations just somehow,
someway stopped existing.
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Thousands of stories over
hundreds of years of people
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continuing to see the same kind
of creatures.
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Today’s story deals with a
little lesser known creature,
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and it’s called the Rake.
Unlike skin walkers, the Rake
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seems to be stuck in its other
form, not allowed to shape,
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shift or mimic anything else,
but stuck in its half human,
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half beast body, Brian writes in
It was in the fall last year.
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The leaves were changing, the
entire ground was crunchy.
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I need that to be told.
That needs to be a very big
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detail about this.
My friend and I were walking
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home from Burger King and it was
probably 8, maybe 839 o’clock at
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night.
We walked and took a shortcut
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down the railroad tracks.
It cut between my house and our
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neighbor’s house, maybe a
quarter mile down the road.
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I lived at the end of the
cul-de-sac on a dead end road.
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If you would have actually taken
the sidewalk there, it takes you
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a lot longer.
Cutting through the woods is the
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easiest, best option.
My parents had a rule.
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They were fine with us walking
that way as long as we called
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them to tell them that we were
on our way.
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We had called about 5 minutes
prior and said we’re going to go
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through the woods and we’ll be
home and I don’t know what 10-15
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minutes.
As me and my friend were
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walking, we heard all the
crunching of the leaves going
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through the woods.
It wasn’t quite all the way dark
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yet and it is still just a
wooded area behind a Culdesac,
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so there’s plenty of unnatural
light or artificial light,
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whatever you want to call it.
And the moon was very bright
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that night.
Anyway, we had gotten close to
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my house.
All we had to do was climb over
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this fence and I thought it was
a little weird that my dad
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hadn’t turned the light on.
See, most of the time if I call
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my parents they’d at least go
out to the back and turn on the
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porch line, but everything was
still really dark.
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But anyway, I climbed over the
fence.
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It’s only about a 5 1/2 foot
fence.
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It didn’t take anything, just
chain lead fence and went my
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turn and waited for my buddy to
go over and that’s when I saw
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it.
Maybe 10 feet down the fence
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line, the fence was rattling
like something else was trying
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to get over the fence.
It freaked me and my friend out,
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and that’s when we turned on our
cell phone lights and we saw
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these long claws, long like
knifelike claws, going over the
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chain link, making noises and
rattling the fence.
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Cell phone lights aren’t bright,
so we couldn’t see much of
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anything other than the claws.
My friend hurried over the fence
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and we started walking backwards
with our cell phone lights,
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trying to see whatever we could.
There just wasn’t enough light.
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Finally, my dad came out on the
back porch and flipped the light
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on.
It illuminates the backyard and
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there he was.
This pale creature looked and
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built like a man, but different.
Thin skin and bones.
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Pale Gray white skin and its
eyes.
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Its eyes were jet black.
Its skin didn’t look like human
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skin.
It it looked wet, like a
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snakeskin looks wet.
Its entire body was nude, no
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hair, just pale.
And its hands, its claws, its
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hands were elongated.
It had like knifelike
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fingernails.
The thing let out an evil hiss.
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My father saw it and he began
running down to the fence.
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I remember the sound of the
leaves and the twigs cracking
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underneath his heavy boots as he
ran as quickly as he could
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towards me and my friend.
The thing looked at my father
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and looked at us and scurried
off into the wood line.
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My dad stood out there with his
flashlight, looking for it, but
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it didn’t make a sound.
No rustle or crunching of
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leaves, nothing.
The woods were quiet, eerily
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quiet.
With all of the leaves on the
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ground, with all the twigs on
the ground, we would have heard
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crunching, rustling something,
but it was just quiet.
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After that.
My dad never let us walk through
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the woods anymore.
I make phone calls now and he
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comes and picks us up.
I hadn’t seen it again, but
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after trying to describe it to
so many people, someone sent me
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a picture of what the rake looks
like.
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It is exactly what we saw that
night.