5 True Horror Stories During Thunderstorms | Darkness Prevails
Darkness PrevailsMarch 15, 201936 min92,344 views
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- 🌲 A man in Alabama, isolated by a river, recounts seeing a naked, eyeless old man balanced impossibly on a tree branch during a severe thunderstorm.
- ⚠️ The figure remained motionless, staring with empty sockets, until the branch broke, and the man vanished before hitting the ground.
- 💡 This unsettling encounter led the narrator to sleep with lights on for a month and still causes him to draw blinds during storms.
Shadow in the Lightning
- ⚡ While on a trip to Florida, the narrator and friends experienced a severe thunderstorm, coinciding with news of an escaped convict.
- 🔪 During a lightning flash, a large figure with a scowling face, wearing a hat and overcoat, was seen tapping on their chalet window with a steak knife.
- 🚨 The narrator called 911, and the figure disappeared, later learning about an attack by an escaped convict with a steak knife on someone nearby.
Creeper During a Storm
- ⛈️ A woman in Melbourne, Australia, home alone during a thunderstorm and receiving sinister notes, experienced escalating disturbances.
- 🚪 Her dog barked at the back door, and later, she saw a figure at her bedroom window, followed by loud banging on the front door.
- 🔦 The power went out in her house, but not neighboring ones, and police later found duct tape and a pocket knife near the fence, though the ex-boyfriend accused was never found.
A Creepy Experience in Vietnam
- 🇻🇳 A US Army radio operator stationed in Vietnam during the war recounts a disturbing encounter with an intelligence officer and his unit.
- 🔬 The officer was conducting strange experiments involving severed heads in murky containers, with tubes and wires attached, appearing to be alive.
- 🤕 The narrator woke up in triage with broken ribs and a fractured collarbone, with no memory of what happened after entering the hut.
Something Tried to Get in the House
- 🌳 In rural Missouri, three young siblings were home alone during a thunderstorm when the front door knob began furiously jiggling.
- 💨 They saw a fast-moving, formless black blur outside the sunroom windows, and the garage door was subsequently locked just in time.
- ❓ Despite the muddy, wet conditions from the storm, the front porch remained bone dry, leaving the family with unanswered questions about the entity outside.
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