6 Allegedly True Encounters with Legendary Creatures

The Kapre of Manila

• 🇵🇭 Steve recounts an unsettling experience in his Manila condominium, where the elevator inexplicably skipped floors and lights in an adjacent unit turned on by themselves.
• 💨 He frequently smelled weed smoke near the fire exit, despite CCTV, and experienced a disorienting event where his study materials changed and his room seemed to shrink and expand.
• 👕 Believing he encountered a Kapre, a mischievous, giant, hairy creature from Filipino folklore known to smoke and confuse people, Steve followed a traditional remedy by turning his shirt inside out, which stopped the phenomena and returned his room to normal.
• 🗣️ Security footage showed Steve speaking to a guard, an event he had no memory of, suggesting a possible memory lapse or supernatural influence.

The Floater in the Stream

• 🇳🇱 A Dutch individual describes encountering a creature known as a 'Floater' near a stream, which legend says jumps on people's backs, feeling like a heavy weight.
• 🎒 While walking home with groceries, the narrator felt their bag become unusually heavy, then light again, accompanied by splashing sounds with no visible ripples.
• 🌿 Later, a sleek, wet, meter-tall creature was seen emerging from the water and gnawing on the narrator's Moroccan mint plant, hissing when noticed before returning to the stream.
• 🔪 The next morning, the mint plant showed marks resembling cuts from thousands of razors.

The Mimicking Skinwalker

• 👧 A young girl recounts an encounter with a creature in the woods behind her house, initially mistaking its voice for her father's.
• 🌲 The entity was described as over 15 feet tall, lanky, with glowing eyes and a starved appearance, screaming and approaching her and her friend.
• 🐾 Her father investigated, finding large, snowshoe-sized footprints that were not from any known local animal.

Hellhounds in Regina

• 🇨🇦 In Regina, Saskatchewan, a teenager woke to the sound of neighborhood dogs going insane and heard unnatural howling.
• 🐕 Two massive, horse-sized dogs with glowing golden eyes were seen running across a parking lot, locking eyes with the narrator before disappearing.
• ⚠️ The narrator later learned these could have been Hellhounds and considers themselves lucky to have survived the encounter.

The Old Man of the Sierra Mountains

• ⛰️ While hiking in the Sierra Nevada mountains with her fiancé, the narrator encountered a figure that initially appeared to be an old man in dark, ragged clothing.
• 🧍 The figure was unnaturally still, then began to stand from a hunched position, revealing a height of over six and a half to seven feet tall, described as thin yet eerily tall.
• 💨 The creature then sprinted down the mountain at an unnatural speed as a jeep approached, with the occupants offering a ride and warning about strange occurrences in the desert after dark.

The Shadow with Mustard Eyes

• 🏠 A five-year-old boy, after moving into a new house, experienced a terrifying encounter in his bedroom.
• 👤 A dark figure with long, slim arms, huge hands, and a gaunt chest appeared by his bunk bed, moving closer despite his attempts to retreat.
• 👁️ The figure then revealed deep mustard-colored eyes with shrunken pupils, emitting a soft growl before melting away when the boy's mother entered the room.