Alrighty, So this is a story I got from a Reddit user name sure needle worker. Needle worker. Yeah, I'm almost certain this is like a default Reddit name that they didn't change. It's not a good one. Sorry, sorry, yeah, yeah, so this is I wish i'd come up with a title like you do and now next week so we can go and make titles for my stories. I want to use them in the titles when we put it on podcasts form, and that's kind of why I'm doing it. Yeah, it's a good idea. I wish I had done that, but I didn't. All right, So this happened to me in my early teens. I'm twenty one now. My best friend growing up had this huge farm house in the middle of Virginia. It was very old and beautiful, but also had a very dark history. In the there's a tunnel that led to an underground room of sorts that was used for slaves to hide in in the eighteen hundreds, and I'm ninety percent sure that some died down there while hiding, so you can imagine the history and energy that fills this house. Always felt scared there, never felt alone, and wouldn't go anywhere alone. In the house, even just to grab something out of my room. Even the family was scared to stare there with no company because the intense apparitions that they had seen and experiences. The rooms were massive, and the entire house was white with honestly creepy vintage decre There was even a cabinet of ventriloquistalls upstairs. They were really odd family, honestly, with lots of problems. Anyways, the second time I visited that house, I was with my mom, my best friend at the time, and her mom. It was a girl's trip. One night, I woke up and he was so thirsty and the last thing I want to do was go downstairs and get water. I was terrified. I heved the house at night, but my mom was dead asleep, so I literally sprinted downstairs with my head only looking at the floor. I made my water in five seconds flat, and when I made it to the stairs, something compelled me to look at the giant glass doors that were in front of the stairs. I was horrified, but felt like I needed to look out the window. What I saw when I looked at that window will haunt me for the rest of my life. I saw a man as real as anything I've ever seen. It was pitch black outside with a huge bright moon. The man was jet black like a silhouette, but because of the moon being so bright, I could clearly see his entire body. He was blacker than black, like he stood out so much one hundred percent thought he was a trespasser. He was wearing a top hat and was unhumanly tall seven feet around that area. My heart literally felt like it had stopped beating. I felt like I was in a trance. I was so unexplainably horrified, but I couldn't look away. He was moving a little bit, almost like breathing. Then about ten seconds later, he was gone, disappearing in thin air. I panicked and bolted upstairs as I snapped out my trance, I cried to my mom and was up all night. The next morning, I told my friend and her mom about the experience, and they were not shocked at all, as they had seen multiple full body operations in the house themselves. The nanny that worked for them even refused to go in some rooms of the house. I never went back to that house again. Wow, I don't think I would either. No. Evidently fear was a factor for that I'm okay with having fear as a factor. For me, I'm the most scenarious I think when I let's listen to that story, just the thought of the jet black thing. Yeah, so like, are you're talking like shadow figure like jet black or like, yeah, it's a shadow figure. In fact, I have saw several other stories all referencing a man in the top hat. Apparently this is a entity that makes its way around and some people say that they've seen Other people who commented on that story also said that they have seen the man in the top hat, and they said it was always seven like seven feet tall or so, and it's jet black. The man in the top hat. Yeah, yeah, that's the name of the story right there. Yeah, there you go. That's the name of the story. The man in the top had's terrifying. The Big Bad Wolf song is definitely playing, Oh gosh, Jack, you ever seen the man in the top hat? Well, no, it does jar memory of something, but not specifically that the the shadowy figure thing. A lot of people talk about it. It's always it's always unsettling because you can't quite It's like it's almost like you can kind of picture it, like you can picture seeing someone or something like that. And then it's those lack of details that really kind of seem to stick around the most. Yeah, it's like you're kind of left to fill in the blanks. Oh, terrifying. So one thing that really stuck out to me was that, you know, this is you know, obviously a kid's recollection of the events that happened, but not this person was an evil apparition or entity, or if it was just actually someone a trespasser, and then in their mind they blew up to the size of a seven foot tall, monstrous looking person in the top had that's you know, something that's hard to say, and it's you know, like I said, he shows up in a lot of people's stories, but I can also see this being like a case of like something someone actually was there, which in a lot of ways is as terrifying. If more so, I do believe this person saw something at night. And yeah, so I think this is a incredible scary story, whether or not, much like the last one, whether the events unfolded exactly as they perceived them to be, that's one thing I thought it was a good story regardless. Yeah, I agree, it's kind of like slender Man, right, like, but you had the folklore of this man in the top had it's terrifying. I do think that when you see something in the dark, it kind of does leave your mind to kind of like complete whatever you're seeing, because you don't really know how when you're in the dark. You don't really know how tall things are, you don't really know how big things are. You can only speculate based on what you can or cannot see, so
