Growing up in the Appalachian Mountains, TikToker Elijah Maxwell Mitchell (@elimaxwellmitchell) learned from a young age not to ask any questions about strange things he might see or hear.
He had just graduated from high school and decided to move in with his sick grandmother to take care of her. She lived in a two-story house, and her bedroom was upstairs.
Elijah’s bedroom was downstairs, and he kept a baby monitor in her room so he could check on her. She was bedridden and would sometimes yell for him to bring her a drink.
One night, he heard the wooden front door close. He hadn’t heard the door open, and it was locked, so he was confused. Then, he heard heavy footsteps walking very fast down the hallway to his grandmother’s room. The footsteps stopped right beside her bed.
He was downstairs and didn’t hear anything on the baby monitor. He looked up at the ceiling, frozen with fear. He didn’t have any way to protect himself or his grandmother.
Plus, it was nighttime. But then, he heard his grandmother speak through the baby monitor. He thought she had been asleep. Apparently, she was wide awake. She said, “I’ve been waiting for you.”
When he raced upstairs, nothing was there, and she acted like she didn’t know what he was talking about. That was one of the scariest things that ever happened to Elijah.
He does not know who or what his grandmother saw, but he definitely heard something enter the house.
He believes that when you are getting closer to the end, the veil becomes a little thinner for them, so people like his grandmother have the ability to sense stuff others can’t see.
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She never spoke about it, and he didn’t ask.
Some things are just better left unsaid. In the comments section, many TikTok users rushed to describe their own experiences.
“I used to take care of a lady who was 105! One night, while tucking her in bed, she kept looking behind me up at the ceiling, so I finally asked what she was looking at, and she asked, ‘Do you not see the little girl up there?’ while pointing up to the ceiling behind me,” shared one user.
“For about a month, my grandmother was on hospice, and she would look for her best friend who passed during childhood, and she kept saying I need to find him, and the night before she went into a coma, she found him and passed a week later,” commented another.
“Omg, the same exact thing happened to me on the roof of my last house. And I never heard the heavy boot footsteps walk back to the door. I remember almost crying, being so scared,” added a third.
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