This story originally appeared on Reddit in 2017. It was sent to me by FearFierst last year. He didn’t say where he hails from or even if this happened to him. He has titled this story The Hand Under The Bed.
Back in 2003, I was 8 years old. Our family had just moved to a new country and it was our first night in the apartment my step-father had rented for us. Due to jet lag, and having already slept on the plane, I was wide awake. It was past midnight and I was in bed.
For you to understand this story better I’ll have to explain what my room was like. My bed was at the end of the room below the windows. On the other side of the room was the bedroom door. Next to that there was a walk-in closet. Both doors of the closet had mirrors on them. They were pretty big. I’d say they covered 75% of the doors. This meant I could see my own reflection when I was on my bed.
As I laid there, waiting to fall asleep, I felt something like a big hand violently grab my leg and pull me out of bed. As soon as this happened I began screaming and held onto the headboard so as not to get completely pulled away. As this was going on my brother, who was also awake, came running. He tried opening my bedroom door but couldn’t get in. In our house there is a rule – NEVER lock any door. So, it was unlocked, but for some reason he just couldn’t open it. He yelled out to my mother and father. While they were getting up I was still struggling and holding onto the headboard. I looked back to the mirror and I saw the reflection of myself on the closet doors. There was a huge black arm coming from under my bed grabbing my leg and pulling me. As soon as I saw it I screamed even louder.
When my parents finally reached the door to my room, they were able to open it. As the door opened the hand let go and slid under the bed. They turned on the lights and asked me what was going on. I told them what went down, but obviously it was swept aside as a bad dream. Even though I was wide awake.
After this I grabbed my mattress and put it on the floor. I was not going to sleep on beds that had spaces under them ever again. One last thing. My brother believed me because I showed him the bed frame. There were 3 scratch marks on the side where the arm had come out. Mind you, the bed was new. My dad had them set up the night we arrived. – FearFierst
Okay this story is quite terrifying. It appears that ghosts and shadows can actually earn their reputation of being downright scary. Thank you for sharing your story with us. Truly one of a kind. Fearfiest has made the drawing of his encounter that is attached to this post.
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