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True Scary Story

I Grew Up Haunted

True Scary Story

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4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Tonight’s terrifying account begins with childhood night terrors and evolves into something much more disturbing. After years of seeing the same shadow figure, playing with Ouija boards, and experiencing terrifying dreams, one person began to question whether she was more than haunted… perhaps even a doorway for spirits themselves. 
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0:00.0

For over 20 years, spirits have followed Olivia everywhere that she's lived, appearing in dreams,

0:07.0

mirrors, closets, and even at work in the middle of the night. My name is Edwin, and here is Olivia's true, scary story.

0:15.0

Ever since scary story.

0:31.6

Ever since I was very young, I first started having night tears every single night.

0:34.6

My mom would have to get up and actually take me outside because I would have these night tears so bad.

0:42.3

I turned at three. That's when I really started seeing things.

0:47.3

Granted, it wasn't very much at first, that, like, to my knowledge.

0:52.3

I was over at my grandmother's house for the weekend,

0:57.1

and then we were looking out her sliding patio door,

1:02.6

and then all of a sudden I seen him behind a tree.

1:05.3

So I pointed at him, you know, saying,

1:07.7

oh, look, there's Uncle Wayne, that was his name.

1:10.6

He just passed away,

1:12.6

and obviously nobody else could see it, so they just kind of shrugged it off, but were a little

1:18.5

weary about it. Ever since that point where I kind of turned three, the same thing at her house,

1:25.8

I would occasionally sleep in her bed, you know, if I was there on the weekends or something.

1:31.0

But every single time, I always seen this dark shadow standing in the doorway that scared me so bad that I would always turn to the right away from the door and cover my head. I was so scared of it. My mother and I

1:48.4

ended up moving towns back to my hometown, I guess, now. She met my little brother's dad at that

1:57.5

time frame. That house, I remember only the details that included paranormal.

2:06.0

Every single night when I slept, I would always see somebody in my doorway once again.

2:12.0

Or it'd be standing over me. It was this tall, just dark presence. And it was just watching over me to the point where

2:19.6

our dog at the time would always be on guard, always growling at it every single morning when it

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