The Man With the Red Eyes: The Story of a Family Haunting

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4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It began with knocks and shadow figures in a military barracks, but it didn’t end there. From a grandmother who uncovered buried witchcraft, to children who see figures in the night, to generations plagued by footsteps, scratches, and red-eyed apparitions, this family seems forever bound to something dark. Was it passed down like an inheritance, or was it unleashed long ago?
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0:00.0	Have you ever experienced the unexplainable, at a close call or a brush with death?
0:06.3	What about an eerie encounter with a real life monster, or something paranormal that scared the living
0:12.4	daylights out of you?
0:14.5	I'm Bee Buster, horror enthusiast and the host of the Be Scared podcast.
0:19.8	Each week, I tell the allegedly true stories that are sure to raise the hairs on your arms and keep you looking over your shoulder as you walk home alone at night.
0:28.6	Tune in every Wednesday to be creeped out, be spooked, and be scared.
0:39.3	His eyes were red. They were glowing red. I laid there in such shock.
0:50.3	This thing was staring straight into my soul.
0:56.0	With what was thought to be just an isolated scare,
1:00.0	we realized that the haunting was in the bloodline,
1:02.0	a family curse that seemed determined to follow them wherever they went.
1:08.0	My name is Edwin, and here is Gabriel and Lena's true scary story.
1:22.0	Ever since I was a kid, I was wanted to join the military.
1:25.8	I was that kid that would watch more movies and read the World War II history books, all that.
1:30.3	My grandfather was a chief foreign officer in the Army.
1:34.3	Fast forward to January 2012, I ship out to Fort Seale.
1:39.3	Fort Seale is located in Lotton, Oklahoma.
1:43.3	Lotton apparently already has haunting as it is.
1:47.0	At the time, it was Comanche land.
1:50.0	You can imagine there was bloodshed, there was sacred burial grounds, all that stuff.
1:55.0	So for all we know, we were marching on that.
2:04.6	In the army, they have this wonderful thing called Fire Guard. You're up for about two hours in the middle of the night.
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