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Hey you guys, so since it's almost Halloween, I thought I would do something a little bit different
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and tell you the story of my first and probably most interesting paranormal encounter
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And I also want to show off my new lighting setup. So I want to preface this by saying that you totally don't have to believe me
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I know if someone told me a story like this, I wouldn't believe them either. But this is something that happened to me when I was 12 or 13 years old
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Believe it if you want, but this is my experience. So here you go. So my family likes to vacation a lot in Pawleys Island, South Carolina
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It's a little town slightly south of Myrtle Beach. But we usually stayed at the campground at a place called Huntington Beach State Park, which I still tend to go to a lot
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It's a really cool, relaxed beach environment. And one of the things we usually like to do as a family is go walking on the beach pretty late at night, around 11 or midnight
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I remember the moon was really bright that night, so the beach was pretty well lit
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And as we were walking back, I remember looking out at the ocean or like right at the shore, and I saw a man with like a straw hat on
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Just kind of like he was like maybe ankle deep in the water and he was just kind of looking out to the water And it was just mainly his silhouette It was dark and the moon was kind of you know backlighting him or whatever And I remember he looked in our direction and kind of put his hand up like this
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Like it wasn't like a full wave, but it was just kind of like, you know, an acknowledgement that he saw us there
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And me being my socially awkward self, I kind of like gave him a little half wave back and looked away to my parents
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But then I looked back out and it almost seemed like he was like fading away. Like I know that sounds like cliche or whatever, but it was like my eyes like had the burned in image of him standing there
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when I look back, it just kind of dissipated. Of course, me being interested in, you know, like ghost hunters and ghost whisper and things
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like that, I was like, oh my God, did I just see a ghost? So after that, we headed back to the campsite and just went to bed for the night
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And I remember that night, it was really, really stormy. The wind was crazy against it
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We were in an RV and the wind was really crazy against it. We could hear terrible rain, lightning, thunder, you know, the whole shebang
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Then the next morning when we woke up, we went outside to the campground and it was like
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a disaster zone. There were beach chairs, beach towels, people's awnings of their campers were completely like
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you know torn off or like halfway off the camper It was pretty bad But what was weird was we had a clothesline hooked to the back of our camper to a tree right behind it and our clothes were still on the clothesline and all of our camp chairs were still there All of our towels were still where we left them Nothing had been
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touched at all, and it was really weird. I remember at the time thinking like, whoa, this is weird. We just got like really lucky, or I don't know. It wasn't until a couple weeks later when my aunt
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came to visit, she brought a book of local ghost stories, and I hadn't really looked into too much
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about local lore or whatever, so I thought it was pretty cool, and my dad brought up the fact that
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I saw this ghost in Polly's Island. And I remember her eyes got really wide and I was not really sure
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why. I mean, I didn't know if she was just kind of, you know, acting along like, you know, oh, ghosts, whatever. But then she said, have you heard of the gray man? And both my dad and I were like
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no, never heard of it. So she grabbed the book and opened it up to a chapter. Um, and there it was
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called the gray man of Polly's Island. And she started asking me like a series of questions
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you know, what was he wearing? And I said, I remember he had like a large hat on and like an overcoat or some kind of big jacket. Then the thing that really sent chills down my spine was
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she said was there any kind of storm afterwards And I was like whoa And she started just you know saying oh my gosh oh my gosh And I didn know what was going on But part of the legend is and I kid you not like I read it in the book and I seen it on the web all over I post a link down in the description to kind of read the full story But the legend says that the spirit often
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shows up before a storm or like a hurricane to warn you either if you're on the water to get out of
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the water or if you're on land to evacuate the area. Part of the legend says if you see him
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he will offer protection for you and your property during the storm. Of course, I had never heard the
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story before so seeing it in the book at the time like I was seriously freaked out. I'm pretty
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skeptical when it comes to a lot of things even now but I have absolutely no explanation for this
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having never heard this story before and so many elements of it lining up so perfectly and I'm not
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going to try to attempt to explain it and say it was definitely a ghost but this definitely makes
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me believe that there is something else out there. So there you guys go that was my story of my first
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and most unexplainable paranormal experience. I'm really curious to hear if you guys have any
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stories like it. Or if you guys want to have a debate whether ghosts exist in the comments, go for it. I'll definitely chime in. But I hope you have a great week. I have a couple more
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Halloween videos planned, so stick around, stay subscribed, and I'll see you guys next video. Bye
