@NHSWoo this is a long one so strap in and grab a biscuit, years later as a fully grown (😂) 21 year old I was working at a well known holiday resort in their security department when one night I got a message to attend the caravan park as a lady in caravan 22 had reported a woman screaming for her life.
People have a tendency to be dramatic on holiday but off I toddle and get there to find ....
Nothing. Caravan 22 is locked up and dark. I report this back and then have a toddle round the rest of the area incase people can't read numbers 😂 and find .. no one. Then controller calls me on the radio and says this woman is back on the phone and can still hear screaming. I can't hear anything except silence. I wander back to caravan 22 with control telling me this woman is stood outside her caravan looking for me and relay back that I am indeed still staring at an empty caravan and hear no screaming.
Then as I give it up as a hoax and turn round - all the street lamps go out. I weirdly don't immediately freak but just radio control and state sarcastically that if they'd like me to chase wild geese could they at least put 50p in the meter.
Then they all came back on - except the one right above me. Meh.. I shrugged and headed back to base. Then I noticed it was continuing... every time I got under a light it would go off.
I got back to base and causally questioned it and just put it down to a weird coincidence - until I was in bed that night wrapped up in my extra thick duvet when something ran an ice cold hand up my leg.
I laid there frozen in terror and eventually fell asleep. Waking up with sleep paralysis later on.
After that it got worse and I felt like I was being terrorised. It was constantly dark no matter the weather or how much I cleaned the windows. Always cold and I couldn't sleep in there if it was dark so I avoided all early finishes on my night shifts and wouldn't shower there i showered at my neighbours. In the end I was sat on gate duty one night reading a book when someone I had never met before stopped by for a chat - then out of nowhere asked if I ever get the feeling I'm being watched. I laughed and said 'more than you'd know' and he replied 'well there's an extremely angry and evil man following you around' 😱
I went home on leave the following week as I had barely slept in weeks and was an emotional wreck. When my big boss heard of my suddenly taking leave so close to end of season he asked if everything was ok. I sheepishly told him I thought I was going mad and told the story. He just looked at me understandingly and said 'ahhh he followed YOU home this time did he?' Turns out many people have reported the screams - it's his way of luring you out and if you accidentally meet him - he follows you home to terrorise you'
That day I went back to my accom - packed my stuff and shouted 'this is my home and when I get back you better be gone' and I walked out and slammed the door.
When I came back a week later it was bright again - never heard another peep ... from him anyway