The Man in the Hat true scary story

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Alrighty, So this is a story
I got from a Reddit user name sure

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needle worker. Needle worker. Yeah, I'm almost certain this is like a

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default Reddit name that they didn't change. It's not a good one. Sorry,

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sorry, yeah, yeah, so
this is I wish i'd come up

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with a title like you do and
now next week so we can go and

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make titles for my stories. I
want to use them in the titles when

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we put it on podcasts form,
and that's kind of why I'm doing it.

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Yeah, it's a good idea.
I wish I had done that,

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but I didn't. All right,
So this happened to me in my early

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teens. I'm twenty one now.
My best friend growing up had this huge

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farm house in the middle of Virginia. It was very old and beautiful,

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but also had a very dark history. In the there's a tunnel that led

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to an underground room of sorts that
was used for slaves to hide in in

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the eighteen hundreds, and I'm ninety
percent sure that some died down there while

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hiding, so you can imagine the
history and energy that fills this house.

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Always felt scared there, never felt
alone, and wouldn't go anywhere alone.

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In the house, even just to
grab something out of my room. Even

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the family was scared to stare there
with no company because the intense apparitions that

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they had seen and experiences. The
rooms were massive, and the entire house

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was white with honestly creepy vintage decre
There was even a cabinet of ventriloquistalls upstairs.

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They were really odd family, honestly, with lots of problems. Anyways,

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the second time I visited that house, I was with my mom,

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my best friend at the time,
and her mom. It was a girl's

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trip. One night, I woke
up and he was so thirsty and the

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last thing I want to do was
go downstairs and get water. I was

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terrified. I heved the house at
night, but my mom was dead asleep,

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so I literally sprinted downstairs with my
head only looking at the floor.

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I made my water in five seconds
flat, and when I made it to

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the stairs, something compelled me to
look at the giant glass doors that were

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in front of the stairs. I
was horrified, but felt like I needed

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to look out the window. What
I saw when I looked at that window

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will haunt me for the rest of
my life. I saw a man as

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real as anything I've ever seen.
It was pitch black outside with a huge

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bright moon. The man was jet
black like a silhouette, but because of

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the moon being so bright, I
could clearly see his entire body. He

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was blacker than black, like he
stood out so much one hundred percent thought

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he was a trespasser. He was
wearing a top hat and was unhumanly tall

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seven feet around that area. My
heart literally felt like it had stopped beating.

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I felt like I was in a
trance. I was so unexplainably horrified,

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but I couldn't look away. He
was moving a little bit, almost

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like breathing. Then about ten seconds
later, he was gone, disappearing in

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thin air. I panicked and bolted
upstairs as I snapped out my trance,

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I cried to my mom and was
up all night. The next morning,

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I told my friend and her mom
about the experience, and they were not

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shocked at all, as they had
seen multiple full body operations in the house

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themselves. The nanny that worked for
them even refused to go in some rooms

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of the house. I never went
back to that house again. Wow,

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I don't think I would either.
No. Evidently fear was a factor for

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that I'm okay with having fear as
a factor. For me, I'm the

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most scenarious I think when I let's
listen to that story, just the thought

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of the jet black thing. Yeah, so like, are you're talking like

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shadow figure like jet black or like, yeah, it's a shadow figure.

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In fact, I have saw several
other stories all referencing a man in the

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top hat. Apparently this is a
entity that makes its way around and some

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people say that they've seen Other people
who commented on that story also said that

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they have seen the man in the
top hat, and they said it was

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always seven like seven feet tall or
so, and it's jet black. The

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man in the top hat. Yeah, yeah, that's the name of the

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story right there. Yeah, there
you go. That's the name of the

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story. The man in the top
had's terrifying. The Big Bad Wolf song

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is definitely playing, Oh gosh,
Jack, you ever seen the man in

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the top hat? Well, no, it does jar memory of something,

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but not specifically that the the shadowy
figure thing. A lot of people talk

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about it. It's always it's always
unsettling because you can't quite It's like it's

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almost like you can kind of picture
it, like you can picture seeing someone

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or something like that. And then
it's those lack of details that really kind

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of seem to stick around the most. Yeah, it's like you're kind of

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left to fill in the blanks.
Oh, terrifying. So one thing that

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really stuck out to me was that, you know, this is you know,

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obviously a kid's recollection of the events
that happened, but not this person

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was an evil apparition or entity,
or if it was just actually someone a

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trespasser, and then in their mind
they blew up to the size of a

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seven foot tall, monstrous looking person
in the top had that's you know,

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something that's hard to say, and
it's you know, like I said,

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he shows up in a lot of
people's stories, but I can also see

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this being like a case of like
something someone actually was there, which in

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a lot of ways is as terrifying. If more so, I do believe

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this person saw something at night.
And yeah, so I think this is

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a incredible scary story, whether or
not, much like the last one,

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whether the events unfolded exactly as they
perceived them to be, that's one thing

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I thought it was a good story
regardless. Yeah, I agree, it's

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kind of like slender Man, right, like, but you had the folklore

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of this man in the top had
it's terrifying. I do think that when

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you see something in the dark,
it kind of does leave your mind to

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kind of like complete whatever you're seeing, because you don't really know how when

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you're in the dark. You don't
really know how tall things are, you

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don't really know how big things are. You can only speculate based on what

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you can or cannot see, so