Odd Occurences at Cemetery

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Breakneck Cemetery
Late 2024-present

This is a pattern of sightings, visions, dreams, and assorted encounters that happened over several months. While they were happening most frequently and intensely, Nyx summarized them in their Notes app. Most is copied from there with some changes for easier reading. All names of living people have been changed. No one involved was ever on any psychedelics/hallucinatory drugs or alcohol, and no one had ever been known to have hallucinations when unmedicated. These events occurred at Breakneck Cemetery, which is across the street from the local high school. Most sightings, if unspecified, were seen by Nyx from the study hall of this high school, which has large windows facing the cemetery. All events are described from the perspective of Nyx, although some accounts were informed by other people's experiences. Prior to this experience, Nyx was a skeptic. Most others had prior experiences. Bird was very experienced. Most people mentioned are in high school. First, from study hall, Nyx witnessed what they described as "a person/dog thing, black, not racially but literally the color black or very dark, running very very fast on all fours in the graveyard from a gravestone to behind a tree" The next day, they saw "a taller thing, also very dark, long-legged, walking floatily in about the same spot" Nyx and Bird decided to go to the graveyard out of curiosity. About a week later, they went. Soon after entering, Bird heard a cough in the graveyard that belonged to neither of us. Nyx did not hear the cough. No one else was around. Walking deeper in on the back path, Nyx saw a woman on a picnic blanket from afar. She was 'laying down on her back propped up on her elbows. She was white with dark hair, and she looked relaxed.' Bird did not see this even when both were looking at the same time. We didn't bother her. Still on the back path near the oldest graves, we heard whistling from the woods. Bird whistled back and wanted to go into the woods. Nyx didn't think it was safe. Nyx saw the first of what we came to call 'Leroys', after a meme in which a character sits in a similar position to one witnessed later. Nyx described it as 'very short, about 3/4 of Vamp's height (Vamp is very very short), also dark-ish, humanoid figure, watching us for a split second from behind a tree like 100 feet away from the path. It was gone when I looked back.' Both heard whistling from completely the opposite direction, the main graveyard closest to the street. Bird thought that it wanted us to go that way and that we shouldn't, but Nyx needed to get picked up to go home, so we went towards it. Both heard footsteps and crunching leaves not belonging to us. Both felt watched from behind (the woods). Bird saw 'a small dark thing like a chipmunk or a bird going very fast near the veterans circle' (a memorial to the many war veterans buried in the graveyard). In a circle of bushes also in the veterans' circle, Nyx clearly felt more than saw a person that was not there. They described them as 'a young teenager, maybe 14, very light brown skin, poofy wavy short hair, sitting cross-legged in the bushes looking at something on the ground. They seemed cool and looked sort of like a friend.' Both began feeling uneasy. Nyx got nauseous and felt a weird sensation in chest. (Both are unsure whether this happened on the first or second trip, but Nyx saw something inhuman move around the side of a parked car. Bird is unclear on whether they remember seeing this.) Nyx looked back and saw another Leroy watching from behind a tree closer to us. Bird saw a white woman in a long blue dress moving around 'ghostily'. Nyx saw her, but as if she was a real person, not transparent at all. Almost out of the graveyard, Bird's bag suddenly exploded. Things fell out onto the ground, and their calculator broke. While Bird was cleaning up their bag, Nyx heard something say their name very clearly. Bird didn't hear it. Leaving, Nyx heard something say 'no' several times. Bird didn't. Out of the graveyard, Nyx felt as if there were hands around their neck. Both felt weird afterwards. A while later, both returned with tarot cards and Palo Santo wood for answers. We heard light whistling as we went in. Nyx says, 'I was feeling a lot. I don't know how to explain but it was like I was connected to the graveyard in a very weird way? Things were in my head that were not supposed to be there. It was like I was a conductor or a messenger or something. Stuff was going THROUGH me. Weird shit.' We went down to the river. Bird tried valiantly to light matches to burn the Palo Santo but couldn't. One lit well but the wind blew it out immediately. Bird thought it was weird, but Nyx assumed it was just wind. Went back to oldest part of cemetery. On the way we found some very long spiderwebs stretching from the tops of the tall trees to the ground. Bird also thought those were suspicious, and they thought that the cemetery looked differently arranged. Nyx didn't notice much of this, but they were distracted by the aforementioned sensations. Bird wanted to go into the woods to do tarot, so we did. We passed through a very dead area full of dead plants with a very creepy vibe. We walked to the creek. Bird expressed feeling 'alone, isolated, separated from Nyx' even though we were close together. Nyx got the feeling that we shouldn't go any further, so we stopped and started doing the tarot by the creek. Bird asked questions-'who are you? Do you want something?' A branch snapped after a question once. Nyx describes their feeling at this time as 'Bird kept doing tarot things but I sort of left. I was still there, of course, but I felt in front of me something-a woman, tall thin, once human. She felt sort of blue? I don't know if she was the lady in blue Bird saw, but we've been calling her the lady in blue. She seemed worried about us. She touched my cheek and I felt safe. Then she was gone and I told Bird about it, and they directed questions to her, but I don't remember much.' Then we felt weird, afraid, just bad allaround. Nyx says: 'Someone else, I thought. Something male-ish and not human. Cocky, mean. He stood over Bird and watched. They felt him too. They told him he couldn't touch us or hurt us, but he put his hand on their shoulder and back too, and they felt it as if it was a real human touch. He wasn't angry. He was red and he was black, like magma, and he wanted Bird to go away because they knew more about things like him and so if they weren't there it would be easier for him to play with me. The lady in blue was underground in a circle, trying to protect us. I felt sick and couldn't breathe though. Bird asked him questions but didn't get good answers. Then he wasn't there anymore and I felt like we needed to leave, so we did, fast.' Later, Nyx described this to a friend, Vamp, who was interested, and to a pair of other friends who later went to the cemetery (stupidly) against our encouragement but claimed to have not experienced anything strange. There were several other strange happenings after this point. Nyx saw more Leroys outside the school, behind their garage, and in their house once. Things went missing and felt ominous in Bird's house. The water fountain acted strange. Nyx felt several times strong urges to go back to the graveyard when alone. Nyx heard voices of people who couldn't possibly be talking to them, including their own voice, and breathing. There was a creepy photo of trees on Bird's phone when they went near the graveyard that they did not take, and they now often get mysterious bruises. Recently, Nyx saw the lady in blue sitting crosslegged and crying, a WWII pilot Margaret who died at 21 smoking against a mausoleum (her grave is in the cemetery), a little girl sitting on the brick edge of the cemetery wall kicking her legs, a pregnant woman throwing up, something breathing in the woods, and a transparent figure by a tree.

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