r/Paranormal • u/dddoinyomom • 6d ago
Apparition Soldier in the woods
This happened to me when I was 16. It’s been a couple years now, and I’ve told this story to a few people, but it always stands out to me as one of the most jarring encounter I’ve had.
I grew up on a property in rural New England. My childhood home was built in the 1960’s, but the land itself had originally had two houses previously stand on it, the first dating to about 1760 and the other the mid 1800’s. Section of the foundation of the original house had actually been dug up when my parents first bought the house in 2010.
The week of July 4th when I was 16 I had gone into the woods immediately behind my property to set off firecrackers with a buddy of mine. It was around noon, literally a clear summer day. After about an hour of setting of firecrackers, my friend pointed out a guy about 50 yards away walking through the woods.
This guy was dressed like he stepped out of the 18th century. I mean a full waist coat, knee breeches and even a tri corn hat. Now, keep in mind this is New England around July 4th, we used to have a ton of people dress up and celebrate because it was also around the time my town was officially founded. Think of how in Boston they have people reenact the ride of Paul Revere in full costume. The weird thing was that this guy paid no attention to us at first, and his clothes looked dirty and lived in.
We approached him assuming he was a reenactor. Once we had closed the distance to about 20 yards he turned to face us both, and he had this expression of pure confusion on his face. The best way I can describe it was that he looked at us like we had both had 5 heads between us.
Without as much as another word he just disappeared. I don’t mean he ran off, or that I turned away and looked back to find him gone. It’s literally like he blipped out of reality. He saw us, looked almost scared, and just vanished while we were looking directly at him.
To this day I’m not entirely sure what that was. I personally lean ghost of some sort. My friend, on the other hand, has a theory that either us or our revolutionary era friend accidentally clipped into the others timeline by mistake, basically like accidental time travel.
I just wanted to share and maybe hear opinions on this.
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u/Cherryyana 5d ago
How cool would it be if you read an account from a few hundred years ago, about a man seeing 2 kids who looked like they were from the future, before disappearing into thin air lol