A listener writes “First so I am not wasting your time, this is not sasquatch related. I am sending this in hope that you may have heard of something like this and give me some direction. If this is beyond your scope feel free to delete.
BACKGROUND
Approximately 25 years ago my wife and I purchased a vacation home on the eastern shore of Delmarva. The home is a one story rancher
Our small development boarders a saltwater tributary that joins a large bay a half mile from us. We are 3 miles from the ocean. Idyllic location and at the time of our purchase very unpopulated.
FIRST EVENT
We had owned the place for a few years using it on weekends and holidays. It was early September (weirdly everything I will describe happens around late August into September)
It was a beautiful cool night we were sleeping with the bedroom windows open. Around 2 am I heard something moving outside. I got up and looked out the window and saw a very small woman with a weathered face and coarse gray/black hair looking up at me. For reference she did not reach the height of the window sill. As I looked beyond her I saw two other individuals also very small wearing hooded robes like something a monk would wear in the middle ages. Their faces were obscured by the hoods.
As soon as she saw me they quickly took about 6 steps to the right and literally disappeared before my eyes.
I was stunned. At that moment my wife woke up and asked who was in the backyard. There was no way i was going to tell her what I had just witnessed so I told her it was our elderly neighbor who was at that time suffering the beginning stages of dementia. I left it at that. She accepted it and that was that. In my mind I kind of thought ” ah maybe it was a dream.”
SECOND EVENT
Roughly around 2008 again in late August or early September we were enjoying a week at our home. By that time the area had grown quite a bit and we had built a 1200 sq ft addition onto the back of our home giving us a sort of bedroom suite with a sitting room and bath. We also fenced the rear of our property with a 7′ white vinyl fence.
Again at around 2 am i was awakened by a noise in the backyard. I jumped out of bed and looked out the window and saw the same old woman looking up at me. When she saw me looking down at her her expression changed from shock to absolute fear. Behind her stood two individuals wearing robes with the hood up. They started walking again to the right. I sprinted through the house to the sliding door in the family room and found nothing. My wife remained asleep through this. I shut the window and turned on the ac and there after made any excuse possible to keep the windows shut.
THIRD EVENT
This was approximately 2 years ago… for reference our back yard is inaccessible to anyone due to the fence
My wife is a gardener both flowers and vegetables. She had planted quite a few tomato plants in containers and as this was the end of the season was removing the now dead plants from the pots. She called me into the backyard and asked if I had buried anything in the pots as a joke. She showed me numerous ceramic figurines both whole and broken that were buried in the pots. These were the same pots that we had noticed cherry tomatoes disappearing from. Sometimes a pile around the pot and sometimes just missing.
I squared up with her and told her what I had been seeing and how I mislead her the first time. To her credit she believed me 100%. My wife is a religious girl and really cannot handle any mention of anything paranormal. She took the figurines and out loud said leave us alone and through them as far as she could into the wooded lot behind us. She then put a crucifix in the window facing outward in 2 rooms.
LATEST EVENT
Which brings me to last night…As I said my wife is an avid garden and has both planted and potted flowers and vegetables in our garden. I got up at 4am this morning to go surf fishing and she called me to ask if I had moved her pots around. I said no and when I got back today she showed me a 3′ planter bot had been moved and placed on top of other plants, something neither of us would do. This planter was moved several feet and is long and heavy and would have taken two hands to move.
After the 3rd event I really had to talk her down because she wanted to sell our home. Currently she is massively freaked out and afraid to stay here alone. We are now full time residents here have moved here full time around 5 years ago.
Any advice you might give would be appreciated. Whatever this is so far has not exhibited any negative behavior. I have adopted a live and let live attitude my wife on the other hand is freaking out.”