Frightening Folklore

In 2013 a couple saw two extremely thin, deathly pale white humanoids wearing black hooded cloaks walking down the road in front of their rural home in Enon Valley, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. They were about six feet tall, the same height as an average man. The first thing that the wife thought when she saw these strange black hooded figures was that they were unlike anything she had ever seen before and that they did not belong there. It was not Halloween, so they doubted that these were people walking to a costume party at someone’s house. The area is so rural and the houses are so far apart that the children in the area do not even walk house to house for trick or treating on this road. It was a very creepy, explainable experience for both of them.       About 23 years earlier, the couple's son-in-law spotted a black hooded figure in Enon Valley while driving home one night on route 551. It stood about five and a half feet tall and was extremely pale...

Anytime a person sees something that resembles a corpse, they usually experience a primal fear. They know on a deep subconscious level that there is something wrong with whatever they are seeing. There have been many accounts of sightings of thin ghastly white humanoids out in public places, showing up on doorsteps, and even in people bedrooms at night. They are so white that they look like a walking corpse. They often walk in a jerky manor, like they are not used to walking. Perhaps it is because they are not used to walking in the body they are inhabiting during the time of these strange sightings. Maybe the bodies they are inhabiting aren’t really their bodies but the bodies of a ghastly white corpse or its skin. In folklore, there are certain demonic entities, shamans, and creatures that can possess the bodies of the dead or the skin of the dead. Vetala are bodiless Hindu demons that can enter the bodies of the living and the dead. After they inhabit a body they are vampir...