MY FRIEND PETER EXPERIENCE

hi my name is PEETER but so you can also call me white wolf

that's what everyone else called me as a

child anyway

i live in a small country town in the

south with lots of woods and deer nearby

i love nature and taking care of animals

so i often visit the woods behind my

house to put out corn for the deer and

tuna fish for the many stray cats that

hung around the neighborhood

i used to be afraid of being in the

woods alone as a child but as i grew

older i also grew out of that fear

i also often wear a white hoodie and a

pair of black dress pants which allows

many of the neighbors in the area to

identify me on site

they're always nice and kind to me

because i'm kind to their animals and

they don't really make a fuss if they

catch me so-called trespassing on their

property because i often have good

reason to do so

i'm also often accompanied by my large

dog which will be important for you to

know later

one day my neighbor came over to me

asking me what i was doing in a part of

the woods i never went into before and

if i needed help taking care of a new

animal

i was confused and explained to her that

i actually wasn't in that neck of the

woods and that i was actually home in

bed sick that day

my neighbor was confused but she

shrugged it off and told me to have a

nice day

i forgot about that interaction until a

week later

when i went out to walk with my favorite

cat in the woods

it was late in the evening

actually it was probably night now that

i think about it

i was wearing my usual white hoodie in

black pants and walking by my side was

my favorite cat

we were having a great time playing

together when suddenly she stopped

playing and quickly turned her head to

face a tall growth of vines and trees on

the other side of the creek

i suspected that she had just seen a

coyote or one of my deer so i got her

attention and we walked off to where i

usually left food for the other cats

i put out the bowl of food deeper in the

woods and i laughed when my cat tried to

nuzzle my hand as i set out the food

cut it out i laughed you silly cat

after i put out the food i turned around

to walk back home

but then i saw what my cat had initially

seen earlier

what caused her to freeze

there standing in front of the vines and

trees was a man who looked exactly like

me

he had a similar pale complexion

dark shoulder-length hair and a white

hoodie and dark pants

he had black boots on like the pair i

was wearing and beside him stood a tall

dark doberman dog

he was just like me in every way

except his white hoodie was ripped up

and stained with fresh blood

i grabbed my cat like a football and ran

i ran up the hill where my house was but

the man was still behind me

i was going to cry when a miracle

happened

my mom came home in her car and she

caught the man in her headlines she blew

her horn as loudly as she could scaring

the man back into the woods instantly

i thanked her and put away my cat in my

shed that night

if i were thinking i would have called

the police as soon as i got back in the

house

but i was too scared to think straight

and instead went right to sleep

now i only go in the woods during the

day

and i keep my phone on me

just in case my doppelganger is waiting

to replace me again

this happened just four days ago

my family and i were having lunch in the

backyard

we have a big house because my

grandparents my parents my aunts and

uncles and cousins live in one big house

together

it was getting sunnier and i didn't want

my skin to become tanned

i was walking towards the backyard door

as i wanted to grab a fitted sweater and

a hat from my bedroom when suddenly my

eight-years-old cousin grabbed my arm

asking

can i come with you i want to grab my

mom's phone from the living room

and i nodded

five minutes later i had changed my

clothes and was waiting for my cousin

when i heard her voice from the backyard

maybe she didn't want to wait for me i

thought

i was about to go back outside when i

heard a voice behind me

dear don't you think you'll get too hot

and sweat in what you're wearing

i turned my head and saw my mom

no i'm fine as long as i don't get

tanned i said

then i noticed something

she had different clothes on my mom had

been wearing pants and a t-shirt earlier

now she was wearing a simple dress

i asked her

oh

why did you change your clothes

she didn't dance her may but she turned

around and walked toward the stairs

i found it weird at that time and i

glanced out the window revealing my

whole family in the backyard

my heart dropped when i saw my mom

outside

if my mom was out there then who was

this woman here with me

was she a doppelganger

thoughts were running wildly through my

head

until the other mom spoke

come with me she said

let me show you how to dress up properly

a weird smile plastered on her face

that's when i knew that she was not my

real mom

she had no dimples my real mom had

dimples when she smiles

i acted normal so she wouldn't get

suspicious

to be honest i got really scared on the

inside

i knew how to escape from this woman

though

some say if you curse at a bad spirit

they will go away it's a filipino belief

so i yelled at her

shut up woman don't bother me i don't

need your fashion opinion

then i stormed back

outside my face was blank and then

suddenly i started crying because i was

super scared i didn't know how i had

managed to act brave in front of a bad

spirit

i ran to my mom and hugged her

all of my family was asking what was

going on

and i told them everything that had

happened

after that day everything went back to

normal i guess

no weird things happened again

maybe the cursing had actually worked

i don't know but my advice for you guys

is if you ever see something that

bothers or scares you just act brave or

be brave

or maybe curse at them it might just

work

this story happened a while ago when i

was about nine years old it was an early

morning around dawn when i suddenly woke

up to see a tall strange figure standing

over me it must have been watching me

while i was asleep

it had a blank pale face but it still

looked like a real person

and it looked exactly like my mom

the figure was wearing a blue bathrobe

something like my mom used to wear

during the winter

so i figured my mom was maybe

sleepwalking for the first time and came

into my room during her dream

i was so startled so i said to my mom

what are you doing in my bedroom

i'm going to bed you just scared me

but she didn't reply

the figure just kept staring at me

so i gave my mom

another confused look and just went back

to bed

thinking that if she's sleepwalking

she'll eventually leave my bedroom and

go back to bed

my eyes were closed for a second before

i turned around again

because i felt like someone was still

standing behind me

but the figure ended up being gone

panicking i looked around my room

because i didn't hear my bedroom door

open or

meaning it wasn't my mom and whoever it

was it wasn't sleepwalking

the person didn't even exist

a few days later i told my mom and asked

her again about why she was in my

bedroom at six am

when i obviously was sleeping but she

had no idea what i was talking about

she said she never came into my bedroom

and that she had never sleep walked in

her entire life

so i told her about this strange figure

that was watching me while i slept and

dressed in her bathrobe

and then it disappeared after i

acknowledged its presence

she didn't really think anything of it

she just laughed it off and blamed it on

my eyes must be getting tired

my mom always insisted that her home

wasn't haunted

or built on top of a historical ground

she's really spiritual like into tarot

card readings and psychics and

manifestations

so she must not have wanted to give in

to the evil side

but that experience never left me

and my mom has now told me that i used

to sit on our staircase and have

conversations with the little boy and

girl as a child

i've heard many stories about people

supposedly talking to their family

members

but they're really communicating with a

demon in disguise

and i fully believe that the same thing

happened to me that night