The Top Hat Man Was Real

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The tall top hat man haunted my family.
This is my first time sharing this story, or even using Reddit and I watch YouTube videos of people reading these so I guess I’ll share me and my families.

When I was going into 6th grade, my family moved into the upper unit of a run-down duplex in one of the worst part of the city. It was me, my older brother Jay (a freshman at the time), my little brother Akii (kindergarten), and my two little sisters, ages 4 and 3. My mom was a single parent working long hours, and we didn’t have much just a mattress, a TV, and a gifted PS4 in her room.

Now, in my family (we’re Ojibwe), we believe kids can sense and see things adults can’t. And this night proved it.

My mom was at work, and me and my sisters were downstairs with a family friend who lived in the lower unit. My brothers were upstairs playing on the PS4. Jay went to the bathroom, and Akii went to the kitchen to grab chips. When Akii came back, Jay was gone. He figured Jay was in his room, so he went to check then we all heard him scream like he was being murdered. We ran upstairs right as my mom was getting home from work. Akii was clinging to Jay, crying so hard he could barely talk. Jay looked freaked out but swore he didn’t do anything. Once Akii calmed down, he said that when he went into Jay’s room and flipped the light on, it exploded and in that flash, he saw a tall, dark man wearing a top hat. We went into the room, and sure enough, the bulb had blown. My mom immediately smudged the entire place with sage, and we all tried to calm down. I want to state that me and my siblings weren’t exposed to the internet, we had an Obama phone to use if we ever needed to call mom while she was at work. If you’ve ever had an Obama phone you know how slow it is. Yes we had the ps4 to watch YouTube but none of us were watching anything scary so we had never heard of the top hat man and his stories. Anyways That night, we all slept in my mom’s room again the only room we had set up. The lights were off except for the TV. My little sisters wouldn’t stop jumping around, so my mom made them sit on the wall to settle down. A few minutes later, both of them suddenly screamed and bolted for the bed, crying and shaking.

They said there was a man standing in the kitchen, smiling at them.

The kitchen was visible from the room, and all the windows and doors were open because it was hot. My mom got up, Mad and protective, She turned all the lights on, and started smudging again. She opened all the windows and door to the stairs that lead outside and even the door downstairs. She had all of us yell, “You are not welcome here! Get out!” over and over.

Then we all heard footsteps going down the stairs.

Me and Jay just stared at each other, frozen. We didn’t have to say a word we both knew we heard it.