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Believe me when I say: there isn't a tag/flair on this subreddit that could ever prepare someone for what I'm about to write.

I was doing my daily tik tok scroll, totally at peace and enjoying random funny videos. I made the enormous mistake to keep scrolling, and I get hit with a BIRTHING video. I don't mean like a casual video of a mother sharing the "magical experience" (I just literally rolled my eyes) through a normal vlog that could be put on YouTube Kids.

I LITERALLY MEAN FULL ON GRAPHICAL! I guess this is your trigger warning, because I'm about to describe the absurdity of it all.

There was this poor woman, thankfully sedated, with two doctors full on PUSHING AND PRESSING her belly, as if she wasn't even a human being and TEARING the gremlin out of her! And I kid you not, the caption was literally: "I waited so long for my niecey to be born and I even got to watch 💕" I don't know if you can swear here, but I'm thinking every possible one and I'm Italian so we have an even wider selection of those...

To make things even more crazy and surreal, there a was a really chill music in the background as if it were some mystical and gentle experience— THE WOMAN WAS LITERALLY TORN APART THROUGH A C-SECTION AND BEING TREATED LIKE A RUBBER DOLL!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go throw bleach in my eyes and wonder what exactly must be wrong with someone's brain, to post a video like that on TikTok for everyone to see.

P.S. On TikTok I have exactly 104 words filtered, all to block videos of birth experiences, children, parents and whatever it's about not being childfree. So yeah... Really love to still be attacked by those videos!

I'm going to be honest: my whole life has been full of strange experiences, but I never felt comfortable writing or speaking about it before. I even avoided thinking about it, as I tried to convince myself that it would all go away if I acted like it didn't exist... I was wrong.

First and foremost, my and my family's background: I have several ancestors who have passed down paranormal stories from their lives: sometimes it's about local folklore, other times about personal "abilities" or "oddities". I'm from Italy and I've lived my whole life in an historical building that used to be a convent, that was bought by my family around 1600 after the friars died. The place is enormous and slightly eerie even if we renewed it, and there's a church with a crypt beneath it (full of bones and tunnels that were used to move during the two World Wars) attached to our courtyard.

So, between my weird family and weird house, you can imagine I lived through too many paranormal experiences.

It begun with me seeing and hearing strange shadow figures when I was little, then I stopped hearing them and could only see them. For some strange reason I can feel where people have died or where there are any remains, which is part of the reason why I despise cemeteries. Sometimes I dream about things before they happen, and I've got this strange kind of "sixth sense" if someone is about to die— which I begun hating because it's never wrong, and when I get it I lose someone I love.

I've spent twenty-one years absolutely terrified by the things I could see or sense, only to finally find some peace in the last month. For some reason ever since my boyfriend moved in with me, everything stopped: the nightmares, the shadow figures, the sensations... He just repels paranormal in a way that's absolutely incredible. His presence made everything vanish even for my mom, so I know it's not just me. He probably has some innate talent, and that's why I finally can talk about it all: they won't come back while he is with me. I'm finally free.

I have been jumping through paranormal subreddits just to finally get everything out, and maybe to learn more about what has plagued my life. I have much more paranormal experiences to tell, if anyone has any questions just ask me, because I've probably lived through it all! And if you have explanations or theory for any of the stuff I wrote about, that's more than welcome too.

Ever since I was a child, I used to hear strange noises and see strange figures around my house.

The first time I heard "them" I was around six years old, and I remember being so scared about being followed by those figures, that I would ask my grandma to always stay close to me. The problem was that one day, she felt and heard them too while walking with me up the stairs, so it quickly went from "she's just a scared child" to "why did it feel real?". We never spoke of it again after that time, probably because she has always hated paranormal stuff and wanted it all to just go away.

Anyway, I kept seeing them while growing up: strange dark figures I couldn't quite recognise, mostly minding their own business or following me. The strange part is that in my teenage years, I stopped hearing them and could only see them.

I would like to say that I live in a really old house built before the 1600 in Italy, with a church attached to it and an underground crypt beneath it full of bones... There's even the entire body of a young girl who still has long braided hair. My house used to be a convent, my family bought it when the friars died, it's been ours for countless generations and I know one of my ancestors was condisered the crazy guy of the village for some reason, apparently he could see stuff and would play with the bones in the crypt beneath the church.

Up to this day, I still see them sometimes. But ever since my boyfriend came to live with me, the "shadows" kind of vanished. I already knew that when I was around him nothing like that happened, but now I'm just confused and relieved. How is it possible?

They vanished even for my mom. She always saw them just as much as me, but with him here, she doesn't see anything.

I never believed in the supernatural or ghosts stories, I still find them too strange and impossible even after what I experienced for years... But at this point I don't know what to think. Does someone have an explanation? Everything is good and appreciated, apart from calling me crazy, because I can assure I am not.

I would like to say I know nearly nothing about the supernatural. I guess I always wanted to keep away from it, because for some reason I thought it would make them leave too... But only my boyfriend's presence has changed that. I'm so ignorant about paranormal stuff, I don't even know if I got the right flair since there are a lot.

Edit: I was trying to think of other strange things in my life, just to give a better idea of it all. I can kind of "feel" where people died, it's just a vibe about the place I can't quite explain. The first time it was on a road where one of my great-uncles was killed, then places from attacks during the second and first world war (all this while I was still a child and didn't even know what death or war meant) and the last time was the room where my boyfriend's great grandma died. Really strange I know. My boyfriend always says I'm the closest thing he has experienced to paranormal in his whole life.

Come dice il titolo, non ne posso più delle traduzioni automatiche. Ma è mai possibile che è ovunque ormai?! Che poi, perché cavolo me lo attivano automaticamente? Ma chi glielo ha chiesto?! Veramente non la sopporto più sta roba!

Per l'amor del cielo, a qualcuno può anche essere utile... Ma perché me la attivano senza chiedere una beata minchia e lo devo scoprire così a caso?

Avrò visto migliaia di volte che sui social quando cambiavano le impostazioni, la prima volta che aprivi l'app, ti usciva una finistra di avviso o direttamente dove potevi decidere se volevi le nuove impostazioni. PERCHÉ NON LO FANNO PER LE TRADUZIONI?!

Ormai è ovunque: Reddit, Tik Tok, Instagram, YouTube ecc... Che la peggiore in assoluto è YouTube. Sulle altre piattaforme almeno puoi scegliere, ma perché mi devo vedere video con una voce AI di merda che me lo traduce contro la mia volontà?! Sta cosa mi fa girare i coglioni in un modo assurdo. Ho sempre usato i social anche per imparare nuove lingue, sono parte della ragione per cui scrivo e parlo fluentemente più lingue... Ma ovviamente anche questa utilità la vogliono rovinare! Senza contare che tutto ciò sarebbe facilmente risolvibile lasciando le persone SCEGLIERE.