r/CryptidEncounters

I had a very odd hair raising experience last spring. Before I start I want to add i have had quite a few paranormal experiences in life in fact more than my fair share . After everyone I'm always intrigued , questioning everything that led up to and during the experience in an attempt to understand the why, who and how of the situations in question. I will also add that almost every experience I've had has either been positive or neutral in regards to the feelings involved and also in regards to the beings themselves. The story I'm leading up to though is one of the more frightening .

It was a work week , normal and mundane as could be. There were no signs or premonitions leading up to the event .

I remember it was a Thursday night and I had been up playing the guitar , watching TV etc . Everything was good, I was getting sleepy and headed to the bedroom . My girlfriend was already in bed and asleep along with our cats . I remember it was around midnight when I actually laid down to sleep . Sleep came quickly this night and I was thankful .

I remember laying my head down and then for some reason awakening around 3:00 a.m. I sat up and looked around the darkened room and to my surprise I heard someone or something whistling outside the bedroom window . It wasn't a bird nor any type of animal . I didn't want to look and make things worse so I said nothing , didn't attempt to awaken my girlfriend and just sat there sitting up as still as can be .

I was alarmed for several reasons . One of the biggest ones being that our bedroom is twenty feet off of the ground and there are no fire escapes or scaffolding that would allow someone or something to walk up to the window . The whistling wasn't really any song and only consisted of one long note . I kept getting the impression that it was non corporeal and human like in some way .

Before I could react I heard a second being whistling the exact same way only this time it wasn't outside the house which was bad enough but instead it was clearly in our hallway a few feet from our shut bedroom door. I heard them together whistling that weird note and was wondering what the hell was going on. Meanwhile my girlfriend and cats were still sleeping without a care in the world.

Let me add from the time I sat up in bed to when I heard them both whistling was roughly ten or fifteen seconds . I had read many books on the subject of the fae, ghosts , aliens ,time slips etc and for some reason I thought my best reaction would be to put my head back down on the pillow and go back to sleep .

I didn't acknowledge them and ignored what was happening.

I remembered the works of Yeats and Wentz on the fairy faith and the advice that many of the older Irish folk( circa late 19th early 20th century) gave when asked what to do in a situation involving the Fae Folk or a non corporeal human . It is also the advice of people living in Appalachia and the Ozarks,the advice simply being to ignore it,you didn't hear a thing , go back to sleep....and amazingly that's exactly what I did without a second thought . I woke up the next day and everything was normal.

I've never experienced this situation again and pray that it stays that way. I do catch myself researching and digging trying to find anything similar to my experience but at the present can't find anything that is close. If anyone has anything to share please do, any thoughts on the matter are appreciated.