Okay, so here’s a case which I’m sure no-one will have heard of unless you listen to the Monsters Among Us podcast by Derek Hayes. It is the tale of a man named Scott (at least that was probably his name, Monsters Among Us is a call-in show and the name was unclear) who had an encounter with something truly unforgettable and uncanny. The episode of the show on which this story was heard was broadcast in 2017, and Scott said that the event happened about 40 years prior, meaning it took place in roughly 1977.
This drawing of the incident was done by an artist working with Derek Hayes, but their page has since been deleted or lost so I can’t credit them…
The Incident[]
Scott was 10 years old at the time and was asleep in his bedroom in his family’s house in Southern California when he suddenly woke up in the middle of the night. His parents used to leave the light in the corridor outside dimmed, in case he or his fellow children got up in the night for any reason. The witness was lying on his right side facing towards the door, trying to get back to sleep - when he was horrified to observe what appeared to be a chimpanzee clad in denim coveralls rounded the corner and made a beeline for him.
It was looking directly at him and seemed to be intent on coming towards him, and so he turned over and squeezed his eyes shut in desperate hope that the thing would go away; but of course that isn’t how these sorts of stories go. If you were expecting the bizarre entity to do something terrifying at this point you would be wrong, and instead it dug its fingers into his ribs and begun tickling him. He says that he was a very ticklish child. This tickling went on for roughly 10 seconds, and he was squirming and laughing all the way through despite how afraid he was of the apish aberration standing before him. After the sudden bout of physical contact had stopped, the witness simply stayed in bed and tried to get back to sleep, but was frozen in terror and so could not. It is not clear what happened to the simian spectre, but it can presumably be assumed that the furry phantom vanished.