In a real-life situation that eerily mirrors a scene from the movie Paranormal Activity, Ryan Conklin recently experienced a frightening encounter with the beyond and the inexplicable. One dark and foreboding night, Ryan and his company were required to investigate rumors of strange activity occurring in a seemingly normal house in an ordinary neighborhood in Baghdad. To document their findings and to record his observations, Ryan brought along his video camera.
At first Ryan was not concerned about the call to the old house in the dead of night. On the way there, he recorded himself making casual remarks, such as that he realized that in general, it would not be pleasant for residents of a home to awaken and find soldiers such as himself in the house and upon the roof searching for they knew not what.
His mood started to change after his arrival at the house. He began to feel an odd presence near him. To the camera he laughed nervously, and perhaps to appease the spirit world, claimed that he did believe in ghosts. Nor sure what was real and what wasn't anymore, he joked as a way to keep his courage up that he thought maybe a ghost was following him as he patrolled the rooftop of the house.
Things then abruptly changed as a panicked Ryan spoke to the camera, not knowing if the recording would be the only evidence that people would find of what he had just experienced.
Ryan told of seeing a dreadful apparition of an old man whose nature was unknown. He managed to turn the camera toward the shape and captured its horrifying appearance. It had the characteristics of an elderly man with an outstretched arm, just standing there, staring with its lifeless eyes towards Ryan.
Ryan was freaked out by what he saw through the camera sight, but even more so when he turned it to himself to record his fear and then back to where the spirit had stood. It was gone. Ryan wondered aloud what was going on. Then in a life-altering instance, the nightmarish creature reappeared in the camera view. Ryan gasped and let the camera drop away.
Fortunately, unlike the fictional horror films, Ryan lived to recount the tale. He expressed his assessment shortly thereafter that with his own eyes he had verified the existence of supernatural beings haunting accursed locations in Baghdad.
Morning broke and Ryan was able to calm his unnerved consciousness and put the night of terror behind him.
Strangely, this was not the only such experience that Ryan has had this Halloween season. In a second video Ryan recorded a Poltergeist like encounter where a TV was left on and something beyond belief was seen. What he saw was too horrible to describe. Watch if you dare.
