"Mirror Goblins" | CLANCYPASTA

[00:00:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling this story here because I've never heard anybody mention anything similar.

[00:00:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I was wondering if anybody knew anything about the Mirror Goblins.

[00:00:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't believe in ghosts that the dead get up to stuff which is why I'm not posting to one of the paranormal subs.

[00:00:29] [SPEAKER_00]: That being said, it might be nice to have somebody else's to-send.

[00:00:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I've always been afraid of mirrors.

[00:00:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I've always seen things in reflection.

[00:00:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Usually just for a moment when I glance at them in passing.

[00:00:48] [SPEAKER_00]: When I was younger, I saw things that were more upsetting.

[00:00:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I saw a lot of unusual stuff and my parents very scary basement.

[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_00]: But that doesn't really bother me.

[00:01:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, you see scary things in a scary basement.

[00:01:08] [SPEAKER_00]: What does kind of bother me is what I would see in the very normal bathroom mirror that my parents used to have.

[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_00]: That's where I would see the mirror Goblins.

[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_00]: When I was really little they would run away when I got close to the mirror and I couldn't get a good look at them.

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_00]: When I was a little older around 8 or 9, they started to linger and I felt that they were trying to make eye contact with me.

[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm calling the Mirror Goblins because I like how the name sounds but I'm not sure if Goblin is the right word.

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_00]: They are small men about the size of a cat.

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Some were green, some were gray, some were flush colored.

[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Some had cloths, some rags and some were naked.

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_00]: All of them had long limbs, little button noses and always with a big smile.

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I never felt like they would hurt me but I thought that if I made eye contact with them, they might try to talk to me.

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I knew that nothing good would happen if they talked to me.

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_00]: So if I saw them in the mirror it was maybe 2 times a week.

[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I just wouldn't look.

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I would do things like brush my teeth in the hall, open the medicine cabinet when I was using the toilet or disrobe behind the shower curtain.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't acknowledge them to anybody and they never spoke to me.

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_00]: They scared me quite a bit but that again, a lot of things did when I was a kid.

[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Suddenly when I was 12, I stopped seeing them.

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_00]: This seemed normal when you're growing up you stopped seeing monsters.

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_00]: So for a few years I mostly got over my fear of that mirror, used it as normal and didn't see anything strange.

[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I noticed something else around sophomore year of high school.

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Some pretty awful things happened around then and I stopped smiling.

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_00]: That's not really true of course. I would smile when I was laughing or having fun.

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_00]: It was just my resting face that became pretty glum but even so, my reflection kept smiling.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_00]: But only in that bathroom.

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_00]: When I walked past my reflection they would often be smiling for a second before it became my gloomy resting face.

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_00]: It made me uneasy but not enough that I avoided looking in the mirror like I did when I was a kid.

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_00]: The bad stuff continued in my life and I was only feeling worse and worse.

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_00]: My reflection smiled longer and longer by seeing your year sometimes it would take half a minute to stop smiling.

[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_00]: It really started to really piss me off.

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I was miserable and it was only my face in the mirror that got to be so happy.

[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I was getting more annoyed about this but around February of my senior year something happened that scared the shit out of me.

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I was in the bathroom at around 4 in the morning due to horrible insomnia staring at my reflection.

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_00]: It just wouldn't stop smiling.

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_00]: After a while, it started laughing and laughing.

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_00]: What I remember most clearly is how silent the house was.

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_00]: No fan, no clock ticking and no laughing.

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_00]: What I think is the weirdest about this is that I didn't feel anything.

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't scared or annoyed by this at all.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I felt nothing when I woke up for school.

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_00]: There was blood on my pillow and dried trickles of blood on my chest.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_00]: In the bathroom there was a pristine razor blade on the sink and in the mirror there were cuts all over my face.

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_00]: The thing is that I had no idea where the blade could have come from.

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I'd only ever seen them in box cutters and there wasn't a box cutter at my parents house.

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_00]: I actually looked all over and couldn't find one.

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't until years later that I was going through the medicine cabinet behind my parents mirror.

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And found a slit in the wall that was filled with the loose razor blades.

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Back in the day I guess they used to put old blades in the wall because you can't put sharps in the regular trash.

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_00]: What that doesn't explain is that the razor blades in the medicine cabinet were rusted and dull.

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_00]: But the one on the sink had been in perfect shape.

[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Otherwise they looked the same.

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_00]: So I still don't know what to make of that.

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I told everyone the cuts on my face were from falling in a blackberry bush.

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I doubt anyone believed me because the cuts were straight and uniform but nobody said anything.

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_00]: A few days later I was feeling like cat piss emotionally so I left school early one home and took a shower.

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I looked in the fogged up mirror and there was a small grey blurry figure standing behind me in the reflection.

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_00]: This jumped scared me so bad I hit the mirror on impulse shattering it.

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I had a few cuts from the glass on my hands and torso but this was nothing compared to how incredibly embarrassed I was waiting for my mom to come home to tell her that I got spooked and punched the mirror.

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I was expecting her to get mad.

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_00]: To tell me I had to pay to get a replaced but when I told her she just looked worried, said it was okay.

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Neither of us have mentioned it again.

[00:09:01] [SPEAKER_00]: My reflection returned to normal after the mirror was replaced other than a little movement in the corner of my eye that I think is normal to see in all mirrors.

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I went to college started feeling better and now I work in education.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I had honestly forgotten all about my mirror issues.

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I've been living in my current apartment with my partner for two years now and the mirror is the same as when we moved in.

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_00]: A broken shard from a larger mirror that is painted to the wall yesterday.

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I saw a mirror gauntlet.

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_00]: This time I looked at him.

[00:09:55] [SPEAKER_00]: This time he spoke wait.