Actor told me the most unhinged sleep paralysis story

Okay so this summer I filmed a movie with this guy, right. Actor. Really good looking. Anyway our school had a festival a little while ago and he hit me up like "come hang, drinks on me." Obviously I said yes immediately.

So he shows up with fried chicken and soju and sundae and we're just sitting on a bench outside eating. And you know how it goes, somehow the conversation drifted into ghost stories. I honestly thought he'd be weird about it because he's like. genuinely devout Christian. But then he goes "actually... I had the scariest sleep paralysis of my life once" and proceeds to DELIVER.

This was back when he was doing his military service. He fell asleep and dreamed he was in a red sports car, riding shotgun down some rural road toward the base. Didn't know it was a dream. Just vibing, watching the scenery go by, feeling great.

And then. out of nowhere. it went full cinematic. Like he suddenly saw himself from FAR away, full body shot, just a red car on a country road. Okay weird but whatever. Then it zoomed in slow. all the way to a closeup of his face. Then snapped back to his own POV.

That's when he noticed the driver's seat.

Something felt wrong. Like he didn't want to look but also couldn't NOT look. So he slowly turned his head and.

A woman with really long hair. hands resting on the steering wheel. not gripping it. just... resting. like a doll's hands placed there.

She was staring straight ahead. then she noticed him looking. and she turned her head toward him. slowly.

And then she SCREAMED. not like a jump scare scream, like every sound her body could possibly make, all at once, directly into his face. eardrum-shattering. he said it felt like tears were running down his cheeks from how sharp it was. and the thing is?? he can't remember her face at all. just the scream.

He realized mid-scream that this was a dream and started desperately trying to wake up.

He woke up. Or so he thought.

He was in his family's living room. Not the base. His heart was going insane, he was half sitting up trying to breathe, and then he felt it. that feeling. like something was watching him.

He looked toward the kitchen.

Something dark in the shadows. He stared. And slowly he made out. a head. poking out from behind the wall. just a head. peering at him.

Then it slid back behind the wall.

That's when he knew. still dreaming. because obviously he was at the base, there's no way he'd be home. and now this thing was hiding again, and he had no idea when or where it would come back.

He figured the only way out was a hard enough shock to the system. So in the dream he just. fell forward. face and skull straight into the floor.

And THAT finally woke him up. Back at the base. For real this time.

The whole time he's telling this story he's reenacting the woman's scream for us. and bestie is an ACTOR. the face he made was genuinely the most horrifying thing I've seen in person. it was almost 2am when he did this.

I nearly died. on a bench. with chicken.