The story of Dan Mitchell, whose whole life pursuing a phantom, like a harlequin

42-year-old Dan Mitchell lives in Wisconsin. His chilling story in one of his books told the American researcher of anomalous phenomena Jason Offutt, personally met with Mitchell.

The first time Dan saw the creature when he was 5 years old. Later that evening he was lying in his room, next to the parents room, and suddenly, the bedroom became a thin unknown sex is a humanoid creature. He had large wide-open eyes and it said nothing, only moved as if dancing. With him, entered the room smell like the fresh smell of rain. His face looked like the face of a surprised man, and he was dressed in bright and colorful clothing, though sewn from scraps that reminded the boy of the clown harlequin. When Dan told my mom about it. she replied that it was only imagination.

It was only the first of many subsequent occasions when this strange creature has invaded the life of Mitchell, as if watching him with clear purpose. Dan is sure that it and now, when he is all grown up, married and got their children, watching him.

In the history of the harlequin known at least since the 13th century and its name comes from an old French legend, where the name Allicin (FR. Hellequin) was called the leader of the devils. In the 14th century Dante mentions him in his "divine Comedy", where Alicino was one of the devils. Later the image of the harlequin has been completely redesigned and has become one of the main characters of the Italian theatrical Comedy. Now this was a fun, naive and not very lucky simpleton.

When the case of Dan Mitchell learned a popular writer and researcher of mysterious monsters by brad Steiger, he said that such sinister characters in patchwork clothes kids in their bedrooms watched for many centuries. One even says, what about harlequin Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote a ballad "Forest king", where the creature is trying to lure the child, and when he is unable, then kills him.

Back to Mitchell. When he spoke about the Harlequin to his family, no one believed him. But later in the same 1981 happened something else. The whole family then sat down for dinner, and Dan's dad suddenly started to talk about what according to him upstairs someone. He looked frightened and his words frightened the other children and then from upstairs he heard the most terrifying laugh you just heard Dan. According to him, the laughter caused a tingling even in the spine.

"Father froze with a look of horror on her face and everyone who was at the table, too, froze. I remember someone dropped a glass of milk and it flowed on the table. But then it became quiet and we started to continue eating, as if nothing had happened. For me, this event was so traumatic that for a long time I just forgot about it, as if erased from memory. I just remembered that someone went up there and laughed and it was the same man that I saw in your bedroom".

In fact, the family of Dan after the incident, remembered that in their home lives something terrible. Just talking about it was not accepted. But Dan's mother was very worried. This creature appeared to her once in a dream, creating a nightmare. In a dream the mother of Dan heard someone knocking on the door and when she opened it on the porch stood a woman, but in fact it was the creature in colourful clothes, just dressed as a woman. It strangely resonated with the fact that the creature was androgynous, that is, it was not clear what sex it is.

When Dan found out that the creature pursues not only him but also his family, he inquired of them and found mention of other strange cases. So brother Dan remembered that when little Dan was riding his bike near the house, there appeared "a homeless man on a bike" that looked like a three-wheeled clown bike from a circus. When Dan fell off his bike, this "clown" suddenly quickly began to come to him from some purpose. And then the brother did not remember.

Then the mother of Dan remembered that somewhere in the late 70's and early 80's she from time to time noticed the strange people in the basement, in the garage or on the stairs. But all that barely remained in her memory, everything was polusmerti, like an old photograph. One day she heard someone walking in the basement and even called the police. But the police did not find anyone. Then she saw a moving human shadows in the garage and when I entered, nobody was there.

All these strange event occurred within just a few years and ended around the time when Dan saw a creature in his bedroom. It seems that at first the Harlequin liked to scare his mother, but then he switched to the boy. Harlequin more than once appeared in the bedroom of Dan, but the older you get Dan, the less came this creature. When Dan was 15 years old (this was in 1991), he and his father drove along the road past the forest, returning from vacation. It was already quite dark when suddenly they saw dark figure of a man who was walking near the road and pushed ahead of itself kind of the stroller.

The man was dressed in some old clothes, heavily hunched over and his face was hidden, but Dan suddenly smelled something bad. He realized that it is due to the fact being a harlequin. This incident seems to have been a turning point. After him Dan for three years never met this creature, already hoping that it was from him backward.

But in 1994, he met him again. This time the creature took the form of a teenage girl. It happened when Dan and his friends were driving late in the evening, returning from a party. It was a city, not a forest, and Dan felt nothing sinister until right before their car stopped at a traffic light, did not have this girl. Her movements were abrupt and unnatural, like she was drunk. Noticing the car, the girl went straight to meet her and when she got closer, Dan realized with horror that this is not a girl. This creature was cheap and very visible wig, but in General it looked like a guy in women's clothes. And his face was very angry.

"Oh my God," whispered someone from the company Dan — "Just look at her eyes."

Dan has also noticed these large wide-open eyes, very familiar to him at meetings in his bedroom. It was harlequin. Someone from the company Dan is also scared of this "girl" and asked the driver anxious to leave. But the car didn't move. It did. "Girl" was quite close, but then the car started up and they were gone.

Dan remembers that all of his companies, which were planted near their houses, tried to run faster to the door. He is also very afraid, but nothing terrible that night never happened.

In 2009, Dan and his mother moved to another house, located a few blocks from their first home. The first thing Dan decided to clean out the old basement. And when early in the morning he went to work, soon heard strange sounds. At first it was as squeak, I thought somebody knocked at the window. Then raced in the front door and when Dan ran to it and opened, he noticed only the back removes to the lane man. He immediately recognized the bright pattern. It was a harlequin. He was wearing a blonde wig, with vintage curls, and over it a black fur hat. The pants were pink and reaches only to the knees. Motley was his winter coats and pieces of cloth swayed in the wind.

"In my mind flashed that it could be just a local bum, but deep down I knew that it is that same being. It got to the end of the alley and looked back before disappearing around the corner. I could see his huge eyes and very small mouth two notable".

In 2010, Mitchell married and moved with his wife to a new home in southern Wisconsin. But they lived there for long and moved again. And later Mitchell returned to the South for some things and found out the new owners of the house that they were looking for a weird woman in a wig. The woman looked as a whole is so unusual, and then suddenly appeared inside the house in the kitchen than very scared homeowners. When she finally left, they decided to get a dog.

When Dan had children, it turned out that now this creature is and they.

"We had lunch once and my four year old daughter said "the Night to me a young guy came and hit me in the head." My heart just fell on these words, but I have not received. And then my son said someone came out from the wall and played with my pillow."

Despite the fact that the words of young children is difficult to understand correctly, Dan is confident that all the fault of the harlequin. He doesn't know what he wants from him and his family, but he is confident that costs him just one night to go out and get it, this creature will come to him. But Dan would never do that, he's too afraid.

Rabbi Albin, learning the history of the Mitchell, I am sure that is a demon that attached itself to Dan and kept with him for many years. He was sure that Dan still need to communicate with this creature and understand what it wants.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»