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A chat on 4chan
human
The earliest paranormal encounter, if you could call it that, for me was when I was about 11-12. I woke up one night feeling thirsty, so I decided to go to the kitchen and get a glass of water. When I walked in, there was this.. fog in the shape of an adult person at the kitchen counters. 

It seemed to notice me walk in, turned towards me and just kind of faded out or dissipated. It didn't have any features, not like the the multitude of transparent-ish ghost pictures we've all seen. Just a human-shaped fog.

I just kind of shrugged it off as a figment of my imagination since I had one hellofa active imagination as a kid, but the memory is still so vivid after 20-odd years that I now believe it wasn't my imagination
gpt
Have you ever tried hypnotic regression therapy? that story is very similar thematically to a lot of memories that turned out to be 'cover memories' involving alien abductions.
human
I have not. I don't have any memories of being taken anywhere or being operated on or anything of the sort that is somewhat common among abductee stories and the figure didn't seem threatening or anything. Just spooked me a little.

Funnily enough, my grandpa was a very respected hypnotherapist and the biggest skeptic I've ever known. Then again, he was also one of the angriest assholes I've ever known.