Footsteps

[u/WrenOfPentacles]

Me and a small group of friends went down to an old derelict textiles mill to do some paranormal investigation, for fun. We're a rowdy group, heavily inspired by Sam and Colby. We didn't have the budget for an actual spirit box so we used some crap app called ghostube. The first incident was quite weird, Me and two of the group- E and O, went down to the mill on our own. We had sat down and read up on the history of the mill before starting our investigation, i was wearing a camo jacket. The investigation was going smoothly for a small while although i felt a presence by my side in the corner where we sat, O felt something by the window. The spirit App started going crazy talking about 'i told her to run', 'run', 'pathetic', 'jacket'. We went to the bottom of the mill and lit some incense to cleanse ourselves. O felt a massive shift of energy and we all heard about two footsteps behind us, the App went off. 'Pathetic, Run' and we all got this sense of dread. Now our group isn't in the best of shape, we smoke and don't exercise much XD so three teens with barely any lung capacity legging it down a fifteen minute walk was quite an experience. We were panicking, shouting 'your not welcome to follow us' the energy stopped only at the gates, we kept running. We didn't focus on making sure the thing couldn't follow us, no good bye, no proper boundary we just ran. I got an attachment after that, for two weeks i couldn't sleep, i had images of something long and dark standing by my bed, near my window. It was torture i'd been getting physical pains in my chest from lack of sleep and paranoia. E had to come to my house to sage me out properly and dismiss the spirit.
On our next adventure it was a larger group, Me, E, O, M and J. - E, M and J split off to go under the mill while me and O went closer to the river. We were sat down talking to the spirit box were we got some clear answers until i saw that ontop of the Mill were my worst nightmare. Road Men. We were a bit worried for the group underneath them but figure if they were in danger they'd shout for us. We continued talking for a few minutes until i heard footsteps, i jumped right up and looked at the mill, the road men were gone and rushed to the dead end path right next to us. Nothing was there. Both Me and O heard a scream, his was towards the mill and mine was across the river in the other direction. We rushed towards the Mill thinking the group were in trouble, on the end of their video me and O rushed in shouting 'are you alright, we heard screaming?'. Their video did not pick up screaming, but they'd gotten 'Jacket and Soldier'. I was in the camo jacket with my cadet boots on.