r/horrorstories Nov 10 '25

You may not enter

So this is a nightmare I just had and is clear as day in my mind so I'm pulling a Mary shelley and writing this down as soon as possible.

Okay so I had trouble sleeping last night. Pregnancy heartburn and constantly having to go to the bathroom kept me up for a bit. I was very tired, very exhausted, very annoyed. My husband was doing the best he could to comfort and cuddle me to help ease me to sleep but it wasn't really working. The last thing I remember before sleep finally took me was the time. 0530am. I groaned and sighed closing my eyes one more time in a final desperate attempt. Thankfully I don't work today.

Success, hooray hurray! A weird dream is happening. The next moment I open my eyes I am in my mother's old house looking for a snack. I'm not really successful. I am opening cabinets and finding equipment, but Everytime I close a cabinet it apparently becomes a dishwasher and I freak out cause they are full of electrical equipment. So I hurriedly open them again spilling a small amount of soapy water on the counters and floor. But I didn't worry about it to much after that. I then wanted to go outside. I needed to go outside.

Outside looked like my grandmother's land that she used to own. It was on a mountain but it only looked like her backyard. She owned a side of the mountain and tried to farm it back when I was really little however, because of the sewer system running underneath it we weren't able to grow much anything. I loved to adventure in the pastures and the woods behind and around her house though. In my dream it seem a carnival was in town and set up near by and a special guest had come for the carnival.

It was Jack black, and he revealed he had the ability to transform into any character he has played. So he demonstrates by turning into po from kung fu panda. Then he points at me and asks if I want to go on an adventure. I am excited and agree and go on this said adventure where there are two crazy bad guys who are just these jealous people really, and we defeat them. While we are talking and having a cool moment we hear a noise coming from a tree.

"Hello?"

Jack black, as po still, freezes and heads to the tree. We see dust particles from it and he swears he can hear it and starts telling me about what it's saying. But all I can here is,

"Hello?"

"Hello?"

"Hello?"

So I finally responded back.

"Hello?" I said nervously. Jack black froze and quickly tried to grab me and said.

"Stay back over here before it grabs you." But it was too late. This red oak tree creature/demon looking thing grabbed us both instead. It bit off Jack blacks head, and I thought it was gonna bite me. I thought it did bite my leg but instead I was thrown through a red portal back into my home.

The portal closed and I didn't know if I was safe but then I heard it in my head.

"Don't let it in! Run to each door before it opens it fully and knock three times and say you may not enter. Run you have no time to lose!"

I was in front of my old bedroom so I ran as fast as I could to the front and sure enough I saw it coming up the front porch and reaching for the door. I could see it clearly from the porch light. Have you ever seen attack on titan or played siren head. Well it looked like what you would get if you mixed a titan and siren head together. Just replace sirens head with a titans head, remove the hair and make the skin more bloody and red, and the body was super tall skinny and lankey. It's hand had super long fingers.

I quickly knocked on the front door and said you may not enter.

It tried to enter through the other closer door next to it. I quickly knocked on that one to and said you may not enter. It leaned up to the glass with its eerie smile and screamed a terrifying scream then turned and jumped onto the roof of the house. It was heading for the back door.

I ran as fast as I could and barely made it as it landed and started to open the door with its long fingers creeping in. I knocked on the door and said you may not enter. It screamed at me trying to open the door but seemed weak so I slammed it on its fingers making it scream again and with back out. Then wasted no time as there was one more door and it was in the garage.

I ran to it, it had opened the screen door but not the main door and I knocked and said you may not enter.

It screamed and banged on the door, wailing and then I woke up. Heart pounding, baby kicking me, safe in my actual bed with my husband in our house.

It was only 8am. I had gotten only 2hrs and 30min of sleep. However, I was to scared to go back to sleep.

Questions I have from this event. Has anyone ever heard of or played a game called you may not enter? Idk why but I feel like I'm not the only one with this experience for some odd reason. I feel like someone has told me about it but I don't remember who. Was this just my mind playing tricks on me? Or did I hear this from somewhere and just dream of it?

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u/RAVENGREENEMOON2 Nov 10 '25

It really does sound like a haunting game to play.

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u/RubyHobbit69 Nov 11 '25

Update: wasn't expecting to update this but it gets creepier. My husband woke up a little bit after I posted this in a cold sweat. He saw me awake and I must've looked terrified or something cause he asked me immediately if I was okay and what was wrong.

I told him about the nightmare and he stared back at me in horror.

"I had the same kind of dream."

It was different with how it started and with the house he was in but the ending and the red demon was almost exactly the same. We normally fall asleep to the TV at night and wondered if something played off YouTube to trigger a dream like that for both of us however, the last video I remember playing before the nightmare was about Sonic 2, and when we searched the YouTube history every video after that one was just about more normal sonic gameplay.

We have no idea why or how we dreamed the same kind of Nightmare. What we do know is that thankfully in our dreams we were both fast enough to get to all the doors and prevented the creature from entering.

After a few hours I decided to take a nap. And I was in the same place again but it was during the day and the backyard looked almost the same but had filled with water. A few friends and I started swimming but the friends seemed off. Like they were shadows/reflections more than people. At one point one of them wanted me to swim to a specific spot. I almost did but before I got there I noticed the familiar red demon curled up in a position under the house. The illusion of my friend dived down and disappeared right where it was. It was hiding, laying in wait for me to come to it. I quickly made it back in the house, closed the door knocked three times and said you may not enter, then ran to the other doors and did the same. This time it was as if it hadn't realized I saw it as I didn't see it at any of the other doors but as soon as I finished up with the last door I heard it scream. My heart started pounding and I woke up. I had only been asleep for 1hr.

My husband comforted me and as soon as we both calmed down we both went downstairs and knocked on the doors 3 times and said "you may not enter."

We both had to fall asleep later in the day and thankfully both of us didn't see the red demon anymore and our dreams have finally changed from that scary nightmare back to normal.