The Strange & Creepy Phenomena: Black Eyed Kids
You know, as a writer of the paranormal I come across a lot of weird and almost impossible stories to believe. Dinosaurs that still roam the earth…flying humanoids reported all over the world and Black Eyed Kids.
No, not kids with a bruised eye, but cases of reported children who approach individuals and ask for random favors or help. These kids are reported to look normal in appearance except for their solid black eyes. No sclera, cornea or iris are visible. Just solid black. The mannerisms that these children show upon encounter are not like any you would observe in children in that age group. Usually witnesses say that these children appear to be in a trance-like state. They can be described as lethargic, catatonic, forceful and even demanding and insistent in getting you to do what they ask.
What makes it worse is the eminent fear that the witnesses report feeling when they encounter these BEKs. Like a rush of fear and anxiety that hits them, most cases that I’ve read about talk about always include the same type of feelings of danger. BEKs cases are harder for people to accept. Most are inclined to accept the possibility of Shadow People over the possibility of BEKs, and who can blame them? It sounds like something out of the pages of “Children of the corn”.
My grandparents once told me a story that might be related to BEKs. It happened back in the 50s in the small town of Autlán, Jalisco Mexico.
The town of Autlán is a rural town, a few hours outside the bustling city of Guadalajara
As the story goes, my grandfather was walking home late one evening. This road he decided to take was a less traveled road. No houses were nearby, no street lamps illuminated the road. Just big tress that aligned the sides of the road were about the only things one could see. Just as my grandfather was coming around a corner and nearing the town, he noticed a young boy sitting on the edge of the road. Surprised to see a young boy out so late in the evening by himself, my grandfather asked him if he was OK. The boy told him that he was too tired to walk and needed to be carried into town. My grandfather thought it was and odd request.
As he stood there, he remembers that this boy would keep asking him to carry him into town.
‘My feet hurt so much and I can’t take another step‘ he said. ‘Can you carry me on your shoulders?‘
Not feeling to comfortable with the idea, my grandfather decided to hoist this kid up as opposed to just leaving a possible wounded child in the woods. The kid sat on his shoulders and was silent. Within a couple of yards, my grandfather told us that he had grabbed on to this boy’s feet [natural reaction when you sit a child on your shoulders] and that right away he noticed that this boy’s feet were not normal.
“His toenails were more like talons” my grandfather told us. The toenails that he saw on his feet were inches long and thick. Kind of like claws. Immediately this sense of danger and fear came over my grandfather and he instinctively threw the boy off his shoulders and without looking back, ran the next few hundred yards home. He did not hear the boy make any sound or yells when he threw him off his shoulders, my grandfather knew that he was in danger and acted accordingly.
A few things to note in this story. Both my grandparents told the story in a precise manner. My grandmother can attest to seeing my grandfather come home in a state of panic. He was visibly exhausted from his run and visibly terrified. The same story he told her back in the 50s is the same story he still, to this day tells.
Could this be an encounter with BEKs? Or my grandfather’s overreaction to a boy with bad hygiene? Although nowhere in the story, did my grandfather mentioned anything about the boy’s eyes, I think that since it was dark out, he could not be so sure. What he did know for sure was the terrible feeling that he had once he swung that kids up onto his shoulders.
My buddy Stephen Wagner from Paranormal.About.com posted this interesting BEK story recently:
Full story at: Paranormal.About.com
I’M A MARINE stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. I live in the infantry barracks off of River Road. I recently had a rather strange encounter with a pair of black-eyed kids.
I live on the third floor of the barracks that have open walkways on the outside and the rooms on the inside. This happened on a weekend back in November, 2009. It was a weekend, so almost every Marine was out, either home, drinking or sleeping; only a handful were left in the barracks awake. I’d stayed in that weekend because I was broke and had no money to go out.
I was watching a movie when I heard a knock at my door. Figuring it was my roommate who’d lost his key again, I went and opened it. Instead of a drunken roommate, I found two little kids standing on the walkway – only these kids freaked the hell out of me. I don’t know what it was about them, but as a Marine we’re always told to listen to that little voice in your head, because it just might save your life from an IED (improvised explosive device). Right then that voice was screaming at me to shut the door and lock it.
THE PLEA
There was also the fact that these kids had absolutely pitch-black eyes. I mean no white or any other color to them whatsoever – just black. But I pushed those things aside and asked them what they were doing there so late. They responded by saying that it was really cold out and they wanted to come in and read. I was confused as hell, because I’ve never met a kid that wants to read. Also, there was no mention of any parents or anything else you’d expect a lost couple of kids to say.
I couldn’t take my eyes of their pitch-black eyes; it was like they were sucking me in. I felt horrible and was suddenly frightened for my life, like I needed to immediately take cover. They just stared at me, with those goddam eyes.
I took a quick look up and down the walkway to see if any other Marines were out, but there was nobody in site. I turned back to the kids who I noticed had taken a step forward toward me. I got the feeling like I was being hunted, like these kids where predators and out for their next meal or something. Instinct gave way to reason and I decided to listen to that voice and shut the door and locked it.
I heard soft constant knocking for the next five minutes before I heard my window rattle and then nothing. I went down to the officer on duty the next morning and asked him about it and he said he hadn’t heard of or seen any kids in the area at all, and dismissed it saying that I’d probably had too much to drink last night. Only I hadn’t been drinking at all or anything like that that night. I don’t know what or who those kids were, but I doubt any of the families here would let their kids wander around at night on a military base.
Let us also not forget Jason Offutt’s extraordinary blog “From the Shadows“, in which he writes about BEK encounters and Shadow People in a very terrifying manner.
Listen to Jason Offutt’s interview and his stories of the BEK cases he has reviewed:
Written by Javier Ortega - javier@ghosttheory.com
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I have always been interested in the BEK’s
I was thinking of doing a story on this too, Javier!
I think the whole black eyed kids/people thing has to have some legitimacy to it. We as people, talk to one another in everyday fashion by looking at someone’s eyes, every time, if even in glances. It’s how we communicate as we read expressions and reactions in the face. I could not believe someone can mistaken the fact of someone having pitch black eyes who they are talking to. In many of these stories and instances, the people who experience BEK’s are usually alone which is creepy enough.
I wonder if the insistance of these BEK’s is more a less an act of pushing an invitation, so to speak. ‘Invite me into your home’ or ‘Invite me to be around you’. Seems demonic, and that could be what it is. Your Grandfather is probably lucky he went with his instincts.
Gary,
You know, it’s weird. The story he told us always seems so unreal, so …out there.
It wasn’t until I read the BEK story from Paranormal.about.com that something clicked. So I remembered his story and figured that it might be a BEK related incident.
That or some poor kid was dropped on his head 50 years ago…
-Javier
Pretty unsettling story about your grandfather. As a kid, I lived four miles from River Road in the Marine’s story and some odd things happened while living there.
Makes me wonder, their persistance in pursuit of our actually spoken permission to do something/enter/approach or whatnot, sounds as if they actually need to HEAR our official word allowing them to do whatever they are asking about before they can, as if they are restricted before that…
It is mentioned here and there that they almost seem predatory, but if that would be the case, they wouldn’t go around approaching people face to face asking for things or favors, they would sneak up on unsuspecting (potential) victims most likely under the cover of darkness at night to do their own bidding, that is if we’re referring to physical aspect of being a predator-like entity, I don’t recall any incidents of lions asking a zebra for a permission to sit nearby so they can attack
Hey Javier,
I almost forgot our conversation about BEK’s. Glad to see you didn’t forget. Thanks for posting this new stuff. I had not seen that one about the Marine before.
Hey Gary, you’re mention of always looking in peoples eyes made me think. If Jessica Simpson, Kim Kardashian or some other well endowed woman was a BEK, do you think many of us would have succumbed to whatever comes after the invitation? LOL!
bondo, of course we would, we are guys. The little head does the thinking with women :p
jbondo,
I did remember the email you sent while I was writing this. We should start posting more BEK stories. They’re creepy.
-Javier
I think Jason Offut makes those stories up out of whole cloth (more than a few plot holes in many of them), but they are creepy so I read’em anyway.
“That or some poor kid was dropped on his head 50 years ago…”
I’m betting on that outcome. You better hope the statue of limitations has expired.
Actually Jason requests stories from readers. He actually put out a request about a month ago for BEK stories.
I think he does make up some stories but they are not presented as fact.
This reminds me of a movie called the Children. Where a school bus of 1st grade students crash near a cemetery, which happens to be next to a chemical plant. Well anyway, the chemical plant goes through a melt down and chemicals sweeps across the cemetery which effects the students and they all pass out. All of the kids wake up as zombies with black eyes & nails trying to make their way home from school. The children, who all live in different parts of this small town, start to go in their own directions in search of their parents. Each child finally reaches their parents, chanting “Mom ma, Da da”, as they lure parents into their arms. The parents, who were worried all day, come running to greet their missing child, and as soon as they hug the children, they quickly burn to death. I swear this movie had me scared to leave the house for months.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080527/
Just in case someone was interested in the movie I spoke about the other day.
“I swear this movie had me scared to leave the house for months.”
LOL!!
TaZZ,
Damn..it’s not on Netflix
I’ll check my local DVD rental place.
-Javier
Go ahead laugh, it’s actually funny. Although, I was like 8 yrs old when I first saw it. Talk about leaving an impression on a person, that film was the one that got me interested in horror flicks and wanting to make movies. Why do you think i’m this site, talking with you crazies…Just joking, no offense.
@ Javier
Trust me, I’ve been looking for that movie everywhere, but no luck. I was going to order it from that site, but I’d rather have it on Blue Ray, since I got rid of my VCR. I think it might even be on You Tube.
I’m not sure if these things exist or not, but the idea scares the hell out of me. If done right, it would make for an excellent movie.
Javier, it sounds like your grandfather had good instincts. We should always listen to them.
Children associated with paranormal phenomena of any sort freak me out.
With that said, I just wanted to share an idea on this topic.
“Aniridia in Greek literally means “without iris” and it is a congenital, hereditary, bilateral extreme form of Iris hypoplasia. Aniridia is caused when the gene responsible for eye development that is Pax6 does not function correctly, this causes the eye to stop developing too early and when the baby is born most of the eye is underdeveloped to some degree (Aniridia Network). Aniridia also has corneal, lens, optic nerve and retinal manifestations. it may also cause foveal and optic hypoplasia.”
With this condition, it is possible for the eye to appear completely black. I will also add one of the many websites on the topic, at which you can see a picture of the condition and “black eye.”
http://www.biology.iupui.edu/biocourses/Biol540H/AniridiaSQ.html
I don’t know what the deal is with this type of encounter byut I know for a fact that it is real and not the result of hysteria or delusions.
Both of my young brothers and my mother had a run in with a “blk” several years ago.
At that time, it was the only time I had heard of such a thing and only now do I read stories of other people seeing them too.
I don’t know why they look the way they do, maybe its some kind of medical condition?
I’ve been researching these kids all summer. In a way I wish I could see one in real life. Just to see what everyone is saying about them is true. Yet knowing my luck I would turn up as a missing person.