The visitor in the night
A friend of mine from SA told me this one:

The friend of mine was staying at a mate’s house in Durban. They were all downstairs when the younger sister of the guy who lived in the house (she was a very quiet and shy person) flew into the room screaming and in tears, she was terrified of going back to her bedroom but wouldn’t say why.

My friend volunteered to sleep in her room as there was no more space in the lounge. He said it felt fine when he got in there. However….

He was woken on the middle of the night with a woman standing over him. She was very old and wrinkly and covered in mud. Her hair looked like tree roots and wound down her body into the ground. She didn’t say anything but just stood there starring menacingly at my friend, who after a few seconds, fled downstairs and out of the house……

It later transpired that the girl had seen something similar.

It could have been a night terror / sleep paralysis type of thing, but for both of them to see the same thing is very bizarre.
(Deskbound You insignificant speck of dust, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 14:55, 1 reply)

"for both of them to see the same thing..."
It depends on how they told it.

If they told it at the same time, or in the same room, then one person's image can affect the other's.

There have been studies on this, they give people a seance and then get them to tell the examiner what they saw. When they tell the examiner in a group they all come to the same image, but when told separately it's a whole lot more vague.
(Frozen_Banana Shaved against the grain; thoroughly unrewarding., Mon 7 Jul 2008, 17:52, closed)