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The Glasgow Grinning Man is a human-like indrid cold and took place Glasgow, Scotland the meeting of two young girls who were once returning from a party is well known. In the middle of the street, however, they suddenly noticed a bald, thin figure of a man directly under the light of a lamp. It even looked as if the stranger wanted to be noticed under the lamp. The unnatural jerky movements of his hands immediately unsettled the girls, but the real horror came when the man began to make almost inhuman grimaces and huff loudly. So the witnesses immediately started running, but when they turned around after a while, the figure had disappeared.
Description[]
Some creatures and ghosts often appear out of nowhere and for some time terrify the places where people encounter them. This was also the case with a mysterious phantom who began to appear in Glasgow in the 70s, and thanks to his bizarre appearance, he was nicknamed the Gurning man - a man who grimaces.
Part of the Croshill District in Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, became the first place of appearance of this phantom in early 1976. The figure usually appeared to lonely women and girls who found themselves in the deserted streets of the city in the evening. Frightened witnesses described a tall, thin, hairless man who may have been in his 50s, moving in a strange, incoherent manner, as if he was out of control or highly agitated. But the strangest thing was that the man was able to appear and disappear at a moment when the witnesses did not even notice. It wasn't long before the nickname Gurning man was born, and fear began to spread around as the intensity of his presence began to grow.
Sighting[]
The sightings still took place on deserted streets, often in fog or similar conditions. The meeting of two young girls who were once returning from a party is well known. In the middle of the street, however, they suddenly noticed a bald, thin figure of a man directly under the light of a lamp. It even looked as if the stranger wanted to be noticed under the lamp. The unnatural jerky movements of his hands immediately unsettled the girls, but the real horror came when the man began to make almost inhuman grimaces and huff loudly. So the witnesses immediately started running, but when they turned around after a while, the figure had disappeared. They also claimed that it was impossible for someone to run away so quickly in the open area where the encounter took place. Gurning man simply evaporated.
At first glance, it seemed that it was a misunderstanding or an exaggerated imagination of the girls, but similar reports began to come to the police from this neighborhood more often. In one case, an elderly lady opened the door in the evening to put out empty milk bottles when she noticed movement. When she looked up, she caught a glimpse of an abnormally thin, pale man in the middle of the street, running in place, making crazy faces. The woman looked at him for a moment in amazement and fear, debating whether to call the police. However, the man disappeared in a moment, as if the woman blinked and subsequently did not see him anymore.
Even more frightening were the reports that did not take place on the street, but directly in the homes of some witnesses. In one case, a woman woke up in the middle of the night and heard a kind of snorting and crunching from the other end of the room. However, her husband was sleeping peacefully next to her and apparently did not hear anything. When the woman took a closer look, she saw a man in his fifties in dark clothes, who was grimacing and intensively rubbing his chest. The woman was almost paralyzed with fear at that moment, so she wanted to wake up her husband right away. But she didn't have time to do that, as the phantom suddenly let out a terrifying scream, to which her husband woke up and turned on the light. However, there was no trace of an intruder or foreign intrusion in the apartment.
There were even more similar cases directly from the witnesses' homes, but no evidence of a break-in was ever found. Between 1976 and 1979 Gurning man was seen about 17 times, 11 times on the street and 6 times directly in houses. The witnesses almost always described the same disturbing signs that indicated that it was a supernatural being rather than a human being. It is interesting that only women have always seen him, and that they were always suddenly overcome with an unnatural fear. These women did not know each other, but still gave almost identical statements, which only adds authenticity to the case. But the apparitions stopped as suddenly as they had begun. So are these just local legends from Glasgow, or will Gurning man ever return?