About the Watchers {over tea} 

Just an FYI from someone with psychotic tendencies- if you are regularly seeing shadow people and are afraid, especially as a response to stress and lack of sleep etc or if seeing spirits is common in your family, i sincerely recommend talking to a therapist. These are classic signs of emerging psychosis. It is very hereditary but not always, and schizophrenia specifically often shows up in childhood to early 20s. If you find it interfering with your life and functioning, always investigate the mundane before the magical. I don't want anyone to struggle for longer than they have to, I have OCD with psychotic elements and it can be very debilitating and scary.

What I appreciate most about your content, Olivia, is that you're not simply regurgitating common/folk knowledge that we could find anywhere on any instagram or pinterest post. Your descriptions and theories are intelligent and grounded. And the way you speak is genuine, without affect or pretense. Thank you for this.

My home has a protector spirit. He is a previous homeowner. He lived in our home and fought in the Vietnam War where he died. He is just hanging out with us, watching, and protecting. Unsettling at times but not even scary. I put a candle in the window for samhain just in case he wished to cross over, but he is still with us. I believe he has decided to remain as a protector of our home and family. In a way, hes family lol. I have got to be off my rocker lol

I saw a comment calling watchers shadow people or shadow humans. I banished one about half a year ago. I knew he was there for some time after moving into my flat. Most of the time, he didn't do anything; he just "walked" through my flat. He wasn't terrifying, though. It was just unnerving to have him standing somewhere in the corner and watching however, I banished him as soon as he started to show up when I was in the shower. That freaked me out. Thanks for the in-depth video on the watchers! I find that name is really fitting for them.

I saw them as well in my childhood i called them „Schattenmenschen“ which means shadow humans and when small i thought they were my deceased ancestors. Then i forgot about them but kept seeing them, after which they started to make me feel watched as you so fitting put it

As a kid, I use to be so scared of Watchers. I use to cry and not sleep at night because I would just see someone standing in my room staring. Nowadays, they don't even notice me. I see them and I like to look over at what they're looking at. I'm so happy that I've grown more with myself. Your video really made me feel a bit better knowing that someone else out there has had experiences with these types of spirits as well. Thank you for sharing ❤️

My parents’ property has a watcher. It can’t get into the house for some reason, but it’s on the property. Before we moved there, I liked to sleep with the curtains open. Even after we moved I would leave my blinds open at night. However, when I moved from an upstairs bedroom to one on the ground floor, I started getting this awful feeling like I was being watched whenever I had the curtains open after dark, and sometimes even during the day. I got into a habit of sleeping with the curtains drawn, and whenever I would go into the kitchen to get a snack or something, I would be able to feel it watching me through the windows out there. I assumed it was my imagination getting the better of me bc I was on the ground floor and the idea that someone COULD be watching me was scary. But now I live in a basement apartment and I don’t have any issues with the curtains being open, so I’m quite convinced it’s a watcher. Every time I spend a night at my parents’ the feeling returns, and it vanishes the second I leave.

It's so uncanny. The way you describe watchers and their effects reminds me of my parent's master bedroom. It was an exhausting presence that would cause people to have identical nightmares, shift your mood from great to sucking all the happiness from your soul etc

I came here from a banishing video....I've been in the craft. Since I was at least 12-13. 23 now. But as a preteen/young teenager. I was always terrified to leave my window open at night. It was always unnerving for me if it was. And for so long I didn't really get why. But hearing you describe what you'd see as a watcher. Sent chills down my body cause that's very similar to what I use to picture on the other side if I didn't close my blinds and curtains. (Edit. I spoke with my dad about this video and the watchers. And Apparently it was something I talked about a lot younger)

This was an excellent informative video. I would add that, while they aren’t typically dangerous or high in intelligence, they do learn and they can become more dangerous if not addressed. Not only can they be detrimental to a person’s mental health and negatively impact various other aspects of a person’s health, relationships, and overall well being as an extension of a person’s mental state, that cumulative effect of instigating situations that cause an uptick in negative emotion is very much like the “beacon” you’re talking about. A “well-fed” watcher that repetitively contributes to the raising of strong negative emotion can become a beacon for other things. A bit of a snowball effect. And your theory about water is pretty spot on. Water, like every other thing in our world, has inherent metaphysical properties. Those metaphysical properties are similar to its physical properties. It acts as a conductor and an amplifier. Love this content. Thank you so much for making it and sharing it with others. 💕

Thank you for sharing! When I was little I used to see "shadow people" in mirrors and things like T.V screens. Freaked me out so much but now as an adult I feel better about it and even so now I read the comments and see other people see them too- very validating and comforting.

I would personally love a spirit catalog myself. Loved the video!

Perfectly timed video!! I am currently trying to help a friend learn enough to banish a watcher who is being particularly disruptive in her home!

Really enjoy this video. As a professional who conducts paranormal consultations and clearings, I would likely categorize this as an attachment. The energy isn't necessarily interested in actually hurting you, they just want to feed from you by making you feel certain things or behave certain ways. They get in by attacking the mind, through clairaudience, placing ideas, things like that. Also your peers we're onto something! Water, while cleansing a lot of the times, is extremely activating as well. I love this video, I hope you're doing so well. Can't wait for the next one. 🤗

i am so glad you decided to tell more about them, after Annie's story i became invested

When I saw {over tea} I immediately put the kettle on, always nice to sit and listen especially on a chilly day like today. Thank you for the video and have an awesome Halloween!

I've experience something similar in my childhood home. My friends experienced it while I was away with family, and I allowed them to stay over. I always felt something, and I believe it was also the cause of my childhood night terror, a repeating dream of a red desert with a red sky, with geometric shapes vibrating so intensely that I felt I'd be ripped apart, only waking when the whole scene would implode onto me with the feeling of claustrophobia and feelings likened to chalk on a chalk board. this being, however, did eventually present itself one night when I was alone in the spare room as the painted walls dried in my own room. I heard what s9ounded like someone coming up the stairs, pressing down on the wooden banister and making its way across the landing all while the house was empty, I could see through the crack of the door that nobody was there, but I felt and heard it like there was, I knew the sounds of the house i'd grown up in. the moment it reached the door, it paused, and the door moved wider as if by a breeze, which there was none. I felt it enter, and as it did, I felt it seemingly teleport from one side of the room to the other, next to my bed. It was huge. I couldn't see it but feel its shape and size. twice the height of a human with a thin frame in comparison, full of envy. It hung over the bed because the ceiling prevented it from standing upright and I could feel it trying to initiate fear in me to begin the feeding cycle, ultimately creating a loop that would strengthen my fear. I reacted as any sane person would leaning away, saying "okaaaaay". I turned the light on and stayed up until I could no longer hold my eyes open. the next day I burned a pile of incense in a brass bowl, closing the door, envisioning light filling the room. after a while I returned and opened the windows. I've not felt it since, although it could be anywhere in the house I suppose. The imposing nature of this room is a peaceful one after these events. I know it appeared to come upstairs but something told me that it originates in that room, the movement outside of it was actually still in that room, metaphysically speaking.

honestly my parents homes have always felt so bad. But being near the house they have now makes me and my gf sick, like its just draining you down to a reactive clusterfuck the longer you stay. kinda like tons of medium sized dogs hungry and waiting patiently, just slowly circling. Used to have a weird coyote right before we moved outta tucson too. He'd hop on top of a 6ft wall to watch us, super nasty vibes. I'm glad I've learned a bit more abt what I feel tho

Four years ago I had an experience with a “watcher” being and this makes so much sense looking back because of magic that I started practicing. The light that magic shines in the spiritual realm was so bright it attracted this being, that was wolf-like, predatory. It gave me a sense of anxiety and my heart raced when I woke up, and that anxiety was something I never felt before. It was different. Like someone watching your every move from the shadows. Finally seeing this video I have a better understanding of what I dealt with and now I must go create protections and wards ✨

I think me and my family had an incident with a watcher, I never saw it but I could feel it. Every single time I would go into the garage to do laundry or even to grab something I could feel it watching me. I thought I was making it up until my mom eventually asked me if I felt like something in the garage like she did, she's even more skeptical than I am so I knew something was up even my sister wouldn't go in there. Eventually it started to get more comfortable and would stand RIGHT BEHIND you if you went in there, most unnerving experience of my life. Eventually it got so bad the thing followed me into the house which it never did before I banished it back to the garage and then my mom's indigenous gave her some sage and told her to smudge the whole house. Thankfully it hasn't come back.

I had to deal with a poor spirit that had all the attributes of a watcher (E.I, feeling a tall, gaunt, unnerving presence. Energy leech) but it also had a kind of scary ability to create chaos that it also fed on, i don’t know if that was just the people in my houses reaction to it being here. But i know chaos correlated to it being here and that it liked to feed on that chaos. I began living with my mom again and our interactions got so emotionally violent, so I had to get rid of it. Lord it was a scary time 😅

My thought when she was describing the story about the table is that this entity deliberately targeted her. The way she described the urge to stop what she was doing to go the shop and buy this specific table sounded very intentional on the part of the spirit. That ties into the idea that in the spirit realm or astroplane that your energy can "shine brighter" and make you a target. I think these entities are deliberately trying create fear and negative energy that they can feed on. Makes me wonder if a lot of the conflict we see in the world around us is actually being incited by these kinds of creatures to manifest a food source.

Sounds a lot like the shadow people I ran into back in Cheyenne. They seemed to thrive on inciting fear so they could feed off of it. Wonderful video as always!

I loved this more in depth explanation Olivia. Fascinating to hear how they were all around you during the Hecate course. Really appreciated the further explanation of Annie's Watcher. Perfect video for Halloween 🎃 Saw you in the Chat of Hearth's Live Q & A . Would love to see a collab with you and Hearth. ❤

Funnily enough, a watcher stopped by right as I was watching this video. Right next to my house, there used to be a large property with an apple orchard, a pear orchard, a big hill, and and even bigger mansion. This whole property was a HUGE source of energy for the whole neighborhood. The pear orchard and the hill were at the front of the property, hiding the house and apple orchard behind it. Both the pear orchard and hill were very inviting and friendly feeling, and the owners of the property let all the kids come play in just those two areas. I believe the hill was the land spirit of the area. A really inviting, cozy sort of spirit. My area used to have a lot of hills until they were removed for houses, it was one of two left in my neighborhood, and it was the center point of my entire neighborhood. I remember feeling so close to my friends who lived on the other side of it, and now I feel oddly disconnected. The apple orchard was tucked in the back corner of the property. That was the fae's place. It wasn't scary or anything, but it definitely was like, this is not yours, you better be respectful. If a ball accidentally rolled into the apple orchard, kids would always be really quiet and slow when retrieving it. Now, about six months ago, a big real estate company bought the whole property and tore everything down. Ever since then, fae activity has pretty much stopped. And it's definitely been a lot harder to practice since then. The company has been pretty unsuccessful getting people to buy plots of land for houses, so there's just this giant gaping hole where so much life used to be. Occasionally there's a house or two, but they look very ominous and alone in this big darkness, especially at night. This has kinda bled into the empty spaces of my backyard. The back patio and our deck being the only real comforting places at night now. I believe that once the land spirit was removed, and all the fae, there was this giant negative space where many watchers and other spirits have kind of filled in. Now, almost every time I do any sort of working, there's watchers quite literally at my back door. I had a pretty bad run in with a particularly malicious one a few months back. Anyways, I was working on a quilt for my little sister this evening, listening to witchy stories on RU-vid as I often do. I always try to imbue just a little magick into the quilts I make, trying to make them this sort of magickal safe space I guess. My brother was upstairs for a moment while I was doing this, and I had some incense going that he didn't like. He jokingly opened the back door and kind of swung it a few times to clear out the smoke and then opened all the windows. That's when I noticed an immediate change. Funnily enough, there wasn't any weird feeling about the front windows, only the back. The worst part of the whole room was the largest back window that no longer has a screen on it. Bad energy was just flooding into the room. I shooed my brother downstairs and grabbed one of my chicken's eggs, and swept around the whole room and myself, before chucking it off my balcony and into the empty property next door. I then lit some candles, said a simple little invocation, and moved on. Really not too bad. I think it is pretty funny I just happened to be watching this video when it happened though.

Ive seen watchers before myself. ive always had intense experiences with spirits but watchers always have a weird hold on me.Their stature their eys always stay in my memory, their white, bleak hollow eyes. everytime I see one my energy is drained. i think your description of them as energy leeches was perfection. again your videos are such an amazing and refreshing in my normal viewings.

I have anxiety and depression and watching your videos is calming . Thank you ❤

Thank you so much for this video! Lately I’ve been dealing with more spirits and entities. It makes sense when you say the more magick that you do, the more spirits will become attracted to you. I’m also someone who had been going through a lot so spirits tend to be attracted to be people who are facing life issues/difficulties. I think a video idea that would be cool is possibly a cloaking your aura spell/creating a protective veil to prevent some spirits bothering you and pushing them away. Happy Halloween 🎃

That is fascinating that they are drawn to water areas. I haven't heard that before but it makes so much sense as the place I've experienced them the most was an island. I believe there is a connection to limestone or that perhaps it acts as a kind of holder of spiritual energy that draws them. I once heard them described as a spiritual pleco fish and It's always stuck with me because it fits them so well lol. Great video!

This makes me think of the basement in my childhood home. It felt like there was someone else with you in the basement. Not a mean or negative presence, more curious. Like they wanted to know why we were in their space. And it was their space. We could use the basement, but it never felt like it was ours.

The watchers I had in my old house I lived in were fine for a while until they got closer. It was such a distinct difference from them being across the room verses right next to your bed looking at you. I didn’t get open mouths but large eyes with no lids to blink. Very small mouths in an unsettling frown. Instead of a breathing in like a leech, it felt more like they were trying to pull your soul out with their eyes. Like if you looked at them they would strike with their long arms and large hands and grab you. I always felt like if I looked in their general direction then they would notice that I noticed them. It got so bad that I would cover my entire self with my blanket because I could just FEEL them staring at me.

I appreciate that you made this video so much! I never had anybody to talk to about the spirits/energies that I saw or felt as a child or an adolescent ... not even friends. When I did finally say something, my dad threatened to have me admitted to the mental hospital. I didn't shut down my sensitivity then, that came later. It's been about 30+ years since I have allowed in any energies, aside from my beloved deceased, and I now find myself called to "open up". I'm terrified. I'm terrified and I know that the work must be done. Your account and your experience is largely helpful, so again, thank you for making this video. ❤

Oh, i love, love, love over teas! I would love to see you do more of those. Just casually speaking about different aspects of practice from your personal point of view or experiences with the spirits, energy, etc... I could watch that all day.

I had one of these in my bedroom growing up. It was that same uncomfortable feeling and now I have a word for them. Thank you! Your content is always wonderful to watch, thank you for everything you have, are, and might put out ❤

This video makes me finally feel at ease and that I am not the only one who has felt or seen this. Thank You Olivia for all your amazing knowledge you share!!

Ahhh I’m always so excited when I see you’ve posted. Your videos are so entertaining and visually pleasing 🌷✨

Thanks so much for sharing your experience, Olivia!! It helps so much with these things to hear what others have directly experienced. If you ever feel called to create more content on spirits and working with them, it would be welcome!

Thank you for sharing this. It gives me chills how much what you speak of overlaps and aligns with my own experiences. It’s also a relief to know I wasn’t just making it up-that there are others out there who have shared the same experience.

This was so helpful! This is my intro to your channel very meant to be. I have suffered from these watchers since I was a child and am still vulnerable when tragedy hits my life on my own I’ve found intuitive techniques. This video helps me feel more inspired to take action and stronger to do so. Also be able to have more of a explained concept around their definition is very empowering. I can’t explain how validating and helpful this was thank you 🙏

The whole saga of the haunted table has been fascinating, and this is an excellent chapter! Your theories make a lot of sense and give me much to ponder.

Thank you for this video, Olivia! I used to have a lot of scary spiritual experiences when I was little, which was why I got into my craft later on. Knowing that I’m not alone in those experiences affirms me in my abilities as a practitioner ❤

It's great that younger witches are connecting to the spirit world. There was a problem for a while when witches neglected the spirits, and just focused on spells and ritual. Witches have always served and worked with the spirits. The Watchers, however, are also a name for the Four Grigori (Lords of Karmer, Watchtowers) and the Watchers who were fallen angelic forces who came to earth to teach humankind arts and sciences such a cosmetics, weapons, astrology, magick, herbalism etc. If we use the term Watchers with older witches, they will think of the four Watchtowers. Blessed be

Honestly just videos of you talking about the different experiences you’ve had with different entities would be so amazingly interesting to listen to. Love your content Olivia 🖤🖤✨✨

My mom, my brother, and myself, we used to feel watchers on our staircase and in some of our doorways. Occasionally it still feels like they’re there but they were much more present when I was a child. It’s Halloween and my parents have had the house for 29 years now. We’ve just come to affectionately call our spirit roommate Shirley.

Thankyou for this video, my son and I have experienced a watcher entity in my home art studio one evening. It was ridiculously tall and long limbed and it would hover over my artwork and create nightmares which would evoke fear and anger and feed off it. I only realised this when we all seemed to have similar dreams and wake up feeling angry or fearful. Eventually I had enough of the tactics and asked it to leave countless times and it would for sometime but then return again. It's funny you called the watcher Zane, my son had a similar experience with an entity he named Zane too.... It would talk to him and enjoyed fire and chaos and manipulation. It drove me mad for a while before I banished it from our previous home. It's interesting to hear others accounts on these beings.

Great and really helpful video as always. I am so thankful to have stumbled upon one of your books on reddit which lead to me discovering you and some other creators here on RU-vid. I cannot thank you enough for the effort and time you put into creating videos and content for us. I was always been interested in mythology and other topics that have to do with witchcraft and always felt something of a "calling" in this direction, but I've only now decided to explore this. Your channel and your content in general has been so helpful for me, you explain everything in an understandable way even for a beginner like me. I also feel like I approach witchcraft with the respect it deserves due to your content - not with fear, but with respect. Thank you so much again for your content and the work that you put into it. It's highly appreciated!

This was a really interesting video thank you for that! I've worked a bit with house cleansings here in Sweden and although most of the energies I've encountered are dead relatives or confused spirits lingering, sometimes I get in contact with different kind of entities so to speak. I've never heard of the term watchers other then in a horror movie I think with that name, but I can definitely relate to that in terms of what kind of "vibe"I get sometimes in certain houses. I've started to walk the shaman path now and it's very interesting to see how the witchy world and the shaman world are talking about the same thing, only in different words. I can tell you have a lot of knowledge and I will definitely continue following your channel! Thank you 😊 🙏 /Josefin from the noth of Sweden

Dang, so much clarity🙏🏽 as always, I can’t thank you enough🥰👁‍🗨

This is an amazing channel. Everything about it just delivers so much genuine knowledge that I can most definitely appreciate it. Thank you so much for this content.

Recently, I sat in a hospital visiting room. I was alone but speaking to a gifted friend on the phone. I felt the energy change. It became fuzzy. I listened and felt a presence. Then many many presences. I knew these were souls who had not fully crossed over. I asked my phone friend to help me perform psychopomp work as I am trained to help in that way. Together, she and I helped these souls complete their journey. Immediately, I felt the presence of a matriarch. She hugged me and whispered in a sweet voice that they were the souls who had passed on that floor and that she was the guardian of that space. She noticed me and knew I could/would help. I am grateful to have been guided to notice and to be able to offer assistance. Be well

Thank you for sharing such personal interactions with us, it's really helping me to understand the experiences that I have had and still have, and how to feel and deal with them. The beacon analogy makes so much sense, I can see how spirits would want to come and see what's going on, what's new.. then get used to it or board once they know and understand.. I wonder what they see and feel when looking at us, maybe we are spirits to them..? Anyway, thank you again for all of your time, content, and beautiful videos, it's one of my main go to's. Have a beautiful day!

Ok i have to say how thrilled i am that you both did a follow up video to last years haunting. I love sequels lol i also appreciate you telling your personal story as i grew up in a haunted house and it was hard to talk about until recently.

I once heard a story about things similar to watchers, similar in how they feed off of energy. These ones stir up negative energies, draining and causing their victims to spiral. Violent or suicidal tendencies rise until either the entity is removed or the person eventually does something that cannot be taken back. Reminds me a bit of the "advanced watchers" as you called them.

That drawing instantly caught my attention, it's them! Everything you said is just spot on with all the experiences I had (I just call them "shadows", I know it's a little reductive). Never thought about banishing spells or something similar, I always let them be even though they can cause some sort of discomfort when they are too close (chills are the first thing to happen, it's like they suck your heat even when it's 100°F outside), that's why I try to politely stay at a safe distance. If they want to watch they can watch... I just try to not watch them do it. If I recall correctly, Don Juan told about something similar to Carlos Castañeda in A Separate Reality, which I think it's the closest to my approach to the matter.

It was funny actually when you mentioned hollowed out eyes and a gaping mouth as characteristics of watchers. I ran into one a few years ago. I would have been, what, 14?? We were heading to the snow here in Australia, and we were staying in one of the little overnight houses in Hunter Valley. The house we were in was fine, clean, looked new, blah blah blah blah blah. The centre room, however, felt really weird. It felt off, and I told my parents about it. They said there was nothing, and even mum said: “yeah, it’s fine. Nothing’s gonna hurt you.” (Mum is like a spirit magnet and can often read those things really well. Though now I’m thinking she said that not to scare me, but she did feel something there hahaha). I felt it on top of the table and right at the wooden light piece/chandelier. I had to sleep in that same room on the couch in front of the fireplace, and I went around trying to cleanse the place with a spray I had made. It worked for a few hours, but it had come back in the evening anyways (because I had nothing for protection). I reluctantly went to sleep, and had these dreams of a person in there who looked like me, but with those hollowed out eyes and that gaping mouth, and I felt this pain in the back of my neck. I was in the bathroom and saw it in the mirror every time. I kept screaming in the dream and whatnot, and every time I woke up, I would look to that light piece and it was slowly rotating. There was no draft mind you, so nothing but someone moving it would have made it move. I had this dream again and again every time I closed my eyes and it was in different rooms with mirrors every time. I guess I can now say I experienced a watcher hahaha. Was not fun

Olivia, watching your videos calms me so much i love your content so much, you have learned me alot❤

0:01 and you got me screaming "GURL THE AESTHETIC IS SO ON POINT AS ALWAYS DAMN OLIVIA"

Was very excited to see something from you this Samhain! I figured you had something works, but know how busy you must be. Great video!

I love the ambiance music and the way the room looks

Thank you Olivia. Ive been seeing “watchers” for decades but never really knew that it was a thing. None ever really bothered me much. After cleansings and protection charms it would quiet. But if I didnt brush the charms up, id get that feeling of being watched again. Luckily I have never had to perform a banishing. But the deeper I get into practice, its clear I need to know how as the trouble makers do occasionally like to play.

I finally have an answer, thank you ❤️ So much of this gives validation to my intuition of what I thought was happening to me since we purchased a new house. You have given me courage to continue my journey x Now, to learn how to banish the watchers manipulating my life toward destruction.

I had an experience years ago of waking up in a B&B with the distinct feeling I was being watched. It reminded me so much of what you described. Great video!

Pretty darn sure my childhood home was just a magnet for Watchers. My sisters and I had experienced things and energies exactly like you're describing throughout our lives, but particularly in that house. And the fact that my most intense run-ins with them were just after I'd started practicing makes SO MUCH SENSE now that I've learned more about them.

This is why I have found it is so important to have a spirit familiar who can add more protection and also banish malevolent spirits from infesting your life and draining your emotions and energies.

I've been going back and forth between if I've seen watchers or shadow people. I had banish one from my apartment not that long ago. It took the form of a little kid roughly from the 20s but his eyes were hollow holes with rings of light in them. (Almost like a ring light in someone's eyes). He was just watching me from behind my couch. The reason for banishing was just on the pure feeling of dread and discomfort that he was giving me. The other one I've seen was a real man in a trench coat with a top hat. Same eyes and both me and my mom would frequently see him in the hallway of my childhood home.

Interesting and relatable experiences you are describing. I did a course on shamanistic techniques (from a practicioner who slid sideways into shamanism from witchcraft) And as one of the practicum days we went to this ancient landcape, a sparsely forested heath with a dozen or so bronze age burial mounds, some so ancient they are just spots in the landscape, others still clearly hill like. We were sent on our own to explore, visit these places and note what we felt and experienced. The fun thing is, when people came back, they had similar experiences to one another, and these also corresponded with the teachers own experiences and those of students of previous years. One exception was one guy who came from a certain site shivering and feeling drained, urging me to stay out of there. I am always a bit perky in such situations so i just went on anyway. But the interesting thing was: the teacher had previously advised us to bring some offerings. Since the sites were bronze age, she advised us to not bring stuff like tobacco incense or stuff from other continents (her reasoning being that european bronze age people didnt know tobacco, white sage or sandalwood) So she advised stuff like ochre flour or fruits. So i had brought apple cake. I approached each site with a small mental prayer like "hi, my name is Kira and id like to come visit you if thats ok. Here i brought you this gift. it is a cake baked with apple inside" and i would place the cake first, then see if i was wanted. I did so with that place too. I had zero problems. The place was pretty neutral to me. But i did get the feeling what was the problem. That place felt like a place that asked for 'sacrifice' in the broadest sense of the word, a form of 'taking/sucking' energy. And bcs i offered something freely, the place took that. The guy that came from there shivering was the only member of the group that had not brought any offerings. So i guess the spirits assumed hew as the offering and took of him what met their fancy. So even there we had the same experience just a different side of it. Love your videos a lot, and you look stunning! If you ever feel like divulging the magic that does that, let this old crone know please 🤣

It's wild how I was talking about this last night to someone, relating it to something my partner said about my own home. Thank you for the video and information!

Reminds me of this entity from a childhood home of mine. It stalked the woods around where we lived. The difference between it and a watcher is that this thing definitely felt dangerous. You had that eyes on you at all times kind of feeling, but there was a malignant, predatory aura. It wanted to hurt you or make you hurt yourself. I don't know what this thing was, but it still haunts those woods. To this day if I go back there, those eyes will be on me.

My goodness, your channel has come so far since I first started watching

We named them vigils. Latin for watcher. The first one we encountered was latched to me. I was the most active in practicing and we. And to understand it as something that monitored a particular persons spiritual activity. Through study and divination it was shown that the vigils we encountered were either neutral, benevolent, or malevolent. I won’t go into depth but this opened up the window to study them and the shadow beings that came with them. Other shadows were what we called bottom feeders seeking energy but they were like the fish that swim under the shark. I was lucky in having a vigil that through intimidating encounters and divination, urged me in the right direction when using magick. Keeping me in the gray and closer to the light. Some of the other vigils I’ve come across that had attached or as we felt were assigned to upcoming promising practitioners, were not always in that persons best interest.

My childhood home was just full of varjoihmiset, literally shadow people, and the forest across the street was full of watchers that I called metsänväki (people of the forest) and fairly strong watchers at that, there were some other spirits there too, I'm sure I've passed the forest's haltia aka the land guardian, and some tonttu, elves, a different kind of guardians of buildings and spaces. As shadow people would just make people feel like there was something different in the air, like someone was in the same space just minding their own business and not even acknowledging you, the watchers would literally make kids run past certain spots in the forest because they had a creepy atmosphere and even along the street in the evenings and at night, in full daylight because midnight sun, people tried to rush up the hill from the lake because they had the feeling of being watched from the woods and some of them would follow you along the edge of the forest until they couldn't see you from the treeline anymore. I think the haltija showed up and got them to back off once when they had made a kid run and the kid had tripped on the asphalt.

I love how much time you put in these videos and I love watching them and you are the one who made me want to start making videos of witchcraft and stuff so what I'm saying here is thank you

This is timely. I think I had to push one out of my house two nights ago. I pushed SOMETHING out that didn't want to go, and your description of Watchers fits the feeling.

Ahhhh I’ve always wanted this video, thanks sis 💜💕

Love the comparison with a jellyfish! The immediate word that came to mind was filter feeder. Simple, but still bone chilling 😵‍💫

I remember when I was younger I would draw Griffin like creatures on paper and the words "they are watching." I remember my mom specifically asked who was watching but I had no explanation

Thank you so much for this video. I’ve been feeling incredibly tired, I have an autoimmune disease and have been dealing with the worst flair up I’ve ever had. I’d started to suspect something else was draining my energy as, I’ve just been feeling ‘off’ beyond what I usually deal with with my health. Last night before bed I asked for clarity in the form of a dream. I had a vivid dream where this weird skinny man with no face was following me around. I asked another person in the dream what is was and they said it was a ‘watcher.’ This morning I started researching what that could be and found this video. It’s so relieving to know what the heck this thing is. I’m planning to try your banishing video and see if that gets rid of it.

We used to have these "watchers" existing outside of the first apartment that I lived in after moving out on my own. Our roommate who was also sensitive to spirits and energies said that he saw dark, lanky spirits outside behind our apartment out in the parking lot. They never got into the apartment but they made the living room/balcony VERY unnerving. I never knew what they were until this whole situation with Annie. After watching the rest of the video, I also want to point out that where I live used to be swampland that was built up to be lived on and to accommodate roads and such. It floods like crazy here, so I guess watchers love bodies of water and swamps.

My house is very old, built in the 1880s, and the basement is very rudimentary: stone walls, crumbling and dusty, etc. There’s a sort of enclave, a small outcropping of a room; it’s dark, and the ceiling is low, and ever since I was a kid I knew there was something in there. I’ve never seen anything, but i have an image in my head eerily similar to what you described. It’s pale and lanky, its mouth is open, and it’s crouching, watching. It’s never left that room in all the years I’ve lived here so I’ve never felt the need to do anything about it, but it’s so interesting how similar it is to your experience and other comments I’ve read on here.

ohhhh i see what you mean, here in Brazil we usually refer to them as obsessors, idk if it’s the same for you, but for us it’s a really vague term that encompasses from spirits of the dead who are using your energy to very dangerous spirits sent by curse-like magic, the more they’re dangerous, more high ranking they are. these watchers for us would be very low ranking obsessors, and they’re everything you described :)

Annie of The Green Witch yt channel made a one year update video on the table in Oct titled : Full Story of Last Years Haunting. Oliva The Witch of Wonderlust is mentioned a few times in the video. One mentioning Oliva is when she identified the spirit of the table as "the Watcher". Ok onwards with this video

I LOVE this look. So fierce.

When I began practicing, I remember going to my altar one day and just feeling a sense of dread that I could not feel anywhere else. I would move around the room and the feeling was just there on the altar. It scared the bejeezus out of me and I burned some herbs and it went away. Thank you for this explanation - I never really figured out what that was!

Thank you for this! I felt like I was being watched, especially in my own bedroom. I got this hand painted guitar for my birthday a few years ago. When I walked into my room, especially during night time hours, it would strum lightly. Like someone was picking a cord or two. My mom and I ‘cleaned’ it and the house, haven’t heard from them since!

When you say “hollowed out eyes” I yelled from my bed “THROW A LEMON AT IT!” I’m glad you will be an elder one day. ❤

I only ever encountered spirits like this once, and that was when I moved to my current home 17 years ago. My home is in the country, and while there is absolutely nothing wrong with the house itself, the hill to the northeast of my property had a watchfulness to it that I just never could shake off. Whenever I was outside, especially in the part of the property just below this particular wooded hill, I would sense a somewhat unsettling observation coming towards me, and my mom confirmed much the same thing. It even followed our truck when we would drive north to head to the store, following us through the valley. Eventually as I warded this place the presence seemed to be pushed aside, and the only time that it's showed up again over the last few decades was around my sister-in-law when she was out on a walk on the road above my property and cutting through the trees. I know that there is a Native American burial ground on that hill, but it is quiet and peaceful, so that is not the presence. Hearing you in this video actually helped me understand that such things are more common than we'd care to think about.

Oh I definitely remember watchers from my childhood. What an interesting way of looking at this. I often think of magic and spirit work as some sort of language for everyday problems and situations we have to deal with. Watchers have been common in my childhood and now I have a name for it and also a description. As I said, it's all very interesting, especially as nobody really had that understanding of the spirit realm while I was growing up. I'm sure I have encountered watchers in several guest bedrooms. Thanks Olivia. Blessed Samhain/Halloween/however you like to call it.

When I was little I would see watchers very often. They’d stand at the foot of my bed or peer in through the bedroom door. I was told I’d “outgrow” seeing these entities, but it continued on into adulthood. Even when I left home, I’d see them less often but they were still there. It wasn't too scary, but it was creepy when I did notice them. The only time it really scared me was when I saw one up close. It was sitting beside me when I was up at night studying. It had wide eyes that were foggy and had no notable nose or mouth and its skin looked like it was charred. It was really disturbing. Interesting to know there are so many others who have had experiences with these entities though!

I've seen and felt things similar to this. I call them the shadow people. They hung around a lot when I was going through bad times. One time I saw/felt one I told it to "F off!" I also imagine my energy spike out like a puffer fish if I feel really opressed. they don't like it if me or my dog growl at them either. I hadn't seen or felt them in years until I moved to where I live now. I've had some really bad times and there's a neighbour who has the same vibe as the shadow people. She probably thinks I give off bad vibes as well though.

So that's what was lurking in my old bedroom in my parents house!! There were two in there when I lived with my parents. One that my mom and I call the "shadow man" who is more of a harmless mischievous presence, and the "watcher" in my old bedroom that no one liked to be in because of this unsettling feeling of being watched. He manifested himself first when I first started practicing witchcraft at 12 years old. The "watcher" isn't there anymore since I did a banishing spell, but the "shadow man" still pulls practical jokes on my mom from time to time.

Right off the bat I ADORE your top also your vibe is always amazing

This is so fascinating!! I’ve never heard of a Watcher before. Would love to hear more about the kinds of spirits you’ve encountered and what you’ve called them!

15:40 my mother used to be a manager at a lakeside restaurant and although I never saw the watchers I definitely have gotten a feeling like you've described many times

You look absolutely breathtaking Ms. Olivia!

This video popped up right after I just yelled at a watcher to go away. When you said you imagine seeing a gaping mouth trying to suck energy I got chills. There’s something outside my door with a giant mouth. It’s watching me and my spell candle.

I watched her video about 20 minutes ago. I then searched for something completely different & found your channel . Ive been randomly choosing different videos of yours to watch & it just so happens to be about the video I watched just a few moments ago. I appreciate your videos !

Thx for sharing this. Also... I love your outfit, and look in this video. Couple those with the comforting tone of your voice, and im totally captivated.

So, I currently live with my parents in my childhood home, in my childhood bedroom, and I know I have watchers around that I've felt since I was very young. Since I have anxiety, one thing that helps me is keeping my curtains open pretty much all the time, because I can see outside and know for sure whether someone is physically out there or if it's a paranormal thing. Really helps me feel less creeped out somehow.

I've had experience with "The watchers" as well as a child. It was an often strange to creep existence with them around. Although, I have learned to create barriers to keep at a distance. thank you for discussing this subject.

Olivia you are absolutelyyyyy STUNNING !!! ❤️