1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,220 You have been led to believe that everything you have experienced isn't real, that there's 2 00:00:10,220 --> 00:00:11,220 an explanation. 3 00:00:11,220 --> 00:00:14,220 But what if they're wrong? 4 00:00:14,220 --> 00:00:18,920 What if something reached out to you from beyond? 5 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,560 Let me tell your true stories. 6 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:32,480 Let me tell them until they all believe. 7 00:00:32,480 --> 00:00:38,400 Hello everyone, welcome back to Paranormal and Supernatural True Stories. 8 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:42,440 Today's story is a mind bender, truly. 9 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,400 This story is absolutely terrifying. 10 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:49,080 All names have been changed to protect everyone's identity. 11 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:51,360 You'll soon see why. 12 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:54,200 Thank you, Julia, for sending this story. 13 00:00:54,200 --> 00:01:01,040 So let's just, let's not waste any time getting into what I've titled, The Night Demons. 14 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:09,800 Hello, my name is Julia and my family's experience began in 2012 when my stepdaughter was 12 15 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:10,800 years old. 16 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:16,000 A little background of our family might be helpful to understand the dynamics. 17 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:21,560 My stepdaughter's mother, Olivia, died when she was only 30 years old. 18 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,280 At this time, my stepdaughter, Claire, was only three. 19 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,040 Unfortunately, she remembers very little about her mother. 20 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:36,280 She says she remembers her perfume and her smile, her laugh, but little else. 21 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:43,320 I came into Claire's life when she was six years old and I fell in love instantly with 22 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:46,040 this sullen little girl. 23 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:50,560 Unfortunately, she did not feel the same for me. 24 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:57,000 Claire was a very quiet child, mostly playing by herself, chattering away, playing with 25 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 her dolls and toys. 26 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:05,040 And if anyone tried to participate in playing with her, she would just simply quit the activity 27 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:06,760 and move on. 28 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,320 No amount of begging would change her mind. 29 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:16,840 One day, when she was about seven years old, I tried to join her in playing with her dolls 30 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,760 and she said, she doesn't want you here. 31 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:23,400 You can't play with me. 32 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:24,400 Who doesn't want me here? 33 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:25,880 I asked. 34 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:31,360 She said she and she pointed toward her bed. 35 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:39,240 I took this as rejection, but looking back, I have to wonder if this is when the activity 36 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:41,720 began. 37 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:47,800 Claire had no desire to be with other children, although she seemed fascinated just to watch 38 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:49,280 them. 39 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:53,640 Her dad and I moved in together about a year after we met. 40 00:02:53,640 --> 00:03:00,080 Claire seemed indifferent to this and I figured indifference was better than anger. 41 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:06,800 I made every effort to include her in everything and yet she remained in her head. 42 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:11,600 We decided to get her some therapy, hoping maybe to open her up. 43 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:17,200 Her dad said she was outgoing before her mother died and then it seemed like a switch went 44 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,480 off and she was a different child. 45 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:25,680 He had tried therapy, but for reasons I'm not going to mention here, the therapy had 46 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:30,120 to stop and it just didn't seem to help then. 47 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:34,600 We were hoping now that she was a little older that she may respond a little better. 48 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:39,800 Also, we were trying to have a child too, so we were hoping that the news of a new baby 49 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,800 might brighten her life as well as ours. 50 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:49,120 The therapy seemed to help her communicate better with us about how she was feeling and 51 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:53,460 the therapist said that she was just simply a quiet child. 52 00:03:53,460 --> 00:03:59,800 He did not find any serious reasons to worry, but at least there was more of an open dialogue 53 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,920 now and we were happy with that. 54 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:09,080 Will she use that open dialogue to express to me that she did not want me around, that 55 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,800 she would be happy if I left the house? 56 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,320 My mind was blown. 57 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:19,160 My husband said it's just a phase, be patient. 58 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:25,680 The therapist said that likely she was targeting me with all of her negative emotions of her 59 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:30,720 mother's death because she couldn't do that to her father. 60 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:36,760 The relationship remained cold through the years and my husband was not much help. 61 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:40,200 So fast forward to Claire at age 12. 62 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:45,200 She is now doing the typical self-expression that is expected at that age. 63 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,600 Claire chose to dress in black. 64 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:48,840 Every day. 65 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:50,440 She wore black makeup. 66 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:52,420 This was not allowed by us. 67 00:04:52,420 --> 00:04:58,040 She would do this at school without our knowledge as makeup at age 12 would not have been allowed. 68 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,400 Her hair was already naturally jet black. 69 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:06,600 Her father was terribly upset by this change in her, but I kind of expected this. 70 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,520 Her social life improved, however. 71 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:12,040 She found a group of older kids that dressed like her. 72 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,640 We were not happy about that. 73 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:20,080 These kids were 16 years old and older while she was only 12. 74 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:24,520 There was another girl though that hung out with them that was 13. 75 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:30,360 So Claire would always say that Jessie will be there and mostly we know she would sneak 76 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,960 to see these older kids. 77 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,000 I just wanted to give that little prehistory because I think it's important. 78 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:43,240 Also my husband and I were extreme skeptics when it came to anything paranormal. 79 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:45,720 Notice I said we were. 80 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:50,920 As I write this, it's odd to me to remember thinking that way. 81 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:56,800 How small minded we were and how dangerously careless that was. 82 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:02,000 So the paranormal events began in the winter of 2012. 83 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:09,640 At first I began to have nightmares and not just bad dreams, but full on sweating, thrashing 84 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,160 and screaming until my husband would wake me. 85 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:16,680 I even injured him a few times as he tried to comfort me. 86 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:23,400 I would remember none of it though at first, only the absolute terror that I felt. 87 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,720 This would happen about three to four nights a week. 88 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,760 I sought medical attention for this, but nothing helped me. 89 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:38,720 I went for several sleep studies and during those I slept peacefully every time. 90 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:44,280 My doctor gave me medicine to take before bed, but this medication made it so that I 91 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:50,840 couldn't wake from the terrors as easily as before, so I stopped taking it. 92 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:56,320 My husband began traveling for work and this was the worst time for me as now there was 93 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,380 nobody to wake me. 94 00:06:58,380 --> 00:07:06,600 One night I woke myself from the dreams and there was Claire standing in my bedroom doorway 95 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:08,200 just watching me. 96 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:15,480 I turned the light on and she just stared at me, kind of smirked, then turned and walked 97 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:16,960 away. 98 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,280 This was a disturbing encounter. 99 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:25,520 So Claire was going to be away for the weekend and I decided to clean her room, like a deep 100 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:29,420 clean, walls, closet, everything. 101 00:07:29,420 --> 00:07:34,020 During this cleaning I found some upsetting things in her room. 102 00:07:34,020 --> 00:07:38,180 These weren't just kids are curious about the paranormal things. 103 00:07:38,180 --> 00:07:47,000 These were rituals, conjuring techniques, sacrificial methods, black magic and spells, 104 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,760 Satan worship and a devil's Bible. 105 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:52,900 Like serious stuff. 106 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:59,580 There were vials of different liquids, packets of dried herbs, several types of what I guess 107 00:07:59,580 --> 00:08:06,760 were animal bones, black candles and just so many other dark objects. 108 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,520 Hopefully this type of thing wouldn't really frighten me. 109 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:15,840 Like I said, I was a serious skeptic, but then I saw a handwritten, in Claire's handwriting, 110 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:21,600 paper about how to summon a sleep demon. 111 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:28,740 My world felt like it stopped when I saw my name written on the face of this black drawing 112 00:08:28,740 --> 00:08:31,720 of a scary shadowy figure. 113 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,820 What the hell? 114 00:08:33,820 --> 00:08:35,200 My mind was racing. 115 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:41,840 I wasn't sure if I should wait for her father to get home next week or to confront her Sunday 116 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,400 when she got home about all of this. 117 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,960 I'm not even sure why it scared me at the time. 118 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:50,320 I think mostly it was the sleep demon. 119 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:57,060 Like a little tickle in the back of my brain said, this is what's happening to you. 120 00:08:57,060 --> 00:09:00,720 This is the root of everything you have suffered. 121 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,160 Then my sensible side said, come on, really? 122 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:05,840 It's simply a coincidence. 123 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:11,400 Even so, Claire should not be led astray with all of this negative influence and she would 124 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,840 need to be talked to about it. 125 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,200 I decided to let her father deal with it. 126 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:17,680 I put it all back. 127 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:23,320 I stopped my project of cleaning her room and my nightmares continued. 128 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:29,420 Only now I was really remembering parts of them anyway and they were beyond anything 129 00:09:29,420 --> 00:09:34,720 I would think my mind could imagine. 130 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,320 Cannibalism, murder, sacrifice. 131 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:45,360 Just awful things that I was taking part in willingly and awakening in absolute terror. 132 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:50,320 When her father got home, he discussed all the things that I found with her. 133 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:51,480 She laughed. 134 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,540 She said, it's stupid stuff. 135 00:09:53,540 --> 00:09:56,320 She said she didn't really believe in any of it. 136 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,720 It's just something her and her friends were playing a game with. 137 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:05,640 He seemed convinced and that she would outgrow it and the subject was dropped. 138 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,600 I had lingering doubts. 139 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:13,440 He had not seen her face that night as she watched me struggle through a nightmare. 140 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:20,640 I believe this is when my shield of skepticism began to crack. 141 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:26,160 About a month later, I began to see a shadowy figure in the hallway at night. 142 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:32,680 It would walk past our room, stop, look inside, then move on. 143 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:35,440 My sleep pattern changed as well. 144 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:40,640 Now I could not get to sleep and when I did, I could not stay asleep. 145 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,680 So I would lay there and wait for the shadow to come. 146 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:48,640 I woke my husband several times to see it, but he never saw it. 147 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:51,360 He said that likely I was dreaming. 148 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:55,480 This went on for a few months then abruptly ended with a nightmare. 149 00:10:55,480 --> 00:11:02,480 A dark figure in my dream said, you shouldn't be here. 150 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:06,900 A little while later, there was a terrible stench in our home. 151 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:14,120 We could not find the source, but it was like rotting flesh and sometimes it was like a 152 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,600 sulfur smell and we all smelled it. 153 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:22,800 It wasn't constant though and it was usually only late at night. 154 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:28,280 One day when I was home alone, I heard a knock at my front door. 155 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:31,640 When I opened the door, of course there was no one there. 156 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:35,520 Instantly I heard a knock at the back door. 157 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,520 Again, nobody there. 158 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:40,680 Now at the front door. 159 00:11:40,680 --> 00:11:47,560 And as I opened the front door, the knocking came abruptly from upstairs, like on the floor 160 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:49,640 above my head. 161 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:54,000 I went to my neighbors, Shelley and Jake's house, and they came over to help search the 162 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:59,400 house, but we found nothing. 163 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:04,760 Being exhausted from my erratic sleep, I sat down and just cried right in front of the 164 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:06,160 neighbors. 165 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,040 Shelley sat next to me and hugged me. 166 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:14,320 I explained everything that had been happening, including the stuff in Claire's room. 167 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:18,120 She asked if she could see the stuff, so I showed her. 168 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:21,080 She looked terrified. 169 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:25,960 She said, and you think this is all harmless because you don't believe in it? 170 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:29,720 I shook my head tentatively, yes. 171 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,640 So she then asked me, do you believe in God? 172 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,320 Yes, of course, I said. 173 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:37,680 And do you believe in the power of prayer? 174 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:41,000 Yes, absolutely, I told her. 175 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:47,080 Well then, she said, if you believe in all of that, you are foolish to think that this 176 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,360 stuff has no power. 177 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:53,040 All of this stuff has power just like prayer. 178 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:56,680 It's like the opposite of prayer, the negative side. 179 00:12:56,680 --> 00:13:00,480 And you realize there are demons in the Bible. 180 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:06,520 Think of it this way, if praying to God has power and brings miracles, then prayer to 181 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:13,040 Satan would be like trying to invoke a curse rather than a miracle, since the devil conducts 182 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:15,200 mockery of the Christian faith. 183 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:24,240 At that moment, the stench came strong, and it was the last thing either of us remembered. 184 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:31,520 We awoke a few hours later, on the floor in my kitchen in a puddle of stinking water. 185 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:34,840 Shelly said we needed to do something right away. 186 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:36,840 And she looked angry. 187 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:42,000 She helped me up and went to the door to leave and angrily said, burn all those things in 188 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:46,160 Claire's room, and I wouldn't let her hang out with those people anymore. 189 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:48,320 I mean, what the hell just happened to us? 190 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,760 And what the hell is that filthy water we woke up in? 191 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:55,880 For Christ's sake, open your eyes and see this for what it is. 192 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:58,360 Well, what the hell is it, Shelly? 193 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:05,280 I yelled back and she said, you have been cursed by your stepdaughter. 194 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,040 I just stared at her. 195 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:08,840 She's lost her mind, I thought. 196 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:14,040 Well, it was about a week later I found out I was pregnant. 197 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:18,800 Our joy slightly overshadowed by our diminishing relationship. 198 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,240 Claire seemed to welcome the news in a complacent manner. 199 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:27,920 Congratulations, she said, half smiling, which was more than usual. 200 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:33,600 The pregnancy distracted us to Claire's behavior and activities, I suppose. 201 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:35,040 Maybe it was a welcome distraction. 202 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:36,040 I don't know. 203 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:41,640 I could still hear Shelly saying that Claire cursed me and thought how ridiculous that 204 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,240 seemed now. 205 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:48,760 I was about three months pregnant when my husband had to leave for work for about a 206 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:50,300 month. 207 00:14:50,300 --> 00:14:55,520 There was big money in this trip and we needed it to prepare for our child. 208 00:14:55,520 --> 00:15:00,360 The first week he was gone, my nightmares came back with an intensity that I cannot 209 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:01,880 describe. 210 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,640 One night I awoke and was covered in sweat. 211 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:09,680 I would have to change the sheets, I thought, as they were saturated in sweat. 212 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:15,240 I turned on the light and what I saw nearly made me vomit. 213 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:20,520 My entire side of the bed was saturated, but not in sweat. 214 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:22,640 It was blood. 215 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:24,400 So much blood. 216 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:27,280 I was losing my baby. 217 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:30,760 I tried to get up, but I felt so weak, dizzy. 218 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:35,800 At that moment, I heard laughing. 219 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:42,440 It was Claire in her room, laughing and talking to someone. 220 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:52,160 The voices began changing and now it sounded like a crowded room of voices all around me. 221 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:56,620 And then it all went black. 222 00:15:56,620 --> 00:15:59,060 I had lost my baby. 223 00:15:59,060 --> 00:16:05,760 My husband replaced our mattress while I was in the hospital and Claire never even came 224 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,480 to see me. 225 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:15,560 After I got over the initial stage of grief, I began to get angry at Claire. 226 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:22,640 I remembered her laughing that night and something in my soul was telling me that her activities 227 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:25,120 caused this tragedy. 228 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:32,360 One day while she was at school, I burned all the books and symbols she had. 229 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:35,400 Anything I could find, I burned it. 230 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,220 And she come home in a rage. 231 00:16:38,220 --> 00:16:45,960 She screamed that she hated me and that she has always hated me and that her dead mother 232 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:47,840 hated me too. 233 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:52,760 She admitted that she had cursed me with a sleep demon and now she would curse me with 234 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:54,520 worse. 235 00:16:54,520 --> 00:17:01,040 She said she had sacrificed my unborn baby as an offering and then she stormed out of 236 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:02,320 the house. 237 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:07,040 I felt as if I had been slapped hard. 238 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:12,560 My head was spinning and trust me, I know how all this sounds. 239 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:14,440 It sounds absurd. 240 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,400 Like a bad movie. 241 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,080 I mean who in their right mind would believe any of this? 242 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:27,400 But I can tell you, I believe that she believed it and I could hear the echoes of what Shelly 243 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:28,880 had said. 244 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:35,600 A prayer to Satan would invoke a curse. 245 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:39,160 At this point, Claire would not come home. 246 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:43,400 She was at her friend's house and her father said, maybe it's good for a few days until 247 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,560 everyone cooled off. 248 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:49,200 While she was gone, I couldn't think why she would hate me so much. 249 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:55,840 I was never nothing but good to her, never overstepping boundaries, always loving her. 250 00:17:55,840 --> 00:18:03,060 And even now, my concern, through my anger, was for her well-being. 251 00:18:03,060 --> 00:18:08,000 One evening, Claire still gone, my husband at his office. 252 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,520 I relaxed with the book on the couch, reading along quietly and then... 253 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:18,120 From the kitchen, I jumped from the couch. 254 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:20,960 I ran towards the kitchen to find... 255 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:22,600 Nothing wrong. 256 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:23,600 Nothing's crashed. 257 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:29,760 Then, as I began to relax again with my book... 258 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:32,120 Was that a window? 259 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:33,120 And then... 260 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:36,840 What the fuck was happening? 261 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:43,680 Then it occurred to me that it was probably Claire and her friends, so I ran outside. 262 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:48,720 It was near dark and I ran around the house, but I saw no sign of anyone. 263 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:50,880 I ran to the back field. 264 00:18:50,880 --> 00:19:01,120 And there, I saw, far out in the field, what appeared to be a deer, but not really a deer. 265 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:02,380 What was this thing? 266 00:19:02,380 --> 00:19:08,760 It was standing like a human and it had a fully antlered head. 267 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,460 This had to be those kids in costume. 268 00:19:12,460 --> 00:19:17,120 I ran towards the deer person and it never moved. 269 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:23,120 As I got closer, I literally saw it fade away into nothing. 270 00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:24,400 And then... 271 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:26,400 It was gone. 272 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,520 This, I could not rationalize. 273 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:34,360 This was near insanity for me. 274 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:39,800 My husband and I would fight terribly now, mostly about Claire. 275 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:44,840 And sometimes, after a fight, she would shoot me a sneering glance. 276 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:48,440 A knowing glance. 277 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:55,140 A much older glance than any child her age should be capable of. 278 00:19:55,140 --> 00:19:57,400 I wanted her to see a priest. 279 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:00,680 My husband called me a fool. 280 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:03,560 I no longer wanted to be in the house with her there. 281 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,360 And I realized something. 282 00:20:05,360 --> 00:20:07,480 I feared her. 283 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:11,440 It was now about a year later, my marriage was all but dissolved. 284 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,040 I had no relationship with Claire. 285 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,480 And I basically avoided her. 286 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,880 My sleeping had improved some, but not much. 287 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,600 But mentally, I was at a breaking point. 288 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,760 I decided it was time for me to leave. 289 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:33,580 Sadly, there was just nothing here for me anymore. 290 00:20:33,580 --> 00:20:39,800 I told my husband I was leaving, but he was a step ahead of me, as he had had an attorney 291 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,040 draw up divorce papers. 292 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:45,640 He handed them to me and said, get these signed soon. 293 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,640 Let's just be done with this. 294 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:53,640 This would be my last night in this house, and it felt like a weight had been lifted. 295 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:58,680 Except I didn't know what she had in store for me that night. 296 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:07,680 I was sleeping in the den downstairs, when in my dream, that shadowy figure came and 297 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:12,680 said, you don't belong here. 298 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,480 Leave now. 299 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:22,960 I tried to wake up, but I felt as if I could not open my eyes like I was conscious but 300 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,960 physically unable to open my eyes. 301 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:30,480 You don't belong here. 302 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:36,160 I struggled to get to my feet, and then my eyes opened finally, then I ran out the door 303 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,240 into the night. 304 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:44,280 I stood there, in the dark, staring back into the dark den. 305 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:48,480 Then movement approached me. 306 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:54,760 It was the shadowy figure, and it slammed the door in my face. 307 00:21:54,760 --> 00:22:01,960 I collapsed to the ground, mentally and physically exhausted. 308 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:06,760 Now we will fast forward about six months. 309 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,920 I was living about two hours away now. 310 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,560 I got the urge to call my husband. 311 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:14,420 My ex-husband now. 312 00:22:14,420 --> 00:22:17,120 I just wanted to check on him. 313 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:23,200 I was feeling better, well rested, and I had not felt this good in years. 314 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,960 I missed him, and I just wanted to see how he was doing. 315 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:35,760 So I called him on my landline, and when it picked up on the other end, there was static. 316 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:39,000 Like a bad connection. 317 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:45,680 I could hear Claire saying, it's for you, and then that voice came on the line, you 318 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,960 don't belong here. 319 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:52,040 So that's my story. 320 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:58,000 I know how it sounds, like the ramblings of someone who needed sleep, maybe someone who 321 00:22:58,000 --> 00:22:59,720 needed medicated. 322 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:04,280 I completely understand why anyone would feel that way. 323 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:10,440 But I can swear to you that it's all the truth, and I might even have discounted everything 324 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:18,180 myself, if it weren't for that last phone call, when I heard its voice again. 325 00:23:18,180 --> 00:23:20,380 This entity was real. 326 00:23:20,380 --> 00:23:26,040 It terrifies me to think of what else is out there that we don't understand. 327 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:31,960 What else is out there that can stalk us in our sleep, and cause physical harm to us when 328 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,440 we are awake? 329 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,080 Well, thanks for listening. 330 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:40,920 I wish you all well, and everyone have a good day. 331 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:47,880 Well, wow, I mean, this story was so intense and so horrible. 332 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:52,080 I am sorry you went through this, and I appreciate you sharing it with us. 333 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,520 A couple thoughts come to mind here. 334 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:58,520 I am wondering, though, if this entity was Claire's mother? 335 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,120 Does anyone else think that? 336 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:05,840 At least in the beginning, when she said she doesn't want you here. 337 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:12,680 Or if somehow she was involved with bringing this other, darker being to get you away from 338 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,640 her family. 339 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,120 There are so many questions that this story invokes. 340 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:19,920 It makes my head spin. 341 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:24,560 I would love to hear from Claire, to hear her side of the story. 342 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:28,440 But for now, we will have to come to our own conclusions. 343 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,280 Well, again, thanks, Julia, for sharing this with us. 344 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:40,840 And if anyone wants to share their own story, please send it to My True Story at MyYahoo.com. 345 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:45,400 And I am not going to be having a Christmas or New Year's episode, I'm going to be building 346 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:51,480 up my bonus episodes for our members, the Shadow Files collection, so that I can offer 347 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,000 more tiers of membership. 348 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:59,880 Please 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