HARD TO
EXPLAIN TALES 8
Shadow People
(NOTE: the author refers
to using sage in this story...to those who aren't familiar with this, it is
believed that the smoke from a smoldering bundle of sage (light it, wait
a moment, then blow out the flame and allow the embers to create smoke) helps to
cleanse areas of ghosts and entities... I can personally vouch that it seems to
work...)
I am
hoping you can help me; about three years ago it started...
I had
moved from Washington state to Louisiana, A few months after I left my sister
called told me that she had a problem in her place; she would be sleeping and
get the feeling she was being watched. She would wake up and see a tall
thin man looking thing standing by her bed. When it realized she was awake
it would run away out the back of her house; she could hear its foot steps...
the door was locked and bolted from the inside,
I told her
to burn sage (See NOTE
above) and cleanse her place. Then it was my turn a few months
after that... I was awakened by a tall thing standing in my door way about two
feet from my side of the bed. It was peeking around the door way looking
at me... I opened my eyes saw it, then it ran away. This went on for
several weeks, until I got fed up and burned sage.
Then a few
weeks later when I came home from work I could feel a presence in the house.
It made my hair stand up a little; I asked what it wanted and who it was. it
gave no signs so I said get out before I banish you... I could feel it laugh as
it left.
A few
months later I had a dream the same creature that came into my home took me
through our galaxy past all the planets... they're so breathtaking up close. We went to another galaxy and a planet with a grayish pink atmosphere,
with no
plants no trees, and buildings that looked like tall adobe houses; tram like
things went from building to building. There were no children, and no one spoke to
me. I was then brought back here. A few nights later I was awakened by the
sensation of someone laying on my shoulder. It freaked me out; Jeremy was on his
side of the bed, and no one was supposed to be on my left side. I opened my eyes
and turned my head and saw a thing shaped like a human, but not as tall as the one who
had peeked around my door... it ran away,
Over the past few months Jeremy will come in to the room I am in and ask me
'were
you just talking to me?' I tell him no; but he thinks I am and am just trying to
freak him out. I swear it's not me...
About 2
weeks before the recent eclipse, I started seeing things out of the corner of my
eye, and shadows going across my neighbor's house. Small things, large
things...in the house, moving with speed. I know they're not ghosts... I
know a ghost when I feel one. Ghosts aren't here. On the night of
the eclipse, at about 2 - 2:30 AM, I was in my bedroom watching TV when I heard
a noise. At first I thought, 'nah, it's just the house.' When I
heard it again I started to listen for it and turned down the TV. I heard
the floorboards creaking as if someone was walking across the floor. I got
up and remembered I had left the phone in the living room, and thought, 'oh my
God - what if it's the serial killer...' we have one here in our town.
I grabbed
the baseball bat, ready to swing if someone came in my room... I then heard the
hall door make a sound like it was opening. I ran over and grabbed the
handle, ready to kill whoever was in my house... no one was there. I had a
feeling come over me of murder, and goose bumps made every hair on my body stand
up. I got really scared... like you might get when you know you're going
to die...
I looked
all over; no one was in the house. The door was locked, the windows were
fine. As I walked through the house, I keep feeling as if I were being
followed. I would turn around and see nothing there, but the feeling
stayed behind me. After seeing no human was in the house, I addressed the
feeling I had, and told whatever was there that it was uninvited and it had best
leave now, before I 'banish you back to where you came from...' About 3 AM I
could feel the house 'relax', and by 3:30 I was in bed sleeping.
A few days
later I was telling my sister in Washington State about my experience. She
said, "Oh my God, Cathy - at the same time it was at your house, I was going
through the same thing." It had followed behind her from room to room and
she also felt the impression of murder and death...
We both
decided we would start asking others what it could be so we can get rid of it.
Someone told me they're 'shadow people' and pointed me this way... now I'm
finding out others have seen them too. Why are they here? What do
they want?
-Catherine.