JAN'S TALES
October Visitor
The following event just
happened a few weeks ago, in the middle part of
October, 2001. After reading this story it will no
doubt make you question certain similar scenarios
that may have happened to you in the past. I know
it left me pondering particular memories,
and it shall alert me to new occurrences in
the future.
It was in the evening around nine and I was standing at the front door waving
goodbye to my daughter in law through the
glass storm door. She was backing out of the
driveway when the solid glass door
began trembling erratically. The handle was
going back and forth also as if trying to open
itself. My eleven year
old son and a friend of his were on the couch watching television
when they heard the door vibrating violently
and turned around to witness this phenomenon. They
both got up and came to stand beside me, and all
three of us watched in amazement together as an
unseen visitor was trying
to get the door open from the other side. I looked
at them and said, "I believe something is trying
to get inside." The boys had a mixture of
fear and amusement on their faces. They were both
fascinated and fearful over this invisible intruder.
When I reached to lock the
storm door to make it more secure two breath
marks appeared on the glass, as if someone, or
something was breathing on the glass
from the outside. The misty circles were above my head, as if from a
very tall entity and close to the edge of the
door where it opens. We all took a few steps back
over this new development
and gasped. I went forward again, and raised my
hand up to the glass to press against
the misty outline to see if there was any
temperature change, if it was possibly warmer or
maybe even colder than the
glass itself. The door trembled again at the same instance
of my hand touching the glass and to my shock
the misty breath circles smeared with the movement of
my fingers! In alarm, I said, "Something
isn't trying to get inside, something is trying to
get out!" The visitor had
breathed upon the inside of the door to let us know
it wanted out, not in. Very promptly I
opened the door and said aloud, "By all
means, feel free to leave." There was the slightest
of breezes as the visitor
moved past us and out into the night. The three of us
all laughed together for a
moment then hugged each other for comfort as we tried to understand
what had just taken place.
With an afterthought I said a prayer that if this entity was suppose to leave
with my daughter in
law for some reason that it would not harm her, and that if it be
the Creator's Will
that it return from whence it came.
So, a word to the wise, do not assume an entrance is the avenue for things to
come into your world, for there are things
around you that you do not feel, that may need a
doorway to exit from.
-Jan Thompson.
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