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A Dark Figure Next To My Bed It has been many years so I do not remember the time of year or hour. They both happened between 1995 & 1997 (I have 2 real stories to share) As a preteen in a new house in Lowell Indiana I was always uneasy in my parent's basement. Always an internal voice when I walked up the stairs saying to hurry so he wouldn't get me. Not that I had any idea who I thought "he" was. It always made my heart beat so fast that it felt like a real fear. I always wrote this voice off as 1 too many horror movies. When I turned 18 I moved out on my own. Eventually the reality of living in the real world on minimum wage sunk it and I needed to move back in with my parents. Having a taste of freedom I wanted to feel more like I was on my own. I was talked into living in the basement. I didn't want to because of the uneasy feeling Id always had, but I figured it was a silly fear since Id never seen or felt anything down there. I fell going up the stairs with a hammer in my hand & got pretty banged up once. That felt more clumsy than paranormal. So one night I'm sleeping in my bed facing the wall. I woke up in the middle of the night with a feeling like I was being watched. I rolled over and saw a dark figure standing in my room about a foot from my bed. It wasn't a human figure. More like the height of a tall person and a rounded top and long oval shape but its feet area was flat. It wasn't see-through or exactly solid either in appearance. I saw this very clearly in my room. As soon as my brain was awake enough to be scared to death a bright white light in a circle shape (but a little larger than the black figure) appeared near my door & the black figure instantly vanished with the bright light. I was so scared that I made myself get up and leave the basement. I woke my mom up and she stayed up with me for a little while. I stayed up for the rest of the night thinking about what Id seen. I had the feeling that I'd be okay now, but I was scared from that point. I had some Wiccan books & an Ouija board in my closet that Id forgotten about and had found a few weeks later that were from my teenage years. I burned them that day in our fire pit. Nothing like that has ever happened since & to this day I know I wasn't asleep & that I wasn't imagining it. Another paranormal experience I have is not as scary to me NOW but at the time it was very spooky. I was living on my own in a very small town called Schneider Indiana. I was sleeping and woke up for no reason. When I sat up I saw a woman standing there. She was wearing a bonnet & dress & small waist apron. She reminded me of pictures I'd seen of "witches" from Salem. She just looked at me. I grabbed my pants from the floor & went to leave the room. I had to walk right past her to leave. She didn't move. She didn't have an odor that I noticed and she seemed a little see through. I got in my car and was so scared she would appear in the car which did not happen thank goodness. No one was awake & I didn't know where to go. I ended up going to a palm reader on 41 because it was the first open sign I saw while driving up the highway. I told her what had happened and she must have thought I was a sucker. She wanted me to buy all these things. I told her I was on a tight budget and had no money to my name. I then asked if there were any free things I could do. She said to put garlic in all the doorways & openings for windows or passages. I did this & never had another problem. I doubt the garlic was helpful but who knows. So those are my stories. I came here because the dark figure came to mind & I wanted to see if anyone else had the same experience. M.D.
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