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Melissa Castillo, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Ongoing
It started with my son being three. He used to talk to my grandmother who
passed away 10 years prior to him being born. No one in my family ever
talked about her (she had not been very nice). One day on the way home from
his daycare he pointed to her old apartment and said that it was grandma's
house. Then later, he came running out of his bedroom crying saying grandma
was scaring him. My younger son used to sit and stare off into space and
laugh and giggle for no reason and his swing would start rocking itself
whenever he was upset. When he grew big enough to sleep in a toddler bed, I
bought one at a garage sale and he refused to sleep in it. He would rather
sleep in a Lego wagon than the bed. I brushed it off for a while, but as he
got older he would cry like he was being hurt and would only say his friend
was hurting him. A few years later I had a little girl and when she got old
enough I repainted the toddler bed and she refused to sleep in it. She would
get into her sister's bed in the middle of the night. I tried to break her
of that and make her sleep in her own bed by putting her sister's bed on its
side when she wasn't here. That didn't work. Instead of sleeping in her bed
she would go into the closet and wrap herself up completely in a blanket. My
boyfriend has had many of run-ins with this "being," once it even pushed him
into the wall and knocked him on the ground. Throughout the years we've had
a few minor encounters, but lately it's been quite regular and frightening.
I saw a boy's shadow larger than my oldest son in the doorway. When I went
to check on them they were both sleeping. The lights and TV turn themselves
on in the middle of the night, and my daughter suffers from night
terror-like symptoms. She wakes in the middle of the night screaming
uncontrollably.
My boyfriend and I have both been attacked in the middle of the night while
we sleep. One night I woke up being choked by something unseen, another I
was having something small climb up my body really fast and was unable to
move. When I was able to wake my boyfriend it leapt onto his face as if
trying to smother him. My cat jumped in and scared it away. I'm wondering
what else I can do to keep this thing away from my family. I have crosses,
rosaries, pictures of Jesus, and we pray regularly. I want to know if it's
more than one creature, or if it's changing shapes. There are tall black and
white shadows and crazy unexplainable noises. I'm scared and annoyed.
