May 11, 2005
Shadow Figures
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(Name withheld upon request), Sykesville,
Maryland, early 1980s,
info@ghostvillage.com
I was very young, maybe about 7 years old -- I remember going to
my friend Diane's house for a sleepover. I had never stayed at her house
before. We were playing that day and I remember her telling me that
sometimes "robbers" come into her house at night. I wasn't the sharpest
kid on the block but I remember thinking that was stupid and just
ignored her.
That night I was asleep, sharing the top bunk with her while her
older sister slept below. I woke up suddenly because I was ice cold.
Being it was summer I thought the room was very cold because of air
conditioning, and that since she'd kicked the covers off of me I just
needed to grab them and get warm again.
However, remember I was a very little kid who was feeling very safe
because there were two other people sleeping in the room with me. As I
glanced to the foot of the bed searching for covers, my gaze noticed
something in the doorway; two dark figures. They were just shadows -- no
definition of features, but adult sized, and human shaped. The shadows
were darker than the dark hallway. They faced in the direction of her
parent's room; one pointed to it, the other nodded and the first
disappeared into the room. The other turned toward me. I was
so terrified at that point that I shut my eyes tight. I
waited for what seemed like ages and finally got myself to open my eyes
again just to see if it was gone and there it was right in front of my
face, hovering above us. Its face was nothing but a blank shadow. This
is all I remember -- I think I must've just kept my eyes shut and at
some point fallen asleep.
The confirmation of this event, now that I am an adult, comes
unwittingly from my parents. I asked them if they remembered my
sleepover at Diane's, and they said yes because I spoke of how I'd seen
something in my room that night. My parents still believe I was
imagining it, but people who have experienced this themselves know it is
still too vivid and too obscure to be an imagined event. I know what I
saw and get chills even today, even as I write. I wish someone could
explain this event to me. What are these shadowy figures? Are they
malevolent? I suppose so since as a child I intuitively felt scared.
