This story is my husbands', but I find it so interesting
that I wanted to share it.
My husband was a serious kind of
kid, mature and not a prankster. So, this story is even
more believable because his parents told me they remembered
how scared THEY were when it happened.
When John, my husband, was 8 or 9 his family moved into an
old house in one of the older sections of Toledo. John had
an older sister and they each had their own room. My
husbands' room overlooked the next door neighbor's house as
they sat very close together. He could look into the next
door neighbor's window directly across from him.
Not long after they moved in they noticed that an ambulance
was next door and they seemed to be removing a person or a
body. The man living there had a supposedly committed
suicide. Being a busy kid, he thought no more of this
occurence until much later.
One night while having a sleep over with his best friend a
terrifying thing happened to my husband. Something he has
never forgotten.
He was sleeping on the bottom bunk of his
bunk beds and his friend Tony, was on the top. They were
both asleep when something made John wake up. He saw a man
standing in front of his dresser staring at him. This man
was wearing dress slacks, and a white undershirt. He was
smoking a cigarette, my husband distinctly remembers the
smoke curling in the air. The man seemed to be looking
directly at my husband and was smirking, kind of laughing
at him. John said the thing that terrified him was the fact
that he could see his dresser drawers through this man, but
he looked real. Well, John started banging on the bunk
above him trying to wake up Tony, but Tony never budged. He
started yelling, but the man was still there, just leaning
against the dresser laughing at him. His parents heard him
and came running in to see what was wrong. The man
immediately disappeared when they opened the door. John
told his parents what he saw and they talked about it, they
tried to convince him it was a dream and finally got the
boys settled down and went back to bed.
John said the very
minute they shut the door the man reappeared. He seemed to
be mocking him, laughing at him like he knew he was scaring
him. John started yelling again. His parents came back into
the room and once again the man disappeared, he told them
that the man had reappeared. They were a little irritated
with John and told him to go to sleep and once again shut
the door and went back to bed.
Within a matter of seconds
the man reappeared for a third time, just staring at John,
looking directly at him, smirking and puffing his
cigarette. He started yelling again for his parents and
they could see him panicking. They realized that he was
really seeing something, now they were scared, and as you
can imagine they slept in another room that night and he
moved out of that bedroom.
I don't know what the room was
used for after that, but he shared a room with his sister.
He has often wondered if that neighbor next door who had
recently died could be the man he saw. He never looked into
it and I think that still haunts him too! Who was that man
and why did he want John to see him? Why did he want to
scare him?
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