While my mother was pregnant with me, she lived in
Arkansas and worked many odd jobs. Sometimes
working 3rd shift or helping out at a chicken farm
in Half Moon, AK. At this particular time, she was
working night shift at some factory with my dad.
One day she had been out with my dad and decided
to go to her moms house, my grandmother Nana. While Nana was out they would sleep until it was time for
work. Nana said that was fine and that she would
be home in time to wake my mom up for work.
My Nanas house was very small - one room, one
bathroom, small kitchen and living room. It had
actually used to be a one-car garage but they put
carpet and appliances in there to live, because
that’s what they do. So the fact that it used to
be a garage meant that there were absolutely no
windows in the entire place. So with the door shut
and lights out its pitch dark.
My mom gets there and leaves the door unlocked
because Nana was coming home and they lived in the
middle of nowhere across from a cotton field, so
she saw no harm in it.
She continued to get ready for bed; she flipped
all the lights off and lay down in the full-sized
bed. It was pitch dark, no sounds inside the house
and no outside commotion like passing cars or dogs
barking.
She started to fall asleep, dozing off and she
shifted over to her back to get more comfortable,
when someone pushed her over on her side. Odd, she
thought, but she was half asleep so she just
rolled back on her back.
Again, she was pushed over onto her side. She
started to get nervous; it didn’t feel like solid
hands pressing firmly on her back, it was like an
uncontrollable movement that just “happened”.
I must tell you, my mom is a devout catholic and
not a very strong believer in the supernatural,
but she swears to God every time I hear this.
So my mom is panicky, its dark and creepy, she's
about to reach up to turn the light on when
suddenly she's jerked down on the bed. The lamp
fly’s off the bedside table and the light bulb
shatters on the floor. She's being held down by
something she can’t see and can barley feel. Then
the blanket is ripped off her body and pulled all
the way off the bed.
“The scariest thing to little kids, or anyone
really, is having something reach out from under
your bed and grab your feet.” she says. And then
she could feel hands, clearly palms and fingers
wrap around her ankles tightly. She was then
heaved completely off the edge of the bed.
Whatever had her ankles has ripped my pregnant
mother down off the bed and onto the floor.
She is absolutely terrified. Not being able to see
two inches in front of her face, she crawls
across the floor, feeling around for the door. She
reaches it and in a panic tries to open the door.
She can’t. It’s locked. She tugs and twists at the
doorknob trying to pull the door open but to no
avail. No windows, no other doors, behind her is a
black hole and an indistinguishable attacker.
She's crying and praying, she reaches for the
nearest light switch but when her hand runs along
the place it should be, it’s just a square hole in
the wall and all she can feel are wires like it
was ripped out.
“I could feel it watching. The evil was watching
me squirm. I felt disgusting.” she says, the
feeling consumed her and just as she was about to
lose all control, my Nana opens the front door to find her pregnant daughter pressed up against the wall,
in the dark bawling her eyes out.
There was no story behind the garage, no tale of
torment or suicide. She never figured out what
had happened. I think she knows but she doesn’t
want to face the fact that it was paranormal. She
thanks God that nothing happened to me.
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