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Welcome back, and thank you for
listening. I'm your host, Nick Ryan.

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In twenty twenty, I began a
series called Midweek Mysteries, where I

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would feature a couple of experiences every
Wednesday. These episodes were usually shorter than

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my typical shows, which allowed me
to offer you more than two shows a

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week and also give you the opportunity
to hear more of my hand picked experiences

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that I've come across. Tonight,
I'd like to resume that tradition and add

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Midweek Mysteries back into my weekly schedule. And I have a couple of reports

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that are quite fitting. Tonight's Mysteries
come to us from Amber and this is

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what Amber had to say. Hello, Nick. I hail from good old

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West Michigan. I discovered your podcast
at work this evening and not only found

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myself hooked, but discovered an excitement
at finding somewhere to tell my I'd like

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to do three quick stories, and
I will tell them in chronological order of

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experience. My mom got pregnant with
my brother in nineteen eighty five. We

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lived in Tiny Heart, Michigan with
my graham in her small apartment. At

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this time, I was five years
old. I wanted to know if I

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was going to have a brother or
a sister, but my mom played coy

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and insisted that she didn't know and
it would be a surprise for all of

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us. Though she did know,
she just wanted me to enjoy the surprise.

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I don't remember the bedtime routine,
but I remember this dream vividly.

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I almost felt like I woke up
in another plain. I was sitting cross

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legged in my my little Pony nightgown
and holding my purple stuffed bunny floppy.

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Everything around me was white. It
was warm and bright and very soothing.

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The quote unquote room had no real
form. It was almost as if it

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was just floating, though I sat
as though I was on the floor.

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I remember feeling safe, and then
I heard a voice above me, around

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me from everywhere but also nowhere.
I remember smiling as the voice said,

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Amber, you must get ready.
I then asked for what, and the

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voice said, you were going to
have a baby brother, Go get ready

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for him. The next thing I
knew, I was awake, and I

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was heading straight into the kitchen where
my mom and Graham were, and I

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was saying, we got to get
ready. God came to me in my

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dream and said that I'm going to
have a brother. So we got to

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go get voiced off. To this
day, my mom says that she about

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fell out of her chair. She
said my confidence was so strong, and

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it sort of gave her the chills. The next experience is not so nice.

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And to this day I've only told
a very small group of people this

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tale because not only have I never
been able to figure it out or find

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anything anywhere that even seems familiar to
what I saw, but because I figured

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they'd never believe me and call it
a dream. But this was no dream.

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I can't quite get the year straight
now, but it was some time

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between nineteen eighty seven and nineteen eighty
nine. I went to a wana in

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the same town of Heart. In
the summer, we could pay and go

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to a week long summer camp up
in Lake Anne near Traverse City. I

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had gone one year and I loved
it, And the next time I went,

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my bestie was also able to go, and we were able to request

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the same cabin. It was perfect. We both had top bunks, and

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I remember I had my gem sleeping
bag. Our cabin was on the edge

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of the woods that separated camp from
the lake. It was kind of a

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long room with bunk beds on each
side and a narrow walkway between them.

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The door was in the middle,
facing the woods, and my bunk was

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in the corner to the left opposite
wall, so I had a perfect view

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of the door. Our councilor's bed
was on the other side, to the

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right of the door, but she
was close. We all were. I

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was always a restless sleeper when not
at home. It can actually still be

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a problem to this day, so
I usually woke a few times throughout the

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night. I don't remember which night
this was, but I woke up at

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some point and it was still pitch
dark outside. I had been laying on

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my back and sort of on my
left side, facing outward toward my friend

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Michelle's bunk, except I didn't see
Michelle because standing right in front of me

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was something. At first, my
eight or nine year old brain told me

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that it was my counselor she and
I say she because though she was mostly

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just a dark form with no real
detail, she clearly had a ponytail in

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her hair, and I just knew
it was a she. And it was

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just standing there, silent still and
dark as pitch, but then my eyes

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registered a detail I wish it never
had, And this, besides the ponytail,

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was the only real clear thing I
saw, and it's what haunts me.

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I'm literally getting chills and my heart
is pounding just typing this. Where

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her mouth was was something I can
only explain as beak like. Her chin

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was normal, but instead of a
normal jaw, it narrowed drastically and shut

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it out almost a foot from her
face, and there were tiny sharp teeth.

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The top portion didn't quite fit the
bottom, almost like she had a

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very strange and massive underbite. I
couldn't discern if her nose was part of

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it, but I do not recall
seeing a distinct nose. This beak mouth

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was very thin, comparable to a
swordfish. Her eyes were just black like

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the rest of her. To me, I really believed in those thirty seconds

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that if I reached out, I
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She just looked like a person standing
in a dark room with only very

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pale moonlight for illumination, which came
from the windows behind her. I stared

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at her, she stared at me, and I was frozen for maybe thirty

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to forty five seconds, but it
felt like Eternitydly, something snapped, and

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I pulled my sleeping bag over my
head, squeezed my eyes shut, and

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somehow, someway I fell back to
sleep. I never heard anything. She

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never made any noise at all,
not coming or going or during, and

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as far as I saw, she
never flinched, no movement of any kind.

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But I knew I could feel that
she was a fully aware and conscious

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thing. I never spoke of it, not for years, and to this

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day, I am not even sure
if I ever told Michelle. I've never

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been able to find anything anywhere about
a creature such as this, so I

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honestly do not know what she was, a ghost, a creature, why

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the horrifying facial structure. And another
thing I absolutely cannot tell you is what

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she wanted, why she was there, why it was me, or whether

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or not she meant me harm.
But I do know she bothered me enough

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over three decades that I still barely
tell this tale. If you choose to

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tell me my stories, and any
other listener has ever had an experience with

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anything even similar to this, or
you just have some theories, I'd love

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to know. I've never seen her
or anything like her since, but it's

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also never fully left my mind.
My last story happened only a few years

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later, but in the same town
of Hart, Michigan. I was eleven

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years old and we had just moved
back into town and into a four bedroom

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apartment. It was my mom,
my brother, My Graham, and myself.

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We had actually lived not only in
the same apartment complex when I was

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six, but in that very same
apartment. I ended up with the same

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room I'd had before. We were
upstairs and our apartment was on a corner

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of the building. We faced the
back of the property, which had a

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long sidewalk leading to a chain link
fence, and on the other side was

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a small playground. There was a
slide, teeter totters, and swing sets.

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Just feet from the playground equipment,
if you kept going, was a

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field. The busiest road in town, Old U. S. Thirty one,

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was just off to the east of
the complex, and I could see

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the cars from our windows. We
had just moved in and were barely unpacked.

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We just had the basics set up, like furniture and such, so

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we did not have curtains or blinds
on the windows. My bed was in

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the corner of my room with my
windows just off to my right and behind

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me. I didn't care about not
having curtains because we were upstairs again.

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I do not remember details about the
night, but I clearly remember the dream

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I was having that started all of
this. I've had a few waking dreams

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where my dreams bleed over and I
actually can recall moving and speaking out loud,

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but the dream is still playing in
my head, so my body is

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awake, but my brain is not. This dream was very uneventful. I

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was on a game show, sort
of like The Price Is Right. There

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were puzzles and such, and you
had to accomplish a certain amount to win.

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It was rather vague on those details, but I knew it was my

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turn, and my puzzle was that
they would show me a scene through a

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window, and I had to find
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My items were a trash can,
a ball, and a cat. Then

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they showed me the window. This
is where I clearly recall propping myself up

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on my elbows in my bed and
looking out my bedroom window to the playground

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and field below. My room was
pretty dark, so I saw outside quite

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clearly. I looked around, aware
of everything physically as well as the story

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spinning in my sleeping brain. I
say out loud, I found the trash

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can, and there's an unidentified white
thing that is probably the ball or even

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the cat. I then hear clapping, and I remember feeling accomplished and smiling

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and laying my head back down into
my pillow as the people cheered. As

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the cheers faded and my brain began
to catch up with my body, my

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eyes popped open and I thought unidentified
white thing. And at that moment it

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hit me that I'd been looking outside
of my bedroom window. I sat back

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up, uneasy, and I looked
back out the window. There where the

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sidewalk ended and the grass began was
a white blob. It's the best way

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I can describe it. It was
sort of more oval, but if it

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was standing on its end. My
first thought was that it was the end

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of a light beam. Maybe someone
was shining a flashlight at the end of

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the sidewalk. However, not only
did that not make sense, but there

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was no actual beam, just this
ovalish orb. Then I realized that it

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was floating and not touching the sidewalk
at all. As I stared completely stuck,

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it seemed to get thinner and then
disappear, only to reform moments later.

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It did this a few times,
and it was during this that I

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realized that it was sort of moving, but staying entirely at that spot at

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the end of the sidewalk. Whatever
it was was sort of pulsing or sort

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of flowing within itself. I can't
quite explain it. I felt like I

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stared at this thing for ages,
but I'd guess that it all happened within

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five to ten minutes total. It
fail, I did out again and stayed

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gone for a bit longer than before. Then it came back full force,

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and this time it was as if
it had noticed me and turned toward me,

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because now near the top of this
glowy oval sort of thing was a

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black hole. This is just about
where a face might have been if this

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was any sort of human type thing, and it felt like it was looking

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at me. Somehow, it began
to fade out and reappear much quicker,

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and suddenly I realized with utter horror
that every time it came back, it

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was closer to my building. It
was a slow process, but it was

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clearly coming toward me. Before I
finally lost my composure entirely. It reappeared

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almost half the distance closer to my
building, and on that black face hole,

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I saw what looked like two little
bright dots, and for some reason,

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my eleven year old heart knew it
was somehow going to look straight into

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my soul if I did not move. It then started to fade again,

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and I broke my paralysis, and
I bolted for my door. I dragged

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my pillow in my blanket behind me, and I spent the rest of the

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night on my mom's floor. At
one point I swore I heard a rattling

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on my window down the hall,
as if a strong wind shook them a

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bit, But that very well could
have been my fear manifesting. It was

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decades before I was able to even
look out a window at night, let

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alone sleep in a room with uncovered
windows, And to this day I still

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have no clue what it was,
A spirit, an entity, a demon.

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All I know is that I somehow
knew it was not a nice thing,

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not at all. But how evil
it may have been, I have

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no clue. If any one else
does, I'd love to hear it