When his daughter begins explaining her strange dreams, Brandon begins to suspect that something
else is going on aside from a simple nightmare. Wouldn't be long before he
himself had a face to face encounter disensity. My name is Edmon, and
here is Brandon. It's true scary story. All this started happening a month
ago. I live in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, which is about thirty minutes north
of Pittsburgh, PA. It's a really industrial kind of city. Everything's old
and data looking as most coal feel mines and construction places. I moved there
last year, went through a divorce, found this apartment that is a really
old building. It's really small and right off of one of the main streets
in Ambridge. I took it out of desperation. It was either that or
moved to Georgia with my family. I wanted to stay in PA. My
daughter's here. I move into this apartment. Nothing much really happens for the
first year. A month ago, I go to pick my daughter up from
daycare. We're about halfway home. At this point, my daughter starts telling
me about this dream she has where she's at her mom's house. These bad
guys are opening up doors to her bedroom and the door that leads to her
mom's room. These bad guys approach her, cut her face and her mom's
face. I knew to take this kind of seriously, this dream that she
was having. I knew it was more than just a nightmare. I've always
been a spiritually sensitive person. My family is sensitive to it. I asked
her, what do these bad guys look like? One is a ghost and
another one is a monster. That really disturbed me, just hearing that my
three and a half year old daughter is having these visions that she's seeing this
happen. I didn't really have a response at the moment. I was AWESTRUCKI
I changed the subject, but she just talked about it so nonchalantly. It
just rolled off her tongue. I knew that this was something that a child
her age can't make up on their own. I brought it up to her
mom. Her mom kind of seemed to dismiss it. She's more of a
skeptic. She thinks that it could just be her imagination or she's having bad
dreams. When I told my mom, my mom told me that I should
do a cleanse of the apartment. She agreed, with me. She agreed
that there was no way for her to make that up. She thinks it
could have been some kind of malevolent demonic entity trying to attach itself to her.
Those malevolent entities like to attach themselves to people who are in really vulnerable
moments, times of despair or trauma, especially to children, because children are
naturally more perceptor to the paranormal. With child of divorce seems like a good
target for malevolent spirits. So I get her home that night, and it
was almost instantaneous. The air in my apartment felt heavy. I live on
the third floor, in the very top floor of this little apartment building.
I didn't feel any tension and negativity until we got into my apartment. It
just it was heavy, It was tense. It felt like any positivity was
just being drained from it. I could feel myself and my daughter. We
both seemed to be getting angrier a lot, quicker, easily, frustrated,
and agitated. I kept having this looming anxiety the whole time. It kept
lingering like that saying when you're waiting for the other shoe to drop, That's
what it felt like. I was in that anxious anticipation. I knew something
was there, that something could happen. A few days go by of that
feeling, nothing really happens until one night I put my daughter in bed,
I do my nightly routine. I stay up for a little, play some
video games, take a shower, all that stuff to wind down for bed.
I get in bed, start drifting off to sleep, start going into
the onset of sleep paralysis, which I never experienced before. I do have
sleep apne yet I have a feel for what sleep issues are like. I
used to wake up a lot at night, but as soon as I got
myself in bed, I was laying on my back while the seapaps started going.
I start closing my eyes to drift asleep. All of a sudden,
my limbs start feeling really stiff and heavy, almost to the point of numbness.
I wasn't in control of my body for a bit. I thought of
paranormal stuff in the association with sleep paralysis. Maybe if I can muster some
kind of strength to move my body, I can break the sleep paralysis before
it gets too bad. I start trying to move one of my arms.
I'm able to grab the closest thing to me, my phone, that grounds
me and do my best to stay calm and not to panic. I'm able
to sleep fine after a few nights pass and no other sleep paralysis incidents like
that happen, but that tense feeling, that anticipation was still all there.
I was so anxious if my daughter woke up in the night crying, I
would wake up, but I would just be frozen in fear. Pardon me,
and my gut had this spot if I go in there, what's going
to be in there with her? I'm able to get up. I go
in and I check on her. I see nothing. I'm able to calm
her, tell her everything's okay, and go back to sleep. I'm still
left in that state of fear of whatever's in there in that apartment with us.
A week after the first sleep paralysis incident, I put her to bed,
did my own thing for a couple hours, went to bed. I
wake up, and I had no idea what time of night it is.
I didn't check my phone. I naturally woke up from a dream. I
look over from the foot of my bed, and on the wall to my
right of that doorframe is a shadow figure. My room's pitch black. It
was blacker than that black, absence of light completely. It had no discernible
facial features. I couldn't see eyes, limbs, or anything. It just
looked like a silhouette of someone's shadow being projected. I could tell it was
looking at me. I just had that feeling. It was about the height
of a child, probably three and a half, no taller than four feet
tall, just staring there at me. My daughter's bedroom door is closed.
I just knew what it was. I knew it was something malevolent. I
knew it was something that wanted to feed off of whatever negativity there was.
Instead of speaking or trying to turn on the light and cast it out,
I chose to ignore it and not show any kind of fear. I've always
thought that if you feed into the sense of fear that they're trying to project
onto you, that makes them stronger. I ignore it. I do my
best to go back to sleep. When I wake up at my normal time
six am to start getting my daughter ready for daycare and myself ready for work.
It's gone. There's no trace of it whatsoever. Never would have even
known it was there if I hadn't seen it myself. No other real encounters
happened for a little while up next, as he comes across a medium,
he gets a stern warning to do with this. I was working on the
process of moving in with my girlfriend. The next weekend that I didn't have
my daughter and she was at her mom's. My girlfriend and I go to
a flea market together. I like to look at antique old video games and
try to restore them. There happens to be a medium there. My girlfriend
and I get to talking to her, making small talk and learning more about
her profession. I go back after that talk to the medium alone, tell
her about my daughter's dreams and the kind of happenings that are going on.
She gets this concerned look on her face says, you need to cleanse like
now. She confirmed there's no way that a child her age has the kind
of imagination to come up with what she seen in that level of detail.
It was something strictly evil that was trying to attach itself to her, and
it wanted to follow her from house to house. She suggested that both myself
and her mother should cleanse our respective houses. I by saints and a smudging
feather off of her. She gives me a bottle, a little cork bottle
of holy oil for free tells me to anoint my doorframe to my apartment with
the shape of a cross using the oil, and to recite the Lord's prayer
while I'm doing it, and I'm doing the same thing with my daughter's forehead.
The next time that I saw I told my mom that I had spoken
with a medium. She said the meat and was right that after I do
the cleans to close all the windows again and to put salt at the doorway
and on the windowsills to act as a seal to keep the bad spirits from
coming back in again. But the next day, my girlfriend and I,
after her kid goes down for his nap, we go to my apartment and
get ready to do the cleanse. First, we saged ourselves once we got
in to keep any negativity from attaching onto us to keep the spirits at bay.
We put the sage in the dish and take the smudging feather and I
start walking around the apartment in a clockwise direction, just like the medium suggested
that I do. I keep saying this prayer to cast out all negative spirits
and energy to bring love and peace back into the house by making the circle
around the apartment. I get done with my daughter's room. As soon as
I go into the living room and start doing the cleanse, the door,
the front door that we left wide open, slammed itself, shut out of
nowhere, loud, slammed with some force. I asked my girlfriend if she
shut the door while I was cleansing. She tells me no, but I
just saw it close itself. We finished the cleanse, We do the anointing
with the holy oil, say the Lord's prayer. We even anointed my daughter's
door frames to her room just to be safe, and left after that.
I didn't go back to that apartment until the next day when I had to
pick my daughter back up from daycare. I put the oil on her forehead,
say a prayer. She asked me what I'm doing, and I tell
her this is to keep all negative things away from you, to keep you
safe and happy. She goes, oh, okay, that's good, goes
off on her own thing. Ever since then, there's never been an encounter.
I haven't heard my daughter talk about nightmares or anything. The overall tension
in the air, that whole feeling of negativity has gone away. It seemed
like it worked. Then. I found out a couple things after the cleanse
was done. Before the cleanse happened, whenever my daughter would wake up in
the middle of the night, her covers would be pulled off her or on
the floor, or her stuffed animals that she slept with would also be on
the floor. She has a toddler bed that has a guard rail by her
side that she sleeps. If those were to fall, she would have to
throw them, which maybe she didn't or sleep too. But it is interesting
to see that that stopped happening after the cleanse. I do think that whatever
was in there may have been doing that to mess with her in some way,
or to get to her, try to get attention. I did research
on my apartment over at Ambridge. When I looked up the house history,
I couldn't find anything on anyone who died there. I did find out it
was built in nineteen fourteen, but almost one hundred and ten years old and
is seted right next to a funeral home. There's actually two parking lots.
There's one part lot at the building for the funeral home specifically, and another
parking lot for tenants. The combination of an old building and a really old
almost Rundown city that happens to be next door to a funeral home, just
gives it a more creepy vibe and makes it seem like it could be more
of a hotspot for paranormal things. I think it was something malevolent. I
don't think it was a ghost at all. I don't think I've ever heard
of or read anything about a ghost appearing that solid black of a mass.
I have heard that usually demonic entities will appear as shadows that dark, and
I have seen ghosts before too. In the past, I've been able to
make that mental comparison, and when I saw it, it was something evil
or demonic trying to attach itself to my daughter who had been going through the
trauma that she had been going through in the past year. When I talked
to my mom about it, she asked if her mom or I watch any
scary movies while she's in bed, or maybe she hears stuff. I told
her no, I would never watch anything like that when my daughter's around.
My mom is a spiritual person. She's almost wicked, but she practices more
of the light side of it, healing, cleansing. She does talk to
spirits, mainly my grandfather, her dad that died a few years ago when
I told her about the cleanse that we were going to do to get rid
of the spirit attacking my daughter and me. She had brought out divination rods
while I was on the phone with her. They're dowsing rods. People have
used them to also talk to spirits. The concept that if you let go
of the rods, the spirits will manipulate them and move them to kind of
make signs. She had brought out divination rods started talking to my grandfathers through
them. Every time I started talking, she had me on speakerphone, the
rods would point to me. I asked if my grandfather had seen her before
in their old house when we used to visit after he died. They said
yes. My mom asked if my grandfather would offer some kind of comfort or
help protect my daughter and me to drive this bad spirit out. The rods
were again pointing to yes. It did kind of bring a comfort and kind
of relieve some of my anxiety. Just knowing that even though I was going
to my apartment to cast out something evil potentially demonic, that I add helped
to on the other side in the form of my grandfather wanting to still watch
over me and his great granddaughter. It all stopped kind of suddenly and abruptly,
like after the cleanse. She hasn't said that she's seen anything or had
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