January 2, 2008
Shadows in My Home
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Marlon, Tijuana, Mexico, Ongoing
When I was 23 years old, the house we lived in flooded. It was back when El
Nino hit. My parents vacated the house -- a big one-story, four-bedroom
house built in the 1940s. After it was cleaned up, I decided to stay. It
wasn't long after that I started seeing shadows move along the living room
walls. I repainted the house black and white and had black vertical blinds
from ceiling to floor installed on all the windows. Not long after that, my
friends started seeing things, especially in the third bedroom that was
converted into a huge closet. Two of my friends who started seeing things
have since passed away. George, who saw demonic images, died suddenly after
his mom passed, and Roberto committed suicide (God rest their souls I loved
you guys). I remember Roberto just feeling uneasy and never wanting to stay
over.
My girlfriend at the time, and all other friends who came over, always said
the house had a warm friendly feeling. Regardless that I was a bachelor,
they said it felt like a happy home. I had various experiences where I saw
things in my bathroom mirror, felt presences at my house when I was by
myself, but I never felt afraid. I heard voices five minutes before someone
showed up at my door and they told me who it was before they got there.
I had a friend we nicknamed Sherman, and one time I was in my room a good
200 feet from the door and heard someone say "Oh, it's Sherman." A couple of
minutes later, he shows up at the house and knocks. When I asked him if he
yelled at me from the outside, he said, "No, I didn't. I just got here."
There where many occasions where I was heartbroken from breaking up with my
girlfriend and had no money to go out, when literally I found money under
the bed and in the closet inside pants I had not worn in a while. This
happened many times, so much so that I used to say, "Please help me, house
spirit, I need some cash," and I would either get a bonus at work, find
cash, had a friend come over and re pay loans, or won money at a casino or
something. What is weird is that I have always felt that the house had a
couple of spirits. I always felt a woman's presence, a child's, and that of
a darker spirit, although the dark spirit only looked at me or I saw him
from the corner of my eye. Regardless, I never felt afraid, but a couple of
times I felt a heavy presence watching me.
I work at a hospital, and the other day I spent the night in a room and
awoke in the early morning -- 3 AM or so, and saw the shadow of a child
touching my hair and had a moment where I was awake and had something
prevent me from breathing and screaming for almost a minute. As I am writing
this in my office, I feel a presence watching me, making me look out of the
corner of my eye more than a couple of times.
I also have always felt that my guardian angel is with me and comforts me in
a spiritual sense as feelings of dread are followed by a calming presence
making feel safe.
The last house I lived in, prior to me moving back with my family (due to a
bad divorce) was a huge property that had two houses. I also felt a presence
there too, although I sometimes felt it was not malignant nor benevolent,
and it appeared as a shadow walking across the huge yard.
