August 21, 2009
Shadows and Weepy Voices
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Sarah - Grand Prairie, Texas - June 2009
A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to go on a trip to El Paso with my
mother, Susan, and my older sister, Elizabeth, and her children, Natalie and
Evan to visit my brother, Brian and sister, Michelle. The trip took
approximately 10 hours, but that's beside the point. The first half of the
trip (1 week) we spent at my brother Brian's house. I stayed in his oldest
daughter's room. Every night when I would go into the room to lie down, I
would get this heavy feeling of a presence in the room watching us in bed (I
am a very paranormal-sensitive person). I would look up every night, and
near the entrance door to the room I would see a figure, about 6-feet tall,
completely black, in the shape of a human figure just watching us. I blew it
off every night as my eyes making an illusion with the lack of light, and I
didn't take it seriously until I began to notice a great deal of orbs in my
brother's house, especially in the downstairs living area.
I have heard time and time again that residual orbs usually indicate a
"dark" presence. For the second half of the trip we spent at my sister's
house. It has recently been remodeled, so I was curious to see if there was
any increase in paranormal activity (as it is said that spirits become more
active during times of construction do to confusion of how the house
changes.) The first four nights were fine. The only thing I noticed was that
the room I was staying in made a lot of strange noises at night, not like
the house shifting, or TV noises, or talking noises, but rather someone
walking around poking at the toys in the room. The fifth night I was there,
I was fortunate enough to spend the day with a neighbor who was the closest
to my age that I knew in that area. When I came home I made sure to be
extremely quiet as my sister has five children and God forbid even one of
them awakes. I put my puppy to sleep next to my twin fold out bed, and as I
walked the dusty, wooden floors, I passed by a life-sized doll house and
felt the sensation of a solid human hand grab onto my inner thigh right at
my knee, and I actually felt it brush against my other leg as they met. I
stopped, and turned around going through all the scenarios in my mind, then
I realized... right as I walked by the doll house, I felt the hand.
The next day I came home late once again with a night out with the neighbor.
I got my puppy out of her cage and put her on her leash, and walked
downstairs to the front door to let her do her business in the front yard.
Right as I reached for the doorknob, I heard what sounded like a girl
somewhere in her early teens, or possibly a small boy around 8 years-old,
mumbling, moaning, and weeping. At first I thought, "Great I somehow managed
to wake a kid up, now the whole house will wake up" (if you take care of
kids or are a parent, you understand what that means). So I stopped and
listened for preparation of the screams to come... nothing. So I thank God
for letting them sleep and proceed to make my way out the door. Once again,
I heard the weeping and moaning. I turned once again, and again, nothing. So
I brush it off again and go outside. Upon returning and closing the
intimidatingly large iron door behind me, I heard the child talking but
could not understand a single word, and it only lasted for a brief moment.
At this time I began to feel scared. I went up the stairs immediately and
heard someone following behind me. I "yell-whisper" to my dog to run to her
bed and I followed as quietly as possible, practically slamming the door
behind me as I try not to look behind. I laid down and attempted to fall
asleep when I get a call on my cell phone from my mother saying she was too
scared to walk through the hall to my room. My sister staying directly below
my room downstairs, had called my mother and told her that we were being too
loud for her to fall asleep and that she can hear a "full conversation going
on upstairs." My mother was shocked, knowing well that no TVs or radios were
on in the house, and you'd just be asking for it from my sister to be that
loud in her house at night.
The next day on the trip back home, my mother informed me that not only
would she not come out of her guest room because of the call, but also of a
personal experience of her own. That same night my mother was waiting up for
me in the front den of the abnormally large two-story house. With nothing
but a table-side lamp light and a book, she boiled in fury of my late
arrival home when suddenly she heard loud and clear across from her about
15-feet away in the voice of what seems to be a young girl, "Monsters." And
that was the only thing we could understand her saying. From what I have
gathered, I think maybe she had been hiding in the upstairs hidden room that
I had gone into for long periods of time snooping around, and my presence
aroused her interest. I also noticed she began to be active when I started
going in and out of the house late at night, I think this is because she is
afraid of something or someone that walks around the perimeter of the house
at night, and unless you open the door it stays out. Every time I reached
for the door, she began panicking and weeping as if she were scared of
something. And of course, the whole monster thing... blew my mind away.