| When I was younger in age, about 10-13, I started | | | | feet getting extremely cold, and tucked them |
| having very troublesome nightmares. Even though I | | | | underneath my covers. The cold spread to my body- |
| was a very normal kid, with a very normal family, each | | | | and I was frozen with fear. Two rooms away from |
| night I would be terrified to go to bed from fear. I would | | | | mine, my living room, I heard the sliding of a chair on a |
| have vivid dreams of horrifying events such as my | | | | tile surface. I found this very odd, as we have a |
| house burning down, with Satan himself looking into my | | | | carpeted living room. |
| room, laughing. Most of these nightmares had Satan in | | | | Things were starting to get more active, and I was |
| them, and I often woke up not knowing what to do, or | | | | frozen with fear still. At the climax of things, I heard 5 |
| what caused these nightmares. | | | | loud stomps coming into the hallway outside of my |
| After a while, I started noticing something very peculiar. | | | | room, and stopped right outside my door. My heart |
| Every morning, I was waking up at exactly 3 A.M.; not | | | | was beating almost outside of my chest, as I curled up |
| one minute more, not one minute less. Every morning, | | | | into a ball and prayed that the experience stop. I |
| nightmare or not, I was beginning to awaken, and see | | | | couldn't sleep that morning, and waited two hours until |
| the big red LED's glowing on my alarm clock telling me | | | | my father got up to go to work. At this point, I felt |
| again, I had awoken at the same time. This in itself | | | | comfortable enough to sleep, and did. |
| was very frightening, but I had always managed to get | | | | Since this incident, I have gotten increasingly better |
| back to sleep. After around a week of noticing this, | | | | about nightmares. The following days, I still woke up at |
| some very peculiar events began to happen. | | | | 3 A.M. in the morning for another week or so. Every |
| One particular morning, I woke up with no nightmare at | | | | now and then, I will still experience minor oddities. |
| the prompt time of 3 A.M. I was trying to go back to | | | | Recently, I was brushing my teeth and the bathroom |
| sleep, when I heard some odd noises. I heard what | | | | door close shut all by itself. Things like this have made |
| sounded like a side door in my kitchen, 3 rooms away | | | | me believe in ghosts- even if I never caught a glimpse. |
| from me, slam shut. I thought this was very odd, as | | | | In many cases hearing is believing- just as much as |
| everyone in my house was asleep. My heartbeat | | | | sight. |
| quickened instantly, and sleep seemed very distant to | | | | To this day, if I wake up in the early morning, I |
| me. I waited, trying to block out anything I might hear, | | | | sometimes will turn the television on to keep my mind |
| and hid my head under the covers. A few minutes | | | | off of this particular incident, and sleep with it on. I'm not |
| passed, and I heard a stranger sound- something that | | | | fond of repeating this occurrence to anyone, as it |
| of dropping a penny on a metal surface. Again, this | | | | invokes old memories I wish to forget. I hope this is a |
| sound radiated from my kitchen. I closed my eyes, and | | | | bit of proof to the non believers that there is, in fact, |
| tried to calm myself down so I could get to sleep and | | | | something paranormal out there. |
| forget what was happening. Seconds later, I felt my | | | | |