II have always believed in the paranormal. When i was young, my father and sttep mother took me to see the original Amityville Horror in theaters. To see that as a 6 or 7 year old boy shattered my world in ways indescribable. It opened up something in me that has followed me throughout my life.
I use to live in the oldest part of Indianapolis east side. The house i rented was built in 1902. One night i was dreaming, thought i was dreaming. In my dream, i was lying in bed looking out my bedroom door when i heard my cat, Canuck, go crazy as if it was attacked. I ran into the hallway to see a black mass in the middle of my hallway and Canuck shrieking from somewhere inside of it. Stunned i fell backwards, or maybe i was pushed, and somehow ended up on my back on my bed looking into the hallway again. The black mass began filling the doorway, but just stayed in the doorway. I was paralyzed. I could see no feature in this mass, but I could feel this mass staring at me.
All i could do was stare back. Then i felt a buzzing or vibration in my feet, starting with my toes. Once when i was a boy, i touched an electric fence. This was the same feeling and it was creeping slowly up my body from my toes to my ankles, to my calves. I was terrified. I felt like i was going numb, disappearing, all the while this black void spectre folled my bedroom door. I tried to move, i tried to fight, i tried to scream. Nothing worked. And that numb feeling overtook my knees, my thighs, my waist. My jaw hurt from clenching my teeth trying to move. I tried everything. Moving my torso, my arms, my head, my hands, nothing moved. I became numb in my abdomen and slowly creeping to my chest.
I don't know why or how but my body was tense and i fought as hard as i could when suddenly i flung myself off my bed and toward my bedroom door. I slammed the door shut and sat there gasping, terrified. My bedroom light was on when it hadn't been before. I slept in the light for some time after that.
This has happened in a half dozen places that i have lived. Even a couple places i was just visiting. I dont sleep with an opendoorto my bedroom to this day. Not a bathroom door nor a closet door.
This spectral stalker is still there. I can feel it some nights more than others. Strange things have followed me my whole life, but the terror of a dark mass keeping its distance but always looming close hangs over me every night and day.
