Pol
October 10th, 2004, 12:55 PM
Last Halloween, the nails of paganism were beginning to pound into me. A year had passed since finding the faeries in photographs I took in England. I was starting to question what was real in life, what Christianity was holding me back from.
Here's something that I experienced on Halloween of last year, I'm hoping the rest of you will share some experiences of your own :)
I was sitting outside the library just down the road from my house, my mother was inside paying some fines or something like that.
I could feel people behind me, you know, as one can sense when others are nearby. In my mind, I reckoned a group of trick-or-treaters were meeting up there before starting out for the night, even though it was already quite dark.
I could kind of hear talking and such as well.
Then, I heard a very strange noise, that made me feel very unsettled and uncomfortable. It was like a low, gutteral mumbling jibberish. I looked out the window, and something passed by one of the lamps and disappeared into the darkness behind the library.
The best way I can describe what I saw..I'm not sure how many of you will be familiar with what a tar-baby is..it comes from the Bre'r Rabbit folk tales (by Uncle Remus, an old african-american folk taler). It's fashioned after a small black kid, if I know my stuff correctly.
Well, it was just like a tar-baby. It had a round head, short sort of pygmy like body. Pitch black, like a shadow, and it walked with kind of deliberate steps, swinging it's arms.
It really unnerved me.
I can't explain how it made me feel. It hit me really deeply as something dark and evil, and even though it was just the size of a small child, and looked harmless, it made me feel just the opposite.
Even to this day, the thought of it scares me.
When I make the sound it was making, my dear wife freaks out and makes me stop - and she wasn't even there.
I tell about it late at night to my cousin when he visits because it freaks him out so badly.
Well, to finish up the story, this all happened within a matter of seconds. When I turned to see if it was maybe one of the trick-or-treaters, I saw that there was actually no one anywhere around. The parking lot was completely empty.
Here's something that I experienced on Halloween of last year, I'm hoping the rest of you will share some experiences of your own :)
I was sitting outside the library just down the road from my house, my mother was inside paying some fines or something like that.
I could feel people behind me, you know, as one can sense when others are nearby. In my mind, I reckoned a group of trick-or-treaters were meeting up there before starting out for the night, even though it was already quite dark.
I could kind of hear talking and such as well.
Then, I heard a very strange noise, that made me feel very unsettled and uncomfortable. It was like a low, gutteral mumbling jibberish. I looked out the window, and something passed by one of the lamps and disappeared into the darkness behind the library.
The best way I can describe what I saw..I'm not sure how many of you will be familiar with what a tar-baby is..it comes from the Bre'r Rabbit folk tales (by Uncle Remus, an old african-american folk taler). It's fashioned after a small black kid, if I know my stuff correctly.
Well, it was just like a tar-baby. It had a round head, short sort of pygmy like body. Pitch black, like a shadow, and it walked with kind of deliberate steps, swinging it's arms.
It really unnerved me.
I can't explain how it made me feel. It hit me really deeply as something dark and evil, and even though it was just the size of a small child, and looked harmless, it made me feel just the opposite.
Even to this day, the thought of it scares me.
When I make the sound it was making, my dear wife freaks out and makes me stop - and she wasn't even there.
I tell about it late at night to my cousin when he visits because it freaks him out so badly.
Well, to finish up the story, this all happened within a matter of seconds. When I turned to see if it was maybe one of the trick-or-treaters, I saw that there was actually no one anywhere around. The parking lot was completely empty.