Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

I come from a small West Texas town. In our community there is a strong belief in “curanderas” and “santeria”.

When I was about 7 years old we resided in a trailer with my mother, my heroin addicted father, and my younger brother. My father’s habit caused him to be violent towards my mother which seemed to go on every night. This particular night my father beat my mother pretty badly, but she refused to call the police or even call an ambulance. I heard her loud sobbing that night and attempted to comfort her but she sent me to my room, and my father threatened to punish me if I went back into her room.

I went to bed on the top bunk while my brother slept on the bottom bunk. There was a door that led to the bathroom, and my mother always left the light on so that we may see where we were going in case we needed to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. My mother always told me that dogs can hear the devil’s footsteps when he is near. Well, that night our neighbor’s dog, which was located right under my window howled most of the night which finally awoke me at around 3 am. The rest of the house was silent.

I turned over on my side and saw a figure standing at my door.  I leaned forward to see if maybe my mom or dad might be standing there. When I leaned forward the light from beneath the door shone on the figure of a thing that leaned forward to look at me at that same time. This figure had a grey face with strange grayish eyes. His hair was wave and stringy, and seemed to be blowing as if a breeze was passing through the room. He has a strange smile on his face and had sort of a skeletal body. I panicked and did what any 7 year old would do in that situation. I got under my covers and prayed to God.

At that moment I heard knocking, but tried to drift back to sleep. I woke in the morning convinced it was just a nightmare. About 5 years later my brother was discussing frightening things he had seen and he brought up this same figure on that same night. He said he saw this figure leave the doorway and go towards my mother’s room. We do not know if my father was home when this thing went into the room. Was this a demon? I do not know, but I do know that the horrific things we saw took place in that horrible trailer home may have been a catalyst for the strange things we saw appear or take place.

Now, 15 years later I moved into a home in South Texas after my ex mother in law left the residence. This woman believed in witchcraft and has been known to kill animals in her rituals. When I moved in I found various plants, and burnt herbs in different places around the house. The woman hated me, this was obvious, but I never expected to feel her wrath when I moved in. It was horrible. Every night I could not sleep. I paced the floor talking to myself. I heard humming, and people whispering. I felt so cold and empty the whole year I lived there. I even went as far as to go to a psychiatrist. He diagnosed me with Schizophrenia and put me on hard core medication.

I did not believe that I was Schizophrenic. I am depressed, but have never ever experienced these events. I began with nightmares of flying demons preying over me. Several times in my nightmares they would swoop me off my feet then drop me a few miles away. My daughter and my niece that both resided with us had the same types of nightmares.

Several times I would see someone or something crawling on all fours on the floor with what seemed to be very large shoulder blades. I didn’t know whether I was hallucinating or if it really was something in that house. My daughter claimed to see a young girl standing over her bed almost every night, and she eventually refused to go into her bedroom. My husband walked into the house one day to find a black shadow standing in the living room. He ran after the shadow and it disappeared behind the curtains.

The house itself was falling apart around us. The doors would not shut, and there was a crack that stretched across the ceiling from one end of the house to the other as if the house was going to break in half. I had the house blessed, and went to church and bible study. But unfortunately it would not stop. I saw these terrifying things everyday that I lived here and became so depressed and anxious. They finally hospitalized me due to Anxiety and Paranoia. It was horrible.

I finally learned from some lady that went up to me at a downtown function that someone was jealous of me and has put several curses on me in the hopes that I would fail, or worse, kill myself. Well, finally we moved. I felt a great weight lift, but my mother came to visit one day and mentioned she saw a young girl in my daughter’s room.  I thought we had left all that behind. I don’t know if these are all works of a demon. I quit going to work when all this took place and became very distant. My daughters really felt I was mentally ill. Though, they could not understand what happened to me.

A few months ago my husband asked if he could take my daughters to spend the night at his mother’s house.  I figured now that him and I were separated her anger may have subsided. That night my daughters called me several times telling me they could not sleep. Then my eldest claims she was trying to fall asleep and a loud bark rang in her ear. My niece claimed there was something growling under her bed. All three girls had nightmares that whole weekend. They refuse to go to the house ever again.

Demons have plagued me my whole life. These are only very significant events that took place. I do not know if in fact they were demons, but I feel in my heart that this was something caused my the anger this woman felt for me. Her home is falling apart and she is extremely angry with everyone. She continues to threaten her own children with curses, but claims she is very religious. Its frightening.

Written by Sam, Copyright 2009 TrueGhostTales.com