When you buy a lived-in house, you get ghosts in the package
Alone in bed
With dark shadows for company
And the whisper of the fan's blade
....close by
I heard it without warning then
Cutting through my sleep.
From out of nowhere,
A human voice, I am sure of it...
It said just one word:
Shush!
I jerked awake
Heart pumping madly
Fumbling for the light switches
Bolting to the windows to open it wide
And let out whatever or whoever
It is that shouldn't
be in my room
Was it my imagination running away
From me in my sleep?
Or a trapped spirit anxious to keep invisibile noises at bay
while I fitfully slumber?
* We bought our now, 20+ year old house from the 2nd owner. I told my husband, then, that I have slight reservations about buying a house that had been lived in because you never know who had died in it, or gotten murdered or what unhappy secrets or incidents have happened there prior to us buying it over. But buy it we did, because it was everything else that we had wanted with it's spacious interiors and long, airy windows.
And because I have always had weird experiences with hearing supernatural things that should otherwise not be heard, I sometimes do feel uneasy at home when I'm alone. Which is why we ended up having 5 cats, apart from the reason that we love them to bits, cats also do "guard" the home against evil spirits. So anyway, 3 nights ago, I was sleeping in my home, alone, with the cats outside of my bedroom when this incident happened around 12 plus at night. A definite voice that seemed to come a breath away from me. I was already feeling slightly jittery because I had been hearing all kinds of funny sounds of things scraping against each other, so my sleep was hardly easy, I kept waking up every few minutes.
And then that "shush" voice happened. It was loud enough to sound like an admonishment, like the sound a mother makes to her children to turn down the TV. That was the final straw. i just couldnt sleep again after that until the husband came home.
PS: If you have cat/s at home and if you happen to see them growling madly and staring transfixed at seemingly nothing on the wall (as my cats sometimes do), it means that they are either hallucinating or they are actually seeing some presence which the human eye cannot see. Best thing to do then is to leave them alone and dont forget to say your prayers! :)
With dark shadows for company
And the whisper of the fan's blade
....close by
I heard it without warning then
Cutting through my sleep.
From out of nowhere,
A human voice, I am sure of it...
It said just one word:
Shush!
I jerked awake
Heart pumping madly
Fumbling for the light switches
Bolting to the windows to open it wide
And let out whatever or whoever
It is that shouldn't
be in my room
Was it my imagination running away
From me in my sleep?
Or a trapped spirit anxious to keep invisibile noises at bay
while I fitfully slumber?
* We bought our now, 20+ year old house from the 2nd owner. I told my husband, then, that I have slight reservations about buying a house that had been lived in because you never know who had died in it, or gotten murdered or what unhappy secrets or incidents have happened there prior to us buying it over. But buy it we did, because it was everything else that we had wanted with it's spacious interiors and long, airy windows.
And because I have always had weird experiences with hearing supernatural things that should otherwise not be heard, I sometimes do feel uneasy at home when I'm alone. Which is why we ended up having 5 cats, apart from the reason that we love them to bits, cats also do "guard" the home against evil spirits. So anyway, 3 nights ago, I was sleeping in my home, alone, with the cats outside of my bedroom when this incident happened around 12 plus at night. A definite voice that seemed to come a breath away from me. I was already feeling slightly jittery because I had been hearing all kinds of funny sounds of things scraping against each other, so my sleep was hardly easy, I kept waking up every few minutes.
And then that "shush" voice happened. It was loud enough to sound like an admonishment, like the sound a mother makes to her children to turn down the TV. That was the final straw. i just couldnt sleep again after that until the husband came home.
PS: If you have cat/s at home and if you happen to see them growling madly and staring transfixed at seemingly nothing on the wall (as my cats sometimes do), it means that they are either hallucinating or they are actually seeing some presence which the human eye cannot see. Best thing to do then is to leave them alone and dont forget to say your prayers! :)
posted by Medusa aka expiringpoet at 11:30 PM
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