“Dark Figure” Visitation: Beware of Open Windows!

Haunted Window, Fairfield, Texas by Tom Haymes via http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomhaymes/293799503/

“Dark Figure” Visitation: Beware of Open Windows!

A skeptic recently asked me if I knew of an account of sleep paralysis (SP) in which an entity had been seen not only by the SP sufferer, but by someone fully awake and in the same location, thus confirming that the entity was real, rather than just a hallucination.

I responded in the affirmative; I have in fact heard of such a case – but only one.

On November 22, 2009, I received an intriguing e-mail from a man named John, age 50, who resides in Newington, Connecticut. John had heard of my book Dark Intrusions: An Investigation into the Paranormal Nature of Sleep Paralysis Experiences, and was eager to share with me a fascinating SP experience of his own. I could tell by the sober, intelligent tone of his writing that I could trust what John had to say.

From his childhood up until his early twenties, John occasionally experienced frightening SP episodes involving a “dark figure” hovering over his body. He explains: “Because my bed was under a window, it always seemed that the figure came in – like a floating thing – from the window.” So terrifying and disturbing were these experiences that John didn’t wish to think about them, let alone mention them to anyone else – which he didn’t. “To this day,” he says, “I don’t like to put beds under windows…I would never dream of sleeping beneath an open window.”

By the time John was older and had stopped undergoing SP, he rarely thought of the mysterious “dark figure,” so determined was he not to acknowledge what had happened. Plus, he insists, he wasn’t one “to buy into paranormal things.”

Years later, when John was in his mid-thirties, his mother related a most unusual experience. It occurred when John was two or three years old and the family were staying at his grandparent’s farm in the “wooded hills” of North Carolina – a place they visited every summer.

His mother explained that, one night, after she’d put him to bed, she happened to enter his room, and saw, “coming through the window, a black shape…hovering over” his body. His mother watched in shock and terror as the figure, which she perceived to be a “spirit” of some kind, “slid out the window” and disappeared.

John adds: “Before that day…she had never, ever told me about this – and I never told her about my memories of this thing either…So it seems that two different people observed this without any collaboration. I don’t know what to make of it all, but it is the truth.”

John ended his e-mail by stating it’s “a strange world we live in” – something I couldn’t agree with more. He also left me a healthy piece of advice that I’ll probably never adopt: “Maybe it’s best to not look to deeply into these things.”

TAGS: dark figure, sleep paralysis

Dereckc1

Thanks guys. Now I have to go and move my bed…
Jknaak4295

Great post! Its good to have you on board, Louis!
http://www.curiousglenn.co.cc/ Glenn Lopez

now that was a good read! good post
HG

He might be right about not looking too deeply into things- some unnerving experiences can result. But like you, I'm also drawn to the mysteries.
Cassidy

Last night I had a long and strange dream that I will never forget, which led me to this post. Among the many strange events of the dream, I followed a very young Indian or Pakistani man up some stairs and into a bedroom (his). I only took about two steps into this room when the man turned quickly and told me to leave. He said, “You should not come in here.” When I asked why, he said, “There’s a shade.” And before I knew it, I was overtaken by a horrible feeling, like something invisible entering my body. My head felt like it was going to explode! It was a strong tingling sensation that literally permeated my entire head, shoulders, arms, and legs. I can’t emphasize enough how awful it felt. I ran into the hallway outside his room immediately, and fought it off, telling it to get out of my body. I literally shook my body to get the damned thing out of me. When I woke up, I knew that whatever happened was no dream. I have never in my entire life referred to a spirit or a ghost as a “shade”. That’s how I knew it was not a dream. I truly believe it was an out-of-body experience.

All day today I could not shake it off. The weather last night was nice and cool, and I decided to sleep with the window open, but I don’t think I’ll be doing that ever again! I have had episodes of SP in the past, and one particular time I woke up in the most pitch black room you could ever imagine, and I felt “it” on me. I could not utter a sound, and it was absolutely terrifying.

I’m getting the shivers just writing about it!
Rob_stainsby

Thought you may be interested in our experience, five years ago my wife and I had been sleeping, prior to having baby and we slept like logs apart from this one night. I woke up in early hours, thought I was still asleep as I could see a shadow like figure hovering above our bet about a foot above myself and my wife, I took thirty seconds on opening and closing eyes to realise I was awake and could see this thing. Our room was top floor flat at street lamp level, with light curtains, we had two LEDs from tv and central heating and knew I could see the one from the tv, meaning this figure was kinda solid. I managed then to nudge my wife and said ruthie can you see that, I then watched Ruth wake up and do the same eye opening and closing I knew shee could see it at which point it’s face moved forward to Ruth and I panicked and swung my arm through the air, Ruth had then made an awful noise and closed her eyes with head away from figure and almost crying.mi watched the figure retract backwards as if on a magnetic tide. I then asked ruth what she saw and she wouldn’t tell me, she said she didn’t want to speak about it but asked what I saw, I said I just saw a shadow, Ruth then cried and wouldn’t talk to me. I the morning I asked what Ruth saw and she told me exactly what I saw, this thing was definateky real, we believe it was listening to our dreams. What’s very strange is two weeks later we saw a woman in a bar whose birthday it was, she surprisingly said to Ruth “you have had a visor, you know whati mean” at which point Ruth freaked out and we both left as we couldn’t talk to her…there is more to this world than we know 100% gauranteed!
http://profile.yahoo.com/7YFGDXESRI2TIZRP2JRSNFB2MM Olayemi

Hello I had the SP episode last night for the first time and it was one of the most scariest experiences of my life. Mine was kinda different because in my dream i could see my room which i found kinda cool at first my view is in an upper view angle towards the ceiling. And i could see my fiance belongings like the hats he hangs on the walls and our celing light. I could even look down at a point and see my body parts like my legs and chest. Everything looked normal until my view was positioned into the corner of my room! And in this corner was a black figure shaped like a black cloud. And i didnt understand it at first so i was curious to know what it was! But as im curious im also nervous! I can feel my heart beating so fast in the dream and as the more it beated the bigger the black shadow figure grew hovering over my body! But at this point i realized i couldn’t move my body! I prayed for god to protect and make me fearless of this entity in the dream because I was so scared! And i woke up! I woke up to the same view of the corner and when i turned on my back ( cause i was sleeping on my belly at the time) the window was open and our door was wide open! I was so freeaked out!

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