The Fear

From: ben mackenzie (benjamin.mackenzie@xo.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Auburn, MI
Source: Form Submission

Auburn, MI
Demon on the top bunk
Close friends account of his childhood hauntings

I am 26 years old and I have a close personal friend that has told me about his childhood encounters with "something". I have read many stories on this site and I believe that for the most part, when someone submits a story that starts out "My friend had an experience", I tend not to believe it. That is why I would like to start out by saying that my friend is very religious and stable. He is the type of person that is so strictly religious that he will not watch any kind of violence on T.V....the only thing he will watch is the Disney channel, and would certainly not embelish a story.

He was 8 years old and was living is a small house on the outskirts of a small town called Auburn, MI. This was in the early 1960's and his father did not live with him and his mother. His Uncle was staying with them for a while because he just gotten back from Vietnam. He was to sleep on the couch for a few weeks until his uncle could find a place. He can remember that he would wake up in the middle of the night and see red eyes in the corner of the room below the end tables. He would watch them in horror as they would go from one corner to the other. It did not stop there.

One night he had over his cousin, we will call her Cathy. It was getting late and they were to go into the bedroom and go to sleep. He had a bunk bed and he was going to sleep on the top and she was on bottom. They shut the lights off and pulled his blankets on. All of a sudden, the blanked was slowly being pulled off. So he yanked on it. Once again they were slowly getting pulled. So he yanked on them again and said to Cathy...."come on, quit pulling on the blankets". She said that she was not pulling on any blankets. At that time, whatever it was, that was pulling on the blankets, began to violently pull on the blanket. Cathy then said that "THERE IS SOMETHING DOWN HERE" and started screeming. This woke up his Mother and she opened the door and turned on the light and it stopped immediately. Cathy would not ever come back and visit again.

On another occation, he was getting ready for bed, got in bed with his dog. They were both on the bottom bunk. His mother shut of the lights and closed the door. A little while after this, his dog started to bark and shake. He had no idea why he was acting this way and was trying to calm him. He then started to hear something moving around above him. He said that he was frozen with fear. The thing started to really move, almost like it was jumping on the top bunk. It even started to growl and snarl. This completely freaked him out and he started screeming. Once again, his Mother came in and turned on the light and.....poof it was gone.

When my friend was telling me this story, you could see fear in his facial expressions....he was still scared. He said that there were plenty of other experiences but those are the ones that have stuck in his head all of these years because of the fear that he had felt during the encounters.