Dark Figure in Doorway

From: Lori (jnlbrenner@hotmail.com)
Story type: Channelling
Location: Washington
Source: Form Submission

I am new to this site, and by chance came across it while searching the internet for similar experiences to mine. I have never been really interested in pursuing my experience as to how it might relate to others until the other night when I was watching a show on ghost stories and one of the ghost investigators shared a small piece of his experience with a dark figure in his bedroom doorway as a young child. It sparked a memory I have always had and has remained with me as if it happened yesterday.

My parents moved me and my siblings into a big white house (I fondly refer to as the "white house") in Washington state. It was an older home but I remember it was a beautiful 2 story colonial style with over an acre of land and a long u shaped driveway. It had an old pump house in the back yard where an old well was hidden. It always drew my curiosity as to its past significance. I enjoyed climbing the cherry trees with my siblings; every summer was an adventure for us.

A very strange and ominous experience happened to me one night in the upstairs bedroom my older sister and I shared. I was about 6 years old. As always I never fell asleep right away. I was a daydreamer and would watch the shadows as they would dance along our bedroom walls from the tree branches blowing around in the wind outside. Of course my sister had a knack with sleep and as soon as her head hit the pillow she was out.

As I was laying in bed with my arms outside of my sheets on my chest I sensed a strange feeling. I guess it would be a feeling like something watching me but all I remember was looking in the doorway of our bedroom which was at the foot of my bed, and seeing a large dark figure standing there. No movement, no face or distinguishing features, just a black figure of something large. I too became paralyzed with fear. I held my breath and closed my eyes as tight as I could thinking if I did so, it would disappear. But it didn't.

When I took a peek with my eyes, still paralyzed in the same position, it was standing right over the right side of my bed. Again...no features just a big black figure. I remember my heart beating so hard I thought it would hear it and do something to hurt me, but as fast as I thought that, it grabbed my arms off my chest and flipped me onto my stomach, my head buried in my pillow. (the really odd thing about that was I didn't feel anything grab me, or see any arms stretched out to me) Again, I held my breath and didn't move a muscle. I was petrified, so scared that I really believed this 'thing' was going to kill me.

I don't remember if I just lay there frozen until I fell asleep or if after some time I finally looked around. All I know is this figure disappeared and I have never seen it since.

I had a few other strange experiences in that room too, but I can't say for sure if they were real or just a really vivid dream, but I will never forget that experience, and have learned as I have grown up that I am not the only person that had such an encounter as a child.

I am a Christian and believe in God, and I believe in evil. Although I do not understand why it happened I know that as long as I stand true to the good in life and pray that God protect me, I am okay. Thanks for giving me a place that I could for once share this story as I remember it. I would be curious to hear of other similar stories from anyone interested in sharing theirs.