Your True Tales
April 2008 - Page 18

Wheezing Shadow Man
by Lyssa

This happened in 2008 on March 20 at about 11:00 o'clock. I live in Festus, Missouri in a not too old house, yet I wonder why such things happen.

I was lying on my bed, which is top bunk, but I still get a clear view of the television, my sister`s dresser and the computer desk. My room has shelves nailed up on three walls of my bedroom, filled with different glass figures of dragons, wizards and fairies, and some of the dragons that my sister has are easy to move, because some of the dragons are mounted on crystal balls with a flat bottom. Anyway, I was just lying on my bed and I couldn't get to sleep. The room was fairly dark, so I could see my glass figures. I rolled over on my left side trying to get in a nice spot. I lay there for a minute, until I heard something wheeze for a second, then stop. The sound was kind of far away, but yet close enough to startle me, so I roll over on my other side and hang half of my body over the railing of my bed. As far as I could see, my sister was fast asleep, so I get back up and try to get in a nice spot.

After a little while, I fell asleep. I slept for half an hour, I think, until I woke up to a noise in my room that was coming from one of the shelves. It sounded like one of the figures had been bumped slightly, but the shelves were up too high to get bumped. So now I was puzzled. Then I heard something gasp that sounded closer than before, so I hung half of of my body over the railing again to see if my sister was asleep. She was still sleeping, so I got back onto the bed and put the covers over my head.

After a little while, I fell asleep again. I woke up again to the same noise as before, after sleeping restlessly for 30 minutes. I heard something wheeze for, like, two seconds, but this time it was really close. I knew it wasn't my imagination, so I hung myself over the railing again and I see my sister was still asleep, so I got into my spot again and try to go to sleep.

After about a minute, I looked over to the right side of my bed torward one of the shelves. I gasped and stared at it in awe, with my mouth open. A six foot tall, black foggy figure passed right over the television and the shelf I was staring at. It had two white spots where its eyes should have been, and it was in the shape of a man. It wasn't see-through and its what looked like feet never touched the ground. As it passed near the shelf, one of my sister's dragons got bumped.

As the figure passed, it wheezed and walked right into the wall. After this happened, I put the covers tight overt my head and fell asleep. In the afternoon the day after that happened, I told my sister what had happened. She chuckled at me and went on playing her game. I didn`t tell her about the wheezing and the dragon getting bumped, I only told her about the shadow going into the wall. I thought that she would believe me, but I guess I was wrong. And now I wonder: How did she sleep through all of that?

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