Your True Tales
August 2005 – Page 14

Translucent Figure
by Chumbly

One night a few days ago, I had an interesting, frightening and a bit of a confusing experience. I was asleep in my room, my mind was a bit foggy, and I woke up (or perhaps I just dreamt I woke up?) feeling a presence, a definite strong presence, the room was thrumming with it. Suddenly, with little warning or subtlety, a dully glowing translucent figure shot out from behind me where the window is. It was poorly formed and had a head and torso, but no distinguishable arms or legs, it just tapered off. No features to the head either (e.g. no eyes etc). It was a translucent yellow color that was like a lensing effect, to make a poor analogy, a bit like the featureless outline of the creature in the movie Predator with its cloak on, but more imperfect/translucent and with a definite dull white/yellow tinge.

It was literally buzzing and thrumming with energy. It shot out from behind me and in a rapid movement took up position hovering above me. I was completely flabbergasted and shocked. It then seemed to try to attack, at least I think it did. It was like it was aggressively trying to head-butt me over and over. Whenever its "face" came near, I could hear the electric buzzing of energy and my skin tingled. Fortunately, it didn’t seem to be able to hurt me directly, at least I didn’t feel any pain. I was terrified, so I naturally did the least logical thing and tried to grab it to hold it away with both hands. Instead of passing through, it was a even more of a shock when I managed to actually get hold of it - at least very loosely.

It was so strange. It felt alive and very odd. It was definitely not solid, but it exerted a force that I could feel and act on just like the feeling of holding two similar poles of a pair of magnets together so they repel. And it thrummed with a strong vibration.

The presence seemed to stop its offensive or whatever it was trying to achieve at that point, and it just started moving and twisting about. I had ahold of it with both hands around its middle, which sort of thinned down where I grabbed it so it could fit in my hands, like squeezing a long party balloon in the middle. It moved and twisted about as I had hold of it.

The whole experience from the start might have gone on for 20 seconds. I got my head together and tried to do the only thing I thought would help in this completely bizarre situation: I prayed for help. (I'm sort of an agnostic, but I try to have some faith and just can't or perhaps don't want to accept that we're here on this earth alone.) I think I recited something like, "Please hear me, Jesus, and help me. Please banish this evil spirit or presence from this place and protect me." For a few seconds, nothing, but then -- whump! -- I was completely alone and fully alert as if nothing had ever happened.

Maybe I was just having a nightmare; if I was, I shot out of the dream like a bullet and woke up fully alert at that point as if I were never asleep. I'm really not sure what to make of it. In either case I'm glad he heard my cry for help!

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