Your True Tales
February 2007 - Page 11
Darker Than the Night
by Bonnie S.
When I was around eight years old, I saw something so unexplainable, but it still frightens me today.
It was night time and I was trying to sleep. I've had insomnia my entire life, so the act of going to sleep was a feat in itself. I'd close my eyes, and try to lull myself to dream, but always end up opening them again because I needed some stimulation. One night, I opened my eyes and I saw a shape of a man that was blacker than night. He was leaning up against a stability pole in my room. I could feel him staring at me, though he didn't have eyes to see with. I was so terrified but I couldn't get my eyes off of him. I swear on my life, even though my room was dark, he was even darker and I got this horrible feeling over me that I still feel today whenever I talk about it. (I actually have chills right now, and I keep looking behind me because he knows I'm talking about him.)
I quickly covered myself with my blankets, and started hyperventilating. For hours I could still feel him there until eventually exhaustion took over me and I feel asleep.
I didn't tell anyone what happened until my boyfriend and I started talking about the paranormal one day. I told him what happened, and he got dead silent. He completely believed what I told him because he had seen the same image when he was at that age in his bedroom. He also said it was a male figure and mistook it as his father at first. He said the same things; that he was blacker than the dark and it just kept staring... I am twenty years old and I'm still afraid of the dark. I cannot go into a room unless it's lit, I have someone watch me walk to my car when it's dark, and I still sleep with the light on. I'm so afraid that I'm going to see this apparition again. It gets easier as I grow older, but I hope I never see him again.
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