Your True Tales
July 2004 – Page 13

The Digging Shadow
by Reiner

This experience began with my older brother when he was 12. My two brothers and I share a big bedroom where my eldest brother's bed saw stationed near the window. According to him, one night, while everyone was fast asleep, he heard the shutter of the window open. He peeked from under his covers and saw a hand coming through the shutter. Let me just say that the shutters in our room are just big enough for a hand to fit in. He closed his eyes thinking that it was a dream, but when he looked again, there was now a figure of a man inside the room. This figure was so dark that even in our pitch-black room his outline was clear. Terrified, he screamed and switched on the night light beside his bed. The dark figure seemed startled and "leaped" out the small window.

My dad came in after hearing the scream. After the re-telling of his experience, my dad checked all the windows thinking that maybe there had been a burglar in the house. But everything was in order and the only thing he saw was the open shutter in which he religiously closed every night.

But it wasn't the end. About a year after that night, my brother saw it again. But this time the figure was already in our room. According to him, the thing walked across are room and studied my sleeping self and our youngest brother. He then went in-between our beds and started digging in what my brother explained as a pick-like tool. The sight frightened him and he again switched on the lights and shouted for me to wake up. But this time, the figure didn't leave. It stopped its "digging" and just stared at him, seeming to walk towards his bed.

Now this is where I come in. I woke up from his screaming and just as I looked toward him, I saw the dark figure. It looked back at me then back to my brother. It jumped out of the shutter just as my brother said it did before. I had never seen the thing again, but my brother said that he did get a glimpse of it one more time but he was already 30 at the time. He was in his new house and as he was locking up, he saw the dark figure standing in front of his house "looking" at him and then it just vanished.

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