Your True Tales
May 2005 – Page 32

Neighbor's Cloaked Figure
by Robbie

We recently moved into a new neighborhood by a beautiful lake. Shortly after moving in, we realized that the people moving in behind us had a child with a very serious brain tumor, he is 12 or 13. Many times I feel overwhelming sadness for the family and cry. I also stand in my room late at night and face their house and pray out of my Jewish prayer book for the family. I have always had a dark feeling about this house that make me sad. They also have a large black patio umbrella on their deck that screams "bad omen."

Recently, the boy's tumor grew at a dangerous rate, so they have hospitalized him and removed his skull awaiting seizures as to study the brain for surgery. Last night about 10:30 I was cleaning my kitchen and I noticed in their house, which looked completely empty, a dark, cloaked figure sitting at their dinning table in the shadows. At first I thought it was someone sitting there in a dimly lit room, but then this large figure seemed as if to glide through the room. I walked over to see if my eyes were playing tricks on me. As I wiped off my kitchen table and looked again, this very large cloaked figure looked at me. Its face was white without a definite form.

My blood ran cold and the hair stood up on my arms. I closed my shades and began to get chills. I ran upstairs to my teenagers' room crying. As we turned off the lights, we both looked out and saw two cloaked figures gliding in the neighbor's home. Is this a warning to my family? My first and immediate reaction was, "I just saw death." I assumed it was because of the boy, so others see death or does death get seen when a warning is going out. I'm still rattled.

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