Your True Tales
May 2008 - Page 1
Brisbane Gremlin
by Chris
This incident occurred back in 1982 in Brisbane, Australia when I was about 14 years old. It still disturbs me. It was about 11.30 a.m. My parents and baby brother were out shopping, a weekly ritual. We lived in an old Queenslander that had been semi-renovated. The kitchen was rather large and about the size of a large living area that can be found in a modern house today, and there was a door that could be closed from the kitchen to the living area in the house.
I was responsible for cleaning the house and doing the washing and hanging it out. I had just taken the vacuum cleaner into the kitchen and placed it in a corner of the floor where the two benches met. I then went downstairs to hang out the washing I had put on earlier. After I had hung out the washing, I returned back upstairs and opened the back screen door.
As I went to walk in, I saw a little black creature crouched down behind the vacuum. Its body was facing out toward the door that led into the living area of the house, but its head was turned and facing me at the back door. Its arms were long and thin, and its finger rested on the floor, the elbows bent. Its eyes were big and yellow. It appeared to have little pointed ears that went just above its head. Its head was an oval shaped, but it was not distorted. It looked naked with no distinguishing physical features, just black and smooth looking. It was slender and had a body similar to a human, but I could tell it was not.
It just crouched there, staring at me as if it had been caught off guard. I froze and we stared at each other for a few seconds. It then jumped up from the corner and over the vacuum through the door that led into the living area in the house. I was so scared I stayed frozen at the back door with the screen still in my hand. I did not know whether to go inside or not. After what felt like a couple of minutes, I went in and got a large carving knife out of the kitchen drawer. I knew that the creature could not get out of the house, as the front door was locked and bolted with a safety chain. I walked slowly through every room in the house and opened every cupboard I could find. It just seemed to disappear.
I waited on the back steps until my parents came home. My first thought when I saw it was that it was doing something to the vacuum. My dad checked the vacuum over and it was fine. Of course, they thought I was mad and just trying to get out of cleaning. I know what I saw and it lives with me every day.
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