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The Hooded Specter
by Lukas J.
This happened to me when I was about 12 years old. My family and I lived in a very small house in Atlanta, Georgia. I slept in the living room, and right next to my room was the laundry room where my older brother slept. The laundry room had a wooden floor, ceiling and walls. The laundry room was very small, and about all it had room for was my brother's bed and a chair that he kept next to his bed. I slept on a bunk bed on the top bunk, and when I was lying in my bed, I could see inside of my brother's room.
One night, I woke up at about midnight. Everybody in the house was asleep. I remember feeling very afraid the instant that I woke up. Mind you, I know that I was NOT asleep. I looked into my brother's room, and in the darkness I thought I saw somebody sitting in the chair by his bed.
"Surely, this cannot be," I thought to myself. I tried to look at whatever this was as just a pile of cloths... like my mind was playing tricks on me. But no matter how I looked at it, all I could see was what looked like a person wearing a hood (like a cloak) staring at my brother. I kept staring at it, and I guess it knew I was looking at it, because it turned to look at me! I could not see any facial features – just evil darkness!
I promptly laid back down in my bed. I was petrified. Cold sweat dripped from my pores and I trembled uncontrollably. Then, I heard a sound... the sound of a chair scooting back across a wooden floor! "Dammit!" I thought as I heard footsteps coming toward me! (My room had carpet in it, by the way.) I heard footsteps on a wooden floor, then heard them on a carpeted floor... my floor! I pulled the covers over my head. I could feel this thing standing right next to me. I got very very cold. I was horrified! When I finally mustered the nerve to sit up and confront the thing... it was morning.
What has always bothered me is that I know this happened around 12 or 1 a.m., and when I sat up, the sun was out. I know that I wasn't dreaming. What happened during those five or six hours?
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