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The Scorned Witch
This is a story that my father told me about two years ago. He has never lied to me, so I know that it is true. In the mid-eighties he befriended a self-proclaimed witch. She was interested in more than friendship, but my father, although single, was not. She would often call him over to her house to do odd jobs for her. One evening he went over and they got to talking until late. It began to storm, and she suggested that he stay over all night. He did not wish to, as he had a strange feeling (to say the least) about her. She argued that it would not be safe for him to go home, but he insisted and finally left. About a half a mile down the road he realized that his tire was flat. He pulled over under a street light and discovered a huge gash in the tire. He said that it looked as though something with huge claws had torn the tire's bottom out. Luckily, he had a spare in his trunk, so he changed the tire and continued home, believing his original tire's damage to be related to the so-called witch. – Tim R.

The Old Hag - It's Real 
I just read the story on the "old hag" phenomenon and I've had some unwelcome visitors of my own . An "old hag" jumped on my chest one night in 1997. She was very real - and she tried to pull my soul out through my mouth with her mouth. When she breathed in, I felt so weak. She was a tiny, naked hag with white scraggly hair and wrinkled black eyes. I thought I was having one of my usual alien dreams, but while I was wide awake and walking to the bathroom she was trying to hide in the corner next to the closet door and looking up at me with fear. I just stepped right on top of her and asked her how it felt. I was angry and afraid myself, but I quickly walked away after my foot touched that thing. She felt cold; it was like stepping on wet moss - soft and watery. – Sue

Voice from Beyond 
I have been fascinated with the Ouija board as early as the age of 10. I distinctly remember when I was 13 years old, while my my mom was at work, I invited a couple of friends over; there were five of us. When we tried to play the Ouija, the planchette would not move. When one boy named Jose gave up, he removed himself and so we proceeded to ask questions. Amazingly enough, the planchette started to move. It spelled out his name and the word holy. Being very daring and dumb, we asked it to prove that it was with us; we asked it to do something. A few questions later, we heard a weird voice. We all got creeped out and got quiet. Jose had turned on a cassette of "mixes/jams" and was playing it quietly in the dining room. Then we all heard this monstrous voice say my name - "Margie." It was a slow, deep, horrible voice and we all screamed and ran outside. Since then I will never play the Ouija. We all heard that evil voice - it was not imagined. – Aason Z.

The Dorm Ghost 
I am a freshman at college and my roommate and I have experienced many activities which we jokingly attribute to "the ghost." I however, actually think there might be one. For no reason, books fall off of our bookshelves. Twice now it has caused one of my lamps to fall, which knocked off my printer, disconnecting everything from the outlets. Several times we have experienced electrical appliances turning themselves on. Once my stereo turned on at full volume, for no reason. Another time the television did the same thing, and on yet another occasion our microwave just stopped when it still had three minutes to cook. Things like pictures and calendars are always falling off of our walls. Just two nights ago, after a brief reprieve, our shade flew up and wrapped it's cord around itself. And now I think it might be following me. After taking a shower, I was drying off and all of a sudden the shower turned on again. It's gets quite creepy sometimes. I'm am not superstitious, and to be quite honest, never believed in ghosts until recently. I don't even know if I do believe, I just get a little jumpy when I can't explain what is going on. – Sarah Y.

The Gateway 
I am a clairvoyant and a medium/channel. I was raised in a haunted house. This house has some sort of a gateway in it and many strange things came through it when I was a kid. One warm summer night in 1964, the weirdest thing happened. I had gone to bed around 10 p.m. with my cat. I turned on the radio, set it to turn itself off in hour, turned off the light and went to sleep. I was awakened at 2:20 a.m. by my cat struggling frantically, trying to get under my pillow. The light and the radio were on. The radio was playing nothing but static. I gathered my cat in my arms. He was trembling so hard that I could hardly hold onto him. He was not a timid cat. He had every dog in the neighborhood terrified of him and nothing had ever spooked him in that house before this. I looked toward the center of my room. I could not see the center. At the foot of my bed there was a black "wall.' I could not see anything beyond the foot of the bed and I had the most terrifyingly sense of Evil from it My cat and I sat there for 10 minutes, by my wristwatch, both of us shaking. Then the black "wall" funneled itself out the open window on the left side of the room. The curtains were sucked out the window even though there was a breeze coming in just before the thing left. As the thing funneled out the window, the rest of my room slowly reappeared and the radio started to play music. Sitting in my rocking chair was my spirit guide. My cat saw him and immediately started purring. I asked my guide what that thing had been and would it come back. He told me that I did not need to know what it was, but that it would not be back, so not to worry about it. I cuddled my cat, scooted back down in my bed, turned off the light and went to sleep. The thing never made another appearance and I still don't know what it was. Today I am a working psychic/medium and I have never heard of or seen a thing like the one that came through my bedroom that night. – Kathy P. ("Blackstar")  

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