When my first two sons were born, we had peculiar visits from someone or something. I'm not sure what it was. My first son, Michael, was born in February, 1999. A few weeks after he was born, my husband Mike and I were lying in bed when the baby woke up. His crib was in our bedroom and he was crying in a way I'd never heard him cry before. To this day, I swear he was crying with terror, though, how would a newborn know about terror? In any case, it spooked us, the way he was crying and we placed him between us in the bed and fell asleep with the lights on. Yes, we were that scared. It was just a freaky thing to hear a baby cry in such an awful way.
Sometime during the night, I awoke because I felt as if someone was staring at me and I felt light on my face. To my surprise, it was completely dark in our bedroom except for a diaphanous sphere of light floating right above us. I stared at it in awe, trying to figure out what it was. It seemed to have strands of pearls that moved within its filmy depths. The light itself had a pearlescent quality, slightly gold in color. Then it seemed to realize I was staring at it and I sensed it sensed that I was staring at it and I knew it was going to go away. I reached up to grab it, but my hand went through it without affecting it at all. It seemed to be receding, and I called out to my husband to witness it, but by the time he woke it had already moved up the wall to the ceiling and disappeared.
I never saw anything like it again until seven and a half years later when our second son, Matthew, was born. It had to be late August, 2006 or early September, 2006; I'm not really sure. My husband worked nights at the time, so it was just my two sons and I home alone. Michael, the eldest, seven and a half years old now, slept in his room. I was sleeping in my bed with Matthew, who was only a few weeks old at the time.
I very suddenly awoke, completely alert. Instantly, my attention was caught by the red, hazy, shifting orb above my son. It wasn't aware of me yet. It seemed to be observing Matt, though why I thought so I cant say as it didn't have eyes or a face or anything of that sort. It was just a sort of shifting, red, gauzy circular mass of dull light. Then, like with Michael, the thing seemed to sense me watching it, and just as I reached for it, it began to recede and move up and over the headboard. The vertical window blinds swayed and clattered slightly as it went out the window. At least, I suppose it went out the window. I looked out there, but saw nothing, just darkness.
I looked back at Matthew and he was sleeping soundly. I don't know what it was. I had sensed that the thing got a little nervous when I reached for it. Again, I don't know how I know this; it was just a feeling that it more or less felt relief at having "escaped" me.
Anyway, after our third son, Nathan, was born in September, 2008, I hoped to run into something else like that again, but he is now a little more than nine months old and I haven't seen anything like that with him. Also, each incident happened in a different house. I don't know and can't even begin to guess what "visited" us, but it was interesting to say the least.
