Umbarger

I have been sensitive to the paranormal since I was a child. The one that scared me the most happened at my grandparents house in Umbarger.

I was around 16 years old at the time and my best friend was spending the night. We waited for my grandparents to fall asleep and we snuck out and went joyriding with some other friends. We returned after about an hour or two and went to sleep.

I always sleep with the bedroom door shut and I have had a thing about the closet door being shut since a small child. The closet doors were the louvered type that you pull on the knob and as the door opens it folds in half and slides to the side you open. There was a left side and a right side.

It was summertime, so the window over the head of the bed was open. The alarm clock on the nightstand had an illuminated face. It was around 2 a.m..

I am a side sleeper so I fell asleep looking at the clock face. I was lying on my right side facing the wall with the closet. I had only been asleep for about an hour when my eyes popped open.

I could sense that something was not right.

I heard a shuffling sound like something scooting on the carpeting. It stopped. Then it started again. I glanced in the direction of the sound without moving my head, only my eyes.

The first thing I noticed was that the right side door of the closet was open. Then I saw a short dark figure standing there.

The outline of the figure looked like a child draped in a black sheet but in the middle of the head area was a big eye, yellow, with a slitted black pupil.

I tried to wake up my friend by nudging her with my foot and she grumbled and told me to stop. I nudged her again and again. Meanwhile, this thing is shuffling toward me in short bursts.

I was absolutely terrified by this point. I closed my eyes as it got closer and then the shuffling sound stopped. I opened my eyes just enough that I could see that it was right by the bed and that it was covered in coarse black hair.

There was a tremendous malevolent feeling coming from this being and I knew that it meant to harm me. I threw the covers over my head and screamed.

My best friend sat straight up in bed. Scared the crap out of her.

My grandmother came rushing into the bedroom and flipped on the light. Of course, I was hysterical and my friend was freaking out.

Grandma asked what’s going on in here?

So I was trying to tell her and crying at the same time. The closet door was still open and the thing was nowhere to be found. Grandma checked thoroughly.

I saw it one other time when I was around 21, in that same bedroom, and I started praying out loud. In the morning the right side of the closet door was open. Pretty sure it was a demon.

My grandmother told me it was after me for sneaking out. She knew the whole time. Lol.