Subject: Shadow People Tormenting my Family
From: Courtney
Date: Thu, September 6, 2018 12:02 pm
To: The Official Shadow People Archives
Hello, my name is Courtney. I'll say a little bit about myself. I'm 23 years old and I live in St. Louis, Missouri. I have a very open mind when it comes to things that are unknown. I'm always open to learning new things or experiences. Well to start things off, I'll begin with my family history.
Growing up, I lived at my grandma's house with my mom, her boyfriend, my uncle and his girlfriend. Her house has always been haunted from the stories my family has told me. My grandma has lived in that house for over 20 years, and things have been happening even before I was born. She has had the house blessed more than once. Things always continue to happen despite the house blessings. There's so many instances of crazy things happening that it's hard to start explaining. I'll start with the past.
Before I was even born, my mom and grandma had stories about weird phenomena happening all around the house. One story involved my grandma’s night stand. She woke up one day and her night stand had completely turned around backwards and was facing the wall where the front of it should be. Why would she turn her night stand around backwards? Well, she would turn it back around so it was facing the right direction. The next day she would wake up and it would be turned around again. Sounds strange? Apparently, whatever it was that was moving the night stand really wanted to redecorate. (Trying to add in some humor here.) That's just the little stuff. There also have been times where bibles were turned on its back, so the cover of the book isn't facing up. The more frightening stories are still to come.
So fast forward to me being around 3 or 4 years old. I remember something going on with my mom and grandma and them being upset about something. I remember standing in my grandma's bedroom and, all of a sudden, a tiny creature appeared right in front of me. Being so young at the time I couldn't explain what I was seeing. I do remember it looking demonic and having an evil grin on its face. It vanished just as quickly as it appeared. It's a vague memory but sightings of demon like creatures have happened to not only me. That's just one sighting.
Other things continue to happen as well. As I'm growing up, I start experiencing more creepy incidents: Voices being heard and my name being called in the voice of my mom or grandma when they're not even home.
Well one time, I was about 5 or 6. I was all alone downstairs in my basement at my grandma's house. My mom, her boyfriend and I all stayed in the same bedroom down in the basement. So of course, I was playing and just messing around like little kids do. Well I remember making a pallet on the floor so I could take a nap. After about 10 minutes of me laying there I feel a presence. I was laying on my side, when all of a sudden, a huge surge of electricity is by my ear. The whispering starts in my ear, like a thousand voices at once whispering at lightning speed. Then, clear as day, a voice comes through…one word, “GO!”
After I heard the word, go, I shot up off the floor and bolted upstairs to my grandma. I told her what happened, and she said nobody is here, “but me and you.” I believe whatever was whispering to me were evil spirits and the one word I made out was from a good spirit telling me to go and get out of there.
Ever since that incident I always slept with the covers over my ears. See, I believe I do have a very gifted 6th sense. I've always felt a strong spiritual connection to the world and I have felt things that are purely from my soul. What I'm trying to say is, I can sense energies. Whether it be from people or places, I sense when there is a presence.
It started with my ears. Ever since that incident with the whispering in my ear, I can use my ears to sense things. I'm not hearing any noises per say, but I get a strong electrical energy sense that I can just feel with my ears. It's like being in complete silence and having your ears ring. Except I don't ever hear anything, it's just like me tuning into a certain frequency.
I've had other gifts as well. When I was very young, like between the ages of 3 and 6, I could literally make myself dream of anything. I could create and make my own dreams. I'm not talking about day dreaming or imagination, I'm talking about controlling the power of my mind. I could make myself instantly fall asleep, but my mind was completely awake. I then could just think of something that I wanted to dream about and it would start happening. Like those super vivid dreams people get that feel like they're reality. It was insane. Being so little I didn't understand what I was actually doing. After I grew up, I did a little research on people controlling their dreams. It is indeed true and only people who are gifted with this ability have the power to control their dreams. I believe since I was a kid that my mind had no barriers. Anything is possible when you're a kid, you just have to imagine and believe it. Expect that I wasn't just imagining it. I could recall every detail of my dream and then instantly go back to sleep and continue my dream where I left off. As I got older, I stopped being able to do it. I tried and tried but nothing would happen. I think that young children just have an open mind to experience anything that the normal human mind cannot grasp.
I also remember my mom telling me when I was a baby, I would look into the back room of the basement and just laugh. Like someone was doing something funny to make me laugh. It would be only me and her, and she would say I would look directly into that back room and start laughing. Babies have the ability to see the unseen, their minds are fresh and completely open to any energy or presence around. Same with animals.
Well let me get back to the main story here. See, my grandma's house is full of entities. Evil, good, ghosts, demons, shadow people. When my grandma had the house blessed, the priest told her that she unknowingly opened a portal. He said that she has a gift that allows anything to come through that portal. How did she make the portal? Well, growing up, I didn't exactly have a wonderful childhood. My grandma's house was always filled with negative energy from arguments between my family and drug addictions that caused a lot of havoc in our lives. So, there was a ton of negative energy always present. The priest pretty much explained that the negative energy has created a hole in between realms. And with my grandma's gift, she unknowingly opened up a portal for all types of things to come through.
She has seen demons herself, appearing at the foot of her bed. Glowing spirits that have a complete human appearance but disappear as soon as my grandma notices them. She has also said they mess with her bed. She'll be laying down to go to sleep and she'll feel something fly underneath her mattress and start beating. Like an inhuman heart just beating a thousand times per minute. She said when that would happen, she would kick her feet against the bed and say, “In Jesus’s name, I command you to leave me alone.” And then, she said, the beating or thumping under her mattress would stop. But it always came back, sometimes multiple times a night. So many things have happened it's hard to delve into. So, all this ties in with these shadow people. See, I no longer live at my grandma's house. We moved out when I was about 12. Well currently I am living with my mom and her boyfriend and we have no incidents happen over here. As far as I know, the house I live in now is spirit and entity free. But my uncle has gotten into some trouble recently and has been living back at my grandma's house for some time now.
It is personal but let's just say that there are drugs and negative things involved with my uncle. He is not a bad person by any means, just has had some trouble in his life and he's going through some rough times. Well he has a new girlfriend and she moved in about a year and a half ago now. They both live at my grandma's. Keep in mind that my grandma's house has always been haunted like I said before.
Well things have been pretty dormant for the last 10 years or so. I mean, I've heard my grandma say that things have happened since then but not like how it was when we all lived there.
This is where the current issue is. My uncle said before he met Sue, his current girlfriend, he just got out of a long, long, relationship with another woman named Brenda. It was a long time coming and their relationship was always tumultuous. He was very upset for a while about that and was very depressed. Talks of suicide and not wanting to be around anymore were said. Drugs were involved. Now the drug thing had been going on forever, since before I was born. And him living at my grandma's wasn't anything new either. He's mostly lived there his whole adult life. Well he said, during that time frame was when he really first started noticing them.
It would start out as flashes out of the corner of his eyes. Or just a quick glimpse of something dark. Once he met Sue and she came to live with him at my grandma's house, things started to get more noticeable. May I make it known that my grandma does NOT want Sue living in her house at all.
My grandma and uncle continuously fight over this among other things constantly. That all adds into the negative energy and bad vibes always circulating through the house and around them. So I don't exactly know how this all started but Sue and my uncle began taking pictures and videos of these shadow people or figures. And they aren't like the figures you see online of shadow people. This is completely different. They appear as faces mostly. The figure ones appear wispy, like a floating outline of a dark mass. There are no actual formed figures, no hooded or hat wearing men. Stuff that looks more otherworldly than anything remotely human. So these faces that they are seeing are mostly only in pictures and videos they take. The naked eye can't really see them unless they appear as just a black misty mass. They love dark corners and dark rooms. They pile onto each other and form one large mass full of faces. These faces do have a human shaped head, and facial features that can be made out.
Last night he came over to our house so he could get away from those things for a while. He showed us a couple new pictures he's taken recently. The first is of his bath towel. He explained that these shadow figures can show themselves anywhere in any way. Whether it be on the floor, walls, pictures, objects. They are able to be seen by manipulating the objects around them so us humans can actually see them. Sue said she had been sitting on the bed looking at this towel. They have it hanging horizontally covering their basement window like a curtain. It's a makeshift curtain pretty much. Well she said that she could make out a face appearing on the towel. I'll add in that they live in my grandma's basement like I used to, and they had their floor lamp turned on. She could still make out a face covering the towel.
My uncle and Sue said this a common thing. They said that these shadow things appear like that all the time. Day or night, light or dark. They can appear and disappear instantly no matter the time or place. So she pulled out her phone like usual and snapped a pic. Now I understand that cell phones are not the most reliable source of a camera. I'm 23 and I know all about technology, that's what we "young people" are good at lol
So I can tell when it's just a shitty camera or a glitch in the screen. I use my brain and always rationalize because that's the normal thing to do. It was a face. For sure. It covered most of the towel, the head being a triangular shape. Honestly it looked like the face of the devil. I could see an evil expression on this face and it looked incredibly demonic. The other pictures I've seen have been just as scary. The faces are either skeleton like or evil grinning faces. There can be multiple faces too, one inside the other. Very confusing, I know.
So the next picture is of the middle basement room. There are 3 rooms in the basement and they're all like shotgun style. Straight through, all connected with no doors. There is a bathroom but that's at the bottom of the stairs when you first go down. Anyway, the picture is of the right-hand corner by the stairs. It was fairly dark in there and the only light on was their floor lamp. Well at first the picture looks like a big black dark mass. Solid blackness that had some distorted faces and weird things. Well upon zooming in there's a light spot in the dark mass. At first it looks like a couple of pixels that are light on the photo but looking closer it’s a human face! I mean plain as day, clear as crystal, a face! The skin tone, human. The face shape, human. It had complete human features. The eyes were hollow and dark, like they were missing. My uncle and mom say it looks like my other uncle, which is their brother. He passed away about 6 years ago or so. It looks like an old-time portrait, like someone painted his picture to look like an old photograph. I couldn't believe how that face stood out against the stark contrast of the black mass. I wish I could upload that picture on here but it's on my uncle's phone and he needs to send it to me still. I mean this picture is so vivid and clear, it brought tears to my eyes.
I am a true believer of shadow people now. I don't know if anyone has seen these shadow things the way they are seeing them, but they appear on and off camera. My uncle said it's tearing him up inside. They're constantly tormenting him and he feels like they're there for him. He said they drain his energy and Sue's as well. They've also said they've been getting physical. Touching them, pulling on the sheets on their bed at night. The shadow people are also attacking their cat. She's terrified of the basement and shows odd behavior of being scared. Like she sees something we cannot.
My uncle has tried getting the house blessed again recently and has had a priest come in. But he said it just came back, even worse this time. Ignoring them makes them worse. It’s like they get mad when they don't get attention. They're definitely evil and are not there for a good reason.
It's getting really bad and he's saying that they're there to collect his soul. So, it's pretty terrifying and I know firsthand how haunted my grandma's house is. But he says they follow him anywhere now. I'm not sure why they won't leave but a true cleansing of that house needs to be done. I wish I could help them but I have too much fear in me. I may be gifted but I'm afraid of my gift. I usually try to mentally turn it off because I'm terrified of seeing or hearing something.
Sorry for the super long story but it was nice to explain this crazy situation. There's much more to the story than just this, and more things that have happened.
I just want to know if anyone else can take pictures of these things. When I said that they appear as faces, it's not like a solid face. It's transparent so you have to pay attention to the photo. The one where I saw the face of my deceased uncle, that one was the most solid I've ever seen. Like I said, it was a portrait like picture.
I hope my story has brought some new info on these shadow things and maybe other people have shared similar experiences. Thank you for reading and I look forward to reading more posts on here!
