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Katie’s Alabama story A few years back, my roommate (at the time) and I would
occasionally drive around the eastern half of the country, selling t-shirts
for a country singer (no one you'd know yet).
Anyway, on one of these jaunts we drove from Wisconsin to Alabama overnight,
driving straight through thunder, lightning, tornadoes,e tc. Needless to
say, when we arrived at our motel at 4AM, we were exhausted. The singer's
manager had reserved some rooms there for us so we checked in and went
right to sleep.
The room was on the first floor with an entrance direct from the parking
lot. My roommate crashed out on one of the two double beds and I took the
other one, thinking I would fall right asleep. However, I was apparently
just too tired and instead, laid there, half-awake, waiting for sleep to
come.
The light from the parking lot illuminated the room somewhat so it was easy
to distinguish furniture, beds, etc. in the half-light. However, as I laid there,
I noticed a large shadow enter the room from the doorway WITHOUT opening
the door. This shadow was completely black and shaped rather like a blob. It
moved slowly across the room, in front of our beds, then entered the space
between the bed I occupied and
the wall. At first I thought I was just hallucinating. After all, I was
very tired. But what happened next was anything but a hallucination.
Without going into too much detail, this "shadow" tried to climb
into the bed and "have its way" with me. I swear this is true! It
was very real, very solid and heavy. Its surface felt like old binder twine
and burlap wrapped around a log as it rolled on top of me.
However,I was tired and very crabby after the long drive. All I wanted was
rest and here was this darned "HAINT" trying to get past first
base with me. So, instead of screaming and running like any sane human might,
I got MAD and tried to push it OFF me. As we struggled, I could feel one
part that definitely felt human! It was a good thing I was wearing underwear,
there might be the pitterpatter of little ghostie feet in the house today.
For probably 20-25 seconds, this thing and I had a test of strength until
finally it seemed to give up and slide off me. The shadow moved away, back
across the room and exited the way it came.
Believe it or not, I finally fell asleep after it left. The next morning I
asked my roommate if she had seen or heard anything. Of course she said she
hadn't but that she had fallen asleep right away.
Normally I would attribute this to a lucid dream and nothing more. But the
next night at the show, I was chatting with one of the locals and just to
see what she would answer, I asked if anyone had ever noticed anything
different about that motel. She responded that yes, there were reports of
odd happenings going on around there but she didn't know any more than that.
So was it real or a dream? I've had lucid
dreams that you wouldn't believe, but I knew they were dreams. This
"haint" felt absolutely real.
