Better late than never – today’s scary story: “I was 24, living with my mother, my sister and my 2 year old niece. One night I woke up, and looked up into the darkness. This “thing” flew down from the ceiling, straight at me with its arms out (I can still see it). It looked like a cross between a gargoyle and an alien, it looked so evil. It sounds silly, but I was so terrified, that I ran out of my room (screaming) into the living room to be with my mother. I was shaking uncontrollably, and I sat with her for quite a while before I could convince myself that it was “just a dream”, and I went back to bed with no further problems. Well, a few months down the road, my sister was at home with her friend, Kelly – who seems to have some sort of connection with the paranormal, like her mother – and she sent her down the hall to get a towel for my niece (the linen closet is down the hall in my mother’s room). Kelly came back a couple minutes later, white as a sheet. Now, my sister and Kelly are always talking about stuff like this, but this is what really freaked me out. She said that there was something in my mother’s room, and it was a threatening presence. She then went on to describe it: about 3 feet tall, gray, kind of a cross between a gargoyle and something. I had never mentioned anything to my sister, and the only thing I had told my mother is that something scared me. I had never described what I saw to anyone. In another related incident, prior to my “sighting”, my mother was trying to sleep one night in her room, and as she is about to fall asleep, something breathed near her – kind of a sharp exhale “Hah” right in her ear. She woke up the next morning with scratches on the middle of her back, and the freaky thing is, she slept alone, and there were only three, long (about 6″) thin scratches on her back. Needless to say, I am very happy to be out of that house!” (from Shadowlands)