More about my experience with the old hag

After living alone off and on for about 20 years, I was suddenly afraid to go to sleep at night. My thing was horror movies/books, and never suffered nightmares or was ever scared to live alone or sleep alone. Until one night........I will never forget it, and it has taken me two years to even write about it as I was so terrified that I had lost my mind. I had over 10 years college under my belt, and my mind is how I made a living and the thought of losing it was more terrifying then the actual experiences that I was having.

I went to bed one night feeling rather restless, as I had just broken up with my boyfriend. I was lying there that night not quite a sleep yet, but feeling that I was finally relaxing enough that I thought sleep would find me soon. I then noticed the sound of boots walking on my hardwood floor leading into my bedroom. My first thought was my boyfriend had let himself in to apologize. I then noticed that I could not move at all, and I was lying flat on my back, rather than my usual side position. I was completely paralyzed. Then this feeling of complete terror overwhelmed me, not because I was paralyzed, as I didn't have enough time to analyze that as of yet. It was just a feeling of doom, that pure evil was making his way into my room, and I couldn't understand how somehow I knew that there was something evil and not human was in my house. Lying there, I noticed that I could not speak, as I tried to scream. I couldn't even move my fingers, toes ,nothing, but my eyes. I was so afraid that I glanced slightly to the right out of my peripheral vision and saw what looked to me like the grim reaper. He was not holding anything, but he was extremely tall and wore a black hooded robe. He did not say anything or move, just stood and looked at me, or should I say was facing me, as I could not see a face, just darkness where a face should have been, due to the hood of the robe I assumed. I started to pray to my self as fast as I could over and over for Jesus/God to rid me of this evil force.

What seemed like hours, but was probably only seconds I started to pray and pray in my mind until I was released from the invisible grip that held me down. I could finally move, the evil feeling has gone, and of course so was the figure.

I did not sleep that night, as I was basically afraid to. What had just happened to me? All night I ran the same question over and over in my mind. I had decided to leave my room after turning all the lights on and settled for the living room recliner as I was afraid to go back in there that was for sure. I knew that I had not fallen asleep yet, as I was fully aware of my surrounding, my eyes were open, everything in my room was in it's place, so I had hoped that whatever it was, would not bother me in the living room and I was correct in that assumption.

I had such a hard time wrapping my mind around this as hey I didn't believe in any of this stuff, I just loved to read about it. I wasn't really true, you are not supposed to be afraid of the dark at my age, so what could it be?

This happened to me for almost a year. Varying of course to hearing voices, seeing someone other than the tall dark figure, hearing whispers in my ear.

Then as suddenly as it began it stopped. I will record in this blog as much as I can remember, to help others know their not crazy, that it is happening to allot of people and it is not normal sleep paralysis as they claim, and I will explain why. I will share my experiences, evidence, and finally how I stopped it.

Please if you have had a experience such as mine, please share it as there are still allot of people that are now scared of the dark after 20 years of peace.