In about 1990 I lived in a very nice, large 3-bedroom, split-level duplex. From the street, facing the duplex, I lived on the left side. A very long concrete "common" driveway led from the street, slightly downhill, straight to the front of the duplex, entering the garages. Facing the duplex, you would see two adjacent garage doors on the lower level--my garage door on the left, and the other garage door on the right. There were concrete steps on each side of the driveway (about 8 steps) leading up to the front porches of the units. So, only a wall separated the garages. When entering my duplex from the walk-in door inside my garage, I walked into a large family room, with a bedroom toward the front, and a half bath toward the rear. Also, immediately after entering the family room from the garage, there was a split stairway immediately to the left (toward the front) leading upstairs to the living room, 2 more bedrooms, large bath, kitchen, etc.
Now, about 5 years earlier, I had loaned my lawnmower to a neighbor, who ran over a brick with it, thus totally ruining my mower. The neighbor simply shrugged and said "sorry about that..." -- so, I had to buy myself new mower. Needless to say, my new rule was "never loan the lawnmower!"
When I first moved to the duplex, new neighbors moved in next door about a month later. The lady came over and introduced herself, and asked to borrow my mower. I hesitated, but didn't want to seem unfriendly, so I said okay. I topped off the oil in the mower, filled it with gas, and handed it over to her. Then I heard her out there mowing over sticks and rocks... (ugh!) When she returned the mower, the gas tank was empty... Every week for the entire summer she was at my door, borrowing my mower, and I provided the gas and oil... Then (thankfully) she moved out. (wheh)
So now, once again, I acquired new neighbors. It was a couple in their late 50's or early 60's. The very first week, the lady came over and asked if she could borrow my mower. I had learned to have more gumption, so I politely told her "I'd love to help, but I'll be honest, I've had very bad luck loaning out my lawnmower, and I just can't do it." She indignantly said "Well!" with a nasty look on her face, and she stomped away mad. I thought oh brother...
(sigh)... That was only the beginning of 4 years of hell from that woman. She puffed and stomped every time I saw her outside. During the summer, she would hose her driveway with her garden hose for hours on end, which created an enormous puddle on my side of the driveway. Her water bill must have been incredible. This woman was simply evil.
My teenage daughter had a car, and our routine was for me to park my car in the garage, and my daughter would park her car out front in the driveway. If I needed to leave first, I would drive around my daughter's car. (The previous neighbors did this, as well.) When the evil neighbor saw this, she intentionally began parking her car at the top of her driveway, to block her side, and prevent me from driving around my daughter's car. This forced my daughter to have to back out of the driveway to let me out every time I needed to leave before she did, which was often very inconvenient. Once when my neighbor wasn't home, I pulled around my daughter's car just as my neighbor was coming down the street, and she started honking her horn and waving her hands at me when she saw me driving on her side of the driveway. That night the neighbor left a very nasty note on my front door, saying if she saw me driving on her side of the driveway again, she was going to start charging me rent. Worth mentioning is the fact that whenever this neighbor had company, her company would park at the top of her driveway, and if she wanted to leave, she would drive around their car, driving on MY side of the driveway. Not that I cared, but it was the principle.... and this situation caused me much stress and duress... Evil people somehow create a BIG nasty suffocating air...
One night I came home and found that the evil neighbors had hauled in railroad ties and stacked them down the center of the driveway, creating a wall. Not only that, but huge black carpenter ants were forming a long ant trail from the railroad ties directly into my garage!!!! Luckily I got home just in time to kill the ants just as they were entering my garage. And, by the way, the railroad ties looked really crappy in the driveway!
One day I cleaned and organized the junk on my garage shelves. Afterwards, I was left with a cardboard box full of odds and ends of the ususal garage junk needing to be put away or thrown away. I just sat the box of junk on the floor near the walk-in door, intending to deal with it later. The box sat there for about a month, and I just kept putting it off.
Now (finally) I'll get to the point (and thanks for bearing with me).
Okay, after several years of that evil woman, I had just had my fill. After I got home from work one evening, I was sitting on the sofa in my living room. My sofa faced the opposite direction of my neighbor's side of the duplex, therefore you might say my back was toward her side of the duplex. So, what was between me and the evil woman, was, first of all, my stairway leading downstairs, then, on the other side of the stairway, my garage, if that makes sense.
Now, please don't think I'm crazy. But I did something I have never done in my life (and something I would NEVER do again, EVER!) Suddenly I started thinking about how evil that woman was. I was just sitting there wondering what in the world I could do about her, short of moving out (which I had seriously been contemplating). Then I thought to myself "I just want DEMONS to *get her*!!!" I raised out my hands in front of me, and started making "summoning" gestures, like perhaps a man on an airport runway, motioning for a plane to come toward him. Like that. As I made those gestures, I kept thinking to myself "Get her! Get her!" I was thinking of all the demons in hell, and begging them to hear my thoughts, and to come to my rescue and get that woman. For about 5 minutes, I just kept motioning with my hands, "Come! Come!" I thought to myself, "Get her! Just get her!!!" I was begging with everything I had in me. "Please hear me! Come now!! Get her!!!" I started doing a thumbs-up gesture, repeatedly bringing my hands up, pointing my thumbs over my head, behind me, in the direction of the evil woman's side of the duplex, saying "Come!! Come now!! Get her!!!" Finally I snapped to my senses, thinking to myself, "Okay, that woman really is driving me crazy!!" and I just sat there for a couple of minutes, thinking what a silly thing that was to do.
Then all of a sudden I heard a LOUD crash in my gagage. It sounded to me like a shelf had come loose, and everything on it had fallen on the floor. I thought "oh no, another problem to deal with." I got up, but as I started down toward the first level of the split stairway, I was suddenly siezed with a horrible foreboding feeling. I was gripped with fear. I turned and went on down the stairs into the family room anyway. The door leading into the garage was at the bottom of the stairs. I faced the door, but I was absolutely terrified, and afraid to open it. I just stood there facing the door, and I felt like Satan himself was in my garage, right on the other side of the door. I just stood there with my heart pounding. At that time, I didn't connect the noise in the garage with my summoning of demons a few minutes earlier.
I need to add here that my daughter wasn't home, and I had parked my car out front in the driveway. I knew when I opened that door, I would be looking into a pitch black dark garage. The garage lightswitch was inside the garage to the right of the door. Finally I took a deep breath and summoned up the courage to open the garage door. I flung open the door and immediately swiped my hand up the lightswitch on the right, flipping on the light. What I saw was that cardboard box of junk scattered all over the garage floor. It as as if someone had kicked it as hard as they could. The box was upside down in the middle of the garage floor, and items were tossed and scattered about all over the floor. A single 100-watt lightbulb had been on top of the junk in the box, and what really struck me was that the lightbulb was laying unbroken on the concrete. It didn't even break. I kept "rehearing" that huge crash in my head, realizing that something had kicked that box. But what?? My first thought was that a raccoon or some other animal had gotten inside my garage. Therefore I searched the entire garage, looking for a hole, or any way some animal could've gotten in. The duplex was about 6 years old, so it was relatively new, and the garage ceiling and walls were in perfect condition. there was absolutely no hole anywhere, and no way any animal could have gotten in. And there was no animal in the garage. Besides, I thought to myself, even if there was a raccoon, how could it possibly "kick" a box of junk, sending it flying all over the garage?
Okay, long story for such a seemingly "anti-climax." But is it an anti-climax? Or did I summon a demon? I have always wondered.
You see, I believe in demons. I've heard amazing accounts of demons being summoned by Ouija boards. My daughter had a bad experience with a Ouija board once.
I am convinced I unwittingly dabbled with something better left alone. Or perhaps I shouldn't have stopped summoning so soon. After all, the "demon" only got as far as my garage. Maybe if I'd stayed with it a little longer, the demon might've kicked the living crap out of my evil neighbor!!
