So it’s been awhile, but this one was kinda big

[preacherman76]

Hello! Hope everyone here is doing well. My 13 year old son had a, well, I guess for lack of a better word, a shadow creature sighting today. Now all comments are welcome, but I pretty much know what most here are going to say. Posting this here more for documentation than anything else. 
 

So I’m driving home from work when I get a call from my youngest son. He tells me he just saw a ghost. Which is not like him at all. He doesn’t care about anything paranormal. He doesn’t even like to watch scary type movies like many of us did at his age. 
 

So I’m ready to debunk whatever he comes up with, but what he said to me sends a chill down my spine. 
 

He was in his bedroom with the door open. From there you can see right into my bedroom. He was about to leave his room and sees in my very dark bedroom what looked like two white glowing eyes on a very big head, peek up and look at him. Like whatever it was, was laying in the bed and lifted its head to look at him. 
 

They locked eyes for a few seconds. He thought it might have been one of my dogs. Thats  when it sat right up still looking at him. He froze in fear. Then it stood right up standing on the bed, and began to step off the bed. 
 

He retreated into his room and was screaming for his older brother, who came running. All he could say in the moment was someone was in my bedroom. My older son did a sweep of the house and no one was there. 
 

This kid was still in tears when I got home. I have no doubt he believed he saw this. This makes me worried on two fronts. Was that a hallucination? Does my son have mental problems? Or worse, what the hell is in my home?
 

If you made it this far thanks for stopping in. Again all opinions comments are welcome. 

Edited November 8 by preacherman76

[+and-then]

If he has no history of such stories or worries, my instinct is to trust that he saw what he said he saw.  If he knows you are taking him at his word that should go a long way to comforting him.  If any such thing happens again, I'd pray to the Lord for intercession, pray over some oil and annoint all the windows and doors to create a barrier to keep evil outside the home.  I did this once when our home was being renovated and we were disturbed by a chilling kind of awareness of a malevolent spirit emanating from one particular room.

My daughter was about 8 when that happened and last spring when we were visiting her at her new home, she asked me to do the same to her place.  

[openozy]

At 13 going through puberty and such is a difficult time emotionally for kids. Entities seem to be attracted or awakened to this and if he is a sensitive bloke as well, he will pick up on these things. Just tell him he not to fear this and just tell them to F off, don't try and communicate with them otherwise. I'd also advise him that most other people won't believe him and that's ok.

[preacherman76]

So it’s a little after 2 am and I just got this kid to sleep. I’ve never seen him so traumatized. 

[eight bits]

8 hours ago, preacherman76 said:

This kid was still in tears when I got home. I have no doubt he believed he saw this. This makes me worried on two fronts. Was that a hallucination? Does my son have mental problems? Or worse, what the hell is in my home?

Hallucination? It sounds so. Your older son's prompt search of the area makes for a strong presumption that nothing was there which corresponds with what your younger son perceived to have been there.

Mental problems? It sounds not. The ability ever to see what is really there implies occasionally seeing something different from what is really there ("receiver operating characteristic" is a property of all physical sensors in the real world, eyes and brains included). A healthy visual apparatus has a strong tendency to present consciousness with a meaningful scene based on whatever it is seeing.

What's in your home? Two boys who are alert to security issues when you aren't there, and who worked together to evaluate a possible threat. Not such a bad thing, IMO.

[preacherman76]

26 minutes ago, eight bits said:

Hallucination? It sounds so. Your older son's prompt search of the area makes for a strong presumption that nothing was there which corresponds with what your younger son perceived to have been there.

Mental problems? It sounds not. The ability ever to see what is really there implies occasionally seeing something different from what is really there ("receiver operating characteristic" is a property of all physical sensors in the real world, eyes and brains included). A healthy visual apparatus has a strong tendency to present consciousness with a meaningful scene based on whatever it is seeing.

What's in your home? Two boys who are alert to security issues when you aren't there, and who worked together to evaluate a possible threat. Not such a bad thing, IMO.

Hey 8. How have you been brother? Hope all is well. 
 

I don’t know how this plays out from here, but so far I have a bad feeling it’s not a good thing. This kid clung to me the entire night. Would only sleep 10-15 minutes at a time, and then would wake me up terrified. It was almost like when he was little and would have a nasty flu. 
 

If I  got an hour of sleep last night it was a lot. And that’s fine. That’s what dads do. I just hope I can make him feel safe in his own home again soon. I don’t know how many nights like that I can do consecutively. 
 

Id try to comfort him. No matter what I said, he would just keep saying “soon has I close my eyes the scene replays over and over in my head”
 

 

[Abramelin]

20 minutes ago, preacherman76 said:

Hey 8. How have you been brother? Hope all is well. 
 

I don’t know how this plays out from here, but so far I have a bad feeling it’s not a good thing. This kid clung to me the entire night. Would only sleep 10-15 minutes at a time, and then would wake me up terrified. It was almost like when he was little and would have a nasty flu. 
 

If I  got an hour of sleep last night it was a lot. And that’s fine. That’s what dads do. I just hope I can make him feel safe in his own home again soon. I don’t know how many nights like that I can do consecutively. 
 

Id try to comfort him. No matter what I said, he would just keep saying “soon has I close my eyes the scene replays over and over in my head”
 

 

Can you ask your son to make a drawing of what he saw?

[preacherman76]

14 minutes ago, Abramelin said:

Can you ask your son to make a drawing of what he saw?

I did. I can try and post it later. It’s 530 am right now, and I’m not sure where he put it. Gotta get ready for work soon

[preacherman76]

10 hours ago, and-then said:

If he has no history of such stories or worries, my instinct is to trust that he saw what he said he saw.  If he knows you are taking him at his word that should go a long way to comforting him.  If any such thing happens again, I'd pray to the Lord for intercession, pray over some oil and annoint all the windows and doors to create a barrier to keep evil outside the home.  I did this once when our home was being renovated and we were disturbed by a chilling kind of awareness of a malevolent spirit emanating from one particular room.

My daughter was about 8 when that happened and last spring when we were visiting her at her new home, she asked me to do the same to her place.  

Yeah this kid is about football and playing guitar in his band. I don’t even bother trying to put on a scary show or movie when he is in the room. He hates them. 
 

We too are going to bless and try to clean the house of any spirits. I figure even if he didn’t see what he thought he saw, if it makes him feel better I’m all for it. I’m going to instruct him how to it, and let him take the reins. Of course I’ll be there with him. 

[Ell]

Install camera's.

[preacherman76]

13 hours ago, Abramelin said:

Can you ask your son to make a drawing of what he saw?

I tried to post a pic, but it’s saying the size is to big

[preacherman76]

5 hours ago, Ell said:

Install camera's.

I’m trying to get him to forget. Last thing I want is video evidence lol. 

[Abramelin]

37 minutes ago, preacherman76 said:

I tried to post a pic, but it’s saying the size is to big

I am on a smartphone.

When I take a photo of something, the photo will be like a couple of Mbs.

But then I make a screenshot of the photo, and the resulting screenshot will be like max 0 3 Mb. Small enough to post here.

[preacherman76]

4 minutes ago, Abramelin said:

I am on a smartphone.

When I take a photo of something, the photo will be like a couple of Mbs.

But then I make a screenshot of the photo, and the resulting screenshot will be like max 0 3 Mb. Small enough to post here.

Yeah no go on that either I just tried. 
 

picture a big round head with two eyes far part from each other. Glowing white. He said he didn’t know the skin color because of how dark it was. 
 

hold on I’m gonna try one more thing

[Abramelin]

14 minutes ago, preacherman76 said:

Yeah no go on that either I just tried. 
 

picture a big round head with two eyes far part from each other. Glowing white. He said he didn’t know the skin color because of how dark it was. 
 

hold on I’m gonna try one more thing

Create a free account here:

https://imgbb.com/

And upload the picture.

Copy the created link, and post the link here.

[preacherman76]

So he refuses to walk past my room without me at night time, but at least we are sleeping through the night again. 

[XenoFish]

I don't have an answer, but a few possible explanations could be fatigue, state of consciousness, imagination, and/or the brain attempting to create something familiar resulting in a shadow person. Still sweeping the house was a good call.

[papageorge1]

On 11/7/2024 at 7:36 PM, preacherman76 said:

 

This kid was still in tears when I got home. I have no doubt he believed he saw this. This makes me worried on two fronts. Was that a hallucination? Does my son have mental problems? Or worse, what the hell is in my home?
 

If you made it this far thanks for stopping in. Again all opinions comments are welcome. 

Stop worrying as this might be a one-off event and maybe this thing feeds on worry. Stop focusing on the event and let's see first if the future brings anything more of concern.

[preacherman76]

2 hours ago, papageorge1 said:

Stop worrying as this might be a one-off event and maybe this thing feeds on worry. Stop focusing on the event and let's see first if the future brings anything more of concern.

I’m not worried that this will happen again. I was more worried about how deep the scar is from him seeing it at all. I’ve never seen him like that. And I’ve seen him afraid before. This was different. 
 

Luckily a little time has gone by and he seems to have bounced back pretty well. 

[preacherman76]

19 hours ago, XenoFish said:

I don't have an answer, but a few possible explanations could be fatigue, state of consciousness, imagination, and/or the brain attempting to create something familiar resulting in a shadow person. Still sweeping the house was a good call.

Yeah I was really trying to figure out what it could be aside from what it appeared to be. The only thing I could come up with was imagination. The detail though,, I just don’t know. 
 

Honestly at this point I don’t even care what it was. I’m just grateful to see him happy and functional again. That was a scary 24 hours. I wasn’t sure he’d ever bounce back. Watching him lose all peace and not trust the safety of his own home was more scary to me than any paranormal entity. 

[XenoFish]

6 minutes ago, preacherman76 said:

Yeah I was really trying to figure out what it could be aside from what it appeared to be. The only thing I could come up with was imagination. The detail though,, I just don’t know. 
 

Honestly at this point I don’t even care what it was. I’m just grateful to see him happy and functional again. That was a scary 24 hours. I wasn’t sure he’d ever bounce back. Watching him lose all peace and not trust the safety of his own home was more scary to me than any paranormal entity. 

I think the important part is how the house was checked. 

[preacherman76]

14 minutes ago, XenoFish said:

I think the important part is how the house was checked. 

Guess I just take that for granted. I knew they’d do that. I was disappointed they didn’t send in the dogs first.