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YGS family, today I am going to share an experience which took place in July 2002.

I had just given birth to my eldest son. He was only a month old. It was icy cold winter. My baby had been awake and crying since about 9pm that night, nothing seemed to help him. No massage or pacifier or milk.

I was a young mum, tired and exhausted, I walked all over the room that night trying to soothe him.

At approximately 3.15 am I went to my little brother and asked him to go downstairs and warm up my baby's milk. As he left my room with the bottle, my baby went stiff in my arms and his eyes rolled white.

I panicked and ran into my parents' room. As I went into their room, I heard something fall and I heard my brother screaming.

He came upstairs into my parent's room with the milk bottle in his hand.

He was trembling. In the meantime, whilst he was catching his breath my dad jumped out of bed and asked him what had happened. This is what he had to say:

As he walked downstairs, he peeked into the lounge, and the heater was on the floor.

Next to the heater was a creature that looked like a black cat but also a human.

Its eyes glowed similar to a cat in the dark. He just said it looked at him, kicked the heater down and just flew into thin air.

My dad went downstairs immediately armed with a pocketknife, tuned on all the lights, and there was nothing. No open or broken doors or windows, nothing in any corner of our lounge and dining room or the kitchen. He even went as far as checking all the cupboards. Nothing. Sweet nothing.

My mum and I began chanting and praying and after about 5 minutes my baby was normal again. He had his milk and slept.

Now personally I have not seen this demon, so I cannot describe it. South African folklore would suggest that it was something we refer to as a tokoloshe.

A demon entity sent to trouble people.

So by now many of you would know that there was an entity in our home, but this was definitely not that entity, because our resident entity was really harmless to all of us at home. It literally left after my mum passed.

If there are other South African readers here, please read and comment. To everyone else please feel free to comment. I also need to mention that I have not experienced any strange occurrences since 2014. My home is actually very light and airy and we feel the positive vibes.

Thank you for reading.

Love & Light

Sash B

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SashB (12 stories) (19 posts)
 
13 hours ago (2025-04-29)
[at] BB Sammy

My word that must have been some experience for that person. I am glad I was not there. I have also read and heard about people's experiences with half human half animal entities. If there is anyone on this site that would care to elaborate further just so we could get a deeper understanding of what this is. The world as we know it is bright and beautiful, however there is a deep dark side as well.
SashB (12 stories) (19 posts)
 
13 hours ago (2025-04-29)
[at] Rajine. You are right that these things are real and bring with it negative vibes and bad luck if I may call it that. I am sorry you guys had to go through all of that, but I hope you are well now. I can imagine a a 10 year old I would have fainted on the spot.
bread-butter-sammy (2 stories) (9 posts)
 
4 days ago (2025-04-25)
[at] SashB Having a home filled with positivity and light is truly a blessing - we never really know what's lurking in the atmosphere around us. I'm not from South Africa, but my friend's father once had a similar experience. He claims he saw a sheep with a human face at his farmhouse, just as the sun was setting. The creature was making eerie, unnatural noises from deep within the fields. When he tried to approach it... It ran off and vanished into the twilight. He still talks about that night with a shiver - it was one of the most terrifying things he's ever experienced.
Rajine (14 stories) (949 posts)
 
5 days ago (2025-04-25)
Hi SashB

I do believe that it could be a tokoloshe
And from what you have described I actually had the unpleasant experience of coming across one when I was around 10 or so and it's not something that I'll forget.

It happened in a split second, I'd gotten home from school, had a bath, made myself a snack and just sat down in the lounge when I saw the exact same thing that you have described, run from the side of the sofa across from me and straight into my parents room (mum was laying down in the room at the time)
I was in shock for a second then go to the room to see if whatever that was is still there, it wasn't, I told my mum and she was skeptical about it and brushed it off as nothing.

Only years after, as an adult did my mum tell me that she remembers that day and didn't want to scare me, but even she noticed that a lot of things were going on during that time in out lives, she had also experienced a lot of things as well, however she didn't experience what I did that exact day but she had also seen that shirt black shadow occasionally before and after my experience.
blosomes (29 stories) (192 posts)
 
5 days ago (2025-04-25)
Sash B
What an experience 😳
I am glad that everything is OK now.

Sending luck ❤

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