Encounter With A Demon

I have posted before about being sensitive to spirits, and this incident happened when I was probably about 7 years old. My mom's step-mother had children who were only a few years older than myself and I used to stay over there a lot during the summer. They had just moved to an old farm house and the girls were using the front room as their bedroom (I think that it was supposed to have been a living room, the house had been added-on to several times).

My aunts (weird to call them that since we were so close in age!) had been telling me ghost stories and were trying to scare me by telling me that someone had been killed in the house. All the "good" stuff kids do to each other right? They had even gotten a candle and were trying to convince me to help them perform a seance so they could talk to the person who was in the house. Of course, I got scared and wouldn't sit with them, but watched while they tried to "talk" to the ghost. After a while they gave up and we went on to do other things.

Later that night, we finally went to bed. I insisted on sleeping in between my aunts in their bed because they had told me that if I slept on the edge and if my hand or foot hung over the side of the bed, the devil would get me and drag me to Hell (I was very impressionable! I still won't sleep with my hands or feet hanging over the side of the bed and I'm 32 now!)

During the night, I woke up because the blankets were being pulled off my legs. I looked at the foot of the bed and there was a dark figure standing there. (It still gives me cold chills to think about it) I was convinced that it was the devil and that he was waiting for one of us to put our foot off the bed! I was too scared to even move. I just shut my eyes and eventually shivered myself back to sleep.

I refused to sleep in that room again; I stayed in their mom's room after that when I spent the night. Eventually, the girls switched rooms with their mom. I told them later, when we were older, what had happened to me that night and they admitted that they had seen things in the room also and had to convince their mom to switch rooms with them.