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Real Encounters With Monsters Under the Bed
There are many strange phenomena that seem to revolved around certain childhood fears and fascinations. I have covered some of these here before, with monsters in the closet, as well as basement dwelling entities, and even haunted teddy bears, so I figured why not complete it all with that persistent fixture of childhood terror, the monster under the bed?
Very many children have expressed their fear of what lies coiled in the shadows under their bed, and it is not a fear that is even confined to kids. Yet, is there something more to it all than the running wild of imaginations jumping at the things that go bump in the night? Here are some very creepy encounters with the unexplained that imply that maybe there really is something hiding under that bed of yours, cloaked in the shadows and ready to strike.
One very spooky encounter comes to us from a Reddit user who claims that he was around 5 years old at the time, but remembers it like it was last week. According to the witness, he and his family lived in a “shitty apartment” in a bad neighborhood, and he says that one night he heard strange noises in his room coming from under the bed, which got so intense that he would run into his parents’ room to sleep with them. The parents themselves shrugged it all off as a kid’s imagination playing tricks on him, and sort of wrote it all off.
However, on the second night things would take a turn for the more frightening, and he says:
From the site True Ghost Tales comes another creeper of an account, which supposedly happened in 2007 as the witness was living alone in an apartment she describes as being haunted, with flickering lights, and her pet acting up for no discernible reason. This was all very spooky enough as it is, but things would graduate to her being awoken by a feeling of something sitting atop her, which left her feeling drained of energy and with an aftertaste of dread. Then one night, as she lie awake waiting for something to happen, it did. Up from under her bed crept a shadowy entity with apparently malevolent intent, of which she says:
The site Your Ghost Stories, which compiles real accounts from people all over the world telling of their brushes with the paranormal, has a treasure trove of such cases, each almost more bizarre than the next. In one account the witness says that she used to live in a 4-bedroom house in the state of Illinois with her parents and grandparents. One night she claims that she came home from dinner out with her grandparents, and that was when the paranormal would come for her.
She says:
In another creepy account the witness says that he was living in Wisconsin when he was 12 years old, and that he would begin to experience unexplainable phenomena at night, which seemed to emanate from under his bed.
The witness says:
In yet another case, the witness says he was 6 years old at the time, and of course remembers it as clear as day. At the time he says he lived at a trailer park in Pennsylvania that seems to have been very haunted. He describes how they would hear footsteps at all hours walking through the trailer and how he and his older sister had screamed when she saw a shadow figure lurking at the foot of her bed or outside of her window, which would vanish right before their eyes.
Then there began the disturbances centered on his own bed, and he says:
Our next report comes from a witness who was also quite young during her encounter, at 12 years old. At the time her family had a cat who roamed around the premises with a little tinkling bell around its neck, and she claims that she had her frightening encounter with the paranormal as she was lying down to go to sleep one night.
She says:
Going outside of the U.S. we have an account reported on True Ghost Tales from a witness in South Africa, an adult with two young sons aged 3 and 4 at the time. She says strange things started when she was living in a cottage and one night her children woke her up with panicked, frightened screams, and they would tell her that there was something lurking under their bed. The woman had various pastors come in to bless the place, but nothing seemed to have helped.
The exasperated woman says:
Of course, as mentioned in my article on real encounters with imaginary friends, it could be that they are simply more sensitive to these forces and able to see things that adults cannot. Or perhaps it is just an artifact of their particular developmental period and their burgeoning imaginations, which makes even the simplest noise at night into a monster, as one child psychologist named Dr Laura Kauffman has said:
Another theory is that this could be an evolutionary throwback, some primal fear lurking within the dim recesses of some part of our brain, and which children are more in tune with. Peter Gray, professor of psychology at Boston University, has said of this:
Are we so jittery and afraid of the dark that we conjure up full-fledged apparitions lurking under our beds? Why is it that even those who were children at the time of their experiences so lucid and clear about what they remember in these instances? Is there perhaps something more going on here, and if so, what?
No matter what the answers to these questions may be, that dark, dank place under our beds hold a certain innate fear for many, and whether or not there is anything paranormal going on in any of these cases it is clear that this is a place where strange things lurk, be that in the imagination or beyond.
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There are many strange phenomena that seem to revolved around certain childhood fears and fascinations. I have covered some of these here before, with monsters in the closet, as well as basement dwelling entities, and even haunted teddy bears, so I figured why not complete it all with that persistent fixture of childhood terror, the monster under the bed?
Very many children have expressed their fear of what lies coiled in the shadows under their bed, and it is not a fear that is even confined to kids. Yet, is there something more to it all than the running wild of imaginations jumping at the things that go bump in the night? Here are some very creepy encounters with the unexplained that imply that maybe there really is something hiding under that bed of yours, cloaked in the shadows and ready to strike.
One very spooky encounter comes to us from a Reddit user who claims that he was around 5 years old at the time, but remembers it like it was last week. According to the witness, he and his family lived in a “shitty apartment” in a bad neighborhood, and he says that one night he heard strange noises in his room coming from under the bed, which got so intense that he would run into his parents’ room to sleep with them. The parents themselves shrugged it all off as a kid’s imagination playing tricks on him, and sort of wrote it all off.
However, on the second night things would take a turn for the more frightening, and he says:
From the site True Ghost Tales comes another creeper of an account, which supposedly happened in 2007 as the witness was living alone in an apartment she describes as being haunted, with flickering lights, and her pet acting up for no discernible reason. This was all very spooky enough as it is, but things would graduate to her being awoken by a feeling of something sitting atop her, which left her feeling drained of energy and with an aftertaste of dread. Then one night, as she lie awake waiting for something to happen, it did. Up from under her bed crept a shadowy entity with apparently malevolent intent, of which she says:
What was this thing and what did it want?
The site Your Ghost Stories, which compiles real accounts from people all over the world telling of their brushes with the paranormal, has a treasure trove of such cases, each almost more bizarre than the next. In one account the witness says that she used to live in a 4-bedroom house in the state of Illinois with her parents and grandparents. One night she claims that she came home from dinner out with her grandparents, and that was when the paranormal would come for her.
She says:
In another creepy account the witness says that he was living in Wisconsin when he was 12 years old, and that he would begin to experience unexplainable phenomena at night, which seemed to emanate from under his bed.
The witness says:
In yet another case, the witness says he was 6 years old at the time, and of course remembers it as clear as day. At the time he says he lived at a trailer park in Pennsylvania that seems to have been very haunted. He describes how they would hear footsteps at all hours walking through the trailer and how he and his older sister had screamed when she saw a shadow figure lurking at the foot of her bed or outside of her window, which would vanish right before their eyes.
Then there began the disturbances centered on his own bed, and he says:
Our next report comes from a witness who was also quite young during her encounter, at 12 years old. At the time her family had a cat who roamed around the premises with a little tinkling bell around its neck, and she claims that she had her frightening encounter with the paranormal as she was lying down to go to sleep one night.
She says:
Going outside of the U.S. we have an account reported on True Ghost Tales from a witness in South Africa, an adult with two young sons aged 3 and 4 at the time. She says strange things started when she was living in a cottage and one night her children woke her up with panicked, frightened screams, and they would tell her that there was something lurking under their bed. The woman had various pastors come in to bless the place, but nothing seemed to have helped.
The exasperated woman says:
It is interesting to note that a good many of such accounts are reported by people who were children when they had their experiences, as if they are somehow more in tune with these supernatural forces. Although not always witnessed purely by children, it does seem worth noting that many of the cases of monsters under the bed do come from people who were very young at the time of the incidents, leaving one to wonder why this might be.
Of course, as mentioned in my article on real encounters with imaginary friends, it could be that they are simply more sensitive to these forces and able to see things that adults cannot. Or perhaps it is just an artifact of their particular developmental period and their burgeoning imaginations, which makes even the simplest noise at night into a monster, as one child psychologist named Dr Laura Kauffman has said:
Another theory is that this could be an evolutionary throwback, some primal fear lurking within the dim recesses of some part of our brain, and which children are more in tune with. Peter Gray, professor of psychology at Boston University, has said of this:
However, would this cause people to create full, realistic hallucinations in their minds to the point where they cannot distinguish fantasy from reality? How would this explain the grown adults who have experienced such phenomena?
Are we so jittery and afraid of the dark that we conjure up full-fledged apparitions lurking under our beds? Why is it that even those who were children at the time of their experiences so lucid and clear about what they remember in these instances? Is there perhaps something more going on here, and if so, what?
No matter what the answers to these questions may be, that dark, dank place under our beds hold a certain innate fear for many, and whether or not there is anything paranormal going on in any of these cases it is clear that this is a place where strange things lurk, be that in the imagination or beyond.
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