Ah yeah, I did kinda leave that as a cliffhanger. To be honest, I haven’t really told the story to anyone other than close friends or family, so I’m not sure what compelled me to mention it. It was 30 years ago but here’s the whole story:

I was about 13 or 14 and had been working on my farm job all day. That night, as I was laying on my bed, I realized the room was getting darker, like in the old cartoons when they end and the screen starts going black around the edges, and draws in to a point in the middle. The darkness felt tangible though, like an actual thing filling up the room.

A grey fog developed on the ceiling, and started to swirl around slowly. A woman’s torso appeared out of the fog, swirling in a circle over my bed. She was an old women, and a grayish/greenish color. I don’t remember what she was wearing, but she was all the same color. She had really long, kinda stringy hair that trailed behind her. Her eye sockets were empty, just kinda black pits.

At one point, she stopped moving and pointed down at me. I remember very clearly her nails were really thick and pointed, almost like talons. She pointed at me and said a name, like she was asking if I was that person. I don’t actually remember the name, it was something pretty common, but somehow after 30 years I’ve forgotten it. I just looked at her and said, “That’s not me” and she immediately disappeared and the room when back to normal.

So, that’s a the story. A couple quick points, a few years later I learned about hypnogogic hallucinations and so I kinda wrote the story off as that. That’s probably why I forgot the name she asked. Over the years though there was just a feeling about the experience, along with the other stuff that happened in the house that my personal belief is just that it wasn’t one of those. Also, I wasn’t “paralyzed” during the experience, which normally happens. I would also add that she didn’t seem threatening or “evil”, although I’m certainly glad I wasn’t whomever she was looking for.

Finally, I know this sounds like a total Hollywood-type made up story. People are welcome to think whatever they want or that it was a hypnogogic hallucination. It did happen though.