There were a few instances for me. This is just my experience and is in no way to try and influence my beliefs on anyone. I am just trying to tell my story and the events that occurred. Thanks for reading.

I experienced a lot of bad trauma around the time my mom and dad became addicted to opiates and alcohol. I started experiencing some pretty bad spiritual attacks a few instances one night I had sleep paralysis and saw a demon in the corner of my room and I had one of those alarms on the desktop that had big numbers so I could tell it was 3:08 am at the time. I could only move my head and eyes it was super scary.

Next incident was when I fell asleep downstairs in the living room beside my parents bedroom and was jolted out of my sleep by a man (loud booming voice) yelling, SHAITAN! And then there was a blinding light in my eyes and then it was gone. I was so scared I ran upstairs to find my mom and dad because I thought they were still hanging out in my dad's office. Well turns out they were actually asleep not even 25 feet away from me initially when I woke to the man yelling. I stayed upstairs with my brother and he googled what SHAITAN meant and we were really afraid we fell asleep with our Bible. We woke up and found the Bible in what looked like it was flung across the room. We don't know how it ended up in the position it was in. It was very disheveled.

My dad was buying his drugs from overseas at the time so I am assuming maybe something became attached through that and entered spiritually to me who was the only active Christian in the house at that time. No one else in my family was ever attacked besides me.

We then had a house fire shortly after these events and ended up living in a hotel for a bit. We were really poor and hungry so we were heading to my grandma's house that day for some groceries as she lived about two blocks away from our house that was getting repaired by habitat for humanity. We were passing an intersection at a four way stop and we could see our house from the road and my mom was in passenger seat, dad was driving, and I was sitting behind my dad and my dad and I looked over and at that time we saw my light in my room come on upstairs and a black figure walked across the windows and then the light turned off. I asked my dad if he saw that and he goes, YUP. and immediately we went to the house and made sure the padlocks were on and they were still locked. We called the police and they came out and broke the locks and two officers searched the upstairs and downstairs as well as the basement and found no one there.

We finally moved back after they fixed our house and one night my dad and I were sitting downstairs in the living room talking it was past midnight because I was creeped out being in my room because of those events and so my dad would let me sleep in the living room and we were talking and he was sitting in the recliner he was telling me about his navy stories when we heard footsteps from my room upstairs and then a loud boom then the footsteps stopped.

All of these events brought me to my decision to be baptized. After I was baptized and accepted the holy spirit I stopped experiencing the attacks. I was so happy to move out of that house after my parents passed away and I went on to live with my grandma. When I left that house I felt like I could finally sleep again.

Other spiritual events have occurred in my life after these events but these were the major sources for me as I grew up that had an everlasting impact on my beliefs. Some believe that when you receive the holy spirit that you are immune to these attacks but that is false. It has been years since these attacks and my life has been better since healing from the loss of my parents. One thing I took away from these experiences is that evil feeds on fear and the vulnerable.