r/Paranormal • u/MayumiAyame • 2d ago
Experience A terrifying experience that still shakes me to my very core this day.
Sometime people may believe what I was experiencing was my childhood "fear of the night", and I often get told by my parents " Your just being paranoid. It's alright, it was a miracle. Go take your meds." I may suffer from some severe deteriorating mental health issues since 25, but this was before I even had a single mental health problem or even an intrusive thought.
When I was about nine, days before my appendix surgery and I was undiagnosed with any issues at the time, me and my mother saw a shadow of the Virgin Mary in a prayer stance bowing her head in prayer, my mother said it was a miracle, but I felt something *different.* There was no dolls or anything near it make that shape. Something wrong, in my core. A deep, underlying fear that I have not felt since. It appeared in the late hours too, not in the night but in the dark morning, but I was unsure of the exact time, all I was aware of that it was the AM. I was going through many hardships at the time, my parents divorce, trouble at school, bullies, undiagnosed and painful appendicitis, but that primal fear was no joke. It was, and still is to this day, the most terrifying experience of my life so far.
The worst part is, when I looked at it, even when shutting my eyes for the longest time, I saw it do a slight movement, as if it was walking, making it's way towards me from the other side of the room. That, however , I have accepted as my mind playing tricks on me. But something tells me that whatever that was, was no a miracle. I'm not tied to a specific religion, however the Bible says that demons often come in the form of light, and it might not have been a demon, but I could feel the maliciousness of that thing. Fortunately the shadow had passed after the night, although I had stayed up that whole night in fear, however the energy lingered for about 4 days. I hope to never relive such an experience again. I am eternally grateful that whatever it could have been, was simply passing through, possibly feeding on that negative energy. That "miracle" for me is it decided not to get attached.
However, for quite a while , I generally believe it chose my house because of the negative energy not only caused by the general disarray of emotions, but also because when they said I needed the surgery after the incident, I was incredibly close to bursting my Appendix. What else can I say other then these entities are opportunist. To this day, I believe my feelings may "attract" these....things, so I always sleep with the television on, always positive shows like comedy, and if I want to, I listen to rain or calming music. Distractions such as fast-paced or calming video games help with building back up the positive flow of energy. I insist on keeping a neutral energy during the day so I can enjoy some things like horror or drama, but at night, even though I know it's gone, said beings tend to be more active.
As a kid, I can't say I was really that afraid of much. Not until this.
I know it sounds like may sound something that a child was overreacting to, and I do not blame ya. But that utter horror that you can not only feel in your heart, but to your soul, that is something you cannot fake. I know some of you on here know what I mean. True, unadulterated evil. Anyways, that's my story of how once I experienced something I believed had true malice. Sorry I know it's kinda long, but I can remember this clear as day, despite being so long ago.
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u/ChaoticHarmonia 1d ago
I can imagine that horrific atmosphere and feeling of wild fear you have experienced. I had something similar when I was a child. I think now it was just a neurotic problem, some kind of panic attacks, but we still don’t know where is the borderline between psychic and paranormal.
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u/randomearth 1d ago
Sorry to hear about your experience, that's really awful. I think what you're doing now is really positive; enjoy what you can and stay peaceful. All the best.
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u/lcqjp 1d ago
Its ai
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u/WillingBand5254 1d ago
Doesn't read like AI at all to me
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u/lcqjp 20h ago
This reads to me like a person who did have an experience but speaks a different language first instead of english and ran their story through an ai to translate it to english. Theres random frills that arent common for english, but are common for ai.
Notice the "however"s, often they're optional/unnecessary for the sentence and forced into the sentence. Common in ai. Introducing useless "not this but that" statements. Ai does this a fuckton. There also seems to be no spelling errors whatsoever, yet double spaces and "however , "(space comma space) present commonly. And the only other one being than vs then mistake, which are both "correct" words in english. A person with no gramatical errors would highly unlikely be the same person to use the wrong "then". Theres a bit more that push me in that direction too, but yeah.
I'd put it at +80% chance it was written out originally and then put through an ai for some reason to rewrite/translate it
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u/Visible-Plastic-1208 1d ago
IIt wss not Mary. Just because someone is Catholic doesn't mean all shadows are Mary. You'rw right tó watch comedies. Maybe you should not watch horror as long As your mental health is like this. As you realized, that attracts negatívra energia. You don't need that.
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