Ominous Shadows

Location:Hamilton
Submitted by: MIchelle
My sister gave birth to her son, she had a home water birth at a house my parents where renting at the time in Hamilton. The went okay but her son was not breathing when he was delivered and needed to be taken to hosipital for a few days, nothing to dramatic.

A few days later baby was clear to come home,then a few days later some family members had arrived and as i had been crashing in the sitting room mum asked if I would mind sleeping in the room with the baby.

Something in my head said "I don't really want to sleep in there!" but I did anyway.

That night I went to bed, the room was at the end of the hallway, I left the door open and could hear everyone chatting in the sitting room and the TV going.

Lying in bed I was looking up at the ceiling at the glow in the dark sickers my sister had put in the room and was thinking how neat they were.
Shadows starting moving around the ceiling as if there where cars driving past, I thought this is freaking as I could hear no cars.

"Okay" I said to myself, "I can handle that!"
A few seconds later all of the shadows joined together and swooped down to the side of my bed.
It felt like I had been given a big fright but a thousand times stronger.
It was like it was kneeling at the side of my be with its face 2cm away from mine staring at me with wide eyes.
It happened so fast and was so intense I felt I needed to move fast.
Numb with fear I said to myself, "come on Michelle you have to get up, okay move in 3,2,1" I then got up from my be and went in the sitting room where everyone was watching TV.

Freaked out about what had happened I just sat there for a while quiet.
My mum walks in from the kitchen suprised to se me up again, "are you alright?" she said.
I replyed I don't want to sleep in that room because if feels funny. As my mum is a spiritual person she seemed to understand what I was meaning and asked my aunty to grab the mattress out of the room for me.

In the morning I felt able to tell everyone what happened.My aunty who grabbed the mattress said that the mattress felt as thou it was being held and pulled on when she went to take it from the room, as though it was really heavy. She thought this as when my sister walked passed it on the floor she kicked it out of the way really easily.

I felt weak in a funny way for about three days after my experience and remeber feeling a few things.
I felt as though it was a white man, quite old, was of no relation to me or my family and it was if he did not want me to sleep in that room. He was a nasty soul trying to scare the hell out of me which he did. Something I will never forget and after that I believe in ghosts and spirits.