101 Proof Horror by Haunted MTL

Author:Haunted MTL [MTL, Haunted]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-04T00:00:00+00:00

Umbra Daemonium (Shadow Demon)

By Laura Austin

I was hard at work, amid a veritable mountain of unpacked boxes. This move was unplanned and sudden, but the two years spent living in the previous house had been hell. People can cry hoax if they like, but when I tell you my old house was possessed- it was.

We had moved into the small house in Western Kentucky three years ago, almost to the day. It was cozy and surrounded by friendly neighbors. It had pale blue siding and a metal roof, with more windows than I had ever seen in such a small home. My two sons, Ike and Hunter, shared a room, and my youngest, five-year-old Isabelle, had her own. My husband Harold and I had gotten a great price on the home, thousands less than we had expected to pay. Maybe that should have clued me in that there would be trouble, although I would have presumed problems with plumbing or wiring, not what we actually found.

My first experience with the dark presence in my home was actually not my own. My sons had started telling me what I thought were fabricated stories about seeing shady figures in the dark corners of their room at night and hearing soft sounds they couldn’t really describe to me. Boys have wild imaginations, and since they didn’t seem afraid, I brushed it off. Who wouldn’t? I didn’t believe in the boogey man, so I was completely caught by surprise when I had an experience of my own.

It happened on a Monday night, right after the kids went to bed. Harold works third shift, six PM to six AM, so I was alone, folding laundry in the living room and stacking it neatly on the sofa. I caught movement in the corner of my eye, and thinking my daughter was up looking for a drink or something, I didn’t even turn my head. “Be quick and then back to bed, baby.” A dark whisper slithered through my thoughts, heard by something more primitive in me that merely my ears. “Yesssss, Mom”. Goosebumps went up my back and my scalp tried to crawl back over my face. I was literally frozen in fear. I finally turned my head and peered over my shoulder. I couldn’t see anything there. I broke into a sweat and the relief made me flop abruptly onto the sofa, sitting with my arms limp at my sides. Feeling foolish, I took a minute to calm down, and resumed my chore.

Nothing else happened until a few weeks later. The boys asked me if they could start sleeping in the living room. They are 8 and 12 years old; too old, by my reckoning, to be afraid of the dark or other childish things. I refused but they persisted. “Why?” I inquired. They looked at one another, then back at me. My eldest spoke up. “We know you don’t believe us, but we’re really starting to get scared of the Shadow Man.”

“The Shadow Man?” I responded.

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