The Ghost of Blue Sierra

From: Marie Jo Cantuaria (marie_jo_cantuaria@hotmail.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: BRAZIL - SANTA CATARINA - RIO NEGRINHO
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Wed Nov 17 06:43:53 2010

I live in a small town called Rio Negrinho, in the South of Brazil. I live downtown but there are other locations that we call districts, that are more like almost independent villages. I met a girl called Katia who told me this story that happened in her house in a district called Serro Azul (something like Blue Sierra).

She was home alone and in her bedroom almost sleeping on an ordinary night, when she suddenly felt someone grabbing her neck and trying to suffocate her. She opened her eyes, and could see almost nothing due to the lights off, but she felt like she was staring at a dark shadow above her. The shadow was pressing her neck, and hurting her, and she was really scared, trying to pull away something she could feel but not see. She thought it could be a man trying to hurt or rape her, but with the little light coming from the window, she could see that the thing that was trying to suffocate her was only a shadow, maybe the trootle that some people heard about in scary stories. She fought a lot and tried to scream, but there was a furniture factory near her house and the noise of the factory overcame her bare screams.

Then the factory shift finished, all the machines were turned off and people starting getting out of the factory when Katia got able to scream. She screamed really loud and most people that were in the streets ran to her house to help her as they thought it could be a raper. But all they found was Katia really scared in her room, with no reasonable explanation for the shadow she saw trying to strangle her.

Her "ghost" was very likely the Trootle (or troatle) phenomena I wrote about some years ago.