Absolute Fear

From: Jay Lambert (g357@earthlink.net)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Bloomingsburg Ohio
Source: Form Submission

First off let me say this story is absolutely true and was witnessed by my cousins.

At the time 1966 I was 16 years old and lived with my Aunt and Uncle. As for where I lived (a graveyard) I do not think it has any bearing but I feel compelled to have all the facts laid out. It all started one night when I was again arguing with my cousins about turning off the small light on the table between our beds. There's being a set of bunk beds and mine a single. We went through this ritual every night although Bobbie was eight years old and Jeff was almost ten years old. I was sixteen years old at the time.

For some reason I just could not comprehend they were afraid of the dark while I on the other hand loved it. I used to go into the woods at night with no light of any kind and sneak up on animals, not to hurt them but because I could. I really loved being alone and as long as I remained very quite in my approach and down wind from the animals I was almost invisible to them till I was right on them. So now the stage is set you know I am not prone to seeing scary things in the dark.

Back to my cousins and the light. I had argued with them for at least 10 minutes this particular night and I could see I was not gaining their support to turn the light off, when a brilliant idea came to me. As they believed in God as I myself did it stood to reason they would believe in angels, guardian angels that is. So I began convincing them that no matter what there was nothing on earth that could harm them in the dark because their guardian angels were there looking after them and protecting them. Well finally they agreed to let me turn the light off and as I lay there feeling quite smug with myself for convincing them they actually had guardian angels (which although I believe in angels at the time I did not believe a word of what I said about each of us having our own guardian angel) after about 10 minutes I started to feel as if the bed were vibrating, of course I thought this was just a case of me being overly excited and the vibrating was actually coming from inside my body because I was just to tired ( sort of like that shaky feeling you get when you are suddenly awakened from a sound sleep) so I rolled over onto my side facing my cousins although I couldn't see them as it was pitch black in the room with no moon in the sky even though the window curtains were pulled apart and the window was directly behind the small table between our beds that held the light.

As I lay there the vibrations increased and then there was this hump pushing up from the mattress on the inside of the bed closest to the wall. Now I was fully aware that this was not I causing this and it was something very real happening. I have never in my life experienced true absolute terror till that night and I am here to tell you that when you are that scared you cannot move, you are frozen from fear! I tried to scream but nothing would come out.

As I lay there in the now violently shaking bed (that did not make a sound and this bed had the old wire springs that squeaked whenever you moved.) the hump growing ever bigger in the mattress that would eventually force me out of the bed and onto the floor I tried with all my might to move my arm and turn on the light. I could hear my heart beating very fast in my chest to the point where I thought it would simply blowup if I did not stop this fear that was growing so rapidly within me, I fought the fear with all my might and finally managed to move my arm and turn the light on at the same time screaming out with all I could my eldest cousins name JEFF! The scream was actually just a horse whisper even though in my head I was screaming at the top of my lungs.

Now I had the light on and the first thing I saw was my cousins and their eyes were very wide with an expression of disbelief on them. You see the bed did not stop shaking nor did the by this time huge hump go away. I was at this point almost entirely forced out of the bed but clinging to the side with all my might. I know that most of you would have thought my first instinct would have been to get out and away from that bed a fast as I could but there was something else holding me there and that was the knowing down to the last fiber of my being that if I did attempt to touch the floor I would simply go through it into wherever it was this nightmare that was happening now came from. The bed continued to shake violently for around another 15 minutes (at the time it seemed like an eternity) and as it slowly subsided the hump in the mattress reduced itself at the same rate. My cousins Were yelling for my Aunt and Uncle by this time and they were witness to this event as well. I remained in the bed the rest of the night with the whole family around me and every light in the house turned on.

As an after thought if I looked at the end of my bed past the door into the nest room there was a dresser with a large mirror that showed me in the shaking bed and the hump but there was nothing showing under the bed and my cousins attested to this fact too as they could see under the bed also. To this day I do not know what really happened that night but, I will tell you this after I finally had enough courage to get out of the bed sometime the following day I only remained at my uncles house one more week before I left for good and during that week I slept up right in a chair with the lights on downstairs.

I have discussed it with my cousins and Aunt and Uncle many times over the years and we have still cannot explain it, was it because I was making light of Guardian Angels, were they trying to teach me a lesson I would never forget? Was it because we lived in a graveyard? I will never know for sure but, I can assure you I have never and I mean NEVER! Joked or talked lightly about Angels again nor will I.

Jay Lambert By the way I am now 52 years old am retired from the United States Marine Corps and I remember this event as if it happened yesterday.