A Journey of Faith and Fear

Welcome to True Scary Story the following. The recording was a tough one to edit, so you'll hear a faint rattling sound that we're aware of, but it was a vast improvement from the original audio. But it's a. Story about eerie and powerful presences that show up at a home where a couple finds themselves in the middle of a terrifying spiritual battle. My name is Edwin, and here is John's true Scary Story. I met my wife in two thousand and four. We were married in December two thousand and five. When me and my wife first got married, she was pursuing a career in the medical field. My mom also works in the healthcare industry and an assisted living facility in the town that we live in. She had told my wife, she said, Hey, there is a lady that needs twenty four hour care, but her family doesn't want to put her in a nursing home. They went out and purchased her a house. They've added on a handicap accessible area, and the rest of the house would be yours. The only room that you would share would be the kitchens. You would need to pit for. Everything's paid for. Utilities they're looking for people to move in and take care of her. Would you guys be interested in doing that? We thought about it. We're like, maybe that's a good thing, could save a little money, and we agreed. We ended up moving out of our apartment in January of two thousand and seven moved in with this lady. This is where things started to change for us. This lady had one family member that was just really didn't jibe with me. This woman was very dark, depressing, if you will. She'd never seemed to have anything good to say, never had a smile on her face. She was never really a happy person. It was really sad, but we dealt with her. And the thing that this elderly lady that we took care of, she was legally blind. She was in a cover around basically, that's how she was able to get around. She'd get out of her chair and get to her mobility chair, go to the bathroom. We would just be nearby in case she needed this. She couldn't really watch TV. She would listen to it. She really liked A and E. She would watch the whole entire block of programming every night. There was a show that started It's called Karen in the state. It was about these college students that would go to these houses where they felt like there was supernatural activitis happened in that. That's really I think when we started experience, things started to coming in. One night, me and my wife had left Wednesday night Bible class. We'd come home. We were in our part of the house, which was a three bedroom to the living room, a one full bathroom with a double vanity, and then a half bath that had a standard shower fillet. So we're in the master bathroom standing in front of the vanity, thrushing my feet, getting ready for bed. My wife said, he got really pulled all of the studd I said, yeah, then I don't like it. There's something in this house. Let's go to the living room. Let's pray. I turned on the living room life. Me and my wife both got down in the couch r and ease or started praying, were rebuking the devil. I just remember stopping. I was listening to my wife. She was crying, face buried in the pillow. All of a sudden I heard the loudest blood curdling scream I've ever heard in my life, and I still hear it in my mind. Then there was a peace that I can't even describe. To enter that room, I told my wife, I said, dabe, it's gone well. With the bed. Both slept like babies. That next Friday, we had service, we had church. I stood up and I testified about it. But I didn't know was that night this thing had left our house and went across the street. We had went to church with folks across the street. This man's name is Matt. Matt had heard my testimony Friday at church and he actually came over to my house and he told me that morning, he. Said, I woke up out of the day sleep. I thought somebody broke into my house. I went straight through the house, checked on the kids. They were fine, and he said something began to speak to me. After that had happened, we went on just business usual. We've just lived our life. We went several years without anything happening until I was at a funeral. A good close family friend of mine lost his sister and I had on pullusion. She died instantly. We were at the funeral home. There were three people that showed them up and they were witches. They looked at me almost like telepathy, and something spoke and said, there's three of us. It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck, and I just looked dead at these people, and I was just like it was Jesus' name. I never said anything to me. It was just a very wild experience and I never I never had anything like that happened. Since we ended up moving, we just didn't end up looking out taking care of that lady. We didn't have really any freedoms. We were young, and he ended up moving it into my grandma's house in two thoy ten. Everything was good, we didn't have any issues. Me and my wife were trying for children and would end up spending thousands and thousands of dollars in detro fertilization and all that stuff. And they were just like, okay, whatever, We'll just adopt. This man is an older gentleman out of land Georgia. Preached just a really amazing message all about faith and him. He disposed me and said, if you believe that God's able to touch him, to just come up here and let me pray for me right now. My wife, without hesitation, went up there pray for her. She had heard of voice get her a date. So she went to her phone, puts the date in and it was exactly nine months on the very date that was saving her phone. She got a phone call from her friend that she worked with. She called me, she said that you and your husband looking to adopt. My mother's friend has custom of her granddaughter. My white things up the phone, but she just instantly starts crying. She goes, yan, Donna believe this, and then she tells me that she unloads that on me on my I believed. A week later, they called us and said she has a half sister that was just born, and we went from an anthey nets to a full mess, like literally overnight. This is where it seemed like the activity picks back any of us. When they came to be with us, they came out of a very horrible condition, a very horrible situation. In this family, there was a half brother and half sister that were in the call practice witchcraft and their dad had committed suicide. They also had two cousins in the same family. Father son committed suicide and dad committed suicide two three years later, and the son committed suicide. This whole family line was completely played. It was it was just a very nasty, bad situation that these girls were brought out of. I started having these night terrors. I will be asleep and feel this dreadful, overwhelming fear come into the room. It's always the dark shadow figure of a man that walks to my side of the bed. It reaches from my throat, it tries to choke me. I am fi with everything I got just to say the name of Cheeks. It takes every ounce of strength. Once I get the name out, then the hands received and I just keep saying it and saying it until I wake up, and I'll wake up in a full fledged fight mode. It started after we adopted our girls, and then I started traveling all over the United States. In twenty sixteen, I was looking my first job out of town in brad At, Pennsylvania. I was staying at the Holiday and Express right there on the river. I was sharing a room with the guy that worked on a shift. If he wasn't there, I was turning in for the night, fell asleep. I got that overwhelming feeling in dread and under terror come over and again I watched this black figure of a man. I'm through to go and get real close. They start to grab my neck and start to speeze again. The fight is on to get the name and Jesus out of my mouth. I have probably had one of these episodes from five to twenty fourteen. I think the last one I had was probably a few weeks ago, pretty brutal. Me and my wife and my daughters were coming home. Who just turned down our road. There's a brainhouse on this country road, and there's a street light. On the opposite side of the brainhouse, there's a home. We had just turned at the light and started down our road when I seen this ten or eleven year old girl on a razor scooter. She was blighting right across the road. My daughters were like, Dad, what is that. The face was pale. It looked like death, a dead face, pale, sunken, hollow eyed. He was wearing a jacket with her around the face, staring right at us, and went right across the road and vanished in the thin air. I stopped right in the middle of the street. The light actually dimmed as this thing across the road. I backed up, turned my brights on, shine them because I was like, where did that kid go? Theer to nobody around My wife said, just go to the house. It just makes you think, where do these things go if you don't have the power to get rid of them? They just what do they just take up shop at your house? Do they just mess with you? Moving on? Around August of twenty twenty one, and my wife came to me and she said, hey, you ain't going to believe this. I said, what she signed, pray we've been married. This is year nineteen for us. I was excited and I couldn't believe it. We naturally out ue in this house. I'm like, we've got our past. We've got to buy a house. We ended up finding perfect house, right down in the middle between church and work. It's perfect. Get moved in April twenty twenty two. Ate our first meal April fourth, twenty two. Down the road from us. It's a trailer park and there's a lot of bad activity that happens just trail, a lot of druvenues, a lot of the coops are coming and going. My middle daughter, and the social butterfly as she is, she made friends with a girl in the trailer park. She said, I want her to stay the night. I'd like to take her to Sunday school. I said it work. That's fine for me. I don't care. This little girl comes over and we feed her a good meal. We're getting ready for bed. As a matter of fact, I'm in bed. These girls come to run it down the hallway down to my room, blessing my door. Right. Dad, he saw something. He saw this giant shadow walking down the hallway towards this. I said, this is what we're gonna do. I said, we're gonna go to the living room and we're gonna pray, and we're gonna get rid of this thing. This little girl is looking at me and she said, I've seen this before. It's at my house and changes colors. I look better, I said, honey. I said, I want FaceTime. I said, you don't do anything wrong. You're gonna pray about it. I'm gonna help you. She's crying. We started praying. I felt that heaviness lift, and I told him that. I said, we're good, y'all, go to sleep and we'll see you in the morning. With the rampant drug use from this this adjacent neighborhood, I believe that there's residual spirits that are out. I was sitting in my living room one night mine in my own business. But out in front of my eye, I seen something manifested in my kitchen. It was just a brief second. I was looking right into my kitchen. It went floating by him and it was another dead face that had just this ugly face, no eyes, just this ugly dead and looking the corpse of a face. And I've seen that twice. It's probably the start of this year. I was going to dead and I got a big guard dog and he's laying he always lays in this in my bed. He just starts growling. And I hear this right in my doorway in my closet. Am I really hearing this? I thought about David and when David sleep life in the Bible, and I was like, you know what, I'm not gonna fear whatever this is, because I got something greater. I just fell asleep. I just went to bead and that was that. But I will tell you there are the times that I got up in the middle and I thinking, my Lord and my one of my dogs having an accident in the house. I'll smell futre, like absolute future, smells like what in the world, like just pure death. I'll be looking around there wouldn't be nothing there, and I'm like, Okay, I know what this is every time I'm getting out of a fray. That's why I guess, really why I wanted to share my story, because I've experienced this and I amster and this is what I've experienced me personally, I just believe it comes from the territory, it comes with what I'm doing. You can share your story with us by going to true scarystory dot com and filling out the form. 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