TMS - Ep04 - I Don't Want to Sleep Anymore
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everybody. This is again a bonfire session for our new story. I hope everybody's doing good. I hope everybody is doing well. This is again a new session for us. It's just me, No one else. This is not a live session. Um, but nonetheless we have a story for each and everybody who are listening with the approval of the Midnight Society. We call the story, I don't want to sleep anymore. My name is Helen And this is day five that I have not fallen asleep. Yes, You heard that right? five long days that I chose not to sleep. It's not that I want to do this, it's just that I have to. If you're wondering why, then I will give you an idea. Do you know the movie Nightmare on Elm Street? If not you can look at, you can just look it up now. If you are already familiar with that movie, I have experienced that kind of nightmare. The word nightmare is an understatement. It started two weeks ago. Yeah. I visited a horror place with a friend of mine. Well she's my best friend Carrie and she always was a sucker for supernatural things. Just a few blocks from our place. Are these thrift shops. Sorry, it was just one, it's a thrift shop that opened barely a month ago. This shop featured two. My dear carrie one since she is my best friend, I went with her with no questions. We got there and I never did feel comfortable the moment we entered the shop, there were so many random things in the shop which will really freak anyone out. Such as an antique statue of an angel with a broken wing, a set of busts that showed its age. Dreamcatcher shoes and all sorts with labels saying cursed blades. But one thing really stood out. It was a photo of a woman actually you're painting as a woman that is embraced tightly by a man with horns and a long tail that pointed to the woman's pubic area. I stared at it for some reason and it was quite some time and then I realized that the man is actually demonic. In illustration, I I shook with disbelief with what I noticed the man's face had already changed direction. His face was already looking at me over the hellish smirk. I shrieked and Kerry came to me and asked what was wrong. When I tried to point at the photo, sorry, I meant with the painting to my defense, it does look like a photo the glands. Then I realized the demon's face was back to normal. So we went home and I was still bothered by the incident in the shop. I I was having dinner while the lights suddenly flickering. I thought there was just a power outage or something. I brushed it off and I, I decided to wash the dishes. I felt a sudden chill on all over my body and there was this feeling and nagging feeling that I cannot shake off. It's that someone was watching me to let you know I am living alone and carries places across the street. The doors are all locked as it is already late at night. I decided to take a shower to cool my head and my thoughts as I was washing my hair, I felt a gentle stroke on my back and I almost jumped but I decided to act like it was nothing. Afterwards I decided to read the book before I sleep. Just you know, divert my mind from everything. I was telling myself that it was nothing trying to convince myself. You know while I was reading a book, it was a happy story of a book. The last line, I can't remember them. It said because I was reading. I quote, the rabbit had to run to the whole end. And then those thoughts were replaced by different feeling. The feeling of tightness on both of my wrists. The pressure on my chest, like someone is just on top of me, whatever it is. It also spread my thighs slowly and I eventually he felt something penetrated me. I can, I can feel it sliding in and out of 12. The pressure on top of me gets heavier and heavier. It also feels like my breasts are being groped and eaten. I know I I screamed but I I cannot hear anything coming out of my mouth. I also know I was struggling hard to remove whatever it was on top of me. Finally, I was able to wake up and I was gasping for air. I checked the middle of my 1000. Indeed! It's a nice surprise. Mm hmm. I am soaking wet. I looked at the time and it was three a.m. This hellish experience happened for days. One night was different from the others. It was the same, same feeling. But the different thing was. This time I saw an image. I swear it had crimson red eyes, firm muscles, the dark smoke surrounding it ghastly voice. I will never forget those features, especially its smirk. It whispered to me and said, You will be mine. He will be mine. You will be with me forever. After that incident. I decided not to sleep. Which led me to this very moment where I am writing whatever moment I can record as a clue to whoever you can find this. I can feel that when I succumbed to the call of slumber, it will be my last day. I can feel it again. I can hear his voice. I can feel it's tight embrace. That's right. I can see it screams and nice again. I I am. I am. I am seeing carry at the moment I cannot move my body. But I can look around with my eyes. I observed everything and realized that I am no longer in my room. I knew I feel I fell into a deep slumber. I lost my battle. But here I am wondering where I was. That it is not my bed and not even my house. The place seems very familiar. Yes. Like I said I c Carrie moving back and forth, I tried to call out her but to no avail. I can feel that something is wrapped around me but I cannot see it. I noticed the place is something I've been in and I realized some set of familiar objects such as an antique statue of an angel with a broken wing, a set of busts that showed its age, dream catchers and old shorts with the label saying cursed blades. Tears fell slowly out of my eyes. Well, I've fail deep harder into where I was and I felt a deep heart pounding in me and groping all over my body. I had made my tears fall even more. Is that my best friend Carrie, I was looking my way. That's right. That was I don't want to sleep anymore. And um mind you, our dear listeners this story is it's actually a true story. It happened to one college friend of mine. The last part we had to write it based on the paranormal investigators information. And apparently you know of course um the last did the part where she she was not where she chose not to sleep. That was the day that we talked. She was actually writing it down and I I was I was there and I was trying to convince her to sleep. But when when I read her story yeah she actually told me that if she feels at least right whatever I find out you know I I did not take that as serious as as I should at that moment. But true to our friendship I still kept it in when I found out that a couple of well actually the following day that was the that was the day she died. But I found out a few days after. Mhm. And then I decided to talk to paranormal investigators and find out what I can. So at least I can put up at least the last part of her experience. I think what what she wanted was to at least give more awareness to us that if someone a loved one. Yeah it tells you something out of the ordinary is not to shrug it off and not to dismiss it immediately. You might want to look into what's happening in the you know get into the aspects of things and try to break it down. Um If you feel like your loved one who's experiencing this kind of um event in their life. Try to have them checked medically first psychiatrist. But if nothing yeah matches medically inclined information. I think it's the best to run to supernatural consultant for a paranormal investigator. Was really good in in this. Of course you might want to check with your priests to your pastors before going with the paranormal consultants. Um But in this case that's what happened. Um Mind you guys that Helen of course she's it's it's not her real name. I had to change it um for the article. Um She's she's actually a very prayerful woman. Um when I talked to the paranormal investigators. Uh one of the things very significant things they told me was what happened was this certain thrift shop. It's a it's a matter of human being sorry not a matter of but a case of a human being who made a deal with a demon. And apparently in exchange for the popularity and the financial stability of the thrift shop in return that demon will be taking whoever what kind of woman if desired. And in this case it was it was Helen. Um So it was very young probably because you know she's she's a very devoted kind of woman and I think the demon got really interested in her energy. Um And and what else did the paranormal investigator told me? I'm trying to remember on top of my head this this case is a very bit of emotional kind of thing for me. I just wanted to share her story because it it means a lot of um warnings. It means a lot of ah lessons, not just personally but to to a lot of people who can relate to this kind of kind of event. Um The paranormal investigator also mentioned that with their research is uh they they came across, yeah, of a lot of several similar incidents in in the fall in the previous years. And it seems like every every year that thrift shop would go around some areas opening for a specific period. But it won't last there for a year, just the longest that they encountered. And in their researches was at least three years, sorry, three months, three months of staying in one area. And each and every time that a woman gets mysteriously lost. That's that's also the time where and when the thrift shop closest and it uses different names, different names. And one thing was they never actually uh there was never a chance for a witness to describe a definite feature of the owner. So yeah, I think that's one thing. But you gotta be careful of be be mindful when you're in an antique store or when you're in a thrift shop, don't just go locking in on one item and just doing what you want to do. But apparently that's one thing, also I clarify with the paranormal investigators, they mentioned that it was at this point it wasn't Helen's fault. It's a it's a matter of if you can remember the part of the story where Helen, I was just looking at that or the painting which she actually thought was a photo because it does according to her. Well when we were when I had the chance to talk to it, she did say that it does look like a photo. So that's why we've rewritten it down into such description earlier. Um, so at that moment, according to paranormal investigator, it was at that moment that the demon actually chose her. The demon. I got interested with her energy, with what she, without her energy can offer. You know, and she got lost in it by the time hey that she did not rebuke the, the first contact. That was the, oh let me let me go back real quick. The touch on, on her back. She did not rebuke it. She was shrugging it off and according to the investigator, it's, it's served as an indirect consent. And uh, the demon can just override that energy and just latch on her And that's practically what happened. Well, I'm just telling you what the investigators told me. Yes. And it's sad to say I found that out. Um, at least I think Almost two weeks after she's already dead. Um, I was a bit busy back then. I was college days and it was man hurt her mom. I never expected that she will lose her daughter in such a, in such a way, you know how human beings as we are. There's this um, to see, is to believe kind of thing, right? And and her mom is like that, you know, she already saw that her daughter is dead, but you can't believe that it was a demon. But there was tell you frankly, the police were also baffled in hence the paranormal investigators involvement in the case. It was more of, did they check the vicinity? There was no forced entry. Um, her clothes, it was according to them. It seemed that she made love to someone, but nobody was there, no other clothings, no other traces, no other fingerprints. It was just her and they were baffled how it how it happened. So no forced entry, nobody there, no other footprints, fingerprints, anything, not even a hair strand that's remotely from Helen and her mom. I really did not take it too well. You know, it took her at least 25 I think last time I was able to talk to the mom was way back. Give or take 2015, 2016. She hasn't even accepted the fact yet that the **** it is gone. So by that um, I hope, I guess that you enjoyed our story for today. It's not as long as our previous episodes and this is the first that we did not have any live sessions. It's to tell you honestly, our, our crowd are all busy today. And also I uh, I think I just wanted to shift it into a different and test the waters with this kind of approach. At least we don't get that to original. But of course as we always say here in the midnight Society. Your stories are all welcome. You can reach us at the Midnight Society um inbox and you can, if you want just feel free two comments and we'll contact you to let you know how you can send your messages. We are encouraging each and every stories so that we can read it to you and feature that story. Also, if you'd prefer to be the one to read your stories and be an official storyteller and a part of Midnight Society, please do so now um if you prefer to get our contact immediately. Here it is. It is Tm S bonfire at gmail dot com. 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