From: dchuk@netcom.com (Denise Chuk)
Subject: Re: The Death Car and the Real Story
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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:05:05 GMT


In article <96583@netnews.upenn.edu> kbanner@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Kenneth J. Banner) writes:

>P.S.  O.K.  I can't resist this...Has anyone out there
>ever personally had the kind of experience Hufford
>describes?

Well, I had precisely that kind of experience twice before.  The first time
happened when I was about 19 years old.  I was a college student at the time,
and I lived in a dorm.  That night, however, after performing in a two-hour
play, I took a late night train and travelled 2.5 hours to get back to my
parents' home, for there was some pressing thing I had to take care of the
next day.  Needless to say, I was very tired when I finally got home around
1 a.m. in the morning.  I went to bed immediately, and slept quite soundly
until all of a sudden I woke up, eyes opened wide, starring into the pitch-
black room and sensing that something or someone was entering the room.  I
could neither scream nor move, but was flat on my back, and very aware of
everything in my room.  Then I sensed that that something approached my bed,
and pressed on my chest as if "it" was lying on top of my body.  I even 
felt that the bed sank a little!  I was very very scared, to say the least, 
but again could not cried out for help or struggle. I remembered that finally
I just closed my eyes and hoped that it would just go away.  Though I did not
really moved, I was totally drenched, and somehow I felt asleep again. When
I woke up once more, it was dawn, and everything seemed to be normal again.

My second experience was similar, only that I was a grad student living in
an apartment near campus.  One night, awakening from a deep sleep in the
middle of the night, I sensed a "presence" coming in from the door. Remembering
my previous experience, I was very very scared, but I did not really feel 
the pressing that time (or was it that I just passed out :-) ).  Anyway,
I can assure all of you that such experience was not pleasant at all, and I
would not want to expereince it any more.

An interesting thing to note is that I talked to my mom about it after my
first experience at home, and she told me she had the same kind of experience
when she was younger. Only that it was even worse (if it could be). She not
only sensed the presence, she saw him, an old man with white beard, and 
instead of pressing her body, he was trying to stuff some shrubs into her
mouth.  She fought for her dear life to keep her mouth closed.  It lasted
for several nights, so bad that she did not want to go to bed at all.  
Eventually it stopped (I forgot how, I have to ask her again some time.) My
mom told me that she believed that it happened when her physical strength
was very low (tired, overworked, stressed out), and I guess it was true in
terms of when it happened to me.

I also have some other interesting things to tell, but since they are of
different topics, and I have already being too long-winded, I will save them
for some other time.


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