My Paranormal Nightmare

For some,

their hauntings from the past

still haunt them today.

You are mine!

It was terrifying.

The energy was 100% pure evil.

I lived a nightmare my entire childhood.

if evil had a face, I saw it.

my name is kim, and this is my story.

I grew up in the country in a big old farm house.

And it was my brother and my family that moved in.

And it had many, many acres of property.

There was pond on the property.

Tag, you're it.

The place was so big.

My sister and I enjoyed a lot of hide and go seek,

because there were so many

nooks and crannies in that place.

Yeah, we were exploring the house.

We were having fun. It was awesome.

You're it.

Yo -- want to do some push ups?

I bet I can do more than you know.

It was quite fun.

I was very competitive in sports.

Chin-ups, sit-ups, whatever.

If my brother did 50, I had to do 51.

I had to one-up my brother all the time.

My sister and I often were being watched

by a babysitter.

We had a grand old time in the beginning,

you know, it was a great place.

So it seemed.

Race you to the basement!

We loved our new house, but we noticed that there

started to be a bad energy coming from the basement.

Kim and michael avoid the basement, believing

the rest of the house is safe.

After we moved in,

I found something in the bedroom closet.

it was a little black book.

Look what I found.

I just figured, hey, there's --

somebody forgot their book here.

the first couple of pages had, like,

squiggly lines, and there was a name in there.

Curtis?

It was just a little boy's name, curtis.

Many, many times over.

And it looked like he was just learning how to print his name.

And my brother and I, when we seen it,

thought we had discovered a little treasure.

Little did we know.

Brother and sister get on with daily life,

until michael hears something coming from the basement.

It scared me.

I ran to go and get my sister.

Kim! Kimmy!

There's something in the basement.

I thought he was just being a little boy.

It was just normal little boy antics.

- Please! - Okay.

Me being the bigger sister, you know,

I gotta protect my little brother, went downstairs to

investigate this sound,

but being scared to go down there at the same time.

At that point, I was too scared -- just felt really,

really cold.

All of a sudden, I heard growling.

I couldn't believe I was actually hearing something

like that -- the growling was very loud.

the growling seemed to be coming from

different sections of the basement,

and I kept trying to figure out

where exactly this noise was coming from.

it was one of the strangest things I ever heard.

It was like a deep, guttural growl.

It wasn't human,

that's for sure.

As soon as I realized exactly where it was coming from,

I couldn't move.

There.

Michael, let's go.

run!

we ran back up the stairs, terrified.

It was just a very threatening feeling.

Kim and michael run to the safety of their babysitter.

Lauren!

There's something in the basement.

- What? - Something terrible.

It's like a monster or something.

You guys are just imagining stuff.

I tried to tell the babysitter,

but she -- she didn't believe us at all.

I mean, she just thought kids making up stories,

exaggerating, you know.

It's just an old house!

Old houses make weird noises, right, guys?

It was very frustrating.

Nobody would listen at all.

It was just very frustrating.

You know what? It's okay.

Don't worry about it.

I honestly think that whatever it was

didn't want anybody near its space.

That was its space.

Leave it alone. Stay away.

Fearing the dark presence in the basement,

kim and michael feel safer sleeping in the same room.

A couple weeks after we found the book,

I remember laying in bed,

sound asleep,

and a light woke me up.

I woke up, looked into the closet,

because the light was on in the closet,

and I thought, huh, that's odd.

What's going on?

Nothing -- just go back to sleep.

We couldn't actually reach those lights.

They had the little pull string.

I couldn't reach it, and my sister, well,

I don't think she'd do that.

The door itself is closed by a skeleton key.

The lock itself was very, very well put together.

You could not, in any way, shape, or form, move that door.

And then

I started seeing a little boy

standing in the doorway,

come play with me.

And it was absolutely horrifying.

His face was split from his chin

right to the back of his head.

The little boy looked like he was dressed hippie-ish,

like from the '70s.

He had sandy blonde hair, very, very pale skin.

I was too scared to call out too loudly,

in case it came out of the closet at me.

come play with me.

come play with me.

The little boy always stayed in the doorway.

our father, who art in heaven...

I usually coped with saying the lord's prayer over

and over -- the prayer actually calmed me quite a bit.

come play with me.

...Hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come...

I actually felt like I was going a little

bit nuts, because I'm the only one seeing this.

I'm the only one hearing this.

What's wrong with me?

She was white as a ghost,

and she told me that she seen a little boy

with a gash on his head.

I do remember my sister telling me about that.

That fear is about to be realized when

kim and michael run an errand in the basement.

I need a jar of stewed tomatoes.

Can't you go instead? I'm scared.

The stove is on. I can't just leave it.

Come on. Let's go.

By this time now, I was absolutely thinking

something does not want us here.

the basement was horrible.

This time, it's more than sounds

that stand out for kim.

But the smell...

almost like a rotting meat.

ow!

I followed my sister downstairs.

She screamed, and she -- she came running up to me.

- What happened? - My arm.

When I reached for the jar, I felt a burning on my arm.

I pulled it away, thinking, like,

an electrical shock, and then when I actually looked,

there was a bite mark with bruises

around -- it almost looked like pointy teeth.

It was excruciating pain.

It didn't feel like somebody bit.

It felt like a burn.

Leave us alone!

The dark force turns its attention to michael.

leave us alone!

I remember just really just losing consciousness,

almost, like it was -- it was burning on my chest.

Leave us alone!

Come on -- we gotta go.

what happened?

- what does it look like? - Oh, my god!

My brother had gotten scratched,

and it said 666 on it.

It takes a group of demons or one

powerful demon to put in 666 on someone's body.

Usually it comes from the inside out,

and it creates a huge stinging burn sensation.

This creates and instills a great fear,

which feeds them even more.

I had 666 on my chest,

and to this day, it freaks me out.

Something was down there.

You want to protect the ones you love,

even though, at that age, there's really not much