The Ritual

Hello my name is Jessica Norman, I am 28 years old. This story is about my childhood experience while on vacation in the cabin in the woods. As a child I use to love going there with my cousins. Behind our cabin there was a lake, my dad use to joke about how someone drowned in the lake but there's no proof or any news about that so we just brushed it off. At around 4pm me and my cousins went out to play hide and seek, our parents told us not to go far but, we were kids. After walking for a little bit we found a great spot for hide and seek, there were tons of trees around and many places to hide. We decided I was gonna seek first so I started counting. After counting from 1 to 10 I started to look for them. I walked around for hours but I couldn't seem to find them. It was starting to get dark and I was so scared, I was only 7 years old at the time. I woke up in my bed inside the cabin. I asked my parents what happened and they said they found me very deep in the forest. I was so scared that night that I fainted. My cousins said that they were hiding for a long time and I was no where to be seen, so they ran back to the cabin and told my parents I got lost. We got home to our place 2 days later. That night I couldn't sleep because I felt like someone was watching me. I told my parents but they didn't believe me. One day my grandma was visiting, she was a faith healer and she knew a lot about the paranormal stuff. The whole day my grandma was there she seem to look at me funny, she would look at every second and looking behind me. This was very unusual for her to do because she would always play with me when she came to visit, but this time she keeps staying away from me. When she was about to leave she whispered something to my parents which kind of shocked them but I didn't hear what they were talking about. I've started to have sleep paralysis when I turned 15 years old, I thought that was normal because I was maturing. When I turned 19, everything stopped. I didn't have any more sleep paralysis, I didn't feel anyone watching me anymore. But that was also the time my grandma died of mysterious reasons. I found out a couple years later that my grandma told my parents that something was following me everywhere I go and It was trying to take me. So my grandma performed a ritual that no other faith healer have done because it was too dangerous and could cost them their life. Now I'm 28 and everything makes sense. I miss my grandma so much, we were so close together and I would always thank her because if it wasn't for her. I would have been taken and turned into one of the creatures.