The Creature

First encounters

I have been living with my grandmother since I was a young boy. When I was nine, my parents got separated and me and my brothers were sent to live with our grandparents. I'm just going to share a few weird stories of when I lived with my grandparents.

Now I'm going to refer to my grandmother as "Lola" and my grandfather as "Lolo" as that's how we call our grandparents in my country and it's a lot shorter than typing Grandma or Grandpa.

Anyway my Lola is part chinese and she was very fond of buying antique statues of buddha, vases and other figurines. She was also a religious catholic, so along with the vased and figurines, she had numerous statues of saints of different sizes as well. Now you add these things to a room with small windows and a dark and gloomy atmosphere, you get a good setting for truly terrifying horror movie. Most of the rooms in my Lola's house are decorated in this manner. My aunts and uncles have talked to her several times about the gloomy atmosphere but to no avail. She wanted the somber atmosphere, and unsurprisingly my Lolo (who was a very quiet man) loved the same too.

So when me and my brothers first stepped into my Lola's gloomy abode, we were obviously quite spooked. It was a direct contrast to our old house when i lived with my parents. The first night I stayed there, I had my first experience with something I'll only refer to as "the Creature".

I was having a hard time sleeping in my new bed which I shared with my brother and was thrashing about trying to find a comfortable position when I suddenly felt the urge to pee. "Just great" I thought to myself. The nearest comfort room was outside past the living room and the kitchen both of which, were dark and very poorly lit (I'm talking one yellowish lamp for a very large room) so that only the corner where a huge statue of Sto. Nino was really illluminated.

I sat up, looked around the room which was very blurry (I have poor eyesight) and started to feel for my glasses. The moment I put them on, I notice a little kid smiling at me from the dark corner of the room, with black gleaming eyes. I shook my brother to wake him up but damn that kid was knocked out cold.

So what I did was something any sane person would do, I grabbed my blanket and wrapped myself into a cuccoon. It would have been very effective If it wasn't for the fact that I was on the verge of wetting myself. I still needed to go the bathroom. I peeped into the direction of the kid, he was still there, smiling and so I hid again. My heartbeat started to race and I felt cold sweat dripping from my forehead.

I listened carefull for any movement, maybe he'll go away if I dont't move that's what I thought. So i listened carefully and all I could hear was the crickets outside the house which seemed to grow louder and louder. Against my sanity, I took another peek, and there he was with that creepy grin and black gleaming eyes, but not from the dark corner, but around two inches away from my face. And right then and there I screamed and wet myself. My Lola, who was a light sleeper rushed in and turned on the lights. He was followed by my grandfather who had a nervous expression and looking around the room as if examining the corners.

When I looked at the corner where I saw the child, there was in its place a statue of a black Sto. Nino. I swear to God it wasn't there before or I would've known, the statue was lifesize and it was supposed to be at the living room. I noticed my Lolo cast a glance at me. He must've know I saw something but being the silent man he is, he proceeded to leave without uttering a single word. My Lola just scolded me for wetting the bed and asked my Lolo to help her carry the statue back to the living room. Someone, or something had moved the statue without me noticing and it would've been quite the feat considering I didn't sleep and the door to room creaked like crazy with the slightest movement. The next day, I was really weary of the statue in the big statue in the living room but forgot about it when my uncle brought over his playstation.

Another weird experience I have was when I was playing the playstation alone in the living room. It was midday and it was blazing hot outside so it was quite bright. I remember playing Twisted Metal and was so focused on the game. but somehow, I had this uncontrollable feeling that someone was looking at me despite the fact that I was alone in the large living room. I paused the game and looked around. Nothing. I unpaused and continued playing until my truck got hit by a missile which led to game over sign with a black background. In the black background I could see myself but I wasn't alone. Right beside me was a dark human shaped shadow staring at my face. All the hairs in my body stood up and I sat there frozen unable to move. Luckily my brothers went in to join me with the playstation and the creature suddenly disappeared like a shadow.

The third time, it was not me who experienced the creature but our maid. Me, my siblings and my Lola just arrived from the market and happened upon her crying hysterically. She said she couldn't take him anymore as he was shaking the vases threatening to shatter them while our maid was wiping them clean. She was in tears saying that she's leaving as she was being harassed and bitten by the small black child. My grandmother was just calm and accepted her resignation as if shrugging the maid as a lunatic. I too would've thought she was insane if it weren't for the extremely small bitemarks she was trying to hide under her hand and the fact that I too saw the little kid.

Anyway, I need to go back to work, I'll tell more stories next time I come back to check reddit. I'll also ask someone from our farm to tell me his experiences and I might be able to ask my Lolo or Lola what she thinks as I have never really asked her about it. Our place is so full of these stories so I'll try to ask around as well.