Shiver: A Collection Of Paranormal Stories

Haunted Relics

Remember my story about the haunting at my dad's house? The house I grew up in? Well, I had a tv placed in front of the mirror in my room. It's a dresser with a mirror and it's the one my sister had in her room that my friend sensed the black form inside (from the first story).

Dad offers me it, saying it's taking up room, I already have a TV in this room anyway and I don't have cable or a DVD player there so I don't really need one at all, much less a nice one that should be put to use.

I agree, and take it to my mother's house. She places it in my room, the first night I'm creeped out and her boyfriend isn't home so I go out to sleep in bed with her.

Next day it's after supper and I feel the weirdest vibe from the TV, like I'm being watched. I put a robe over it and try to sleep, but can't so I stay awake until Mom's boyfriend goes to work and then I jump in bed with her.

Next day I take the robe off the TV, because I'm like hey I'm probably just paranoid, my ex friend cleansed everything. I go to sleep that night around 4 after saying the Lord's Prayer and sleep until 8 or 9 and when I try to go back to sleep. I'm caught in a half awake half asleep state, I see that same weird colour of air like a spirit is standing in front of me and it reaches toward me. I think no with everything in me as it asks to take over my body and I wake up shortly after, forcing myself awake.

I get the TV out of my room.

Oddly too, telling this story I remember waking up in the same state in my room and feeling like I was being choked and I don't even remember when it was? Weird.