fizzy55
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Hi, this is my first post on here, although I have visited the forum for a long time now, always too shy to post about my own experience. I wasn't sure if anyone would even find it interesting. Around the time that it happened, I did search for explanations, asking around and searching the internet but nobody seemed to have experienced anything similar. Eventually I just put it all to the back of my mind but its always niggled and I find myself wondering if anybody on here can shed some light on it or even say they have experienced something like it themselves. At least that way I will know I'm not crazy! It started in 2006. I have to admit that looking back to that time has almost a dreamlike quality. My husband and I were very young, had just had our first child and taken on a morgage and were sleep deprived and quite scared about all the new responsibilities that we suddenly had and emotions were running high. One night we were in bed just about to fall asleep, our baby in the cot beside us. I remember the room was dark but it being late summer the night was not yet fully fallen. I lay in bed and suddenly to my right, on my husbands side, i saw ( and bear with me it is not easy to describe) a black shadowy mass fling itself out of the top of the curtain rail and fall on to the bed at my feet. The best way to describe what it looked like was as though someone had thrown a half dozen streams of black crepe paper over us. I remember sitting up quickly and looking down at the bed, but there was nothing there. Thinking my exhausted brain was playing tricks on me I shook my head and lay back down, at which point my husband, who hadnt moved or made a sound so far, asked "What the hell was that!?"
I asked what he had seen and it was exactly the same as what I saw. Thoroughly perplexed, we talked about it for a while and then went to sleep. I'm not sure if what happened next was on the same night or another night soon after but I woke to see, above my sleeping husbands face, some sort of shadowy mass. I saw this on numerous occasions, always at night when on the verge of, or coming out of sleep, and i will describe it here the best I can. I call it a spider for reasons that become clear but it didnt look exactly like a spider. It was around a foot in width, length wise about half of that. It was deep rich black in colour, almost like there was a complete absence of light to its body, although i remember on just one occasion it seemed to have some sort of purple light energy in the middle of its mass. It had tendril like "legs" coming out on both sides of its body, I'm not sure how many, although lots of them, and when the creature was stationary the legs seemed to have no substance and would wave around almost like the bottom of a jellyfish does to and fro in the water. (I hope this makes sense!) The reason i saw it as a spider is that it acted like a spider. Although it was most often very calm when i would first open my eyes and see it, it would react very strongly once it seemed to realise i could see it. Often it would rear backwards and scuttle upwards as though it was climbing an invisible strand of web up to the ceiling, where it would dissapear. Its legs would seem very strong and just like a spiders legs when it was using them. Once it floated sideways through a wall. And one very scary occasion i woke up and saw it in the cot straddling my baby daughter. Its legs were working quickly on either side of her little body and it brought to mind a spider when it has a fly and is wrapping it in its web... it looked just like that. It rapidly faded away and dissapeared as I jumped out of bed. And thats that. We moved out of the house pretty soon after as we just felt off the whole time we were living there and there were quite a few other strange things that happened besides the shadow spider. I saw the spider on a few more occasions but never again near my baby. Always above my face suddenly in the dark or above my sleeping husband. After we moved the shadow spider made 2 or 3 more appearances over the years and then I no longer saw it. Sorry for my rambling post, I hope it all made sense and I'd love to hear what you all make of it. Even after all these years I dont know what to think about what it could have been. I've considered that It could be hallucinations brought on by my half asleep state or tiredness but my husband saw it too on a few occasions and once as I described we saw it at the same time. Anyway, it was nice to get it off my chest after all these years. I did tell a few friends and family at the time, but they all just thought I'd gone bonkers so I stopped mentioning it.
I asked what he had seen and it was exactly the same as what I saw. Thoroughly perplexed, we talked about it for a while and then went to sleep. I'm not sure if what happened next was on the same night or another night soon after but I woke to see, above my sleeping husbands face, some sort of shadowy mass. I saw this on numerous occasions, always at night when on the verge of, or coming out of sleep, and i will describe it here the best I can. I call it a spider for reasons that become clear but it didnt look exactly like a spider. It was around a foot in width, length wise about half of that. It was deep rich black in colour, almost like there was a complete absence of light to its body, although i remember on just one occasion it seemed to have some sort of purple light energy in the middle of its mass. It had tendril like "legs" coming out on both sides of its body, I'm not sure how many, although lots of them, and when the creature was stationary the legs seemed to have no substance and would wave around almost like the bottom of a jellyfish does to and fro in the water. (I hope this makes sense!) The reason i saw it as a spider is that it acted like a spider. Although it was most often very calm when i would first open my eyes and see it, it would react very strongly once it seemed to realise i could see it. Often it would rear backwards and scuttle upwards as though it was climbing an invisible strand of web up to the ceiling, where it would dissapear. Its legs would seem very strong and just like a spiders legs when it was using them. Once it floated sideways through a wall. And one very scary occasion i woke up and saw it in the cot straddling my baby daughter. Its legs were working quickly on either side of her little body and it brought to mind a spider when it has a fly and is wrapping it in its web... it looked just like that. It rapidly faded away and dissapeared as I jumped out of bed. And thats that. We moved out of the house pretty soon after as we just felt off the whole time we were living there and there were quite a few other strange things that happened besides the shadow spider. I saw the spider on a few more occasions but never again near my baby. Always above my face suddenly in the dark or above my sleeping husband. After we moved the shadow spider made 2 or 3 more appearances over the years and then I no longer saw it. Sorry for my rambling post, I hope it all made sense and I'd love to hear what you all make of it. Even after all these years I dont know what to think about what it could have been. I've considered that It could be hallucinations brought on by my half asleep state or tiredness but my husband saw it too on a few occasions and once as I described we saw it at the same time. Anyway, it was nice to get it off my chest after all these years. I did tell a few friends and family at the time, but they all just thought I'd gone bonkers so I stopped mentioning it.