Page 44 - The Westerner Magazine Halloween 2018

They had a sister who was the youngest showed them the marks, his mother
of three children. When the sister took pictures of the marks which were
turned ten, she had a slumber party and red, like sunburn.
the mother thought it might be fun to
Years later, their grandson came to stay
give the girls a Ouija board to play with.
with them. He sleepwalked and then
Just after the party things began to
described some called “Batman” who
happen. In the beginning, minor things
told him to kill his father. The activity in
occurred, like things would go missing
the house was becoming so prominent
and then reappear.
that the sister, now older, was afraid to

One night, the eighteen-year-old heard be in her room by herself.
something shuffling across the floor of
She was in the room with her brother,
his room. He woke up in the dark and
fighting over whether to keep the TV
saw nothing so he lay back down to
on, and suddenly something jumps on
sleep. Then he heard the sound again
her brother. She witnessed her brother
and, this time, turned on the light for a
slashing at something invisible that was
good look. Once more he found nothing,
attacking him and began to scream.
turned off the light and went back to
Then he tumbled onto the floor, still
bed.
fighting what looked like the air to her.
The third time he heard the sound it He stood and stumbled back into the
was close, and he sat up and reached for TV.
the light when something jumped on
He continued to fight into the living
him. It was dark and he couldn’t see
room. The parents wake up and come
what had attacked him, but he began
into the room where they see their son
fighting back. The next day he described
thrashing around and they thought he
the incident to his parents, who slept
was having a seizure. When he got up
through the entire thing.
he told them that he “got a few good

He said he was fighting with this thing punches in.”
and finally got the light on and found
He described it as a leather bag filled
no one in the room. Then he realized his
with water. It was difficult to make
side hurt. When he lifted his shirt, he
them understand the density of this
found four fingerprints along his side
thing he was fighting. While he was
about the height of his ribs. When he
fighting, the smell in the room was like
told the story to his parents, and