Lotus
I used to believe that the paranormal wasn't real until this experience. I had always wondered, and my mom claimed to have seen things- but I was pretty skeptical.
I went to my grandparent's house in California after we had just turned 20. It was a sunny, warm day and everything was totally normal. We had gone to a dog park to wander around and came back for an afternoon nap. The house is 2 stories, one on the first level, and a basement that doubles as an entire second floor. The basement is where we slept.
Now most people think "oh god the basement!" but this was a house we had been in since we were little to come visit- and the basement looked like a normal first floor of a house, just with no windows. There was always a light on in the room even when we were sleeping and it genuinely just was like a normal bottom floor, not a stereotypical basement. Had a bathroom and everything.
In the room we all bunkered down in, there were 3 beds- one for my parents on one side of the room with the closet door next to them, and two on the other side of the room for me and my sisters. Everyone laid down to take a nap but I didn't want to, so I started reading with the lamp on. it illuminated everything in the room and it all felt super peaceful and calm to have everyone snoring a bit around me.
And then, of course, it happened. There was a weird growling noise that started in the closet near my parent's bed from across the room. It was gutteral and deep, with a gravely sense to it- so I am not sure it was a growl, but it is the best way to describe it. Now, the closet was always closed out of habit, but the door was now creaked open just a bit. I was a little nervous at this point, but the house is old and I am not a pansy. Maybe its the hot water heater (wherever that thing is) and someone just accidentally put their shirt in the closet and forgot to close it? The growl kind of turns into this weird note, not like singing but a piano key sort of tone (closest sound is like a D flat) but continuous. Now I was scared and looking at the closet. And then something shifts out of the door.
It is mid-day on a Saturday and I am wide awake, haven't fallen asleep etc. It's not sleep paralysis, its not me "accidentally" seeing something. I hope it was my brain having a one time hallucination, but it would be the only one I would ever have. This is real. And its super, super scary because it didnt give any warning and was in a place I found to be safe and secure. A place I had felt comfortable in since I was a little girl of not even 5 years old.
It looked back as night. Blacker than that. The type of black you can't even describe because it's not even a color anymore- it's just an absence of everything. Its the color I wonder if blind people see- because it's literally the color of nothing. Its form looked like a person sitting in a lotus-flower position, only its back was broken, so the head was hanging to the right side and the top of its head was touching its knee. it looked cartoonish almost- because it was literally bent in half. The bottom half was a lotus flower position, and the top half was just the rest of that form bent to be almost upside down but still attached to the body. It made no sense. Looking at it almost hurt my brain- it was like looking at a real-life glitch.
It had no eyes nor any other recognizable feature, just its form and that color that wasn't even a color. It creeped out of the closet half way- but it moved and yet didn't. Almost like your eyes are playing tricks on you. I wanted to rub my eyes to see if I was just completely nuts- but human instinct told me to NOT take my eyes off this thing.
You know when you are scared of the closet door so you stare at it hard enough that you think its opening and you have to do a double take? THAT is how it looked when it moved. Like it was, but wasn't at the same time.
It was only there for a split moment with that god damn tone ringing in my ears before it moved back and shut the door. It happened so fast I only really registered the click of the closet door shutting rather than its movements, which still to this day really creeps me out. It was like it was never there, or never supposed to be there, and somehow I saw it..and yet didn't.
The entire encounter, which couldn't have lasted longer than 3-4 seconds tops, had me frozen in fear. I cannot describe the level of terror seeing this. I have been through a lot in my life, but nothing was as horrifying as that.
I finally found my legs and ran straight upstairs and became an absolute mess. I refused to sleep downstairs and would sleep upstairs with all the lights on- though that didnt help me feel better because I saw it with the lights on.
Its been around 4 years now and I still have to sleep with a night light, and a barricade any closet doors with what I have handy to ensure they do not open. I sleep with the door to my bedroom closed, and my phone resting close to me. It takes me a long time to go to sleep, and I cant sleep alone anymore.
It really has fucked me up. I saw something my brain half couldn't comprehend. It was like staring at something so outside my field of understanding my brain just went "uhhhhhh" and filled in the blanks. It was such a strange thing- but what I saw was my brain's interpretation of it- not what I actually saw. I can't accurately describe what I saw because it's like trying to describe a color you've never seen.
I really dont know what it was and hope to EVERYTHING in my being I never, ever see anything like it again.