Feeling of Overwhelming Dread
Technically this does not fit because I have told people about this. I may have actually commented it on Reddit before in response to a similar post, not sure though.
I was in High school and watching TV with my mom and dad. Out of the blue my dad tells me to lock the front door because he is experiencing a feeling of "overwhelming dread".
I was laying on floor in front of the TV by the door, and beginning to laugh in disbelief. He got mad at me. Seeing that he is serious I get up and lock it.
We continue watching TV (Cheers 1987 or 88). within a few minutes (maybe 10) the door knob starts slowly turning. It was loud enough that we all looked at it and could see it moving. In horror we looked at each other.
My dad asks "Did you see that?" I nod.
Slowly we begin to come back to ourselves and realize we should get up and look outside. We could not see anything as it was dark outside. I was a bit terrified but my dad opened the door just to make sure no one was there. I don't have any idea why since that would expose us to whoever might be there. No one and nothing was outside just an empty driveway. The person(s) had walked away by the time we got up.
Cut to about two or three hours later. I'm in my room and hear someone screaming for help and beating on our back sliding glass door. it is the next door neighbor's youngest son (about 11 years old I think). They were pretty awesome people. Very kind.
Anyway the son is clearly terrified and crying for us to call the police. They had been home invasion robbed and held hostage for the entire time since our door knob turned.
My memory is that 4 men (may have been 3 I'm not sure) entered their front door which was open with only a screen door being latched. Bad things happened but everyone lived.
My dad is no psychic, but that is by far the strangest thing I have ever seen.
I have shared this with room mates who ask why I lock the door every time I enter the house even in the middle of the day. It still creeps me out so I thought I'd share it anyway. This is one thing in my life that convinced me there is more than what we can see, a spiritual realm.
Why did my dad feel that dread? Why did he take it seriously enough to have me secure the front door? And why after all of that did we not take it seriously enough to call the police? I wish we had done something that would have changed the outcome for the better for our neighbors. To this day when someone says they have a bad feeling about something I take it seriously.
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