The
Shelter
Me and my then 1 year old, Cody, were living in a homeless shelter
due to unfortunate circumstances, and we had our own room due to being in a
specific program at the shelter to help me get beck on my feet. Shortly after
moving in one night, being so hot I did not pull my covers up. I got up to check on Cody then went back to
bed facing the wall. It was then I felt
an open hand touch my left side of my butt.
I flipped over and no one was there.
I checked my door it was locked.
I looked under my bed no one there.
I checked the hallway...nothing.
I got back in bed and pulled the covers over my head for the rest of the
night!
One night me and Cody were alone up stairs in the lobby reading a
book. Cody started looking over across the room and laughing and talking as if
he were playing with someone. I watched
this go on for a while then I asked him what he was laughing and talking
to. He pointed and said, "A
man". I said, "A man? Where?".
He pointed again and said, "There, a man with a stick". I grabbed him due to he was freaking me out
and ran downstairs where there were other "visible people" around us.
I had mentioned this to another woman, who was of Indian decent,
and residing at the shelter in the same program I was in. She said as if not surprised at all, "Oh
yeah, that is the guy who keeps calling my name and coming in my room all the
time, I see him too". She described
him as an elderly dirty looking man with a cane, probably died on the train
tacks behind the shelter or in the building before it was the shelter it was
the city incinerator. One evening I was
eating dinner sitting next to her at the table and heard her name whispered
between our seats. I'm sure I looked
spooked as I only looked at her and she said, "Yeah, he is over there
calling me".
On another occasion, Cody and I were in our room upstairs. He was in his crib playing and I was lying on
my bed doing a crossword puzzle. Before
I knew it I looked over at Cody and he was standing in his crib laughing and
talking to nothing standing by his crib.
I didn't run this time, due to getting used to the idea we were not alone. I asked Cody what he saw and he said,
"Man and pointed". I said,
"Well tell the man you have to go to sleep and he has to leave". I turned out the lights and since it was hot,
I did not pull my covers up. I then felt
a very hard pinch on my lag so I flipped on the lights and nothing was
there. The next day I had a bruise on
the spot I felt the pinch.
Karen