This new novel of mine is based off a true story.  What makes this story interesting is that all the events that had happened leading up to this-the paranormal part of it happened to me.

 Monday, July 26,2021 at 11:45am. I had my very first paranormal experience.

If you know me, you know I'm a fan of ghost haunting and adventuring into abandoned houses. None of those scared me because I didn't expect to ever see a ghost or demon.

You may have seen me write about sleep paralysis before. I used to have them constantly. My first one was at age 17. I'm 24 now. In the year it started, it was a very depressing period for me. I had insomnia for 8 months straight and due to what I was seeing in my sleep paralysis I was afraid to fall asleep. Around this time I also worked on my novel Violet. My most vulnerable and honest book. It was based on emotions I felt because around that period I was very suicidal due to stress and my lack of sleep. I felt like I was losing my mind and around that time I only had the support of my sister. Who believed me whenever I told her what I had seen during sleep paralysis.

Now, you're probably thinking that my sleep paralysis is due to a very scientifically explanation. And believe me when I say, I thought the same. But my experience has been different from others because mine was telling a story...a story I didn't get full answers to until July 26, 2021 when the scientific explanation I had thought entered my physical world.

Maybe you guys can help me connect this story:

When I first had sleep paralysis, the first thing I saw was a burnt arm stretched out in front of me but the body of it was behind me so all I saw was the arm. It was so 3D in the clearest of daylight. I was in the living room, sleeping on my back on the couch at the time. I could tell if I had looked behind me, I would've seen the body. But I didn't look. I was scared and tried to keep my eyes closed.

That was the very first one. It gets more interesting from here.

I kept having more sleep paralysis any time I took a nap that day but I was just seeing darkness and feeling as if something heavy was on my chest because I could never move. But I could see what was around me.

A few months later, I had another where I saw another part of a burnt body. This time it was standing beside me and I had only seen a leg and hand. Both burnt. 

After that, the days and weeks that past sometimes I had seen dark animals, or a dark figure in the distance, or just total darkness. I remember one time I saw a rocking chair, and a teddy bear in my sleep paralysis once. It was another room but wasn't my place.

Another year past and I saw the burnt body again. This time it was just a foot. A few months. later, the body stood to the side of me and I saw a torso but was too afraid to look up at the head. 

As time past, I saw almost every burnt,  and  black to a crisp body part except the head. I never would try to look further than I was seeing.

When I moved out of that place, they stopped happening everyday. They would only happen once every few weeks and most of it was normal. Just me seeing darkness. I wasn't seeing the body as much anymore.

Fast forward to yesterday, July 26, 2021. I had 12 sleep paralysis that day between 4am-11:45am. I've never had more that 6 max in a day. But that day I had 12!

It gets...creepier.

At 4am burnt figure was back...

And this time it was sitting on my back moving it's arm around. Mind you before, it never moved. Just stood still. It was always still.

It was moving around on my back. Around 4am while it was happening I started saying a prayer in Arabic. It lasted long-the paralysis and each time I said the prayer, the thing actually began screeching or moaning and breathing heavily like it was upset. 

I woke up to a wringing in my ear! Like someone had actually screeched and I just remember that voice. It sounded like an older women but sometimes when it breathed heavily it sounded like a kid...

I had a few more that were just darkness. I stayed up after that though, afraid. Around 6am I felt asleep again and had more until this time, she was on my back again pointing a finger into my fast. I closed my eyes cause I didn't want to see the face. But something happen.

It got vocal.

"I'm going to hurt you. Come down"

I heard it say.

By that point I tried to wake up. It all felt so damn real! I felt her something dangerous on me.

Then it told me to open my eyes. By then I could tell the voice was more feminine. Possibly female.

I woke up panicking but again...something strange happened. As I tried to sit up and get out of bed, my neck and head felt heavy and I fell back to my pillow. This is the part that really makes me question things because I could not keep my eyes open.

Mind you all, I've had sleep paralysis before but when it's DONE happening, I usually sit up. I could not sit up this time and felt I was forced to close my eyes. I wish I could believe I probably was really tired from waking up a lot but I was fully aware something was forcing me to close my eyes now.

I had another sleep paralysis and this time the burnt figure was on my back again but she started moving to crawl in front of me. This time I said a prayer super fast, over and over because now I felt that I won't be able to get up cause there's a force keeping me in bed.

That's when I heard. "Look at me."

Things then took an unexpected turn.

I woke up again and this time I was able to fully sit up. But I was breathing so hard and heavy that I was just really exhausted. I put on the TV but muted it and turned on my LED lights but again, I felt the sudden urge to sleep again so I fell against my pillow but felt the sleep paralysis about to happen again and tired to get up but couldn't.

Then finally...and for the first time during my sleep paralysis

I saw it's face.

It was a small burnt figure standing over me in front of my bed. Its head was like a triangle shape. No nose but two beady eyes on it's odd shaped head looking at me. I wish I could tell you this was the most traumatizing part about this story but what happens next is the part that makes this real...

I'm scared at this point. I close my eyes and everything gets dark. I feel it close like right at my face cause I get a glimpse of something in front of me. You can't speak during sleep paralysis the way you think but you can hear your thoughts and it's loud. I asked it what it wants from me and who it was and as clear as day I hear a child's voice clearly say into my ear

"Isabell"

Immediately I wake up but also can't sit up. I fall back into sleep paralysis and see Isabell on the bed in front of me once again. This time she crawls under my blanket and I don't see her. The left side of my arm, hands, and leg starts shaking and in my head I'm thinking, "is she possessing me? Can I get possessed during sleep paralysis?"

I start freaking out.

I wish I could say this all ended here. But the truth is none of that was scariest part. It's what happened.

This was the 12th one. I woke up to see my arm and legs still shaking. Just the left side of my body. I start calling out for my my roommate until quickly I notice something is moving underneath the blanket my hand was on top of. So I'm fully awake seeing my blanket move up and down. and I'm like saying things like, "oh my God, Oh my God," and I took my hand and hit my blanket. I lifted it up praying in my head it was my phone wringing, or something! Anything!

Nothing was underneath that blanket. 

Nothing.

And that part really fucked me up because the last thing I saw in my 12th sleep paralysis that day is the burnt figure going underneath it.

I stepped out of my room but went back in to make sense of what happened. Honestly the first thing that came to me was me thinking, "she got through."

She got through to my real world. This Isabell I do not know.

Anyways the creepy part ends there. Today, I had one sleep paralysis and it was just of a burning fire.

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So I have no idea what all of this means. The mediums I spoke to think it's black magic related. They don't think she's trying to hurt me but she is taunting me but she's also telling a story and showing me things. 

I'm starting to add up things. The rocking chair, and doll, and fire. I don't know what she's telling me. Yesterday she was very verbal and told me her name but didn't tell me what she wants...

Anyways I'm writing this story to cope right now. I'm down about it but won't let it get to me. It'll be interesting writing this because...it's still happening! The story will be based off this but just a fiction version of this^ to help me cope. Comment to me what you guys may think is up!