Mon, 16 Nov 98, Reader writes:
This is very strange and bizarre and I don't know what to make of it myself... therefore I find myself writing to you guys. My boyfriend is 6'2", studies karate and writes horror comics for a living. This is not a guy who scares easily. Now, in the last two months, however, he's terrified to sleep over at my apartment.
I moved into my apartment nearly two years ago and have never had a problem. In fact I thought it was always very welcoming. I started seeing my boyfriend about six months ago, within the last two months - coinciding with the "occurences" we've started talking about marriage, babies etc... The strangness started with the cd player. Whenever we fool around the cd will start to skip, infrequently at first and then rising almost to a frenzy until we have to get up and turn it off. Then my boyfriend started having nightmares, waking up always between 4 and 5am and feeling like someone was watching him in a very hostile manner. This has only ever happend to him in my apartment.... never at his or anywhere else. And I've always slept peacefully through this.
And then last night I was kind of involved in it with him. I always sleep with my bedroom door shut, so I know it must have been when I went to sleep. I awoke about midnight and the door was open about 2 feet or so. I got up closed the door and went back to sleep. The next thing I know is that my boyfirend is hanging on to me telling me he loves me and drenched in sweat. The room was stifling, so hot that I threw the sheets off, shoved him off in my semi-conscious state and went back to sleep. He filled me in with the rest this morning.
He was once again having a nightmare. When he woke it was with a deep foreboding and dread. He could hear water dripping from somewhere, he couldn't place it, and then the feeling of being watched and unwelcome bore down on him. He said he was so angry that he threw the anger back at whatever it was - mentally speaking. I awoke about ten minutes later, which is when he ws hanging on me drenched in sweat and the room was a furnace. We had not turned the heat on either!
I really want to know what this is. Is it an over-active imagination on his part? The house I live in is about 70 - 100 years old in Los Feliz, CA. It was a large house that has been divided up into three apartments. It has been in the same family for years. The apartment I rent was where the grandfather used to live but he died in hospital, and was supposed to be a very kindly man. My bedroom is his old bedroom. From what my boyfriend tells me I cannot believe that an old man would be capable of such anger and hostility. So who/what could it be? My boyfriend has a girlfriend who was brutally murdered in Chicago 5 years ago, could he be haunted and not the apartment? It would seem to fit a woman's jealous nature!
Help me please, I'm very frustrated!!!!!
Mon, 23 Nov 98, Otherplane's reply to reader:
It's unfortunate that the old man chose to protect you from another human of the opposite sex. But that's exactly what he is doing. He's not attracted to you but there's some caring of some sort. Or maybe, family experience, from his lifetime, that he didn't like, more than likely lingered a little bit longer than usual. For being a kind person he's still earthbound.
After your boyfriend's nightmare, it's not going to hurt if he just loudly say something to this entity and that his concern for you is the same as his, reassuring that he will take care of you and protect you. Things like that and see what happens.
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