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"Sleep Paralysis ~ Scientific Explanations And The Old Hag Legends


Sleep Paralysis has been known for a long time. Throughout the history of mankind there have been the reports of people awakening to feel a sense of weight on their chests and an inability to move their limbs to escape this pressure. People who experience this phenomena almost unanimously describe a feeling of panic and fear at their experience which can last long after the paralysis of their bodies has faded and they can move again.





Legends have arisen in every culture as a means of explaining this sensation, now called sleep paralysis. Hebrew legends equate the night hag with Adam's first wife, Lilith ( More about Lilith ). More commonly the European view from the Middle Ages was that a witch or other demonic entity was sitting on their bodies and trying to entrap their souls. But whether the night hag is thought to be an old woman, witch, devil, incubi or succubi, there is rarely reported an actual visual presence and the victims are left to fear that such a thing will happen to them again.



Modern scientific study has discovered a common feature with most of these sleep paralysis events and a physiological cause for the most pronounced symptoms. It has been discovered that during sleep the brain releases a hormone into the blood stream that will paralyze the major muscle groups to prevent locomotion. In this way, the body can rest while the mind is working its way through dreams. This hormone is designed to prevent the body from hurting itself during the unconscious sleep state. Those who have had too little of the hormone introduced are subject to limb thrashing and sleepwalking as the person acts out the events of their dreams.



The medical explanation of sleep paralysis is that as a person rouses from the deeper sleep cycle, the hormone will take a few moments to wear off and release the muscles of the arms and legs, thus causing a brief period where the paralysis lingers. Generally it only takes a few seconds for this to fade, but even such a brief time can cause panic in many people. That a sense of fear or dread accompanies this sensation can be understood in that one of the major triggers for sleep paralysis is extreme stress in one's life.



While the medical profession considers all the sensations of sleep paralysis to be psychosomatic, paranormal researchers have often encountered stories of being held down or choked in places that exhibit poltergeist activity. There have been other reports, some as recent as the early 1990's, of a person's spouse entering the room where their partner is experiencing "sleep paralysis" and seen a dark shadowy form fleeing the bed of the victim.



There has yet to be discovered a practical way to study any but the most physiological aspects of this phenomena. That it has been a fact throughout the history of man could lend weight to the totally mundane explanation. But there has also been the belief of malicious spirits bent on harming the living for as long as humans can remember. Does the truth lie somewhere in between? Could it not be equally valid that certain dark spirits use this physical effect in an effort to attack the souls of the living when they are in a defenseless position?

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Comments : I'm a 33 year old female and have experienced sleep paralysis prior to 10 years of age. I no longer take naps due to the happenings. This weekend I woke up at 5am and went back to sleep an hour later and had it surprisingly happened again. This time it was different. My mind woke while body was still asleep (sleeping on my side no less)and a white creature came out of the wall who I recall in my head referring to it as a demon/devil and I said to "it" you can get me, then I finally woke up. Just strange because typically I will feel things fly around the room or lay on my chest but the creature has never been so vivid...black lips and black horns coming out of the wall and a white face...just very distinct and made an impression. I wish I understood or can explain why this happens or what is happening. Do we really hallucinate? Has anyone ever saw the same thing? I can see my entire room like always while I lay their sleeping but the creature was so distinct. Any thoughts or insight?

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The original definition of sleep paralysis was codified by Dr. Samuel Johnson in his A Dictionary of the English Language as "nightmare," a term that evolved into our modern definition. Such sleep paralysis was widely considered to be the work of demons and more specifically incubi,(which we have covered and will cover more) which were thought to sit on the chests of sleepers. In Old English the name for these beings was mare or mære (from a proto-Germanic *marōn, cf. Old Norse mara), hence comes the mare part in nightmare. The word might be etymologically cognate to HellenicMarōn (in the Odyssey) and Sanskrit Māra.

Folk belief in Newfoundland, South Carolina and Georgia describe the negative figure of the Hag who leaves her physical body at night, and sits on the chest of her victim. The victim usually wakes with a feeling of terror, has difficulty breathing because of a perceived heavy invisible weight on his or her chest, and is unable to move i.e., experiences sleep paralysis. This nightmare experience is described as being "hag-ridden" in the Gullah lore. The "Old Hag" was a nightmare spirit in British and also Anglophone North American folklore.

In Fiji the experience is interpreted as "kana tevoro" being 'eaten' or possessed by a demon. In many cases the 'demon' can be the spirit of a recently dead relative who has come back for some unfinished business, or has come to communicate some important news to the living. Often persons sleeping near the afflicted person say "kania, kania" (eat! eat!) in an attempt to prolong the possession for a chance to converse with the dead relative or spirit and seek answers as to why he/she has come back. The person waking up from the experience is often asked to immediately curse or chase the spirit of the dead relative, which sometimes involves literally speaking to the spirit telling him/her to go away or using expletives.

In Nigeria, "ISP appears to be far more common and recurrent among people of African descent than among whites or Nigerian Africans"and is often referred to within African communities as "the Devil on your back.

In Turkey and in many of islamic beliefs, Sleep Paralysis is called "Karabasan"(this will be in our next post) which is very similar to the classic story of a demon visiting a person in sleep. Basically an islamic demon [(most commonly people say it is a Djinn (Cin in Turkish)] comes to one's room, holds him down hardly enough to not allow any kind of movement, starts to strangle the person and actually many people say that they hear the voice of the djinn or satan. To get rid of the demonic creature, one needs to pray to God (Allah in islamic beliefs) with certain lines from Quran. If one does not pray soon enough, it is said that the demonic creature will kill the person by strangling. Some woman actually believe the creature raped them through this process due to waking up with pain around the area of their genitalia and with a feeling of a headache.

Various forms of magic and spiritual possession were also advanced as causes. In nineteenth century Europe, the vagaries of diet were thought to be responsible. For example, in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge attributes the ghost he sees to "... an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato..." In a similar vein, the Household Cyclopedia (1881) offers the following advice about nightmares:

"Great attention is to be paid to regularity and choice of diet. Intemperance of every kind is hurtful, but nothing is more productive of this disease than drinking bad wine. Of eatables those which are most prejudicial are all fat and greasy meats and pastry... Moderate exercise contributes in a superior degree to promote the digestion of food and prevent flatulence; those, however, who are necessarily confined to a sedentary occupation, should particularly avoid applying themselves to study or bodily labor immediately after eating... Going to bed before the usual hour is a frequent cause of night-mare, as it either occasions the patient to sleep too long or to lie long awake in the night. Passing a whole night or part of a night without rest likewise gives birth to the disease, as it occasions the patient, on the succeeding night, to sleep too soundly. Indulging in sleep too late in the morning, is an almost certain method to bring on the paroxysm, and the more frequently it returns, the greater strength it acquires; the propensity to sleep at this time is almost irresistible.

(We have covered some of this in the past, but I would like to cover each culture and their differences to see what we find relates.  Remember to click to the right for comments for each topic and my responses as well as the bottom right for showcase comments.   I am still play with their limited themes and applets that allow me to add items to the blog.  If you like one, let me know!

And always sweet dreams

Sherry

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According to Islam Djnn is an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.

According to From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The original definition of sleep paralysis was codified by Dr. Samuel Johnson in his A Dictionary of the English Language as "nightmare," a term that evolved into our modern definition. Such sleep paralysis was widely considered to be the work of demons and more specifically incubi,(which we have covered and will cover more) which were thought to sit on the chests of sleepers. In Old English the name for these beings was mare or mære (from a proto-Germanic *marōn, cf. Old Norse mara), hence comes the mare part in nightmare. The word might be etymologically cognate to HellenicMarōn (in the Odyssey) and Sanskrit Māra.

Folk belief in Newfoundland, South Carolina and Georgia describe the negative figure of the Hag who leaves her physical body at night, and sits on the chest of her victim. The victim usually wakes with a feeling of terror, has difficulty breathing because of a perceived heavy invisible weight on his or her chest, and is unable to move i.e., experiences sleep paralysis. This nightmare experience is described as being "hag-ridden" in the Gullah lore. The "Old Hag" was a nightmare spirit in British and also Anglophone North American folklore.

In Fiji the experience is interpreted as "kana tevoro" being 'eaten' or possessed by a demon. In many cases the 'demon' can be the spirit of a recently dead relative who has come back for some unfinished business, or has come to communicate some important news to the living. Often persons sleeping near the afflicted person say "kania, kania" (eat! eat!) in an attempt to prolong the possession for a chance to converse with the dead relative or spirit and seek answers as to why he/she has come back. The person waking up from the experience is often asked to immediately curse or chase the spirit of the dead relative, which sometimes involves literally speaking to the spirit telling him/her to go away or using expletives.

In Nigeria, "ISP appears to be far more common and recurrent among people of African descent than among whites or Nigerian Africans"and is often referred to within African communities as "the Devil on your back.

In Turkey and in many of islamic beliefs, Sleep Paralysis is called "Karabasan"(this will be in our next post) which is very similar to the classic story of a demon visiting a person in sleep. Basically an islamic demon [(most commonly people say it is a Djinn (Cin in Turkish)] comes to one's room, holds him down hardly enough to not allow any kind of movement, starts to strangle the person and actually many people say that they hear the voice of the djinn or satan. To get rid of the demonic creature, one needs to pray to God (Allah in islamic beliefs) with certain lines from Quran. If one does not pray soon enough, it is said that the demonic creature will kill the person by strangling. Some woman actually believe the creature raped them through this process due to waking up with pain around the area of their genitalia and with a feeling of a headache.

Various forms of magic and spiritual possession were also advanced as causes. In nineteenth century Europe, the vagaries of diet were thought to be responsible. For example, in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge attributes the ghost he sees to "... an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato..." In a similar vein, the Household Cyclopedia (1881)offers the following advice about nightmares:

"Great attention is to be paid to regularity and choice of diet. Intemperance of every kind is hurtful, but nothing is more productive of this disease than drinking bad wine. Of eatables those which are most prejudicial are all fat and greasy meats and pastry... Moderate exercise contributes in a superior degree to promote the digestion of food and prevent flatulence; those, however, who are necessarily confined to a sedentary occupation, should particularly avoid applying themselves to study or bodily labor immediately after eating... Going to bed before the usual hour is a frequent cause of night-mare, as it either occasions the patient to sleep too long or to lie long awake in the night. Passing a whole night or part of a night without rest likewise gives birth to the disease, as it occasions the patient, on the succeeding night, to sleep too soundly. Indulging in sleep too late in the morning, is an almost certain method to bring on the paroxysm, and the more frequently it returns, the greater strength it acquires; the propensity to sleep at this time is almost irresistible.

(We have covered some of this in the past, but I would like to cover each culture and their differences to see what we find relates.  Remember to click to the right for comments for each topic and my responses as well as the bottom right for showcase comments.   I am still play with their limited themes and applets that allow me to add items to the blog.  If you like one, let me know!

And always sweet dreams

Sherry

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If it was just normal lucid dreaming and so forth, why are we all having the same dream.  The same evil presence in the room.  Hearing whispering.  A lot of us seeing the very tall dark robe guy and then sometimes very short presence as well.  Why wouldn't it match our fears, such as snakes all over us, or whatever our worst fear is.  It makes no since, and I have yet to read anything conclusive to explain SP, just guesses, that it could be sleep apnea or lack of sleep or because you are sleeping on your BACK, I mean give me a break, at least acknowledge the fact most of us have a brain.

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Just yesterday, I layed down for a nap around noon. I was laying on my back sleeping and I started hearing things on my dresser moving around and heard footsteps coming toward my bed. I tried to open my eyes but couldn't. I couldn't move by body or even open my eyes. The footsteps stopped right beside my bed. I gathered all of my strength and was able to open my eyes enough to see a woman leaning over toward me and she layed her upper body on my chest and whispered, "Hello Honey." I was terrified. Her face was a black hole, no features, and she had black stringy hair. I tried my hardest to wake up but couldn't. She stood back up and I heard her footsteps walking away and then I started hearing things moving around again on my dresser. I tried to call for my boyfriend, but no sound would come out. I fell back to sleep and a few minutes later, the whole episode took place again, exactly as it happened the first time. Finally after what felt like an hour, I
took a deep beath and woke myself up. Last night I was so scared to fall asleep, I slept with my Bible under my pillow

Hi Sheri
I just came across old-hag , while surfing the web.
I really enjoyed reading about peoples experiences , of course it is far from enjoyable.
So I feel compelled to tell you about my experiences , which in some ways are so much the same but also so very different.
My experiences didn't start until I was 27 years old , and they always happen in the middle of the night. I have always felt the presence of someone(except for my last incident) but have never seen anyone(except for an incident early this year).
My first time happened when I had just moved back to my hometown , and was staying at my sisters . I woke in the middle of the night with what felt like some one pinning me down and choking the life out of me. I didn't feel hands around my neck , but rather my airway some how being obstructed. There was a bright moon shining through the window , and I could see around the room perfectly , but I couldn't see anyone on top of me. I tried to fight and scream , but was completely paralyzed . I'm sure that this went on for about 15 minutes , and I kept trying to fight and scream the whole time. Then it just suddenly ended and was over as if it had never happened
I was so exhausted that I fell asleep even though it was the most terrifying thing that had ever happened to me. I told myself that it was just a nightmare and put it out of my mind. Of course I knew better , but it was easier to be in denial .
After that it seemed to happen about once a year until last year. Being that it was only happening once a year it was easy enough for me to block it from my mind  and not allow myself to think about it in between incidents. I should also add that the following yearly incidents never lasted more than 5 minutes and I didn't feel like I was being choked.
Then last year (2009) , it suddenly started happening about once a month. The experiences didn't change any from the previous yearly ones , other than the frequency.
I suddenly found myself having to face this strange phenomenon , as I was afraid to go to sleep.
I started talking about it with people and found that my brother in-law and a co-worker had the same phenomenon happening with them. That made me feel a little better , knowing that it wasn't just me under attack.
Then early this year I had an incident that was quite different. The previous times I had always been on my back when it happened. This time I was on my side when I awoke to being yanked up out of my bed . At the foot of my bed was a shadow figure that had a hold of me and was trying to yanked me right out of bed. It had me pulled into a sitting position and it was flailing so wild and crazy that I cant even come up with words to describe how it looked , other than no human could ever replicate it. Just as strange was the fact that I was being pulled into an upright position but my body was still lying on its side. It was as if it was pulling my spirit out of my body. I tried to fight and scream but was completely paralyzed . Then it was over , just like that. That part has always troubled me as much as the actual event . How can it just end in an instant as if it had never happened ?. The feeling of another presence is gone and everything always just feels normal again , and my feeling of pure terror that I was experiencing just vanishes along with the whole incident!.
After that incident about 7 months went by , I cant remember exactly but I believe it was this past August that I had my last incident . First I should say that this past spring I had a little house dog given to me from a friend that was moving and couldn't take him. He sleeps on my bed with me , I didn't want him on the bed but it broke his little heart if I didn't let him , so I gave in.
Anyway , in August I awoke in the middle of the night paralyzed but I didn't have the sense that there was another presence. I was just paralyzed and fighting to get out of it , I should add that I have been able to fight my way out of them and I believe that is why they don't last as long as they did in the beginning. I have always thought that I was making a little noise even though I was trying to scream as loud as I could. Anyway here I was struggling and screaming when all of a sudden my little dog jumped up and stared into my face and barked at me , and that was all it took to end it. I was never so thankful for letting him sleep on my bed even though I didn't want him there , I want him there now.
So there you have it , I didn't post on the site because I knew that I would go on and on.
Feel free to post any or all of this if you like.
I also have a most interesting theory about what is going on to cause all of this with me, that I would be happy to share if you are interested.
Darrell

I have been trying to make time to catch up on stories people have sent me to share with you.  I hope you take the time to comment on their stories with some of your own.

For the past few years I have had contact with invisible beings and out of body experiences; all in bed. I've also had many experiences with lucid dreaming. I don’t know why it happens -- it just happens. A typical occurrence is me waking up, completely paralyzed (yet fully conscious), able to feel and hear things happening in the room. I believe the first time I actually encountered a being was my third semester in college when I was lying on my belly in my room with all of the lights on, taking a nap. No one else was in the room, and I woke up paralyzed, unable to move. I heard (what sounded like) many whispers, all in different (possibly the same, but definitely foreign) languages. I could not make out exactly what any of the whispers were, but I did get this: “veng-eance” with a long draw on the “g.” It was a sad and moppy tone, but I heard it clearly, in my right ear specifically … In other attacks I’ve heard angry voices yelling at me and ending with “you’re going to burn in hell.”

hello my name is Theresa McCeney and i have had a problem with sleeping ever since i was a little girl. I am 20 years old and tonight just had to make me drawl the line on what was happening to me while asleep. I am going to explain EVERYTHING and it may sound absoulutely crazy but I am REACHING out for help. When asleep my heart races very very fast like it is about to explode. I can not open my eyes nor move any of my body parts. When i do try to open my eyes i sometime see figures and i sometimes hear things whispering in my ear. I have night terrors along with the sleep paralysis usually. Tonight i had i dream that GOD yes GOD was talking to me and i was communicating with him through my mind. I seriously felt like this overwelming power and my sould being raised out of my body. I could feel god laying next to me on my bed. he was showing me what had happened to me last night and i asked my friend about it and he told me that part of it was true. I was passed out last night and he showed me a vision on my friend going into my room and holding my hand. He said he did hold my hand and that i was mumbling something in my sleep. I do not remember any of this. He also told me that when i just texted him that something told him that he needed to go check his phone. I am freaked out and i also feel very alone and crazy. Ive thought demons were possesing me and i the devil was telling me to worship him and not jesus because jesus peeks in my windows at night? I think this could be a way for supernatural things like ghosts, demons, angels, god, etc to have actual contact with people and possibly hurt them or take their souls. i need more imformation about this. please contact me back with any questions to this and i will tell you everything i know from experience. Ive thought demons were trying to get in me, the devil was taking my soul, and ghost were talking to me. This all seemed 100% real but yet i do not know if i was asleep or if my body was and mind was not?

To Whom it may Concern,

Hello. I am writing to you in response to "sleep paralysis" or whatver it is. My name is Brent, Catholic, a relgious brother in a Congregation. I first had something happen to me about 8 years ago. It was probably one of the most weirdest things I ever experienced. It has happened since, not too much. But enough to make you think. What exactly is this?

It's very interesting. The first time I was a sophomore in college. During the whole thing I was -- thought it was a dream. About a week later my friends and I were out eating dinner. Somehow we started talking about things, this very thing. One of my friends was talking about an experience that they had. Upon hearing it I was locked in immedietely. I was like..wait a minute..the same thing happened to me that same night I think,...but I thought it was a dream. Then about 2 other of my friends encountered the same thing that night. First off, it was strange because at this dorm room building people had experienced paranormal activity. 

My experience goes as this. I woke up. Both hand were at my sides. I could not move a single muscle. I remember trying my hardest to lift my head up. This was near to impossible. I remember trying to say something to my roommate. I could not say anything. I noticed this and so I wanted to yell, but could not get a peep out. It was very strange. I rememeber falling back asleep, waking up, and still feeling it. So I just closed my eyes and went back to sleep. I honestly did not think of anything the following morning because I thought it was part of a dream. The strange part was hearing my friend talk about the same exact experience, and i thought to myself...wait a minute...that happened to me ..in my dream?? And it not only happened to her, but also to some other friends either that same night or during the same week. I had just brushed the whole thing off, it wasn't until other people started to talk about it i was kind of floored. i was
like..what is this?

That was one of the strogest instances, and I rarely get it. It is not a regular thing. I might happen 2 times a year or so. I have another instance that is probably the most vivid one...I was a junior in college. First off, I want to tell you that I am a religious person. I definetly believe in good/evil. Demons and angels. We as Catholics believe that Christ is our Saviour and that Satan tries to deceive/get us to son/doubt and what have you. We believe Christ is a merciful. Well there is an image of Christ called the image of the Divine Mercy. It was given to Christ to a polish nun in the 1930's in Poland, now St. Faustina. Well, on this particular night it was as if someone was mocking Christ in the Divine Mercy Image. I saw the image in a dream, and it was turning round and round, as if someone was poking fun of it--that Christ was not merciful. I woke up, and could not move. This was the most violent one. It literally felt as if
someone wanted me dead. Again i could not move. Started to say Jesus, mary and Jospeh in my mind, and it went away...So. I mean I have heard of the "sleep paralysis" thing. But I really don't know. It could be. but then again. It seems strange that people would encounter the same thing around the same time, or the same night.

Whatver it is, if it tries to shake me up it doesn't because I believe that God is stronger. The reason why I share this is I believe that we are living in a time that is induced with more and more evil things do to factors in society, that glorifies things such as ouija board and other things. I don't step anywhere towards those type of things because they only open a door to the unknown. I believe that people do get possessed by demons, and it has been recorded that people have become posessed by using such things. They do not know what they are playing with. 

I tell you these things because i experienced it again lastnight. And it was pretty powerful again. I was like ok, what really is this? I have heard oh yeah..sleep paralysis...but then again I don't really know. No one does. But I do know the fact that down throughout so many ages in folklore , and in so many different, actually continents have attributed it to some entity seems strange to me. And this being holy week in the Catholic church, and it happening lastnight, and violently seems strange to me...and the fact that I am in seminary. Maybe someone doesn't like the thing that I am doing. Maybe it wants to somehow to intimidate me? Could be..but maybe not.

Anyways I find this interesting and I personally believe that medical doctors cannot account for everything. There are just some things science can not explain. It's a mystery. ...cue the eerie music, ha. But God bless and I hope all is well.

In Christ,

The same thing happened to me! I was overwhelmed by a feeling of absolute evil and I couldn't move. It took my face and smashed it against the wall. I could feel my broken teeth in my mouth. I thought, "This is the devil. And if there is a devil then there has to be a God!" I was immediately released. This happened to me 20 years ago and hasn't happened since. 

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I have been having the Sleep paralysis or old hag syndrom since I was about 12 or 13. 

The weird thing about my first or second experience is that...my papaw was holding me down with his cane. I couldn't move or anything. Then I awoke out of it and it still felt so real. 

That was the last time that it took on a shape of a family member.

A few years later I was lying in bed and I would got through it and think I am out of it but I was still in it(if that makes any sense) It was like a hag expeirence in a hag expeirence over and over again. I started hearinf voices, namely what I think of as my Nanny's voice. Though I couldn't see or hear anyone. I felt as if someone was always there.

When I moved in with my aunt last year they got worst. I personally think my aunt's house is haunted...not just my hag expierences go one in that house. =]

But anywho it started to get different. I sensed as well as saw a shadowy figure but he(I refer to him as a he) never neared me it seemed but I still felt as if I was being held down..

Back in the summer I went threw one that had me freaking out. The shadowy man was there and it felt like he was taunting me as always. Like he thinks it's funny I can't stop what he is doing to me...well My mamaw(who passed away several months before) suddenly appeared and said leave her alone! My mamaw is like uber religious..and then he said I will never leave her alone.though it seemed I regonized the voice..like what you said your(Hag, Demon,) told you. Then someone screamed my mamaw's name and suddenly I was able to move again..

Then just this morning I was having another hag expeirence and I couldn't move my senses got hightened and I saw the shadowy man again. But He was always on my sister's side of the room. My mind started screaming sisters name and then he was at my side and said amanda amanda...taunting me again. Then I could move. 

I was so freaked out. After I got out of the shower this morning I started thinking about whether it is a sleep paralysis or something more paranormal. And I said nah it is definetly sleep paralysis it can't be real. A second later the razon in my shower fell. (It might mean something or not but it was strange.) I jumped and I was like definetly real!

My mother believes in demons, ghost, and the like. My father is a sceptic and I can understand both sides. But it is they never expeirenced what happened to mean..so they can't really know how scared or insane I feel. 

Dear everyone,

As many of you I too had these experiences multiple times in my life. Im now 21 and living in the netherlands. I know how frightning it can be.

This week I've experienced the last old hag syndrome. I had slept a several hours and i woke up around 1 in the morning. Ive been a awake for several min when i feel a pressence. Unwanted, dark and it chills me to the bone. Then again out of nowhere my body starts to tingle like hands are trying to pull me down. im frightened i cant move react and speak for a moment then it releases me to hit for a second time much stronger then the one before. after 30 sec it releases me. terrified im waking up my boyfriend to tell him im scared. He reacts like a dickhead that there is nothing and he wants to sleep like i dont need it. I cant relay on him so im leaving the light on for a few minutes then my boyfriends suddenly turns the light of. Then I feel a bad pressence again. Like its wandering around in my bedroom. When i say to it in my head to leave me alone it suddenly dissapears. I slept bad again for the rest of the night.

If something ive learned is that you need to be carefull who your telling it to because everyone acts so different to it.
My boyfriend is someone more bound to earth type. Ive red al the articles about sleep paralasys but believe yourself when there is no explanation, keep faithfull to yourself. Enough people have the same experiences and sience cant declare evrything in life. The ones trying to explain most of the time dont have the faintest idea where youre talking about.

Stay Faithfull to youself and till then A big hug to help you trough the night. 

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 I am not sure if most of you have read my web page www.old-hag.com, but this is from the about me page, that describes how I first became a victim of the old hag

Hello,

My name is Sherry.  I am not sure where to begin, so I just will start where I think you will be able to make some sense of what I am trying to say, and where I am coming from.

I married young, had children young, and learned young, that life was not going to be easy.  I found out very soon that I had to depend on myself to take care of myself and my children.  There was not going to be a knight in shining armor in my life.  I was ok with that.

I started going to college for my accounting degree and soon after started a medical billing service.  I started this service before it became a fad, you know like "start your own medical billing service now" type of thing.  Medical billing is just what I happened to be doing while going to school.  I found out that babysitters and daycare was pretty much ridiculous as I was missing a lot of time due to their inabilities to care for my children.

The kids were getting a little older and I decided that I was a big time computer geek, and went back to school and worked towards three degrees, programming, networking and MIS.  I landed a fantastic job that allowed me to fly all over the country and do my thing.  I then decided that college was not enough and sat through about 6 or 7 certifications for Microsoft and Comptia and a few others.

Life was great, money was great, everyone was happy, until one day.......... (I have always wanted to say that, so had to throw the mysterious until one day in there, so please humor me).  My fiancee daughter, who happened to be only a couple years younger than I was got into a lot of trouble.  I mean a lot.  She was on the most wanted list in our little county and everything.  Well, our little life, with my children in middle school was totally thrown for a loop when her three children moved in.  

My fiancee had about lost his mind with sorrow and with the full house of younger children running around.  Life was now in turmoil.  I was alot younger then he, so I was about 29 or so, and he was almost 50, so for me it was easier to deal with the kids, but he had a hard time dealing with the kids while his daughter was looking at 15 years.  He loved his grand children, but his grief over his daughter was causing his nerves to be on edge, and us to argue about everything.  On top of all that she was pregnant in jail.  

Well to make a long story short, we ended up splitting up.  I adopted the baby she was pregnant with in jail and he left with the other children.  My children of course stayed with me, my newly adopted baby and myself were what was left in a 3000 square foot house that I hat purchased before I met him.  

Right before he left, while things were in turmoil, I had the craziest dream.  I dreamt that someone kept pushing me off the bed, over and over.  I would climb back on, which seemed very difficult for some reason, just to be pushed back off the bed again.  This happened for quite sometime.  Then suddenly I was flying.  It was so real, I was flying over a dark city that was like one of those end of the world movies where everything was trashed, buildings on fire, debris everywhere.  I could feel the wind on my face and on my hair which is very long, it is all the way down my back and it ws blowing as I was flying.  I kept thinking wow I am flying.  There were drums that were lit with fire here and there.  I saw a couple people wearing all black leather, it was surreal to say the least.  I felt like a creature of the night as it was so dark, and here I am flying around all over the place.  Suddenly I woke up, and woke up my fiance to ask him if I had fallen off the bed, as I knew he was a lite sleeper and if I had fallen off he would have known.  He denied that I had, but I was bothered, as it was so real.  Later that week, I saw a friend of mine and she happens to be into the supernatural, and retold the story of my dream.  She looked at me real funny and said, and I will never forget "oh...Sherry that is not good", well we were interrupted, she moved and I never did get to find out what she meant.

What I do know is he left shortly after and that is when I started suffering from sleep paralysis.  I am not talking about normal sleep paralysis, but terrible nightly visitor sleep paralysis that plaque me for almost a year.  The stories I will tell you will scare you, as believe me, I thought I had lost my mind, and after telling my closest friends and family, so did they.

First I want to establish that I still suffer from sleep paralysis, but not everynight as before, now only a couple times a year.  As a victim of sleep paralysis, I am sure you are aware of the whisperin that you cannot make out what they are saying.  At the end of my year long battle with SP I heard a husky mans voice whisper directly into my ear that he will never leave me alone.  He has kept his promise. We are jumping ahead, so let me begin with some of my earlier experiences.

I was lying in my bed as i had done in the same house for the last 10 years.  I was almost asleep when I heard what sounded like cowboy boots walking on hardwood floor (which I have), so naturally I thought it was my ex letting himself into my house, to try and get back together.  Immediately I knew that was no the case.  I felt this evil menacing presence entering my room.  I then found out I was paralyzed.  I was never so scared in my life.  Out of the peripheral vision I saw a man, a very tall man wearing a black cloak type robe with a hood, with no face.  Looked just like the grim reaper, but he was not holding anything, just staring at me.  A millions things ran through my mind, like these things dont' happen, this is real life, what is happening to me.  I started to pray and pray for God/Jesus to help me, and  he was gone, just as suddenly as he appeard, for that night anyway.

The next day I was scared to death all day long. I had thought I had lost my mind.  I knew this was no Stephen King movie, this was my life and in my bedroom that I had slept comfortably in for 10 years.  I was  on no new medications, or taking any drugs, so what happened to me?

I was frightened, but returned to my bedroom and almost the exact same thing happened but this time, there was someone else with him.   A small person at the bottom of my bed and he was at my right.  I could hear them whispering in a strange language, or just not loud enough for me to hear.  I started to pray over and over again until he was gone.

Night after night something strange would happen.  I have had the blankets pulled off of me, just for me to pull them back up, over an over.  I opened my eyes to find the blanket hovering above me and had to pull it down.  I have had my ankles pulled, as if someone was trying to pull  me out of bed.  I have felt impressions in my bed where someone was getting in bed with me.  I have felt arms wrap around me, and lye with me in a spooning type position.  I was beyond grief.  I was afraid to sleep in my room.  My family thought I was on drugs or had lost my mind.  I had no where to turn.  My children were scared, because I would stay up all night, or sleep in the recliner.  

Once he brought a woman with him, if not for my praying I think I would have heard what they were saying, but I refused to listen, I was too scared to listen.

I didn't know what to do, my choices were terrible.  Either I was crazy, or evil things such as this existed in our world.  They could at anytime pop up in my room as I was their victim. I became exhausted, terrified prayed for God to help me.  It reminded me of the old movie the entity.  

After a few months I ran into a friend I had known for 20 years and we formed a relationship.  I told him what was happening to me and he believed me!  I asked him to sleep over with me, and guess what nothing happened, no visitors, nothing.  His just lying there with me, protected me somehow.  

He would go home, and back they would come.  My sister who I had finally convinced what was happening to me was not from my own doing of any sorts, bought me Dr. Huffords book, Terror in the night, a study on sleep paralysis.  I read the book and it gave some old lore on how to rid yourself of the intruder.  One was to place a large bottle next to your bed and say out loud that you were going to hit it if it returned.  I performed the little ritual and for weeks nothing happened.

My relationship with my friend grew and he spent more nights with me, and guess what, he was hagged.  He had felt something pulling him or should I say yanking himn off the bed.  He then had several more episodes where he couldn't speak, same paralysis as I suffered, for about month with different physical type occurrences.  He did not see anyone or hear anything, just felt them touching him, and things of that nature.

I was ready to sell the house.  At that point I thought it was haunted.

more to come soon, stay tuned, rough draft unedited.

I had a very similar old hag experience last night.  The first one in a while.  I was almost a sleep and felt someone open handed pop me on the mouth.  Both my arms were down and I was sort of daydreaming, trying to fall asleep and pop.  I jumped out of bed, no body there, just a very eerie feeling o not being alone.  

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It has been awhile folks.  Unfortunately I moved to a dry area and am having a hard time getting internet that will not cost me an arm and a leg..  I hope to find something soon and will be back to posting to both blogs.  I have over 300 comments to approve, so keep them coming.  People enjoy reading others experience as well.

This blog was as a secondary that I imported the info from from blogspot blog, but it it is turning out to be a primary according to the hits counter, or should I say an equal.  So this week, I will be working on updating both blogs as well as working on the incubus//succubus angle. 

The THE
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Yours Truly,

Sherry

Well According to a study by Professor Chris French, who has co-authored a paper on sleep paralysis with Julia Santomauro we are still asleep. I am not buying it. I know when I am asleep and when I am awake. According to their study the count is up to 50% of the population is now suffering from these occurrences.  You can find out more about it here

Sherry

Hello,

This blog is imported from my main blog on google, so please excuse any spelling errors as such, as it does not often import correctly.

As most of you know a very recent family member is deceased, and it has turned out to be murder.  This has kept me away for a few months, grieving and helping with family affairs.  I tried to return sooner, but was so behind with Life itself, I was not able to. 

I am now at a point to return to my blogs, websites and book.

I also would like to mention that there was a problem with my email.  You would receive a return, but I actually got the email.  I had a forwarding in effect and the email that acted as the email to receive duplicate emails is no longer in use, so the error was for the second email address not the admin@old-hag.com.

I hope to try and jump back into things and catch-up on all the missed emails and research that I had prepared and ultimately get the book out there for you.  Thanks again for your patience and prayers.

Sincerely,

Sherry Benson

I have so many readers that think they have lost their minds, if you are then about half the population is as well.  That is the most important thing to accept first is you are not crazy, don't even think for a moment that you are.  We all hear things, see them, and feel them..  What saddens me the most is that people feel like taking their own lives because they are so tired literally and just plain tired of dealing with it.  Remember that is not an option.   We will all pull through this together! Think of the children that suffer from this.  The monster under the bed has become reality to them!

As promised we will be looking into some scientific and medical explanations.  I will provide you with a link that is in 5 short parts on you tube in next post.  I have just found it and am not yet done reviewing it, but will probably post the info on it in my next post.

Ps.. I am still working on the layout of my blog, and noticed that the polls are a little messed up, but hopefully will have those snags fixed as well.   It is my goal to add more polls, some suggested from others, and some related to the topic in general.  If there is anything you would like to suggest let me know.

Again and as always sweet dreams.

I recently received a comment, but no way of contacting the commenter, so I am going to answer via this blog as others may have the same question.  This is the questions that was asked

My wife has suffered for a long time,with old hag syndrome.i have only just started to understand,the nightmare experience,she and many other people suffer,after looking it up on the web site.one question my wife has asked me to ask is if anyone has experienced,this when there partner is in bed with them,or only when they are alone in bed.can you please reply to me.

This is a very good question for me to answer.  The reason being is I have personally experienced this  myself.  When I was suffering from the old hag nightly I was separated from my partner for a short time, when he returned they seemed to stop for a little while a week or two.  The strangest thing is he got hagged for the first time in his life when he returned before I did again.  He of course then knew what I was talking about and was ready to sell the house.  It of course  started happening to me and to him only occasionally.
It is a very strange phenomena that I have yet to crack, but have several theories.  Why would it happen to him?  It is like something evil was let into the house and attacked anyone in my room only.  My children had no problems in their rooms.  What does it want?  His encounter the first time was he saw the shadow man pulling him off the bed by his leg.  He was moaning which woke me up.  I woke him up and he was like thank God you release me from the paralysis, this thing was trying to pull me off the bed.  Now he has been touched and other things like the rest of it, but why when he came back, after it had started on me.  I thought about the power of suggestions, but their were things I had not told him, so that x that out.  Shortly after my old hag returned.  A man's voice said very clearly in my ear, not a normal man's voice, but a raspy scary sounding voice that said "I will never leave you alone".  I thought I was doomed for the rest of my life.  Was it a ghost, a demon, a dark Angel, what the heck was it, was on my mind.  They say of course they are demons or the Dark Angels and I am working on all angles so you will have a bed side manual.  Please write with your stories, they help people.  Email me, admin@old-hag.com, or leave a comment under any of my posts, and I will respond, usually within 24 hours.  This is very scary business folks that is on the rise, if you are not a victim yet, count your blessings, but my guess it won't be long before you are.

Thanks again for the poster and to the rest of you as always....sweet dreams

For those of you joining us late in the game.  I have been keeping a blog on google at http://old-hag.blogspot.com/.  I have been using this one as a twin to help people find us.  There was a problem with the blog importer that scrambled a lot of the words and spelling in the beginning.  I have fixed some of them, but if you are reading an article and it is just to scrambled to get the meaning of the post, please refer to the blog address above.  usually I post on the google one first and later copy the entry to this blog manually a few days later, at the latest.  We also have a forum http://myforum.old-hag.com/user/categories.aspx that we have recently created for our readers to discuss the "weirdness" of it all and to receive feedback from me and other people as we are all in this together.  The main web site is located at www.old-hag.com.

My main goal is to get to the bottom of what is going on the last count was 30% of the entire population had reported having experienced what I call SP1 and SP2, SP1 meaning normal  paralysis when you awake for a moment with nothing freaky happening, SP2 is when all hell breaks loose and you think you are in a horror movie.  well most people have not reported it to anyone,m so we are looking at about 50% now...WHY?  We didn't used to.  People didn't even know what it was, and now people are afraid they are going crazy all of the world.

I am writing a book which will be an encyclopedia of sorts and will include all my research, which believe me I have done a lot.   I hope to have it completed by around March or April.  I will adding some free chapters as we get closer, but it will be cheap, and e-book at first, but believe me you will want to print it out and keep in at a binder at your bedside.

Well, I don't really get a chance to speak personally to this blog, so I wanted to take this time to introduce myself to all of you.  My name is Sherry, and I have suffered through many many nights of sleep paralysis and I am here for any questions, comments or anything that you would like to add to the book would be great.  You will be given full credit and your five minutes of fame.  So on that note, hope to hear from many of you soon, via the blog, comment form on the web site or privately at my email with any questions or suggestions you may have admin@old-hag.com

And as always sweet dreams!

Ghost Space is a really cool site, that includes just about everything you need to keep your ghost videos and such in one place. There is also a forum and blog. The best thing about it, is it is FREE!

Say hello to my friend  Care Taker a really great guy that is an exellent moderator.  He will go out of his way to help you get settled in.

Also check out the blog page and find yours truly as a featured blog post titled Sleep Paralysis with a Supernatural Twist

I am asking all my faithful readers to please check them out, and go ahead and create a free account while you are there to insure getting your favorite posting name.

Again their web site is http://www.ghost-space.com/

Also a short note the book is coming along fine and should have it ready by the first quarter as originally predicted.


PS Also I am changing my theme  on the http://old-hag.blogspot.com/ blog which is a master blog of t his one and playing around with my width to try and get some of the missing stuff back on here, so don't be alarmed. All should be completed my tomorrow evening. Also remember to leave a comment at this time, just pick comment under any of my posts and it will show upon the comments tab, so I may answer them, or better yet, use  the forum , unless they are personal, then by all means please email me at admin@old-hag.com

As always sweet dreams!

I know it has been a few weeks since I have written. I of course liket he rest of you have been spending time with my family during the holidays. I very much enjoy seeing my family since I do not see them much due to the hard economic times everyone is suffering from and the distance that we all live.

I know I have promised to write about the medical and scientific sides of things, but was reviewing a web sitea bout one man's theory on giants and Angels and such and statements from the bible.

What caught my eye is when he mentioned spirit sex. Basically his religious views are that in the bible it states there were Angels that came to earth and had intercourse with the human woman and the children were evil and giants. Well after the great flood since they were immortal they survived in spirit, but not in body, so they have been having sexual relations with women in spirit form at night. Of course we all know that sometimes in sleep paralysis there is a sexual type nature to them. Some women actually have said that they have had sex or have been touched in a sexual manner.

To quote him "Folks, in the world today there are literally thousands of women in various nations, many right here in America, who claim to have been raped by or had sexual intercourse with unseen spirits" AND "Folks,there are just too many reports of women being sexually assaulted by unseen spirits for some of it not to be true. I believe that such activity simply verifies what God’s Word plainly teaches."

The teachings are that demons are in fact wondering around in spirit.

The article is located here http://www.raptureready.com/soap/giants.html

You will find the quotation about 3/4 down with the paragraphing beginning with
NewAge literature repeatedly claims that the leaders of the world New Age movement are not true humans their leaders were born to women impregnated by “spirit guides. You will also find some notes above it.

I guess instead of old hag or sleep paralysis it was spirit guides then.Again just reporting on what I read to give you guys something to think about it.

I really don't have a comment on the statement of children being born from such an encounter, and a new race being born as that is a little to star trek for me, but some of you might find it interesting.

Until Later and Always Sweet Dreams

Happy New Year to Everyone

I know it has been awhile since I have written, but I have lots to write about. I have been busy over the holidays like the rest of you, so will be filling you in soon.

Take Care and Sweet Dreams

Will Write More In A Couple Days to Catch Up!

Monday, December 14, 2009

Sleep Paralysis and Sexual Actvities or Rape

Time and time again, I hear stories of people that have had some type of sexual nature during so called sleep paralysis. Both accounts have been both male and female, such as incubus or succubus type of encounter. These experiences are often the most frightening.

From my studies and interviews there seems to be a certain amount of attacks for lack of better word that occur. I am currently working on a data base to find some specific numbers such as 10% hear the sound of paper being shuffled on the floor by some sort of phantom type animal.

The sexual enounters are very real. The victim feels has if they have been raped or close to it, by some phantom over powering being. The victim is paralyzed, and hear and feel the phantom actually getting into bed with them. They have felt a series of touching, some say they their legs are actually pushed open. This is both male and female. They can even hear their voices. Terrifying!

What is really happening to people? Why so many more than before? How many more before something is done about it?

Why now? Why are so many people at least 1/5 reported cases are experiencing some kind of terrible, terrifying experience as they close their eyes for sleep. Remember reported cases is hardly the number. I have not reported anything to anyone have you?

One person mentioned to me that maybe some kind of experiment went wrong, maybe some kind of biological warfare, that is being used on us for study. Why, I said. To make people weak, frightened. Hmm, another story I can't really wrap my mind around as an option. Supernatural phenomena is often stranger than fiction as we have heard our entire lives. It is things like this that keeps the supernatural door open.

I will start focusing more on science and medical explanations for the next few weeks to see if anything new has turned up since my studies began, and let you know what I have found out. Of course their explanations need to explain a lot and why so many people now. Lets see how close they are coming to explaining or covering up as they have in the past.


Until then Sweet Dreams as usual.

Out of Body Research Group

Ithought this may interest a few of you. I found a site while surfingthat actually tells you how to have an OBE. The site is the Out of Body Experience Research Foundation by Jody Long and Dr. Jeff. http://www.oberf.org/.

The detail of how to have an OBE experience is located here.

Idon't think I am brave enough to go there. My one maybe experience wasenough, but those of you that are interested, it is a good read. Hopeeveryone is having fun shopping those dollars away lol

Sweet Dreams!

I think I have written about this before, but just in case I wanted to go back over it.

Right before I started having SP/OLD Hag experiences. I had a very weird dream, or was it? You see since I have started researching astral travel and such I have learned a few things. Dreams are supposed to be jumbled up. what I mean by that is you will remember a little of this and a little of that. I am sure you know what I mean, your in one place and the next thing you know you are somewhere else and so forth. Well, my so called dream, I am now being told it probably was astral travel. The reason I was told that is because I can recall everything that I saw, felt and even heard.

It started off, where I thought someone kept puching me off the bed. I mean like five times, pushing me off the bed, and me struggleing to get back on the bed. It was very real to me. Once I stabled myself on the bed, I took off in flight. I flew all over the place. I could feel the wind on my face and feel it blowing my hair. I was so excited that I could fly that I did not want to stop. I finally flew a little lower and saw a very dark city and there were people that were sitting around metal drums that they had wood in and had created a fire. After flying low for a little while, I finally made my way back home and suddenly jumped out of bed. I asked my partner at the time if I had fallen out of the bed, and he said not that I was aware of. Anyway a few days later I spoke to someone about it, and they were like oh that is not good we need to discuss this further. Make a long story short I never saw her again. Two days ago I saw someone else that knows more about this sort of thing and she said it was definitely astral travel because I could recall everything, feel everything and so forth. She said if it was a dream, I would not be able to recount everything so thoroughly.

I have never had another experience like it and I am not saying that for 100% that is what it was, but if it was, it was amazing.

I have a reader that I email back and forth with frequently. A very lovely women who shares a great deal with me and she has had some of the most remarkable experiences. I believe she is experiencing OBE (out of body experiences).

According to research after a few moments of sleep paralysis you will then have OBE, but of course you can have these experiences without SP as well.
From my research you can even provoke OBE if so desired, the same with SP. I will write about that next.

Thanks for listening and thank you to my friend who writes and shares her experiences with me. If she ever so desires to have me share them with you, I will anonymously of course.

Until next time sweet dreams.

An out of body experience is said that it normally involves a sensation of floating outside your body or perceiving you are outside of your body. A lot of people feel as if they have the ability to look down at their own body, and even leave the location of their body. Astral Travel is said where you are able to leave your body in spirit. It is said this occurs usually while we are sleeping. It is also stated that you will know when you are having an astral travel episode as it unfolds in a series of events, unlike a dream, where everything is all scrambled up.

The term out of body experience was introduced 1943 by G.N.M Tyrrell in his book Apparitions. It is also referred to spirit walking.

It is stated that 1 out of every 10 people will have this experience.

It is said to occur after an extended case of sleep paralysis.

The term astral catalepsy was so named by a researcher Sylvan Muldoon. He believed that all the symptoms we currently feel during SP/OLD Hag of paralysis, being touched , hearing loud noises and such are all just astral travel.

I believe they both exist, and are both unknown phenomena's that like many things they are lumping them into one.

There will be more about this phenomena as well as other theories in the book.

I have been applying more of my time on the book lately, so I apologize for the delays in some of my articles. In the end it will all be worth it.

I hope everyone is having a lovely holiday season.

have recently been informed, unless you sent your occurance directly to me via this blog, the contact form or the new forum, I am unable to use your encounter. If you want your encounter listed in the book anomoulsy you must personally type it in the forum at http://myforum.old-hag.com/user/Discussion.aspx?id=188517. I cannot stress the importance of this, as people must record as many accounts as possible to compare theirs to. Including you the reader. I will then have a web site setup where your data will be displayed, so we can compare the data of xx amount experience of this or that. I have had people send me their stories via other forums before I started the forum, and had their permission to use it, but apparently their stories belong to the forum owner. So please try to make this a priority to sign up and post as many times as you like, so we can create a database of symptoms to wee what we come up with.

Thank you again for all your support and letters, it is greatly appreciated! 

When experiencing the phenomena of SP/OLD Hag, most people will experience at least one if not all of the following:

• Paralysis
• A feeling of being held down by an unseen evil force
• loud noises, such as buzzing, humming, talking, and even sounds of multiple radio stations playing.
• Vibration
• A sense of something of someone evil sitting on or near your bed. you may even feel as if something is moving your bed coverings or even feel as if they are pulled off.
• A dark shadow figure, or a faceless shadow man wearing a hooded robe.
• Shortness of breath or a feeling of a force on your chest, as if someone, or something is sitting on your chest.
• Strange lights throughout your room.
• A sensation of something evil touching you, possibly in a sexual manner that is invisible to the eye.
• Seeing a witch or the old hag
  
• Lastly the overall sensation of an evil presence that is there to cause you ill will, or even death.

These experiences are very terrifying and are occurring at alarming rate.

If you have suffered from anything that is not listed here, please let us know so we may add it to the list.

Personally over my years battle, I have experienced all of the things that I have listed. I of course did not experience them all each time, but the majority of the things on the list, I experienced on most nights. The one thing that I experienced just about every single time was the dark shadow figure. He always seemed to be there. I guess that is why the article below caught my attention. It is hard to believe that these things are not occurring to you with a real person.

I know prayer regardless of your religion seems to help for some reason, that I know for a fact. As soon as I would pray for it to stop, it would.

Up next we will be discussing the beliefs of some on Astral Catalepsy.

Until then, I wish you all sweet dreams

Saturday September 18, 1999 The Toronto Star
Pg. A03

She felt she was in the presence of "Pure Evil".

A Darkened room: a poke in the ribs; being suddenly jolted from deep sleep by a faceless, hooded figure obscured by shadows.

"Seeing the hood and no face, I could make out a figure. It just went into the pit of my stomach, the feeling of evil."

These are the words of a woman who awoke to a nightmare and the struggle of her life on a hot and sultry night in early August, finding an intruder at her bedside - the sexual predator some have dubbed the "Scarborough Bedroom Rapist."

The middle-aged woman says she was lying face down and in a deep sleep when the intruder first jabbed her in the ribs. In her groggy state, she at first thought it was one of her adult children coming into her second-floor bedroom to mooch bus fare.

Then suddenly, she was seized by violent hands grabbing her body and shaking her into a panicked wakefulness. "He just shook me and all of a sudden - I couldn't breath!" says the woman, sitting on her porch recounting the tale that has robbed her of her sense of security in her own home.
She says she didn't scream; she needed all her energy reserves to fight off the menace intent on overpowering her.
"I just focused on survival, the physical stress of resisting."
She flailed, she twisted, she struck out with an ever-increasing sense of sheer terror that she was losing the battle.
"You just resist. It takes all of your energy. It just seems to go on for so long."
Despite being a woman of large build, he had all the advantages. On his side, he had the element of surprise and the fear of a victim finding an intruder in her home.
The she felt her energy collapse. She had no wind left, her breath was gone. The predator was on the verge of getting what he came for or worse."He could have killed me at that point," she says.
I was kaput...I had sustained as much (fighting) as I could."
As if caught in some surreal nightmare, she is unclear on what happened next. But she found herself falling from her bed, descending through the air with the intruder still in tow.

In desperation, she called out into the night; "Oh Jesus, help me."
The man suddenly turned and fled from the room! She rushed to the door to lock herself in her bedroom and silently he escaped form her home.
"He doesn't make a sound," she says of the man, who has mastered the art of being elusive.

Police continued their search yesterday along a water-runoff canal in a detailed hunt for evidence they hope will lead to the attacker.
The canal, a weed-filled ditch that encircles a large residential zone near Warden and Finch Aves., is a possible route to reach many of the homes where he has struck.
At least two of the homes he has entered back on to the canal. Others are just a short walk away.
Meanwhile, police hope that by residents turning on all possible external lights, the predator - who uses the cover of darkness - will have no place to hide.
Police Superintendent James Bamford announced the Light The Night program, urging residents to leave outside lights on in an effort to thwart the rapist's shadowy attacks.
"If we light the whole area up, the predator will have more trouble moving around and it will be harder for him to hide," Bamford said yesterday.
"And the better we light the place up , the better opportunity we'll have to get a better description."
According to police sources, the sexual predator rarely speaks. In all his attacks, he's only uttered about two words - and that happened during only one of his 12 break-ins since June 2.
It wasn't enough for police to properly ascertain any discernible accent.
Since the assailant, who has so far been connected to eight sexual assaults, strikes between 12:30 a.m. and 6:20 a.m., police believe he may live with someone - a girlfriend, wife or family member - who works overnight.

If that's the case, he could easily slip out and not be missed once his partner went to work, sources say. But it's only a theory, and until they catch him, police are relying on educated guesses based on years of experience.

The victim can't describe his face or his smell. "He is deliberate. He carefully masks his identity."

But she can't forget the anger of his touch. "He's angry. Angry at somebody for something."

To this day, she and police are uncertain why her assailant fled. Maybe it was because he feared being identified during the fierce struggle, or perhaps he tired of her resistance.  But as far as this victim is concerned, God answered her prayers in her moment of greatest need.

'He has stolen my sense of security in my home'

She also wonders how her attacker knew she was alone. He struck shortly after her adult children went out for the night. She's convinced he had been staking out her house.
Although the attack left her sore and with bruises all over her body, what hurts most is what the predator has taken away from her.
"He has gone in, stolen my sense of security in my home...I felt safe in my house." She says it's a challenge to stay there, although a number of her adult children live with her.
Now she jolts awake at 3 a.m. to double-check that her windows are locked, and she repeatedly makes sure her doors are locked. She is looking to sell her long-time home to try and get away from the memories and sense of violation.

She is uncertain how he crept into her home. There was no forced entry. "I thought all the window were locked. But we're not exactly sure. We have no air-conditioning and it was a very, very hot night.
"I think people should be allowed to have a window open on a hot summer night."
Although the man frightened her senseless, incredibly she says that as a mother, she feels sorry for her twisted attacker. "This is somebody's son." As a religious woman, she prays for him, just as she prays he will be apprehended before he hurts anyone else.
"I just want to know what happened to him that promoted this self-destructive behavior.
"I think about it all the time. Why? Why? Why?
end of article
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Iwonder if we were to look at how many cases like this are reported eachyear, how many we would find. No point of entry, the feeling of pureevil, no face, wearing a hooded robe with no face, sounds like the oldhag syndrome or something supernatural. Iwould like to thank an anonymous reader for sending me this article toshare with you all. There is more to this story and will be adding moreto my ebook and to my blog regarding some very eerie incidents that arereported that are more than what they seem to be.

I found a very interesting case study from the spiritual research foundation that has done alot of research on sleep paralysis. I have posted some items below from their web site, and it is amazing the amount of work this organization has done to help us find answers. The founder Dr. Athavale has worked over 20 years on subjects such as this, and the foundation is a non profit ran by volunteers. The case study which can be found on there web site and copied below for your convenience and is interesting to say the least.

The information is unedited and 100% the work of the foundation.

This is a transcript of an interview with Ruchi who has been experiencing attacks of Sleep paralysis over the past 4 years. For details with regards to why it happens please refer to the article on Spiritual research into Sleep paralysis. Ruchi, 25, is a microbiologist from Melbourne, Australia who has been experiencing attacks of sleep paralysis over the past 4 years. The following is a transcript of an interview that we had with her.

Interviewer: Ruchi can you please tell us when these paralytic attacks started?
Ruchi: I do not remember the exact date, I think it was in March 2002. I can clearly remember the first time it happened. I had just finished a nice home-cooked meal and was lying back on the sofa in the living room when it happened. At the time, I was living with my parents in the UK. It was an eerie experience as I was fully conscious but could not move my body however hard I tried. Even though my dad was just next to me watching television, I could not call out for help. I later found out that he thought I was sleeping as my eyes were closed. I could feel my blood circulating very fast and there was this buzzing sound. I thought I was having a heart attack.

Interviewer: How long did it last for?
Ruchi: About an hour.

Interviewer: Ruchi, was there any plausible explanation about what could have prompted this, I mean were you on any medication, depressed, stressed or do you have any history of hearing sounds?
Ruchi: No. I am pretty much the average person doing things by the book, I cannot see any reason why I would have had such an experience.

Interviewer: Did it recur after that?
Ruchi: Yes, it did about six or seven times in the years, until I got married in 2004.

Interviewer: Did you tell anyone about it?
Ruchi: No, as I felt people would think I am going crazy.

Interviewer: So after getting married did it subside?
Ruchi: No, on the contrary, it increased in intensity after I got married and settled in Brisbane, Australia. In fact, there was one afternoon when my husband was working with a friend of his in the other room while I was resting in the bedroom. It happened again and lasted for some 3 hours. I could not call out for help even though they were just in the next room.

Over the past 1 year it has increased both in frequency and intensity. It got to a point where it was happening every second day. During every paralytic attack, I felt a pressure on my body. It was generally restricted to the chest and the throat region. In some cases the pressure on my chest escalated to throttling of my neck. During the attack, I have difficulty breathing and I feel suffocated. The attacks last from a few minutes at a time to 3-4 hours in some cases. Quite often it is accompanied by a foul smell.

Another peculiarity is that it is most likely to occur on full moon and new moon days.

Interviewer: The reason as to why it is more likely to happen on a full moon day is because ghosts are most active on this day.
Ruchi: I see. My sleep at night was at best intermittent and I would end up going to work tired. I was always sleepy and yet I was fearful of going to sleep. Off late I am also able to perceive a presence just before it happens.

Interviewer: So how do you come out of it?
Ruchi: Well, I cannot do much while I am in a paralysed state. I try to call out to my husband for help. Some times a few muttering noises come out of my throat, which then alert him about my condition. At the time, he shakes me and I am released from the paralysed state. On other days it is a waiting game until I am released from the state.

My husband is a seeker who is practicing Spirituality under the guidance of the Spiritual Science Research Foundation. He would advise me to take spiritual remedies to counteract this paralysis and tell me that it was because of an attack by a ghost. Initially I would not believe it and was casual about putting the spiritual remedies into action. Later as the attacks increased I became more sincere with the spiritual preventive remedies.

Interviewer: What were the spiritual preventive remedies and did they help?
Ruchi: I take a number of spiritual preventive remedies.

1. Salt water treatment 2 times a day: This includes soaking my feet in salt water fortified by adding a pinch of holy ash, along with simultaneous chanting of the Name of God and prayer that the black energy engulfing me be pulled into the salt water.
2. Putting Holy water around my bed and praying for a protective sheath around myself before sleeping.
3. Lighting incense sticks of sandalwood fragrance.
4. Prayer for protection throughout the day.

5. Circumambulation around Lord Ganesh’s idol at least 21 times. This means going around Lord Ganesh’s idol.
6. Chanting of my family deity’s Name and
7. Chanting of Lord Name for protection against ancestral problems.

Having no background of this type of remedy, I was a bit skeptical initially. However the distress was so overwhelming that I was ready to do anything to get rid of it. As I experienced a reduction in attacks after taking these precautions, I gained faith and invested in them more seriously.

It is like I fortify a protective sheath around myself by taking these precautions. On the days that I do not take these precautions, I am more likely to get an attack of sleep paralysis.

Interviewer: I understand that Dr. Athavale recently gave you some advice.
Ruchi: Yes, He asked me to do ‘nyaas’. I need to bunch my fingers towards my chest and chant Sree Gurudev Datta as much as possible. I was to do this along with the other usual precautions that I explained earlier.

I put them into practice immediately and there was an immediate effect. It’s been about three weeks now and I have not had a case of sleep paralysis. On one or two occasions in the three weeks it recurred fleetingly for a few minutes. After a very long time I am able to get a good night’s rest.

Interviewer: Would you like to add anything?
Ruchi: I feel there is a positive thing that has come out of this experience. I am much stronger mentally as I know I have the tools to fight my difficulty. I also realise the importance of regular spiritual practice and the need to protect myself spiritually.

End of quote

I am very interested in their views and the amount of effort put forth regarding their views versus the scientific views. I have posted more on my web site on the main page in the first column mid way down that describes their argument step by step versus the scientific explanation. I see no need to reiterate it here, so please check it out for your self at www.old-hag.com and let me know what you think.

Sherry

This is an excellent article that summarizes several books that I have read that lists some of the cures of being hagged. I am copying the article below in case the link does not work

"The experiences of Old Hag Syndrome, something that happens during sleep stages, vary. There is a paranormal element to them. These are some that are common to these attacks. Sudden awakening.... Unseen pressure on chest.... They try to struggle, scream or move, but experience paralysis. Some victims report auditory and visual phenomena. They have heard footsteps before the attack, seeing monstrous shapes, hearing rasping breathing and/or smelling repulsive odors. Victims may sense an unnatural presence.Galen, the Greek physician, believed Old Hag Syndrome was linked with indigestion. He wrote about this in the second century. This is still theorized. Other theoretical causes are circulatory problems or stagnation of blood, caused by lying in one position too long, sleep disorders and repressed sexual conflicts. These cannot explain all attacks. Science has no explanations for the causes of the attacks and why they happen.

Most common are those people who experience attacks once or occasionally with recurrences happening months or years later. Sometimes, people are victimized by these attacks repeatedly for a week or two. The rarest are people who have frequent chronic attacks for long periods of time.

Old Hag attacks can happen at night and during the day.

David Hufford has written the most comprehensive book, The Terror that Comes in the Night, about the Old Hag Syndrome. When he began this work, he thought it would take a few months and the result would be one article. It took him almost ten years of research and the result was his book, which considers beliefs about spiritual evil that are universal from the perspective of scientific research about sleep paralysis.

He is a Professor of Medical Humanities and has joint appointments in Behavioral Science and Family Medicine, at the Penn State College of Medicine. Hufford is Director of the Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine. At University of Pennsylvania, he is an adjunct professor of religious studies and a faculty member in the Master in Bioethics Program.

Hufford began his research in the Old Hag Syndrome when he was a member of the faculty in the Folklore Department of Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1971. He discovered that beliefs and reports of the paranormal, such as ghosts, omens, Will-o'-the-Wisp, ghost ships death omens and others were common and found in many cultures.

He discovered many of the islanders were familiar with the Old Hag Syndrome. One person said it was like someone was holding a person down when he was sleeping. There was paralysis and all he could do was scream. People believed that a person would die if not awakened.

Hufford began to research this phenomenon by writing questionnaires and interviewing people. He talked to those who had experienced Old Hag as well as those who knew someone who had experienced this.

He found the primary definitive features to be a person's impression of being awake, paralysis, fear of moving or restraint, realistic perception of the environment and fear. Secondary features, reported more than once were lying on one's back, sensing a presence, feeling pressure, usually on one's chest and a supernatural presence, which were the most common and most people experienced one or more of these. The fear of dying was not as common.

Hufford found theoretical causes of Old Hag. One is calling the Hag. One case involved a romantic triangle between John, Robert and Jean. Jean and John were dating steadily, but Robert was trying to date her. About a month after he began this, he was being hagged. He felt pressure on his chest, as if he were being strangled. He was told to put a board over his chest and hold an open pocket knife. When he woke the next morning, the knife was impaled in the board. Had it not been for the board, he would have been killed.

Robert believed that John was the Hag and that his jealously was the cause of the hagging. He thought that maybe the Hag did not return because it thought it had killed him. He told people that the Hag was human. He could hear the footsteps and recognize it. He could not speak, just grunt. His throat was affected and his breath was taken away. The Hag appeared when he was sleeping, but its presence woke him. He was always lying on his back when this happened and, usually, he was also stressed. He believed the Hag was the result of a curse.

Later, Robert learned that according to lore, the way to call a hag is to recite the Lord's Prayer backwards in the devil's name. To avoid a Hag, one draws blood or uses the word of God and keeps a light on.

Another case is the hagging of a woman. The informant said he and his friends were in a bunkhouse and a pretty girl was there. One of the men wanted to kiss her, but she refused, so he said he would hag her. She did not believe he would do this. That night, she saw the man standing over her bed with a knife. She was paralyzed and frightened. Her mouth foamed. Her father was able to bring her around by repeating her name backwards.

The informant said after the girl went home, the hagger removed his clothes, knelt and said the Lord's Prayer backwards. He went under the covers, pulled out a knife and stabbed it in a side board several times. The man repeated, "Hag good Hag," from time to time.

The informant believed that while the hagger was in bed, his spirit hagged his victim. I think that the most likely explanation, if this is true, is that this was done by an out of body experience, OBE. OBEs have been researched and documented.

After this happened, the girl said that if she had known he was going to hag her, she would have had a bottle ready because of the belief that a spirit will die if it is swung at with one. When the man learned about the bottle, the hagging stopped.

There was the elderly woman who woke up every night for a month. She experienced cold sweats, panic and frenzy, as if she had epileptic seizures. She was treated for epilepsy. The treatment did nothing.

A doctor who had treated people in the community for over twenty years was consulted. He found out that the victim believed that an old lady who was known as a witch was witching her. His advice was for her to urinate in a bottle, cap it and put it under her bed, which she did.

Several days later, the reputed witch went to see the doctor to ask him to have the victim undo the bottle. He told her to remove the curse she had put on the victim. She did. Both of the women were cured.

The reason why the "witch" saw the doctor? She could not urinate.

Supernatural explanations are the oldest ones to be believed by Newfoundlanders. The belief continued into modern times.

Old Hag Syndrome.... Is the cause physical? Entities? Witchcraft? OBEs? Telepathy? Psychiatric? Psychological? Or combination of two or more? Each theory offers its own evidence and beliefs. Until there is more research, I rule nothing out.

Guiley, Rosemary Ellen, The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. ISBN: 0-8160-2846-X.

Hufford, David J., The Terror that Comes in the Night. ISBN: 0-8122-1305-X.

Lombard, Eric, By Lust Possessed, 1980, New York, Signet. No ISBN.

Article by Jill Stefko"

located at http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/paranormal_realm/118565/1

This is an excellent article that summarizes several books that I have read that lists some of the cures of being hagged. I am copying the article below in case the link does not work

"The experiences of Old Hag Syndrome, something that happens during sleep stages, vary. There is a paranormal element to them. These are some that are common to these attacks. Sudden awakening.... Unseen pressure on chest.... They try to struggle, scream or move, but experience paralysis. Some victims report auditory and visual phenomena. They have heard footsteps before the attack, seeing monstrous shapes, hearing rasping breathing and/or smelling repulsive odors. Victims may sense an unnatural presence.Galen, the Greek physician, believed Old Hag Syndrome was linked with indigestion. He wrote about this in the second century. This is still theorized. Other theoretical causes are circulatory problems or stagnation of blood, caused by lying in one position too long, sleep disorders and repressed sexual conflicts. These cannot explain all attacks. Science has no explanations for the causes of the attacks and why they happen.

Most common are those people who experience attacks once or occasionally with recurrences happening months or years later. Sometimes, people are victimized by these attacks repeatedly for a week or two. The rarest are people who have frequent chronic attacks for long periods of time.

Old Hag attacks can happen at night and during the day.

David Hufford has written the most comprehensive book, The Terror that Comes in the Night, about the Old Hag Syndrome. When he began this work, he thought it would take a few months and the result would be one article. It took him almost ten years of research and the result was his book, which considers beliefs about spiritual evil that are universal from the perspective of scientific research about sleep paralysis.

He is a Professor of Medical Humanities and has joint appointments in Behavioral Science and Family Medicine, at the Penn State College of Medicine. Hufford is Director of the Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine. At University of Pennsylvania, he is an adjunct professor of religious studies and a faculty member in the Master in Bioethics Program.

Hufford began his research in the Old Hag Syndrome when he was a member of the faculty in the Folklore Department of Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1971. He discovered that beliefs and reports of the paranormal, such as ghosts, omens, Will-o'-the-Wisp, ghost ships death omens and others were common and found in many cultures.

He discovered many of the islanders were familiar with the Old Hag Syndrome. One person said it was like someone was holding a person down when he was sleeping. There was paralysis and all he could do was scream. People believed that a person would die if not awakened.

Hufford began to research this phenomenon by writing questionnaires and interviewing people. He talked to those who had experienced Old Hag as well as those who knew someone who had experienced this.

He found the primary definitive features to be a person's impression of being awake, paralysis, fear of moving or restraint, realistic perception of the environment and fear. Secondary features, reported more than once were lying on one's back, sensing a presence, feeling pressure, usually on one's chest and a supernatural presence, which were the most common and most people experienced one or more of these. The fear of dying was not as common.

Hufford found theoretical causes of Old Hag. One is calling the Hag. One case involved a romantic triangle between John, Robert and Jean. Jean and John were dating steadily, but Robert was trying to date her. About a month after he began this, he was being hagged. He felt pressure on his chest, as if he were being strangled. He was told to put a board over his chest and hold an open pocket knife. When he woke the next morning, the knife was impaled in the board. Had it not been for the board, he would have been killed.

Robert believed that John was the Hag and that his jealously was the cause of the hagging. He thought that maybe the Hag did not return because it thought it had killed him. He told people that the Hag was human. He could hear the footsteps and recognize it. He could not speak, just grunt. His throat was affected and his breath was taken away. The Hag appeared when he was sleeping, but its presence woke him. He was always lying on his back when this happened and, usually, he was also stressed. He believed the Hag was the result of a curse.

Later, Robert learned that according to lore, the way to call a hag is to recite the Lord's Prayer backwards in the devil's name. To avoid a Hag, one draws blood or uses the word of God and keeps a light on.

Another case is the hagging of a woman. The informant said he and his friends were in a bunkhouse and a pretty girl was there. One of the men wanted to kiss her, but she refused, so he said he would hag her. She did not believe he would do this. That night, she saw the man standing over her bed with a knife. She was paralyzed and frightened. Her mouth foamed. Her father was able to bring her around by repeating her name backwards.

The informant said after the girl went home, the hagger removed his clothes, knelt and said the Lord's Prayer backwards. He went under the covers, pulled out a knife and stabbed it in a side board several times. The man repeated, "Hag good Hag," from time to time.

The informant believed that while the hagger was in bed, his spirit hagged his victim. I think that the most likely explanation, if this is true, is that this was done by an out of body experience, OBE. OBEs have been researched and documented.

After this happened, the girl said that if she had known he was going to hag her, she would have had a bottle ready because of the belief that a spirit will die if it is swung at with one. When the man learned about the bottle, the hagging stopped.

There was the elderly woman who woke up every night for a month. She experienced cold sweats, panic and frenzy, as if she had epileptic seizures. She was treated for epilepsy. The treatment did nothing.

A doctor who had treated people in the community for over twenty years was consulted. He found out that the victim believed that an old lady who was known as a witch was witching her. His advice was for her to urinate in a bottle, cap it and put it under her bed, which she did.

Several days later, the reputed witch went to see the doctor to ask him to have the victim undo the bottle. He told her to remove the curse she had put on the victim. She did. Both of the women were cured.

The reason why the "witch" saw the doctor? She could not urinate.

Supernatural explanations are the oldest ones to be believed by Newfoundlanders. The belief continued into modern times.

Old Hag Syndrome.... Is the cause physical? Entities? Witchcraft? OBEs? Telepathy? Psychiatric? Psychological? Or combination of two or more? Each theory offers its own evidence and beliefs. Until there is more research, I rule nothing out.

Guiley, Rosemary Ellen, The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. ISBN: 0-8160-2846-X.

Hufford, David J., The Terror that Comes in the Night. ISBN: 0-8122-1305-X.

Lombard, Eric, By Lust Possessed, 1980, New York, Signet. No ISBN.

Article by Jill Stefko"

located at http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/paranormal_realm/118565/1

This blog is being imported from my google blog
http://old-hag.blogspot.com/
For some reason some of the words are running together so am having to manually correct them.  In the mean time you may wish you bookmark the other blog and of course the old hag web site www.old-hag.com
I hope to have everything corrected within the week.  Thank you for hanging in there with me.
Sherry

According to one study a rational explanation is exposed.

"The phenomenon of sleep paralysis is so widespread it has become part offolklore around the world. "Many traditional societies include references to sleep paralysis as part of their everyday sets of workingknowledge,"

"Particularly in the small outpost communities everyone knows what the 'old hag' experience is. So someone might get up in themorning and say 'oh I was hagged last night' and everyone knows exactly what happened to them. People in these traditional societies have agreat range of explanations for the experience - everything from a condition of the blood, to vampires, to being haunted by an old woman .. . this knowledge seems to have disappeared from urban societies."

Infact in urban societies you're more likely to have people describe their experience as one of 'alien abduction', according to the study."The little grey men have become a modern icon, so it's not surprising that they are stored somewhere in our memory." And our brain graspsthese images to explain the 'fear' it senses.

"The emotion offear accompanies threats and dangers. When you activate fear you activate a whole set of strategies to deal with danger. If you considerthe fact that the part of your brain responsible for fear [the limbic system] is active at the same time that you're awake and paralyzed andhelpless, this would tend to aggravate this condition."

Essentiallyyour brain strains to find clues to understand what it perceives as a threat. The sound of the fan becomes a whispering voice, a creakbecomes a demon climbing on the bed, and when the brain doesn't have a stimulus, it makes one up.

Despite this rational explanation, I still shudder at the thought of the evil presence I sensed in my room.It was so real I find it hard to believe that my brain could fabricate such a terrifying hoax. "

More to be found in the ebook

Here is an example of what you will find in the ebook that I ampreparing for you. This is one account that is found in the pdfdocument. Also please remember you will also find what is suggested tohelp reduce, if not eliminate the experiences, both medically andspiritually.

"My eyes are open and usually I get the
sense that something in the room is
happening, so it’s more like
apprehension. It’s a sort of belief that
something’s going to go off and then a
shape gathers, a sort of black, small
black cloud gathers and it’s the devil…
a monster. And it comes onto me and
I can feel its weight and basically the
belief is that it’s holding me and that
it’s going to drag me down into an
abyss… I can feel sensations on my
body, it’s multi-sensory. I can sort of
smell it too. I feel sensations in my
body like in a lift, I feel like I’m going
down… I can’t move, certainly. Well,
I try but it never works. Usually all
I can do is make a kind of hum in my
throat and try to make a feedback
cycle, make that louder, as it gets
louder the more awake I get, the
more I can do until I can eventually
perhaps shout. And that wakes me
up, properly wakes me up."

Here is an example of what you will find in the ebook that I am preparing for you. This is one account that is found in the pdf document. Also please remember you will also find what is suggested to help reduce, if not eliminate the experiences, both medically and spiritually.

"My eyes are open and usually I get the
sense that something in the room is
happening, so it’s more like
apprehension. It’s a sort of belief that
something’s going to go off and then a
shape gathers, a sort of black, small
black cloud gathers and it’s the devil…
a monster. And it comes onto me and
I can feel its weight and basically the
belief is that it’s holding me and that
it’s going to drag me down into an
abyss… I can feel sensations on my
body, it’s multi-sensory. I can sort of
smell it too. I feel sensations in my
body like in a lift, I feel like I’m going
down… I can’t move, certainly. Well,
I try but it never works. Usually all
I can do is make a kind of hum in my
throat and try to make a feedback
cycle, make that louder, as it gets
louder the more awake I get, the
more I can do until I can eventually
perhaps shout. And that wakes me
up, properly wakes me up."

I hear people say that they have been hagged. They say that they were paralyzed for a few moments and that was it! That is nothing like being hagged, far from it.

As I have explained it, on my about me page at http://www.old-hag.com/,this is something entirely different. The most frightening experience in your life. You are seeing demons, hearing them speak in a different language. They touch you, whisper in your ear. Yank your blankets off,or hover them over your bed . Creep in your bed, while you watch the indention's, on the bed, but see nothing. This is being hagged! It is the most frightening experience in your entire life. It may last about one minute, but it is the longest minute in your life. It is like watching the clock at your last class at school, and the seconds just seem to drag on by.

You must try and envision the experience,and triple it, before you will know what we are talking about. You feel as if you are dying, and the grim reaper is here to collect you.

This is nothing to write off as a "we are not sure what is happening", when you are terrified every night.

It is unacceptable, nightmares coming true and in reality.

This is no way to live. You find that you are scared to sleep in your bed. You will find that you are afraid to sleep at all!

This is the true old hag syndrome experience. The unexplainable, your worst nightmare has come true. These are the stories I would like to hear and include in my research. I would like to hear about any medications you are taking, or what is going on in your life. It is anonymousso why not? Maybe we can come up with something if we find everyone is taking the same thing, wouldn't that be a relief? I doubt that is the case, but one that must be addressed just the same.

Please tell us what you have seen, felt, heard, sensed and more, and if you have stopped the events..how?

Looking forward to hearing your stories....

Sherry

I hear people say that they have been hagged. They say that they wereparalyzed for a few moments and that was it! That is nothing like being hagged, far from it.

As I have explained it, on my about me page at http://www.old-hag.com/,this is something entirely different. The most frightening experience in your life. You are seeing demons, hearing them speak in a different language. They touch you, whisper in your ear. Yank your blankets off,or hoover them over your bed . Creep in your bed, while you watch the indention's, on the bed, but see nothing. This is being hagged! It is the most frightening experience in your entire life. It may last about one minute, but it is the longest minute in your life. It is like watching the clock at your last class at school, and the seconds just seem to drag on by.

You must try and envision the experience,and triple it, before you will know what we are talking about. You feelas if you are dying, and the grim reaper is here to collect you.

This is nothing to write off as a "we are not sure what is happening", when you are terrified every night.

It is unacceptable, nightmares coming true and in reality.

This is no way to live. You find that you are scared to sleep in your bed. You will find that you are afraid to sleep at all!

This  is the true old hag syndrome experience. The unexplainable, your worstnightmare has come true. These are the stories I would like to hear and include in my research. I would like to hear about any medications youare taking, or what is going on in your life. It is anonymous so why not? Maybe we can come up with something if we find everyone istaking the same thing, wouldn't that be a relief? I doubt that is the case, but one that must be addressed just the same.

Please tell us what you have seen, felt, heard, sensed and more, and if you have stopped the events..how?

Looking forward to hearing your stories....

Sherry