Garry R. Kennedy

Shortly after the crashing dishes episodes at my residence my daughter Laura moved out into an apartment.  (See posting “The Crashing Dishes” for more information).  Because of the crashing dishes and what she shared with me about her experiences below, I took some oil and while praying in the Holy Spirit I walked from room to room putting oil on the door frames and windows of my house, requesting protection from God from any unholy spirits that may be operating in it.  I did go over to Laura’s apartment and prayed with her for protection there too, however I did not use any oil or go from room to room, this was a mistake.  Laura and her friend Jennifer wrote the following words.  On the last paragraph I interviewed Sean who was at the time Laura’s boyfriend, but is now her husband.

Less than a year later after the crashing dishes I moved into an apartment with two friends.  Jennifer, one of my roommates at the time, told me that she felt like something was following me.  She said that she got an uneasy feeling when we hung out.  I too felt as if I was constantly being watched and closely followed by an unwanted and indescribable thing.

One morning Jennifer came out of her room and looked very concerned.  She then shared with me that she had had an encounter with what she described as a beast.  She had woken in the middle of the night to a large, black, hairy creature with long nails and red eyes glaring at her.  It was seated at the foot of her bed.  Jennifer was at the apartment by herself that night.  She shared with me that she closed her eyes tightly and began to pray.  She was too scared to open her eyes.

I decided not to tell my boyfriend, now husband, about Jennifer’s encounter because we had just started dating and I didn’t want to weird him out.  Six months later my boyfriend and I were standing next to his truck in his gravel driveway.  It was dark when Sean had begun to act slightly alarmed.  He insisted that I go inside during the middle of our conversation.  I sensed urgency in his voice.  I was in the house no longer than 30 seconds before he joined me.  Not wanting to scare me, he tried to cover up his concern.  I questioned his odd behavior and he hold me that he saw a large, black, hairy creature with long nails and red eyes, about 8 or 9 feet tall, running straight toward me from the field.  I had not yet told him about Jennifer’s encounter nor had I described the creature to him.  It appeared to me that both my best friend and my boyfriend had seen what I had been sensing all this time.  I have yet to ever see this creature myself.

Laura.

Shortly out of high school I moved into an apartment with my cousin, and my friend Laura.  Since we could only afford a two-bedroom place, I shared a room with my cousin.  We lived in the apartment for a total of 3 months.

While living in the apartment I encountered a paranormal creature on two occasions.  The first time I was home alone and had walked into my room.  Before I could switch on the light my attention was drawn to a gargoyle like creature.  It was sitting on my cousin’s bed.  It was very large and muscular with an animal like build to it.  The eyes on the creature were red and he had long fingernails and two large horns on its head.  We looked at each other and then it turned its head away from me.  I decided to get out of the apartment and didn’t come back until my roommates were home.

The second encounter occurred on a late Saturday night.  Once again my roommates were not home.  I had gone to bed early because I wasn’t feeling well.  When I woke up in the middle of the night the same creature was sitting at the end of my bed.  It was staring down at me with its red eyes.  I closed my eyes shut as hard as I could and began to pray.  I didn’t open my eyes again until the morning, when light was present.

While living in the apartment several other odd things happened.  The neighbor below us constantly complained that we were making loud noises and vacuuming in the middle of the night.  These claims were not true.  We also heard noises coming from the apartment on the other side of us, such as muffled talking and bumping into walls.  Shortly before we moved out, a couple started to move into that same apartment.  It had been vacant the entire time.

I shared with my roommate Laura that I often got an eerie feeling when she was around, like something was in the room with us.  It was as if her presence was being followed by an evil essence.  I no longer feel this way when I am around her now, 6 years later.

Jennifer.

It was one year into my relationship with Laura when I witnessed something that I couldn’t explain at all.  Laura was, and is still a very spiritual person while at the time I didn’t consider myself a very good Christian at all.  I believed in God, but I was very angry at Him for the loss of my father at a young age.

Laura and I were having a conversation outside my mother’s house in the country one night next to my truck on the north side of the house, when I noticed something moving fast out of the corner of my eyes. There was open acreage behind the house and a storage shed off to the left side about 200 feet away from us.   The area was slightly lit up by the back porch light and some surrounding homes.  Moving very rapidly, I saw a dark hairy shadow that appeared as a silhouette of something I have never witnessed before.  I have been hunting hundreds of times and what was closing in on us sent fear into my heart.  I didn’t know what it was but I felt it was coming after Laura, who had her back to it.  It was very tall and charging towards us on two legs.  The head of the creature reminded me of something primal with its head in a slumped over position, with a short but full neck.  But what struck fear into me the most were its red eyes.  They were not that bright but reminded me of burning coals in a dying fire.  I told Laura to go into the house immediately and when she did I looked back at the creature that was closing the distance between us.  When it was only 30 to 40 feet from me it just disappeared.  Since that night I have never seen the creature again nor do I care to.

Sean.

“But Remember Moses and what happened when some of his people tried to worship another god of their own creation.  The Father is slow to anger, but He is also a jealous god.  He wants all your love and worship.  He does not care to share His glory or His good works with nonexistent deities.  God is real, Thomas, not make-believe.  Surely you can understand His reasoning, for you yourself are a father.”

“What do you mean ‘because I am a father’?” asked Thomas.

“Do you deprive your child of the knowledge of the love that you have to offer him?  God wants you to know how much He loves you.  Don’t you want your child to know how much you love him?  Why would you want to deny him the truth?  It is essential to his well-being.  Children need to know that their parents make sacrifices for them out of their love for them.  Not only when they are good, but even when they are bad.

The Jesus Tree Ornaments, A Father’s Offering, Chapter 12, pages 196-197.