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Nasty ghosts. Family curses. A fateful bogey man. Shrieks, howls, and cries of terror.

Those and more dark tales of sinister creatures await you in this latest Real Nightmares compilation.

Explore the strange world of the unknown with paranormal researcher extraordinaire Brad Steiger, an author of thousands of books and articles on mysterious secrets and unexplained phenomena.

These tales will bring a chill regardless of the heat outside. Come armed when you confront the world of Real Nightmares: Dark and Deadly Demons.

Sujets

Unexplained Phenomena

Body (disambiguation)

Spirituality

Supernatural

Brad Steiger

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Publié par	Visible Ink Press
Date de parution	01 août 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781578594344
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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REAL
NIGHTMARES
Dark
and Deadly
Demons
7Brad SteigerCONTENTS
The Nasty Ghosts of Amherst . . . . . . . . . . 4
The Curse that Followed a Family
for 100 Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
A Demonic Line-up of Those Who
Obeyed Their Orders to Kill . . . . . . . . . 23
The Biting Bug-eyed Invisible
Monster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
A Multi-faceted Contactee-Abductee
Case History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Be Cautious If You Boast You Are a
Vampire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Bogeyman—He Doesn't Just Live
under Your Bed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Real Nightmares: 7 2FROM THE AUTHOR, BRAD STEIGER
real nightmare occurs when you experience a fright-Aening encounter with something strange and
unknown, and you know without question that you are not
asleep, that you are not dreaming. You know with every
ounce of your being that the chilling encounter is real.
I first experienced real nightmares when I was a
child. Today, my sister and I attribute our insomnia to
the ghostly visitors that walked through our bedrooms
nearly every night and kept us awake. Our farmhouse
was built on the site of the old stagecoach stop, and it
seemed that some other-worldly passengers were still
trying to catch the last stage out of this dimension. It
didn’t help when our parents tore the old house down
and built a new home on the same site. Our spirit
companions still appeared as shadows moving about the
house and amused themselves by knocking on the walls,
stomping about with heavy feet, and opening and
closing doors. Growing up with real nightmares on a
regular basis prepared me for the nights in my adulthood
when I would investigate haunted houses with a team
of paranormal researchers and encounter a wide variety
of other-worldly beings.
[Continued on p. 64]
Real Nightmares: 7 3The Nasty Ghosts of Amherst
ne night in September 1878, 18-year-old Esther CoxOwoke her 22-year-old sister Jane and asked if she felt
something in bed with them. Although the two-story
cottage they lived in on Princess Street in Amherst, Nova
Scotia, Canada, was kept clean and neat, the possibility of a
mouse invading their bed was not impossible. The two girls
jumped out of bed with a scream and began to search their
mattress. Jane spotted the straw of the mattress moving about
and concluded that a rodent must be trying to make a nest.
The two sisters set to beating the mattress
vigorously in an attempt to drive the tiny intruder out of their
bed, but no mouse retreated from the straw of the
mattress. The girls watched the mattress for a bit, detected
no further movement, and concluded that the mouse
must have escaped without their seeing it. Esther and
Jane decided they had better get back to sleep before
Real Nightmares: 7 4The Nasty Ghosts of Amherst
they awakened the rest of the household. The pair lived
in the home of their sister Olive, who had married
Daniel Teed. Daniel and Olive had two sons: Willie, five,
and George, 13 months. Daniel’s brother John Teed and
William Cox, the brother of Olive, Jane, and Esther, also
shared the Teed house. As they had not woken anyone
as they searched for the mouse that disturbed their sleep,
the girls decided to make no mention of the incident the
next morning, as it would only result in laughter and
teasing from John and William.
On the following night, Esther and Jane heard a loud
scratching from under their bed. They lit a lamp to
investigate, and a large cardboard box filled with patchwork
suddenly flew out from under the bed. When Jane put it
back in its place, it was once again thrust into the air. The
girls were perplexed by the energetic “mouse” and began
to call for help. Daniel Teed groggily slipped on a pair of
trousers, entered the girls’ bedroom, and kicked the box
back under the bed, where it stayed. Grumpily, he
cautioned them about repeating their little joke.
The girls were quite indignant at breakfast the next
morning, when they were heartily teased by the whole
family. The young women both felt that they were much
too old to be considered empty-headed tricksters. That
night the mood in the house quickly changed; as the
disturbances became much more dramatic, those living in
the Teed residence could no longer consider them a joke.
When Esther woke up in the middle of that third
evening, she gasped and cried out to Jane for help, as
she feared for her life.
Jane lit a lamp, then nearly dropped it in horror as
she took in the ghastly appearance of her sister. Esther’s
complexion had become a bright scarlet in color, and
Real Nightmares: 7 5The Nasty Ghosts of Amherst
her eyes bulged from her skull. Her hair seemed to be
standing on its end, and her flesh was extremely hot to
the touch. Her entire body seemed to be swelling, as if
someone were inflating her with a pump. Then the walls
of their room began to rumble and shake, as if thunder
had erupted within them.
Daniel and Olive appeared at the door to the girls’
room. They had been awakened by the loud noises and
wondered what on earth had been causing them. They
were shocked at Esther’s inflated appearance, then
puzzled, when the girl’s body suddenly seemed to begin
deflating. Soon her flesh had returned to normal form and
shape, and an exhausted Esther returned to her bed and
slept peacefully. The family resolved not to say anything
about the mysterious disturbances to anyone outside of
the household.
Secrecy soon became an impossibility, however. The
next night, the bedclothes flew off the girls and landed
in a heap in a far corner of the room. Esther once again
began to swell, and when John Teed came to investigate,
a pillow shot from the bed and struck him full in the
face. The young man could not be coaxed to re-enter the
room, but the remainder of the household sat on the
edge of the bed, using all their weight and strength to
keep blankets over swollen Esther. While they fought
with the bedclothes, a series of sharp explosions began
to sound about the room. As the mysterious eruptions
crashed and banged, Esther began to deflate just as she
had done the night before.
Due to the inexplicable events of that evening,
Daniel Teed resolved that he would have the family
physician, Dr. Caritte, in attendance the following night.
When the doctor arrived on the scene in preparation for
Real Nightmares: 7 6