>Be very young, like maybe 4 or 5 >Staying at grandmother's house while we are in process of moving >Have to sleep alone upstairs >Wake up at night and hear someone coming up the stairs >Call out "Tommy?" as I think its my brother >Hear a sick raspy breathing, followed by lip smacking and then moaning >Look out open bedroom down down dark hallway >See hunched over shape slowly ascending staircase >I'm literally paralyzed with fear >I still remember that kind of fear, primal, blinding in it's ferocity >I remember the words it started to say to me as it shambled down the hall toward my room, but! honesty can't type them. I'm literally tearing up as I think about them >I could see it out there in the dim hall-light, it was a woman, a very, VERY old woman, like, mummified woman >Suddenly from down the hall my grandma appears, leaning on her cane >"Edith, you'll not touch him. >The old "hag" stops in the hall >You will leave this house Edith! You no longer live here!" >I pass out >The next morning ital felt like a dream, but ask my grandma anyway >Hesitantly, she says it was just an old witch" who used to live in the house before my grandparents bought tn the 50's >Tells me to never speak of it again >Nothing strange every happened in that house again