Anthony's Story - The Time a Ghost Broke a Bed

Today's tale comes from Anthony, one of my subscribers from Brisbane Australia, who shared with me a frightening experience that took place one night after watching a supernatural horror movie.

I'm now going to tell his story in his own words:

About 2002, living in our big family home in west Brisbane, life was good, I was always in between
jobs and torn between how much I wanted to just chill out in our big house and use the pool!

Among the many relaxing activities that I enjoyed there was watching movies with my brothers and
sister.

One night, very late, we decided to watch a movie called "Stir of Echoes" starring Kevin Bacon. In this
movie, with the help of a disturbed spirit, he uncovers the horrible murder of a teenage girl in his
neighborhood.


As it was late, all the right settings were there to make for a scary and suspenseful movie experience!
The lounge room was dark. Most of the family had gone to bed except for my sister, her boyfriend and I.

The movie was quite compelling and had extremely vivid scenes that honestly, had me on the edge!
In one part of the movie character's face is smothered in human blood and looks back at the camera with such horror! Their face is equally disturbing by the contrast of their white teeth!

We knew we had definitely chosen a scary movie!

Not long after all the horror... it was time for bed.

I said goodnight to my sister and her boyfriend and walked up the creaky stairs to my bedroom. I lay in my bed for what felt like hours and just could not sleep, and to be honest I was replaying scenes from the movie in my head over and over...

I decided to turn the light on and just try to focus on something else for a while... that was pre-Facebook or smartphones, so the middle of the night was quite boring!

Eventually I began to feel sleepy and decided to turn the light off and go to bed, but as time passed by I still could not get to sleep. Again, I replayed images in my mind, particularly the horrible image of the character's face covered in blood, except now he's looking at me! I'm trying to block it out, but it keeps coming back!

All-of-a-sudden, my bed comes crashing down to the floor! It made the most haunting sound of wood being crushed. I am beside myself with fear and jump out of the bed, turn on the light while trying to catch my breath! My wooden bed, which had no defects to it, had spontaneously split down the corner with such force that it looks like an axe has driven through it!

I'm still in shock from what happened and run to tell my siblings what happened. They kind of laugh but are in shock too when I tell them what happened. They came to inspect my bed and although shocked are tired enough to return to their bedrooms to go back to sleep.

I had to disassemble the rest of the bed in order to sleep on the floor, but it took hours for me to finally fall asleep! To this day I don't understand why or how my bed just split apart the way it did. It didn't just collapse, it was as if some incredible unknown force had come upon it. Was there a spirit or supernatural element to what happened? Why did it coincide with my horrible recollections of that movie?

This brings us to the end of Anthony's recollection of that night but it is not quite the end of this
bewildering tale... you see there is one thing I haven't yet mentioned. Anthony is now my brother-in-law, and the boyfriend of his sister that night was actually me. I personally saw the state of his bed before and after this incident and let me tell you, it was wrecked. Not only did it split, but in some parts of the bed the 8- to 10-centimeter-long bolts that held its corners together had been mysteriously loosened. This had been a sturdy bed made of solid wood and Anthony was not a heavy guy. There was no logical reason that we could come up with as to why, at that moment, late at night, the bed just suddenly broke apart!

The other thing that Anthony did not mention was that this house always gave me the creeps. It was a beautiful home, two storied, almost V shaped, angled around a luxurious swimming pool, complete with a miniature island that featured a palm tree in its middle. By all outward appearances this house was one to be envied, open to the sun, and leant itself to all the leisure’s of the Australian Summer. And yet, when the sun went down, whenever I was hanging out with the girl who would eventually become my wife, I often felt like something in that structure was giving me the heeby jeebies! In fact on a few occasions my soon to be mother-in-law said that even she had seen the figure of a small girl in a white night dress appear and then disappear in the pool table room. So the bed shattering the way it did was not exactly an isolated incident that randomly happened one day, but rather part of a chain of events that caused a few more sleepless nights for the rest of us who stayed there.

But what about you? Can you relate to this story in any way? Have you ever watched a movie that maybe you should not have watched, only to experience something supernatural after the credits have rolled? Have you ever been on the verge of sleep when all-of-a-sudden your bed shook, or broke or the invisible made itself tangible in a way that robbed you of sleep? Please share your tale with me at:
tellyourtalehere@gmail.com, so that I can tell your tale in a future video. And until next time, be careful which Kevin Bacon movie you watch.

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