Hello if you think this true story fits on your page please post it as I would like to know if anyone else remembers a dream like this:
When I was 11 years old we moved from Louisville, KY to a new house in Lexington, KY. The house has always felt a bit strange even though it was newly built and we were the first occupants and rumor had it that the neighborhood was built on an old indian burial ground or hunting ground, depending upon who tells the story. May just be a typical neighborhood rumor but the builders did find many Indian artifacts while excavating the new constructions and that fact is confirmed. Otherwise, the only confirmable history about the neighborhood was that it was that it was subdivided from a large old farm in the 1970's, with the old farmhouse remaining as one of the houses in the neighborhood [when I was an older teen I occasionally babysat at the old farmhouse, and was never comfortable there for a reason I still remember but cannot articulate].
Anyway, shortly after moving into the new house, I dreaded going to sleep because I began having a dream where I was walking on a path in the woods and suddenly, out of nowhere, I would turn and see a very evil, malevolent troll looking creature --- I can still see it to this day --- it was slightly under 4 feet tall and appeared to be an old man with a grey beard wearing a dark green elf-like suit with a large pointed witch type hat. This figure never did anything except stand there but I always saw it suddenly and awoke in a cold, horrified sweat. The worst thing was, after I'd had this same dream the first couple of times I subsequently became horrified in my sleep when this dream started because in the dream I knew I was going to see this figure --- it was very weird because even in the dream I somehow knew how it was going to end, if that makes sense and it made the dream even more horrific because I knew it would culminate with me suddenly seeing the horriifying figure. The troll figure never did anything more than stand there but my terror was so strong upon its sudden appearance that I always awoke before it had a chance do do anything other than appear [which was bad enough]. The next weird experience was awaking one night to go to the bathroom and seeing a HUGE spider on the carpet that looked like a giant black widow but was too big to be real --- it was hand-sized and we have no spiders like that around here. I was not intoxicated or dreaming and I remember carefully opening the door and stepping around it, and the bedroom light was on and the bedroom brightly lit so it was no illusion. When I returned from the bathroom it was gone.
I would appreciate feedback from anyone else who had a similar experiences.