I'd appreciate any insight into what I'm about to tell you. When I was 14 years old my family went away to my mothers home place in the West of Ireland while I stayed behind with my two older sisters, aged 16 and 17 respectively. I have a large family and I'm one of 10 children; 2 boys and 8 girls. At the time I was a happy teenager even though I did not have an ideal childhood. Nothing bothered me and I was full of excitement and wonder constantly looking for new things to learn and do. Shortly before my family went away I had experimented with a Ouija board with a couple of my friends. We had never heard of nor seen a Ouija board and none of us had any idea of the dangers we could have encountered. And so begins my story....

It was nearly 9am , I had just rolled over in the bed and looked at my alarm clock. I then heard my sister getting ready to go to her summer job. Before she left she shouted to me that she would be back later around 4pm and that I was to be at the house. I heard the door slam and almost instantly I felt a heavy weight pin me to my bed. I can't actually describe in words the strength of this force I felt weighing down upon my body. I started screaming as my eyes fixed upon a black opaque figure with no features hovering above my pelvic region. My stomach area was moving up and down as I continued to scream. Then something even more strange happened, I found myself out of my body looking down at this figure attacking me. I could see myself screaming and shouting for Gods help. Around my neck I could see large metal chains which fell to the floor. I then could see this figure move towards my face where it touched my screaming mouth, my lips then turned blue and I could see frozen ice all over my face. The area around my mouth looked like I had got severe frost bite and a little blood was coming from my cracked lips. In a blink of the eye I was back in my body and there was silence and no figure. I was trembling and could not comprehend what had just happened. Within 10 seconds I was out of my bed, down the stairs and running towards a friends house up the hill in my pyjamas. When I got there my friends mother did not know what to make of my state. I was sobbing and in a state of shock. She thought I had been raped by what I was telling her but when she heard the full story and I told her it was this black thing, she assumed that maybe I had a nightmare.

I remember going with my friend to her bedroom and she was just looking at me in fear. She hated spooky stories and she did not know how to help. When my sister met me later that evening, I still had not recovered and knew deep down that I had not been dreaming.

Not long after my family came home and heard about my incident as did the whole neighbourhood yet no one offered me the help and comfort I needed. I was terrified of sleeping in my bed and would sleep in with my sisters. I was starting a new term at school and my mum was busy preparing uniforms for 10 kids so I had no one to talk to about the subject. I don't think anyone realised the trauma I had endured.

When school started I began sleeping in my own bed but with the lights on at night. I lasted about an hour each night in my own bed before crawling into one of my sisters bed. After the attack each night that I went to bed I could feel someone pulling my hair and dragging me to the side of the bed to the point where I was nearly falling out.

I'm 28 now and I can honestly say I've never been the same since that incident. I suffered with depression all through my teenage years and always had this tightness in my stomach.

Looking back now I realise that the ouija board may be responsible coupled with the fact that I was a sensitive, intuitive and open young teenager.

So I ask the question  - Was I psychically abused/attacked?