In Fall 2019, I moved into my college dorm. This college is built on the grounds (and using the buildings) of an asylum that began in 1933. Most of the old buildings have been updated and renovated into classrooms and offices, except for four. One is next to the bus stop, and I thought it was still in use for offices.
When I came up towards the entrance, black tendrils appeared from the door in my secondary vision. It was as though there was this black slime coming out of it, and I finally got close enough to read the sign on the door, CHILDREN'S PSYCHIATRIC WARD. I backed up, bowing and apologizing, because I could feel so much energy coming off of it, angry and hungry, and I ran off. I thought I could cut through a courtyard, but it was a dead end, and the children's ward was on all sides. It felt like there were hundreds of eyes watching me from the windows. I could feel what they wanted, for me to come into the building with them, and just as surely, I knew that if I went in, I would never come out.
I already had my statuette of Pan in my pocket and my silver amulet around my neck, but there was a piece of rebar at my feet, and I grabbed that too. I said I didn't want any trouble, I would never come back, or bring anybody, that I just wanted to get out of there. I backed out of the courtyard, and left the rebar at the entrance in case it was needed by anyone else.
I started carrying a chain of additional amulets around as the semester wore on. There were other incidents like this, and eventually it was decided my medication should be increased. I wasn't scared so much after that. I've been on antipsychotics and other medications for years, but I've often wondered whether the incident in the courtyard could be classified as something occult in nature. If so, what happened? Is there a better way to handle this sort of thing in the future? Besides remembering where the courtyard entrances are, of course.
Ghosts, Slime, and Schizophrenia
This is going to be a long one, unfortunately.
In Fall 2019, I moved into my college dorm. This college is built on the grounds (and using the buildings) of an asylum that began in 1933. Most of the old buildings have been updated and renovated into classrooms and offices, except for four. One is next to the bus stop, and I thought it was still in use for offices.
When I came up towards the entrance, black tendrils appeared from the door in my secondary vision. It was as though there was this black slime coming out of it, and I finally got close enough to read the sign on the door, CHILDREN'S PSYCHIATRIC WARD. I backed up, bowing and apologizing, because I could feel so much energy coming off of it, angry and hungry, and I ran off. I thought I could cut through a courtyard, but it was a dead end, and the children's ward was on all sides. It felt like there were hundreds of eyes watching me from the windows. I could feel what they wanted, for me to come into the building with them, and just as surely, I knew that if I went in, I would never come out.
I already had my statuette of Pan in my pocket and my silver amulet around my neck, but there was a piece of rebar at my feet, and I grabbed that too. I said I didn't want any trouble, I would never come back, or bring anybody, that I just wanted to get out of there. I backed out of the courtyard, and left the rebar at the entrance in case it was needed by anyone else.
I started carrying a chain of additional amulets around as the semester wore on. There were other incidents like this, and eventually it was decided my medication should be increased. I wasn't scared so much after that. I've been on antipsychotics and other medications for years, but I've often wondered whether the incident in the courtyard could be classified as something occult in nature. If so, what happened? Is there a better way to handle this sort of thing in the future? Besides remembering where the courtyard entrances are, of course.