I Think I Met a Witch

Hey, it's Shawn. I don't want to address anyone in my story so obviously I'm using fake names.

I'm a first year college student and I love to party.

One Saturday night I went to my friend Andy's place to party. I took shrooms for the first time that night. Just for context, I had a huge crush on Andy's older sister, Kelly. Kelly was into reading tarot cards and I don't believe in that shit. Although, I did mention I had a crush on kelly, So I was down to talk with her about literally anything.

During our conversation kelly asked if I'd be interested in letting her read my cards. I was high and I couldn't say no to her. So, I said, Sure, I don't mind."

So, she took me to her room and it had lot of witch stuff. And by witch stuff I mean sage, incense stick and zodiac charts. I said witch stuff because not many girls in their 20s don't have it in their room. There was 2 other girl in her room and one of girl's boyfriend was just sitting at the corner of her bed. So, here's where my story began.

Kelly opened her dressing table drawer and I saw a deck of cards in drawer. She also had some kind of notebook with the cards. She told me to sit beside her and did so. Than she shuffled her cards and asked me to pick 3 cards. I picked my 1st card.

So, the 1st card I picked had a clown in it juggling balls and kelly told me, you are innocent,knieve to be honest and that's the reason many people in your life tried to take advantage of you which included your ex girlfriend. You are relentlessly trying to look for a new beginning. I'm sorry if I offended you was her finishing statement.

I literally screamed inside after hearing her because for a long time I've thought of myself as knieve specially after my girlfriend cheated on me with my best friend. She's the reason I changed schools and came to Montreal in her words for a new start.

I told kelly I didn't agree with her because she was wrong. I still remember Kelly's face after I disagreed with her. She just smiled while looking at the 2nd Card I picked. While she was about to read my second card, andy entered the room and andy said, "kelly can you for once stop practicing your stupid witchcraft on my friends?"

Kelly said, "What, he wanted me to read his tarotcard?"

It was the opposite of what happened because kelly suggested me that she wants to read my cards.

Andy said to me, "Shawn, don't listen to her, it's all just bullshit." "You wanna go for a smoke?"

"I'll be there in a minute", I said.

"Great, I'll be at the porch".

Than andy left. Suddenly I noticed that couple on Kelly's bed just disappeared while I was having a conversation with andy.

Kelly silently asked, "Can I continue?"

I was so weirded out but I told her to continue.

Than she said, The second card is about your father , I mean it's about your parents. You wouldn't like it.

I literally shook in fear. That was strictly personal and I haven't said that to anyone. The thing that came to my mind was the ongoing process of my parents divorce.

Still I asked kelly, "Why won't I like it?"

Kelly said, "I know you won't like it."

I was thinking by myself that, If she's talking about my dad cheating on my mom,surely I won't like it. But, how would she know that? Is she talking about the divorce my parents are going through because of it?

How can she be so accurate?

Andy came to Kelly's room again. And andy was like, Dude, I froze to death while waiting for you!

"Sorry, I totally about it. "I said.

Let's go man. In a sense, it seemed like andy didn't want me to stay there with her. Andy caught my hand pulled me towards the entrance of the room while saying," you need a beer asap".

And than we left the room. I couldn't take my eyes off of her, kelly smirked at me as if she knew that she was accurate this whole time.

After that, I went for a smoke with andy and the night went pretty Normal.



2

That nights experience felt like it was a coincidence. Maybe I was acting all paranoid because of trying shrooms for the 1st time. But, here's where the real story begins. Flashforward to few days after the party.

I just finished playing WWE with my roommate. I told him, I'mma call it a night. Let me tell you something about my house. It's a big house and 3 students live in it inclding myself.

I left the living room to go to my bedroom and my friend went to his room. After I went to my room I turned off the light and laid on my bed to scroll through my newfeeds on Instagram.

I don't even remember when I fell asleep. Atleast it felt to me I was asleep just because it felt like a logical choice to put what happened afterwards.

It seemed like a dream that I opened the main entrance of my house and let someone in. Than I closed the door with a loud sound. I don't remember anything what happened after.

Now, that the dream was over. As soon as I opened my eyes in the darkness of my room. I could see a female like figure standing over my face. Her face was covered with her hair. As she had long hair, I imagined she was a girl. Just after looking at that female like figure, I tried sitting on my bed. And that's when it happened.

She put one of her hands on my mouth so that I couldn't scream and another on my throat tightly. I couldn't breathe neither could I scream. I couldn't move because my whole body felt so paralyzed. I've never felt so helpless before. That situation lasted for about 10 seconds if I recall. When I couldn't get anything to my favour inorder to help the situation.

I just want to present the fact that I'm not very religious. My parents are Muslims.While growing up my mother pressured me to learn arabic and read Quran which is the bible for Muslims. I mean the religious script. I had to memorize some verses of Quran which are actually called Surah.

Now let's get back to the story. There was this specific surah or verse from Quaran, I remembered when she was holding my throat. It's called Surah Fatiha. I closed my eyes and started reading it in my mind. Just clarify, I had the surah all memorized. When I was in the halfway of finishing the surah it felt like the pressure she was exerting in my throat was starting to reduce. When I finished the Surah and said , Amen in the end.

Automatically, I felt relieved as if everything was normal. I opened my eyes and instantly turned on my light switch. Everything in my room felt Normal as if Nothing had happened. I looked under my bed and saw nothing. I got out of the room and turned on all the light switches of the house. Nothing seemed out of place.

After that, I knocked on my friends door, he opened the door and asked me why I wasn't asleep. I just asked him if he heard any footsteps in a few minutes ago. He was like, you mean your footsteps.

No, someone else.

"Are you high,dude",He said.

I said, "Nevermind, just forget it."

And then when I was about to leave his room.

My friend said, "I heard a loud bang of someone closing the door few minutes ago."

I thought you went to the washroom or something.

Was it the main entrance?

I don't know. I was with my girlfriend on the phone when I heard it.

"Oh ok", I said and left for my room.

Internally I was screaming my guts out. I've never seen a ghost before. Let alone a ghost holding my mouth closed.

The next morning I called my parents and told them everything. They believed me on phone but they also suggested me to go to a doctor. It's normal to say that they didn't believe me 100%.

After that incident, I've never seen anything weird or supernatural in my entire life. I don't know if you guys will believe me or not, that thing was real and I wasn't dreaming or hellucinating. It felt as real as anything could ever be. I don't know if tarrot card reading few days before the incident was the reason behind it or not. But, this is the most horrific thing that has ever happened to me untill now. I never went to Andy's place ever in my life. But, I heard from a friend that Andy's sister, I mean kelly's boyfriend committed suicide last year and nobody knows the reason why.

Thanks for listening my story. Stay safe from the covid.