The air turned black around me, I was swirling around a weird swirly, circular thing, it felt cold and strange, I began to feel icy fingers gripping my arm, in the darkness as I wandered through an unfamiliar place, I heard moans and screams. Chills went ran through my body chilling me to my very core. I was confused on where I was at and how I got here, one minute I was writing, and I wake up in a weird place. Am I dreaming I said as I pinch myself, “Ow, I said out loud into the dark, where am I? How did I get here? Is this real? Do my eyes deceive me I asked myself? I swore I saw my grandfather coming towards me, he came from the living room. I was in my house but was somehow different almost it was backwards or reserved and house was the same, but it was laid out different. My grandfather saw me and gave his warmest smile and greeted me with a hug, except his arms and body were cold. “Pop Pop, I replied, where I am I? He looked at me a little confused and said, you’re in the spirit realm, how I did I get here? I don’t know my grandfather answered. I’m here to help you and you need to be very careful, there is very evil powerful spirit here. It lead us here and trapped me and your grandmother here we need your help. He has bound us to this place, and we get out, there’s portal upstairs in the closet that he protects, we have lead him away from it and destroy the portal. How I said? Go back home and look for clues, I have them hidden all over the house. He’s coming my Pop Pop said we have to hide.” I was living in my grandparents’ house I went into my room which was my grandparents’ bedroom I sat on the bed and thought about the day they disappeared, I was transcended back into a childhood memory, I was staying with my grandparents I was just a young girl and I was staying with them during summer, it had been a beautiful day, we spent the day outside walking in the woods, and that night after dinner my whole world was turned upside down. I was sleeping down the hall from my grandparents when I was awakened with loud screaming and yelling, I heard a lot banging, and loud noises coming from my grandparents room, I ran to see what the matter was and when I peeked through the crack of the door, I saw him: my hair stood on end, a shiver went down my spine. He was ghastly, he red eyes he wore old, ragged clothes, messy gray hair, and he was tall, and skinny. He looked so scary especially to a ten-year-old, then he turned and looked right at me with his ghoulish, red eyes. Then he took my grandparents and disappeared into the closet, I walked in there and looked into the closet there was a loud swirling noise, followed by screams, and moans, and yelling. My grandparents yelled for me to help them, I felt so helpless what could I do I was only ten years old. I watched the magic round thing spin and turn until it disappeared and then the closet slammed shut. I cried and cried and screamed for my grandparents, I sat there alone on the bed where I cried all night, the next morning I woke up and went to the neighbor’s house she had been a medium, so I knew she’d understand, I told her how my grandparents disappeared and what I saw, Mary Greystone told me I saw an evil spirit and she told me to show her where she saw the portal at. I took Mary by her hand and lead her through the house to my grandparents’ room, she walked and immediately she was hit with a feeling it hit her like a brick wall. “I feel a strong presence here, especially in the closet.
The medium put her hand in the closet she feel the strength, and magic from the portal, she closed her eyes, at first she gasped all sorts of spirits were coming at her at once all trying to talk to her at the same time, it was hard for her to focus, then one particular spirit was there except he was hiding upstairs but Mary could feel him, she kept looking around the house, she heard a voice call out to her but it wasn’t spirit it was human, what are humans doing in a spirit realm? Mary asked herself. “help u a voice said in an old, gruff, voice, we’re in here and were trapped”. Mary had this odd look on her face, “Jacey, your grandparents are trapped in paranormal portal, and because you saw the spirit that took your grandparents the spirit is coming for you next, Mary predicted. I can help you, but you also share my gift, it’s going to take the both of us to open the paranormal portal and defeat the evil spirit. I need to look more into the spirit that took your grandparents, is ok if I come back here and take a look around? Mary asked me. I said sure and I handed her the key, lock up when you’re done. Ok she agreed.” Before Mary left, I thanked her and hugged her ad then we exchanged numbers and she left and I went downstairs and I called my parents and tried to explain to them what happened, “hi mommy, I said, something bad happened to Gram and Pop Pop, I replied trying my best not to cry, what do you mean her mother queried? Last night something came and took them, and they disappeared into the closet I countered, Jacey that’s impossible her mother retorted, maybe they are outside or in the house somewhere. No, mom I said firmly they’re gone I said with tear streaming down my face. Ok, sweetie I believe you, Daddy and I are on our way to come pick you up.” I went back upstairs to pack my bags grabbed my things from the bathroom and waited for my parents to come. Mary had come back that night and she looked around for any clues that would lead to my grandparents, and why they were taken let alone alive. Mary looked around my grandparents’ things looking through drawers, she found a box of items and in that box was arrowheads, old coins, and an old hand mirror that was silver and it a name engraved on it, E.L. Mary grabbed the box of artifacts and took it home with her, she locked the door and went home. She placed the box on the table and pulled out the artifacts looking at them one by one. She pulled out the coins looking at the year they were made the early 1700s and were made from silver, she held the coin her hand to see if she see or feel anything, she closed her eyes; she taken back to time far away were people dressed differently, she saw a silversmith shop and there was a tall man, and next him was a small young boy working beside his father. The boy had looked familiar, Mary closed her eyes and thought about the evil spirit she saw and his grownup self and compared to who she saw now, and it was him just as a young boy. I walk through this strange old town I looked around for a sign to see where I was, I saw a sign that just outside of town that Welcome to Goldenberry which was in Virginia. As I walk through town, I see a house with a woman in it she’s sitting in her chair sowing, but she falls asleep, I see pet cat running around she jumps on the window knocking over some candles and it catches the curtains on fire. The whole house is engulfed in flames, I try to run in and save the woman but it’s too late. The father and son are screaming, and they watch their house burn to nothing. After the fire, the father and son goes in and all that’s left in the house was a silver hand mirror that was engraved with the letters E.L. the father made that mirror for his wife as birthday present. It was the only left of his wife he could remember her by. The father and son ended rebuilding their home and lived in that town until the boy’s father died and the boy ended up dying tragically and was murdered. She placed the mirror on the table, and she was snapped back to her house. She typed the initials E.L. into her search engine, the name Elanor Langston her maiden name was Elanor Dittmer popped up, she came from a wealthy family who lived in Ashville, North Carolina and owned a cotton factory. She married Eli Langston and ended having one boy Claude Langston, she closed her laptop and picked up the mirror again, she could feel Elanor and Claude in this mirror, she thought for a minute I wonder if that’s why the spirit came after Jacey’s grandparents because they had his mother’s mirror and he as attached to it and he thinks they stole it from him and now the grandfather angered the spirit and that’s why he took them. She looked into more about the mirror, before Claude died, he got involved with the occult, somehow the mirror got possessed then somehow Claude got possessed. She had found out something else, she found a story online about a mirror and how it was possessed and the way to defeat the person that was possessed was to destroy the mirror, it will break the bind between the unclean demon and human, by breaking the mirror it releases the demon but before you break you have to bind at to hell first. I remember after my parents coming the police coming and searching the house, and the woods, the town, the city, they searched every possible place where my grandparents went, they even went to my aunt and uncles to see if they were there visiting, but they would always call and say where they were going and when they would be back, but they found nothing my grandparents were gone without a trace. The police even thought maybe they were kidnapped but there no trace of evidence of a kidnapping. She had to let Jacey know. The house wasn’t broken into and all the windows and doors were in one piece. The police blamed it on them having dementia them leaving and forgetting where they lived, but I knew the truth if I told no one would believe me. I went back home with my parents and I lived my life, but I was never the same after that night. Life without my grandparents was hard, I grew up, went to school, graduated, and moved out on my own. I still believe that night over and over and suffer from the same nightmare. I had the same recurring dream about the night my grandparents disappeared, this dream felt more like a vision, I was back in my grandfather’s house looking for clues to help my grandparents’ there in the room on the closet door was piece of clothing that looked like it from another era in time. I looked at closely but didn’t recognize it, I put to my nose and sniffed it and smelled musty and old, but and smelled smoky. I placed in my pocket, continued to look for clues, I had this nagging feeling that someone was trying to tell something, I go to the dresser and in draw which had slightly opened was a box full of artifacts, I had opened it and it that box were coins, arrowheads, and an old silver hand mirror with the name E.L. engraved on the handle. It was a pretty little hand mirror and it looked it would have belonged to a lady. Just then I heard sounds coming from the closet, it was ghostly moans at first but then it turned into