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When we were young, our parents always scare us of ghosts. They said ghosts will eat us or sleep with us if we do not obey them. That's why I'm not that naughty when I was a kid. I remember I always play on my own with my Jollibee plushie.

I'm not that child that loves Barbie dolls or girl dolls. I don't know but I am scared seeing them looking at me smiling. Its head can be turned and also can be removed. Its big eyes look like watching me everywhere.

Last 2013, when The Conjuring movie trends, I was so curious about the game that my classmates doing. They played hide and seek with a twist of blindfolds and claps. I ask them what the story was about and they said they don't want to spoil me so they send the movie to my phone. I'm excited to watch it but we still have a class that day.

When I got home and finish all my tasks I decided to sleep but suddenly I remember the movie. I quickly get my phone in my bag and play it on the bed.

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Watching that movie was one of the wrong decisions I ever did. I will never wake up if my neighbor didn't come in. They are worried so much that day because there is no sign of me preparing for school. I and their daughter commute to school together that's why they think something happened to me inside. They wreck the door and found me hardly breathing. My neighbors father prays for me and finally, I woke up. I was trapped in my dreams. I was trapped in that game. I got a nightmare.

I live alone in the big house of my Uncle in the province before. He was not around because he works very far. He is a soldier and that kind of job is always assigned in different places. His live-in partner always leaves me and I am so lucky that my neighbors are there to help me.

After what happened I didn't sleep in that house again. I ask my neighbors if it's okay if I will stay with them and they said no problem. I'm scared when the evening will come. I always cried when I heard a loud noise. I don't want to eat and don't want to sleep. I'm scared to see that old woman in my dreams. I neglected my study and I don't go to school for days.

My neighbor brought me to our barangay's clinic to check what is wrong with me 'cause my head really hurts. They said it's because of lack of sleep. They give me sleeping pills for me to have long rest but I didn't take them cause if I do I might not wake up forever.

My Uncle knows what happens and he immediately travel home. His live-in partner and our neighbor thinks something is possessing in me. She asks my neighbors if there is albularyo in our barrio. They search and found an old man from Siquijor.

People from Siquijor are known for healing in the traditional way. They used herbal medicine and prayers. Hearsays they know how to rid bad spirits and also they know how to put it to you. When the old man saw me he suddenly talk and said, "You shouldn't be here". We're curious whom he address it and my Uncle's live-in partner ask, "Tatang, who you were talking to?" And he replied "That woman at the back of your kid" We got nervous because we didn't tell him about the woman who was bothering me in my dreams. At first, I don't want to believe in him. I just think he was a good guesser.

When he is about to check on me, he commands me to bring him a black cloth and egg. I think he read my mind that I didn't believe that he saw a woman at my back. He said, "Do you want to know who bothers you?" I nod and my heart starts to beats fast.

He covered the black cloth to the whole egg that I gave him and start to pray (I think in a Latin language) He wipes the cloth to my head, neck, back arms, and legs while the egg is inside. After that, he said I have to crack the egg to check if it is the one who bothers me. I got shocked after I saw a lot of hair inside the egg. How did he know that it is a girl with long hair who is disturbing me?! How those hair get inside the egg?! I stunned. "She was in the cabinet in your dream right?" He adds. I can't speak and suddenly felt goosebumps.

He said our house is big and it's not new that spirits love to go round in a quiet place. Paintings inside the house are so lonely and even air can be heard. Also, he knew that the house didn't have prayers and benediction. He advise my Uncle's live-in partner to invite a priest to bless and pray the house to send away lost spirits.

It was still a big question to me how the albularyo guesses a woman with long hair is with me. Yeah, it's common that lady ghosts/spirits have long hair but guessing that in my dream she was in the cabinet was a big coincidence. Btw, the cabinet we have in my Uncle's house is also made of wood and looks the same in the Conjuring movie.

Before the albularyo left, he gave me a herbal drink so that I can fall asleep but I didn't drink it. I suddenly I remember my catechist said, that prayer can remove all our fears.

He also told me to burn the plushie doll that was above the cabinet. It's not mine actually, it's from the live-in partner of my Uncle's stuff. The next day my Uncle arrived and didn't believe what albularyo told us.

My Uncle's live-in partner sold the cabinet and paintings and replace a new one. But I think that woman was still there, the house was still quiet because they always leave. I ask for permission from my Uncle if I can stay in the house of our neighbor and am glad he permitted me. That big house looks abandoned because they come home once every 3 months and often once every year.

Even today I can still remember the woman's face. She was like an ancient person/soul.

Additional thoughts

Spirits attract a negative aura of people. Even they didn't harm us, they shouldn't be here. They need to go to the light where all souls belong.

Always pray. It is the best weapon we can use to every elemental or non-being that will tempt to harm us.

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