A certain co-worker and I both share an interest in the supernatural and often swap stories. Recently, she came to my desk and started talking about an entity in the woods behind her house. She said that when she walked outside the hair on her neck stood up. Continuing, she told how her mom and dad (who also lived there) were fighting, she and her husband were fighting, the children were fighting. There was a lot of strife in the air. And a very unusual thing was, they could hear it, and it was unlike any animal sound they’d ever heard. They even got on the Internet to see if they could identify the sound and could not.

She was asking me what I thought it was. I was kind of busy, so I asked a few questions like, “When did it first appear?” She thought a moment and replied, “The last time we killed roosters. These roosters were a nuisance, killing the chickens and causing problems, so I just killed them and offered them up as a sacrifice to whoever.”

An alarm bell went off in my spirit. For one thing, it was October and very close to Halloween. I told her that Satanist offer sacrifices, and especially at this time of the year. By offering the sacrifice to “whoever”, she had invited, as many people unknowingly do, the wrong spirit into her life. I explained how Jesus died and shed his blood to protect us from Satan, and that when we offered a blood sacrifice of any kind, we were negating the blood of Jesus and saying it was not enough. Also, we gave up the protection provided by the blood of Jesus, and the enemy was able to come into our lives to cause problems. I went on to say that the devil walks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, and when we unknowingly do things like that, we open a door for him to enter our lives. She said, “That’s it, that’s what it sounded like, a lion!”

That might be the end of the story, but it isn’t. On the way home from work that Friday, I was able to think, and I remembered how a week or two before, I had walked out of my home and the hair on my neck stood up. I had the weirdest feeling something was watching me, and as I looked into the woods surrounding my home, I thought, “Something’s out there”. For a moment, I was afraid. But then I remembered the blood of Jesus, what it did for me, and I refused to be afraid. I used the name of Jesus and commanded it to leave, then thought no more about it. I knew it could not harm me because I was protected. It was such a passing thing that it had slipped my mind.

However, it may have backed off into the woods and hung around a few more days, even though it had lost any power to harm me or my family, because I heard it too. My husband heard it. We even discussed it, and I asked him what it was. We’ve lived in the woods all our lives, and he’s very good at recognizing sounds, but he didn’t know what that one was. And something else was the way our cats acted. They spend a lot of time inside, but always go outside to do their business. But they wouldn’t go outside. They would stand in the door when it was opened, then run back inside. Or if they made it as far as the screen porch, they would stare at the woods, then run back inside. My husband finally went outside with them. They did what they needed to do and came straight back in. This continued for a day or two, then stopped.

Now back to my co-worker. She lives about two miles through the woods from me. A lot of questions come up. Did it leave me and go to her? Was it just because she lived close by? Or did it know our association through work? There are a lot of things in this life that we may never have answered.

Something similar has happened to me before. Read “The Cartoon Creature” to learn more. The cats knew then too.