True Tales Of The Paranormal Part 1- The Magickal Child
My name is Michael Keskeys, and at one point in my life, I was a magnet for the weird. It wasn’t until more recently that what I thought were separate instances and stories were really all part of one overarching thing, and it all starts with me.
When I was a child, I had some very strange things happen to me. I had a Fisher Price Magic kit and it had a trick where you can make a ball “disappear “ from one cabinet and it shows up in another. Well one time I made it disappear and the ball showed up in my closet 20 feet away.
Another time, I was bored of hearing Kermit be the narrator of the Muppets Take Manhattan book and record and I wanted to hear Scooter do the narration, and it happened. Tried to do it again right after but it was only Kermit, the recording on the record, with no clue of how it happened.
And then there was the more scary events.
I remember being chased by what looked like a kid on a bike but it had a demonic face that moved, like no mask ever did back in the 1980’s that wasn’t made by Rick Baker or Rob Bottin. And then there was the robed man and the man in the gorilla suit.
As I was playing in my neighborhood in San Diego, I saw a man walking down the street in a purple robe, and I hate this description but this is what it was, a purple robe with a pointed hooded mask, who looked a lot like the Fantastic Four villain, The Hate Monger, though this was years before I’d ever read a single issue of that comic.
He wasn’t alone either, he had someone else with him, attached by a chain he held in his right hand. What I remember was a man in a gorilla suit. Curious, I walked up to the unusual pair. There must have been a conversation at some point but that is lost to time. What I do remember though was shaking the hand of the man in the robe, and feeling a shock like static electricity or a joy buzzer but he didn’t have one of those. In an instant I felt pure terror and ran straight home and hid in my room.
Years later, when the later supernatural events were happening my mentor in Magick told me that I was born with a natural talent for it and, had I been properly trained in my skills, I could have been quite the adept warlock. And that man in the robe was likely another spell user who would have wanted to take me and take my own energy and power for his own, and the “gorilla” some sort of demon or imp he had under his control.
In any case my instincts saved me from death or even a fate worse than death on that day. There was one more really strange experience that I will also tell you of, that may or may not tie into what is to come/has happened but it’s stuck with me all these years.
It was at my uncle’s wedding, and I was playing outside by myself, as one did back in the 1980’s, and I felt like taking a nap under a tree, which I’d read about Tom Sawyer doing. I woke up in a strange house and there were other kids there too. We played for a while and then I left to go find my family, and when I went back to find my friends again the house was gone, as if it was never there.
There may have been more events like what I’ve described, but these are just what I remember. This would all prove to be but a prologue for what was to come later on in my ‘20s. Stay tuned for the next part, The Imp. Coming soon…
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