60 Day Challenge: Day 5: Talk about a scary experience.

 

When I first got my own room, a simple clock radio sat on my dresser. I used it solely as a timepiece. In the middle of the night, I would often open one eye to see the fluorescent numbers that told me it was too early to get up.

One night, I was awakened by the sound of static...really loud static. I got up and turned it off. I returned to my bed and pulled the sheets over my head, hoping it wouldn't happen again. Ten minutes later, it came on again. I was terrified. Actually, terrified doesn't do justice to the fear that I experienced. I was so scared I ran to my sister's room down the hall in tears. I stayed there until the morning.

In hindsight, it was really stupid to be afraid of an alarm clock, but of course, it was more than just the alarm clock. I had watched some TV show about ghosts not long before that night, and there were cases where ghosts would haunt houses and move things around. In one case, a house was set on fire. I guess that I was convinced that there was some supernatural power in my room that night. But in reality, the alarm was just put on inadvertently and in the process, the volume was turned up.

While I laugh now, I still have a slight aversion to alarm clocks and refuse to use them.