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Hmong Stories / Re: Hmong ghost stories

« on: March 30, 2011, 01:31:05 AM »

Wow, I really think that, that was the strangest thing I've ever heard. Or heard it done ever.LOL. From what I just heard from you, I think that back in the old, old days, that's what our OG's did. When they had miscarriages, so I think that's why your parents told you to do that.    

I know that it was a long time ago but I'm glad that you're doing well.

When I was younger my old man loved to fish white a$$es. LOL. So he'll take me to go to the (Hmong River). It's call the St, Croix River. LOL yes the river was re-named the Hmong River cause between mid April to end of May. All you see is the hmong ppl there fishing for them white a$$es. Anyways that day was raining like every year around those months, a lot of hmoobs there fishing.

It was kinda cold with the rains and all. I see ppl in their shorts and dipping in the warm water and fishing from within the water. I was standing on the shore fishing, I saw a big human like shadow, swimming about knee high water. Of course my height as of now.  I was thinking about it, but I could not figure it out. The strange thing was if it was a real person you would of seen him paddle with his feet, arms or what ever. But what I saw was like it was gliding in the shallow water, away from my left to my right. along the shore line. So I thought that maybe some hmoob decided to go swimming. Funny thing was I couldn't make out any detail but just a big human like shadow gliding in the water. And the shadow wasn't like going slow, it was kinda fast. I got about 3-4-5 seconds of it. Then it went out of my view. I was too young to understand this. So I just went on and cast my line to catch some more a$$es.
Strange.

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Hmong Stories / Re: Hmong ghost stories

« on: March 29, 2011, 06:49:39 PM »

Just remember this one too.
It was told to me by my mom by our (I was little and I don't know if they were our cousin or just ppl my parents knew back in Laos). All I know is that I'll call them grandma, you know when you were little you would told to kinda call the elder grandma/grandpa. This happened at our old neighborhood (Plaza in St. Paul), we moved out off there a long, long time ago. But they were still living there. So one night some of the ppl living there, there was a rotten smell in the air. This happen in the winter so there's snow on the ground.
This one OG and he was kinda not 100% in the head, came to my OG and said that last night the air smelled like soap, but my OG new that it smelled like rotten flesh that night. So all the OG 's living there went to go look out side. They found some foot print, in the middle there was a prints of a tiger/ lion, and on each side there was 2 little pairs of print on each side of the tiger print. So there was 3 unknown prints, and the OG followed and it went to the manger's place and around the corner and disappeared. They went and told the manger about it and I don't know what happen after that.

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Hmong Stories / Re: Hmong ghost stories

« on: March 29, 2011, 06:18:28 PM »

1: About the Zaj- that's the first time I've ever heard about the 2 front teeth. I don't know if the Hmoob ppl that drown here in the US look at that. Unless they are not telling.
 2: This is a first about the miscarriage, why would you go and do that. Correct me if I'm wrong, if the fetus is only 2 months old and haven't been giving a name.
I still don't get it. Did you go to the dr. to remove the fetus or did you have the unborn fetus at your app.
3: And the coolant about the cats, I do believe that it's wrong to do that.
 
When I first moved into my house I too had cats around my place, I don't know if its a stray cat, but it was meowing on my front door, so I open it and was going to shoo it away, it wanted to come inside my house. So I slapped the cat on the head. and the cat ran off. After that my hair shot up and I was like what if it was more then a cat and I slapped, then I went back into the house. LOL

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Hmong Stories / Re: Hmong ghost stories

« on: March 29, 2011, 10:50:14 AM »

I just remembered this one, I want to write this before I forget.
Here we go. This happened in my own house. I'm still living here. 1st of all my wife don't really believe in things. Years ago my wife was telling me that she hears like little kids running in the hall ways, and had though that our son was running. And she would call his name and when she came out to go see where he is, He was in the other living room watching T.V. So I told my wife that oh- it's just your mind playing tricks on you. Soon I stated to hear foot steps running in the house. I too yelled for my son and to find that he was in the other room watching T.V.
My son was about 2-3yrs old back then.
 
One morning I was taking a shower and my son was watching T.V. Now I slightly close the door but had a gap so that I can hear him if he needs anything. Cause it's just me and him in the house. So I had shampoo in my hair and was washing it off me, I had my eyes close and in the middle of washing my hair, The room kinda got cold it felt like my son came in the bathroom, cause you can feel the air changing when the door open. I felt that he had yanked the shower curtain while I was washing my hair. I screamed his name out load, cause now the room is going to be all wet. Then I opened my eyes, just to find that the shower curtain was not even touch. my hair shot up and I quickly rinse myself and got out of the shower and stated calling my sons name. I went to the other room just to find that he's a sleep on the floor watching T.V.

Then a couple of days later me and my sons was in the room watching T.V. I was laying on the sofa and I hear like little feet running in the hall, I called for my son and I though that he was running to the other living room. I opened me eyes just to see that he fell a sleep on the floor. So I got up and made a quick bed on the floor and put him. Then I stated to fall a sleep on the sofa. In my dream like. (To be truthful to you guys out there, I don't know much about culture and stuff like that).
So I dreamed that I was talking to this little kid, and I went and got this small bowl of rice and some meat I don't remember what meat was it and those thingy you burn along with it. And I open my patio doors and placed the food outside and told the kid to go out there and eat the food and not to come back into the house. The kid went outside and I closed the door behind him... My dreams felt so real, and I was scare as heck. Then I woke up and said "Dam that was was a weird dream". I was going to go and do that,  but was scare if I opened the door and it came back inside.LOL. After that dream I didn't hear anymore running in the hall.
Strange...

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Hmong Stories / Re: Hmong ghost stories

« on: March 29, 2011, 12:51:37 AM »

I heard this from a friend, from another friend.

It goes like this- they were at the park playing volleyball and the ball flew out of the court and into the stream behind them, but the stream had some tall grasses. So this dude went to retrieve the ball- this is the strange part. Everyone saw him walking there, and waited for the ball to be thrown at them or him coming back with the ball. They waited and it seems like he was not coming back so they went to see what is going on. But they didn't see him, there was no splashes or yelling for help.
Or any sign. He couldn't run off, cause if he did that then everyone would of seem him. but they saw the volleyball floating in the stream. They called the police, I don't know what happen after this. But I think this happened at the lake I was talking about, that a lot of hmoob ppl drown there. Man that lake is dangerous. Ppl be drowning there and the water would be like 2-4 ft. Now think about it. 2-3 ft deep and still drown. Only thing I could think of is. Zaj.. Well a lot of hmoob knows that, that lake is weird and has some hidden truth. Hmoob ppl be claiming that when they go walking around that lake, they been seeing Zaj's head or a person standing out in the lake, early in the morning. or a person coming out of the water. White ppl don't believe us when we be talking about Zaj and ghost.

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Hmong Stories / Re: Hmong ghost stories

« on: March 29, 2011, 12:19:17 AM »

Dude that's so fk up about the thingy that turned into her hubby's  little brother. I would be freaking out. Did she tell her hubby that she has this nightmare?

Since I'm talking about coon rapid dam. I heard this, I'm like 2 hand teller. So my BIL's bro went to the dam to fish. There were a lot of ppl that day and there was these 2 hmoob dudes that was fishing close to the dam. I can't explain it cause you have to see it for your self. Back in the days I use to fish in that very spot, and the rise and fall of the water was very memorizing, you just like fell into a trance looking at it. But if you lose your footing, than that was it of you, If you fall you die cause there are under tows like a washing machine.

Anyways this one dudes was fishing there and some how he fell into the water, his other friend was screaming for help and everyone was like WT F's going on. The friend didn't think twice at that time and jumped right into the water to help his friend that went under, and they both died. And since the current was too strong for the divers to go and get the 2 bodies they really didn't do anything. Anyways my BIL's bro were there at that time but they were more down the river. They didn't really know what was happening, but they heard him screaming for help. then later, found out what real happen cause there were a lot of ppl who was there at that time. This was in the news paper back then. When I heard the story I asked him about it but he didn't what to talk. I can see why.
So the park put up a 6 ft chain link fence from were the 2 dudes drowned all the way to the rocky bank, well you have to see it cause I don't know how far it went.

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Hmong Stories / Re: Hmong ghost stories

« on: March 28, 2011, 11:38:03 PM »

Holy crap, dude

Do I know you some how?

I've only told this story to a few of my friends, other than my family. How did you know, that it was coon rapid?

Let me guess: are you the one that told me this- So one night you came home and saw this white thingy sleeping in front of your porch. You got freak out and went to the back door to get into your house.
Or are you the one that, that night we went to go cat fishing, and I was eating this KFC chicken, and we almost died- that night. LOL cause you were driving and we didn't realize that we had gotten to the T-intersection, but we didn't think that we were at that spot yet. The road was very, very dark that night for some reason. And when I saw that stop sign I yelled at you and you slammed the breaks and we went head on into this trench.LOl. We tried to push it out of the trench but we couldn't do it. And these 2 meekas drove by from the casino and gave us a lift back into town, and we had to call a tow truck. So when the tow truck came and took us back to your car,there was a trooper there already. Anyways we were talking to the trooper and said "why don't the city put up marker so that other ppl coming down this road knows that there's a stop sign up there". And the trooper said " this is not the city's property, but the Indian land, city can not tell them what to do. And the city knows that this is a dangerous intersection". He also told us that a few ppl died here, cause they fail or didn't realize that the stop was here. Some drove right into the bank and died, one drove right into the bank and up an over into the woods.

I was just wondering?  So tell me a story that I might know from you.LOL

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Hmong Stories / Re: Hmong ghost stories

« on: March 28, 2011, 02:05:55 AM »

Sorry to say, but I've not encounter any big foot thingy,

But I do have another strange fishing story.
So this took place at T. Island here in Minnesota on county 10 in Hasting. That night a bunch of us guys wanted to go catch some big cat fish. I mean those cats were big a$$ heck. You have to tie down your rod, otherwise it'll be gone and since it dark over there. you can not tell if you got a hit or not and if you go check your pole and it's gone, HA ha. That's when you know that you just got a hit. LOL. Anyways a long story short. that night something came to visit us. It was dark in the woods and since we got there late we didn't have a fire going but only our head lights, and flash lights. We did have a little fire going but not enough woods. So all of a sudden we all heard what was like a baby crying or a bird crying in the woods. It started far away from us then it got closer and closer. Dude I was about to piss in my pants the night. (I think I know why it happened. Cause when a bunch of the guys were there, they were making all sorts of noise.) I told them to pipe down when they were getting too rowdy. Some of these dudes were a bunch of a$$ hole. (After that night I told myself that I'll never go fishing with a bunch of penis heads).
So the crying was getting closer to us and was like 30-40 yrds to our left. then it went back into the woods and came back. I took out my Hmoob nife and was ready to do, what I had no idea what I was think at that time, getting ready to piss in my pants..LOL and those dam penis heads was getting ever more louder. I finally got piss and said" why don't you penis heads shut the Fk up". And they all shut up. Then I asked my best friend if he's hearing what I was hearing. he said yeah, but it's just a bird. I thought to myself yeah, he's right it's probably a bird. Then that thing was like right behind our car and I was getting ready to crap my pants by now. Then it went farther and farther away from us and that was it. I looked at my watch and it was 3 am, i said to myself "Bird!!, why would a bird be up this late of a night, and it sounded like a baby crying and it sounded it a bird".  So my other grown up friend started his car and turn on the head light and we went to find wood for our fire. Man we made a bond fire that night and when morning came we all took off out of that wood. I've never been back to that place since. LOL

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Hmong Stories / Re: Hmong ghost stories

« on: March 28, 2011, 01:22:41 AM »

3rd story: I just found this out last week

So I brought some old, old photos of my cousins. The photo was taken at a zoo, and me and my cousin was riding this plane. I was putting these photo up but I didn't have anymore room in my house to hang it. Okay I still have some room, but my wife wouldn't let me anymore. So I brought it over to my parents house. My parents saw that pix of me and my cousin on that plane and my mom told me that, Zaj took him many years ago. i said to myself, I've heard this story before. But I forgot all about it. Anyways when this happen he was a fully grown man and the way he drowned was weird. So the families went on a pick nick and there was this lake. Everyone was having fun. (I don't remember the whole story). So it went like this every one went home. When the family got home they were like, where's( I'm not going to say his name) and everyone was like ain't he with you guys? So they called up the family member and asked where he is. Some say that they saw him in the lake with every one else. So the family went back to the lake and look for him, but he was no where to be found. They called the police and the police went to look for him cause they think that he drowned. Well it was like 2-3 days later when his body was found. It was weird that a fully grown man just out of no where, poof, gone and no one knew where he was at that time. Everyone left him not even known where he was, or who he went home with. I heard that he was a collage grad too.

I remember him when we were little kids and grown up together and then they moved far far away into a new state and I was still here in Minnesota. Man the reality is starting to hit me now.  I just lost a cousin here in the US.

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Hmong Stories / Re: Hmong ghost stories

« on: March 28, 2011, 12:55:58 AM »

Story 2: Til this day I can not find and explanation.

This was at a river. I'm not going to say the name of this river. Anyways it was summer and the water went down, way down that ppl can walk into the middle of it and stand there and fish. So my friends and their big brother, they all went into the middle of the river, I was scare to do that so I stayed at the river bank and cast out my line. Trying to catch some carp or anything. As I was standing there I noticed to my right side that there was this very bright green color in the water. The sizes of this thing was no longer then 3-4 inches and it was like about 3-4 steps from the shore. if you were to step into the water it would been like one half of a half of your calve.

The green color was like almost green but it looked like a fish and some what not. To me, it felt like it wanted me to reach my hand into the water and pick it up. Okay this river also has dog fish. If you ever saw one it's kinda greenish mix black. But this green blob had no head or tail. It was like sitting there or floating there. I was like WTF is that. I pick up a small rock and threw it right into the blob, but it didn't move, I picked up a small twig and threw it there too. But nothing happen. I was like what it that thing. I was going to stick my hand into the water and try to see if i can pick it up.

Then it hit me, I was like,  I better not do that. I hear stories on ppl  fishing and drowning without making any splashes of water. Like they just went an poof, gone.
Just like that.
I scared myself out. LOL so I didn't bother to pay any more attention to it. About 3-5 minutes passed and all my friends and their brother came back to the shore. I told my friends' older brother that I saw something strange in the water while they were all gone. As I started to point to where that green color was. I looked and it was gone, just like that, I mean were could it swam off. Then I thought to myself. Holy crap did I just encounter a Zaj's trick or was I seeing things.
Even til this day I said to myself, I'm one lucky SOB. What if I stuck my hands down that day, in that time and no one was around me. What would of happen to me.

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Hmong Stories / Re: Hmong ghost stories

« on: March 28, 2011, 12:19:49 AM »

Yo,
I got a few water story, I don't know if it's Zaj or just encounter of the unknown.

1st story: This took place long ago, it was a hot day, so me my friends and his wife. We went to Phalan Lake to go swimming. 1st of all I can't swim. I knida do but if my feet ain't touching the ground I'll go belly up, LOL. so you can say that I can't swim, period. So we got to the lake and if you ever been to a swimming area and see that it's block by a yellow rope. So that, if you can't swim don't go beyond the rope. That's deep water, but it was only about up to your waist. I'm about 5' 5" tall.
So we were playing tag and chasing one another within the yellow rope. There was a lot of ppl there and also 1 life guard was on duty that day.

Here's the strange part, one of my friend(a) was it, and was chasing the other friend(B). I saw that my friend (c) had swam up to the yellow rope and I decided to swim there. As I was swimming there,I felt this very strange feeling and I stop and stood up in the water and looked towards my friend (c). He was looking at me, like he has seen a ghost. I mean his eyes were as big as an owl. I ran/ jump towards him and said "what happen" he told me that when he was swimming towards the rope he felt like someone tried to grab his wrist/hand.
Then he stood up and look at what ever it was. He said " it was a little girl, and it was like someone or thing was dragging her away from him and the little girl tried to grab him". I said " hell no, are you shyting me"!.

By this time all my friends had swam towards us. And (c) told them what happened. So all my friends stop doing what ever they were doing and we all jumped out of the water, and went to the beach. I said to my friend (c) that he needs to report this to the life guard. He say " you kidding me, they might think that I'm crazy or something". I said " shyt, what are we going to do than". What if it was true and someone just died. At least we try to tell an adult, and if it was false then it's okay. But he was too scare to even think about it, he said to me that it felt like a dream and that it was not true, it can't be true. Then his wife said " you better go and tell the life guard was you saw". We were still auguring, than out of no where the life guard blew her whistle and demanded everyone out of the water. By this time I was freaking out and said " holy shyt, is this really happening". The life guard was calling a name but no one answered. So she had some one dialed 911. and told all the grown ups to hold hands and they started walk back an forth in the water.

This was the 1st time I ever saw this and hopefully that I will never ever see this again. As they were doing that I could hear the siren of the police, ambulance and fire trucks wailing towards the lake. I saw ppl diving under water trying help with the search. I saw the fire ppl pulling out their inflatable boats and gears and rowed out to  the lake. We all watched this for a good long time in hopes that they could find a body or this kid shows up out of no where. After a while I was like dude I think we need to go, cause I don't wanna see a dead body. So we all left, After that day I never wanted to go swimming in that lake. This lake is well known for it's drowning of ppl. OG's said " that there's a Zaj livivng in the water". I personally don't know how many, but it's a lot of hmoob ppl that drowned there, but yet I still see a lot of hmoob ppl go swimming there too. Anyways everytime some hmoob drown there the OG's would look into it, and say that the Zaj took them.

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Hmong Stories / Re: Hmong ghost stories

« on: March 27, 2011, 02:03:34 AM »

Okay here's one, I'm not gonna go into too much detail,
Not a scary one but an usual  life experiences.

This is from my own personal dairy:

So this happened when my FIL passed away. And in the process his truck was sold to one of their relatives. My FIL came to me in a dream, he said " he came to visit his house and his truck, but when he got there he didn't see his truck. And was wondering if I knew where it went to". I said '" well your truck was sold". he said " to who". I said " to one of your relative". but I couldn't tell him who bought his truck, all I could say was the daughter's name but not the father's name. Then he kinda of got mad that his truck was sold. Then I woke up to a major pain in my chest.

At first you know how the OG's are and their beliefs. So I was like W T F. are you kidding me. This can't happen to me cause I'm just the S I L. I call myself the jungle son in law. translated that  in Hmoob.

I've heard stories like when a close family moves on and they need something, they'll come into your dreams and tell you things or want you to do something for them.
I was freaking out and in a lot, I mean a lot of pain cause I've never experienced anything like it. This happened around 4-5 am and my wife was sleeping like a pamper kid. I told her that I'm in a lot of pain, but as always she slept without even as much as to look at me or see what is happening to me. LOL. So I got out of bed and went into the living room, and was rolling on the floor like I was dying or something.. Ha ha. Around 6am I called my mom and told her my dreams and she told me to call my MIL, to ask who the relative's name, who bought the car.. So I called my MIL and told her about it and she told me the name. And also for me to do this by by or something like that to my FIL.( To those who knows what I trying to say here, I can't find the right words explain it) I told my MIL that I don't get it! So while I was on the phone with my MIL, she told me to repeat what she said. But right after she had said all those stuff, the pain was like, it disappear. After some more pains down the road I finally went to the ER. and found out that I had gallstone.. LOL and yes I no longer have my gall bladder.  
Just thought that it was strange.

B T W is this page dead or something... I seems to be the only one here writing stories LOL

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Wedding Rituals & Customs / Re: HMONG WOMAN SHOULD PAY

« on: March 27, 2011, 01:16:12 AM »

I second thought to that, if you look at it, I've seen that (some) not all of the brides/ woman these day, don't even know how to cook. I mean look, I've seen some single ladies that had grown out of that range for marriage. For some reason, not mine to know. Sorry to say it but some of the (ladies) not all, they have no motive to learn anything other than, that they don't want to live with her new in-laws. I've heard stories that when the son married the girl. She made him choose between her and his own mother. I mean his own mother who gave birth to him and raised him to be what he is today.

Truly I kinda see your point of view, about some of us guys, but not all guys are like that too, you know. It's all on, if they are ready to settle down.
Funny cause most of the ladies, when she gets marry, she want to move out of the hubby's house, cause for what ever reasons, (not mine bizz to know). She want to control him on whatever she wanted, cause she don't want to be lecture or she don't have any freedom.

There's an old saying goes: Always respect the hubby's head and never look down on your hubby cause he is the key to both survival. LOL,
Of course in the US there's Micky D, Cub Foods ect. LOL

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Hmong Stories / Re: Hmong ghost stories

« on: March 27, 2011, 12:40:35 AM »

This happen way back, In related to the story above. Sorry my time line is off.

We moved in with her parents' for a short term, til we can find our self a home.

we went and looked at a lot of the houses that day. When we( meaning  my wife and her mom) got back and I was tired. And yes me and my wife slept in the basement. My wife and her mom saw this house and wanted to go see it. So I said " I was tired and wanted to go take a nap". So I went to sleep, Just right before I was about to fall a sleep, I saw what it looks like a little meeka boy, 1st he was at the door looking at me. Then he walked right up to or next to my left ear and he started to talk to me. So I talked back to him but I don't remember a single word I said to him. It felted like someone was really there talking to me, I said to myself "who is this little kid and how did he get in here"? Then I felt this pressure, kinda of like when you are about to get sit on. Then I said to myself "oh shyt it's seems like, it wanted to jump in the bed with me". I could feel right away that it was them, and I opened my eyes, I sat up and looked around the room, my heart was beating so fast.  but I saw no meeka kid in there with me, I was alone in the basement. I could see that it was still day light outside, and I could feel my hair standing up. I got out of bed and headed outside, funny cause everyone was outside in the back yard chilling.

(So I guess you can say that one of it's form, it can change into was a meeka kid).

I think that back in the old days when I use to get sit on, and me fighting it and finally did something. It sort of gave me some courage that I too can fight it and not be too scare of them.

Here's a saying, it goes like: when you sleep, you should always sleep with your feet facing the door entrance. So your head is always looking at the door, cause your spirit can see who is coming and going out of the room. I kinda see the point cause that's how I always sleep, and that's how I can sense it.

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Hmong Stories / Re: Hmong ghost stories

« on: March 26, 2011, 02:01:47 AM »

So this happened either on a Friday or Saturday, cause me and my wife was getting ready to have our first kid. My wife was getting closer to her due date and since I worked 1st shift. I didn't want her to be at our house by herself or our self, I'm a wimp when it come to things like this. So we went to sleep at her moms' house for the whole week. Well it didn't take long before something tried to sit on me. Me and my wife slept in the living room, on the sofa ( the one that is like a couch but can be broken down to be a bed, half couch, half bed type thingy). I slept by the wall and my wife slept on the edge, cause woman they need to get up and go use the bathroom, ha ha. That night something came and sat on me, and knowing how it goes. I was like shyt here we go-again. LOL. It tried to sit on me but I fought it, and finally I broke feel, the reason how I broke feel was funny, cause I managed to physically scream out loud. And in my dream I chased what ever it was off the bed, and it ran right into my parent in laws room and dived under their bed. So I woke up and said to myself fk. I'm going to go and get this
S O B from under my parent in laws' bed, cause it just fk up my sleep. Then I stopped, cause I was like Shyt what if I go running into their room and scare the crap out of them. Than what will I tell them, that they have a thingy under their bed. Cause I chased what ever it was into their room!. (Now looking back at it I wonder what will happen if I did go ahead and do that, ha ha). So I said "shyt what ever this thing was I'll deal with it when morning comes".

I laid back down and went to sleep. My wife slept like a log, cause all the commotion I was doing, she didn't even said what's going on... LOL. And when morning came she didn't even notice anything that happened to me that night.. So my MIL woke up and I was up already. Then she asked me what happen last night? Cause she heard me screamed and was going to come and check on us. But than she said "that made be it was nothing". Funny, so I said " something came and sat on me and I was fighting it the whole time, even though it tried to, but I fought it". And it ran into your room and dived underneath your bed. I got up and was going to come running into your room and grab what ever it was out from under the bed but I stopped cause I didn't what to freak you guys out last night.

She got freak out by what I was telling her. Then she told me a story of my FIL back in Laos. How this thingy would follow him around or something like that. I couldn't remember the detail. This happen in Laos, so she was like that's why she never sleeps on his side if the bed, cause one time she did that and she felt a hairy hand touching her or something or she touched a hairy hand. And she got scare. So I'm guessing what ever that thing was...  Well I'll let you guys decide.
Is it a merge coincident that it happen or did it have anything to do with what my MIL told me. After that night I went back home and brought my samurai sowrd over to the in laws place. But nothing happen. LOL

I have some more stories, be back..
Thanks for reading some of my life experiences.