This happened roughly 15 years ago when i was in high school. Me and my sister were really close, mainly because our family had moved around so much (military). So occaisionally we would spend the night in each others room and just talk about stupid stuff. A few days before the event, i had injured my knee skateboarding and had to wear a knee brace. Needless to say, I ended up needing to use crutches.

It was a sunday night and I went to bed before everyone else since I had to get up early to go to school. I decided to sleep in my sisters room that night because it had a stereo in there and mine didn't and I wanted to listen to music. I place in the Fantasia soundtrack and proceed to try and fall asleep. Key word here is try.

I am almost fall alseep and I feel the bed shake. i thought maybe it was me who had shaken the bed. I thought I might have done it being caught between sleep and crossing over to REM. Kinda like dreaming about falling and then shaking awake right before you hit the ground. At any rate, i thought nothing of it and tried again to go back to sleep.

Roughly 5-6 minutes pass and the bed starts to shake again. This time i knew i wasn't half-asleep or anything like that. My crutches were leaning against the footboard of the bed and I thought maybe it was my crutches sliding down that caused the bed to shake. So I got up took my crutches and laid them on the floor. Now, I can go and fall asleep uninterrupted. WRONG!!

I lay back down in bed and not even five minutes pass by. I am not even close to falling alseep and the bed itself starts shaking violently like out of the exorcist. I jump out of bed and it is still shaking violently and I make a beeline down to my parents and tell them all that had transpired.

Since that time, I had never slept in my sisters bed again. Eventually my parents ended up discarding the bed. The funny thing is, nobody could sleep in her bed either unless my sister was there in the bed with them. All the other times I had slept there she was there. This was the first and last time that she wasn't.

[ February 03, 2005, 11:14 PM: Message edited by: busaiku ]

Hi busaiku:

That's really interesting. I was wondering if there was anything special about this bed... was it an antique? We had a family in Savannah, GA, and they were profiled on Episode 102 of Proof Positive, on the Sci Fi Channel. They had purchased this antique bed for their son. It was connected to the spirit of a 7-yr-old boy named Danny. Danny, would mess up the room, write little notes and literally was a pain in the If memory serves me, they ended taking the bed out of the house and storing in the garage, I'm not sure if they sold it or not. Their case was decided to be proved positive on the show, as they had evidence to prove what they were claiming. I was just curious if your sister's bed had a previous owner?

Pate

The mattresses were purchased new while my father was in college. The bedframe was bought new as well and was not purchased until my sister was old enough to start using a full bed. So in the case of the bed itself, there was nothing really unique behind it.

My feet would not have hit the floor while doing a bee line dash to my parents room had I experienced the bed shaking violently that way.

My first question when reading this was if any part of the bed (mattress,frame,headboard) was previously owned. However now that you have let us know it was all new this is curious indeed. You mentioned others were also unable to sleep in the bed, was that because they too experienced the shaking? Seeing all was fine when your sister used the bed it sounds that whatever/whoever was causing this may have been attached or drawn to your sister in some way. Any other activity happen in the home, the room itself or to your sister around the time this was going on? Cat =)

Well the room itself is a whole other story, which really deserves it's own thread because there is alot that surrounds it along with the house itself. Her friends that would visit just never felt comfortable being alone on her bed. As far as I know, when the bed was still here, I was the only one that had experienced the "exorcist bed"

Hmmm...I don't know what to tell you. My first thought was exactly what Pate asked...if the bed was an antique. It sounds like your saying that your sister's room has activity other then just the bed shaking. I'd assume that whatever was causing the activity in the room would also be causing the bed to shake. I agree with Cat too that maybe whatever is causing this to happen is drawn to your sister in some way. I'd be interested to hear about some of the other things that you've experienced in your home/sister's room.