“Night Hags”, in the literal sense, are a particularly strange brand of phenomena. The term itself is most often associated with sleep paralysis, but the “hags” I’m referring to in this blog are a bit different. In fact, I’ve come across many instances where people have claimed to awaken from sleep and see a physical entity either sitting on their chests, or standing elsewhere in their bedrooms watching them. Aside from sleep paralysis itself, this notion could also be linked with paranormal reports involving things like alien abduction.
On one occasion, I asked my pal Joshua P. Warren about what, if anything, scared him most (since he and I have spent years upon years hunting paranormal anomalies with this guy, and seldom encounter anything truely frightening I might add)!
After some thought, Josh replied, “I always get reports from people who have woken up to find a ghost or apparition standing over them, watching them sleep.” He described one occasion he had been told of where a woman experiencing various aspects of a haunting in her home had also awoken very early every at a specific time over several consecutive mornings, unable to find a cause for her sleepless nights. Someone suggested that she set up a video camera to film the bedroom around the time she had been waking up. She did, and reviewing the footage, she saw a tall shadow-like “apparition” enter the room, stand over her bed and watch her for several moments, then leave. Just after its departure, the woman woke up! Right there in the video she claimed that the clock in her bedroom read the same time she had consistently awoken on the several previous evenings. Based on this idea, Josh’s most frightening scenario dealt with “why they watch us while we sleep.”
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Cruise and Gary Busey could qualify for being evidence that they’re actually aliens from another dimension. But when stewing over paranormal themes in Hollywood, I was a bit surprised to learn about Billy Bob Thornton’s ties to ghostly phenomenon.