This is real ghost stories online. Do you believe in curses are curses real? Can they have a real world impact on your life?

Especially if it's something that came to you at a time where you had no say in the

matter, you didn't even do anything, you're an innocent child and someone puts a curse

on you?

Can those things follow you around?

Is there ever a way to rid yourself of such a thing?

That's what we hear about in our next story.

Take a listen.

This will be my first time telling my story to people other than my close family, those who I lived with and grew up with. Even then it took me well over 10 years to tell them of my experiences.

You can call me D.

The only reason I feel this is worth mentioning is because of my cultural and

religious background. My family especially being the son of a shaman is a very religious and superstitious person.

Me on the other hand am of a newer generation. I'm a psychology major and always try to be

rational and logical with my way of thinking.

Though I say I'm a rational guy, I do believe there are things we cannot rationalize with logic. Oxymoronic, I know, sorry about that.

Anyways, my experience goes back.

20 is about nine going on 10 years old.

I grew up in the back house between a Christian church and an abandoned house with my parents and older brother.

The front house was occupied by my grandparents, uncle, aunt, and five cousins, as you can imagine. I grew up with my

cousins as my neighbors and first friends. We played hide and seek, cops and

robbers. Tag, pretty much every day was an eventful fun day. This was before the time of smartphones

and the internet. Seems like a loving family on the surface, but behind closed doors I was shunned

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