Real ghost stories from real people. This is Into the Paranormal with Tony Bruske.

The clock strikes 3.33 a.m., the witching hour, when shadows seem to move of their own accord,

when the line between reality and nightmare becomes impossibly thin.

And for one college student, that hour would become a waking nightmare that would never leave their mind.

But was it a mere dream?

Or did something far darker reach into their life that night?

What of the terrifying thoughts that cross your mind, those passing jokes about

selling your soul or summoning demons, weren't as harmless as they seemed? What if just once

his curiosity opens a door you cannot close, drawing something into your world that you cannot

escape? For one freshman at a northern college, it all began in the library,

on a freezing winter night when a joke led to something far worse

than they could ever have imagined.

Shadows lingered, but this time they weren't the ones hiding.

As the protagonist recounts, the horrors they faced weren't only in their mind.

They were real. Too real.

And as the night unfolded, the veil between the living and something else grew ever thinner.

What happened that fateful night in that cold, silent library?

Let's get to the letter, they write.

For starters, I'm now 21 years old, but my story is from three years back when I was 18.

I've told bits and pieces to a few people here and there, but I've always held back the full story,

fearing that no one would believe me. I've always had a firm

belief in my religion. I follow Hinduism, but I never really thought much about the supernatural

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