I am your host KTown and you're listening to seven disturbing chronicle stories of scary, paranormal, and horror tales.

You can't move. There's something pressing down on you, on your chest, making it hard to breathe.

The room is dark, but the darkness has a razor edge, not merely a shadow, but something malicious.

Then you see the shivering little child in the corner of the bedroom.

At the time the child sees you, you try to scream, but all you can manage is a choked,

terrified whisper as the child starts crawling towards you in the dark.

It's estimated that around 40% of the population has experienced sleep paralysis.

Modern research into the phenomena agrees that sleep paralysis is most likely caused when a person

wakes suddenly from rapid eye movement.

A sleep stage in which the body is

essentially paralyzed to prevent it from acting out dreams. But all the science in the world

can't make it easier to deal with a nightmare unfolding before your open eyes. The following

stories come from a range of sources. Are they real? No more real

than any dream perhaps, but fact or fiction, there was a brief moment in time when someone actually

watched them and believed that the terrifying creatures of the night were slinking closer through the dark.

Here are a few of those stories.

This story comes from a student known only as Adam, who experienced sleep paralysis one night when he fell asleep, reading a book.

The last thing he remembered was slowly falling asleep with the book in his hands

and the muffled sounds of the television coming from the living room downstairs.

When he came to, the room looked exactly the same.

The bedside lamp was still lit and the book was lying on his chest,

but the entire room had grown frigid. With the cold air came the feeling that someone was watching

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