When I was 6 I had my first experience with ghosts and demons, this has lead me to a life that many people would fear and others would not even believe. What I'm about to tell you is the first experience and how it changed me.

My summer of 1967 was just normal hot and fun time for a 5 year old, running and playing not having a care in the world.  I would not have dreamed that things could go the way they did. It started like any other summer me and friends riding bikes and playing chase. We were just happy to have a dollar to ride to the store for candy. My best friend Pat would wake me up every day at sunrise it seemed to just go down to the creek to watch trains go by or to play ball in the field with everyone in the neighborhood. We had a great life back then, rather small steel mill town and times and economy was great. You need to understand this was a time in America when the only worry a family had was what to have for dinner or what color is the new car going to be. My biggest worry everyday was if my bike had a flat tire.

That summer went by rather slowly I was waiting for August because that when the carnival came to town, this was the biggest event every year back then. I collected pop bottles for deposit refund and cut grass all summer long also well as my paper route to have money for this. While delivering papers I came to know almost every family in town and they would always watched over me. This came to be a big part of my first encounter with the supernatural. I should give lay out of town and who lived where for more understanding. I lived only the main highway back then between town mill towns. So there was a lot of traffic and some danger for a young boy. At one end of the road was the lower income rather run down part of town where the mill itself was and many of the ruff people lived. My school was at the edge of this area of town as well as the newspaper office. At the other end of the road was a new complex they had just built for families that needed help to have place to live, lower income or disabilities. In the middle between them I lived in an old house on the hillside, also there was a retirement high-rise building 8 house down from me. I had papers to deliver in all these areas and buildings. I would start at paper office and work my way by my house for lunch then finish at the new complex. We now have a normal day in my life back then, playing bike riding and delivering newspapers.

At the end of August I had to stop paper route because school was starting and my mom did not think I would be able to get them done before dark after school. While I was collecting money for papers on the 3^rd Saturday I also was tell every customer I be quitting for school. I got many tips and gifts from them from money to clothes and even a saving bond from one of the ladies in the retirement building, she was the nicest lady of my route she would give me can of pop everyday and on Saturday collecting she always had cookies or candy for me. On this last Saturday she gave me the bond and hugged me whispering in my ear “Mike you are more special then anyone knows and always be aware the angels are watching you”. This made me think she was little funny in the head but she was always nice so I thanked her and said I be around anyway after all we are all still in the neighborhood she said that may be or not Mike but please be safe. Well I finished my route the day in the new complex and stop by my aunt May who lived there for a drink of pop and to call my mom for I ride it had started raining. My aunt May ask me to take umbrella and run over to Miss Faye house apartment to give her a pack of cigarettes, so off I went on a run Miss Faye opened the door and with big smile said come in Mike out of the rain. I gave her the cigarettes and she thanked me her son and his roommate were playing rock music very loud in his room she told me he was a pain but was laughing when she said it. His name was Mike also, I had seen him around town a few times and he was the doper type with beads and long dirty hair. I had never really bother or talked to him before. So Miss Faye gave me 2 dollars to give back to my aunt and I star started out the door, as I picked up the umbrella something came over me it seemed something was watching me and I did not know where from I looked over shoulder and all I saw was Miss Faye. She ask me if something was wrong I said no and walked out the door as the door was shutting I heard a voice say “don’t come back” I turned and ask Miss Faye why did I do something wrong ? She had funny look on her face and said did you hear that? I said yes, at this point she turn pale white and started crying. I ask if I could do something she said no just please don’t tell anyone you heard anything, I said ok. I went back to my Aunts and my mom was there after little talking we went home. That night I told my and dad about this and they just said you imagine it and she just old and that was all there was to it then. Well couple of week went by and school started for me I was not really all that excited about it but I had to start. The first day went good I meet teacher and a lot of new kids from different parts of town and the outer areas around town I had never seen. This first day went good; I was within walking distance so I had to walk t and from school. I had walked home that day wanting to get out and play with friends and talk about school. My mom ask me to run down the stairs and get the mail, we had 34 steps to go down to get to road. I complained that I didn’t want to run down steps back up and back down again. She told me if I want to play it wouldn’t hurt me to run up and down step after all your young. So I went and got the mail brought it to her and I was off to play I ran down steps and stop to look at traffic. Rule was always looking both ways at least twice before crossing road. So I looked to my right then left and back right and stepped out with that second look at the left and sure enough there was car coming and I got hit by the car. I don’t remember which about this last thing I remembered was looking down the road; I woke up in the hospital. MY mom and dad where there and told me what had happened. I started looking all over myself but everything was fine just lot a bruises and cuts doctor came in and said I had couple broken ribs and that’s was about it. I spent 6 days in hospital the only really important things about this time is that every night when I went to sleep there was this male nurse who came in to say hi and give me a pat on the head, what make this important is that I found out many years later that there was no male nurse working at the hospital back then.

A few months go by and in November we were at my Aunt May house for evening I was playing with her kids while my parents and she talked. I overheard them talking about Miss Faye son’s roommate killing himself in the apartment, I had also heard this around town but it didn’t stick with me at the time. They said she was upset and she just didn’t know what to do with Mike, she was afraid he might do the same thing with all the drug use. She also was afraid because things had been happening in the apartment that shouldn’t be. This got my dad’s attention so he said lets walk over and talk to her. So I and my parents and Aunt May walked over to talk. Miss Faye invited us in and offers adult’s coffee and me a coke cola. Aunt May start asking her about her son and the weird things that have been happening in the apartment. She said she really didn’t like talking about these but needed to tell someone just to keep from going crazy. So she proceeded to tell us what has become a life thing for me. She had been hearing voice and sounds from the room that the friend had committed suicide in ever since they moved into the apartment about a year ago when the building was finished. She also had problem keeping the curtains on the window in that room, they seem to fall off the hooks right after she puts them up. My dad asks her if she had been in the room today and she answer no. He stood up and said well let’s put them curtains up and see. He walked into room with my mom Miss Faye and Aunt May standing in hall watching, I was standing by the door of the room watching my dad. He pick the curtains up off the floor hung them on the hooks and stood back to look, nothing happen so he turned around and walk to me saying in a whisper I think she just getting old and losing it. He turned to them and started to walk down the hall I was looking right at the curtains and they lifted and fell to the floor I turned and yell dad they feel. He turned looked at me and said what? I just point at them and he returned and saw they were on the floor, he ask me what had happen I said they just lifted up and fell. He hung them again and this time when he turned them hit him in the back. I was watching this all but had not entered the room. This becomes a fight between whatever this was and my dad he then nailed them up and again they pulled the nails out and flew across the room. Then he use 2 railroad spits to hold them drove these into the wall and again they pull out and curtains flew all over the room. My dad turn stood in middle of room and yelled what are you and what do you want? Now this is where things go somewhat bad.  Something grabbed my dad’s arm turned him around and on the wall in fiery letters was the name GARTH, it then threw him out the door. This has been over 4o years ago and my dad still has a print of the hand in his arm of what grabbed him. It then yelled GET OUT! We all ran back to the living room and were scare and shaking. Dad called his sister my aunt Hanna to ask her what to do, she had converted to Catholic Church and he was hoping a priest would know what to do. She said she would be right over and about 30 minutes later she was there, we had all calmed down a little by then. They told her what had happened so she went to door way and look into the room, there was nothing going on just the mess-up curtain laying on the floor and bed in the room. She walked in and in a matter of seconds started crying and ran out. Dad ask her what had happened she wouldn’t tell him, I found out year later it had called her a “follower of the damn Jew”, just ask for phone to call father Moore, her priest. He said he would be happy to come up if they came and got him so my aunt was out the door and on her way, About 45 minutes later they return, he said hello to all and padded me on the head. Side not I was not catholic but me and Father Moore had been friends for a long time, the church was across from the community center swimming pool so he was always outside talking to the kids. He got the whole story from everyone and asks if he could bless the room that might help. Miss Faye said please do. He got out of hi bags a bible and bottle of holy water and walked into the room. As he started to pray and open the bottle of water noises like screaming voice and breaking glass started happen immediately, this cause him to stop for a minute but them he started again the voices got loader and then one voice told him “priest get out this is not your territory that Jew you follow cannot help you here”, father Moore answered by saying “god compels you to leave”. It then started laughing saying “your god is not with you, your faith is not strong enough”, then it grabbed him and spin him around and around when it stop he ran out of room. He ran to living room pick up phone and calls a policeman to come and get him; he then stood outside and would not come back in or talk to any of us. Years later he told he it had scared him and in his mind made him doubt his calling. After this My Hanna left also and never step feet in that apartment ever again. My parent ask Miss Faye if she need place to stay but she said she be fine that it has never came out of the room so be fine in her bedroom and these rest of the apartment and she not go into that room again. Her son was not at home so we left for the night. A week went by and next Saturday we went to see her, she said there was some noises in the room but nothing big. MY dad ask were her son was she said he came home went to his room packed his stuff and left telling her he was going to California to live. MY dad and me walk to room he told me to stay outside and he went in. As I watched the bed lifted into the air about a foot again the voice said “GET OUT”. My dad asks it what its name was. It said “you don’t need to know just get out”. AT this point my ad left room told me to come to living room. They all talked as I watched TV, about half hour later I had to use restroom which is across from this room. As I walked into the hall the door of the room closed. When I finished and opened bathroom door I noticed the door of the room closing again, as I walked into the living room it opened a little. I told my dad this and he said let’s check something out come with me, my mom said be careful. We walked to the room and the door was open a little dad ask me I thought you said it closed when you came by, I told him it did. He looked at me and said stand here for minute he walked to living room and as soon as he turned the corner the door of this room closed in my face. HE came back and it cracked open. Then dad ask me have you been in that room yet I told him no. He asks if I was scare to go in I answered no. So he said go in if you want but I’m staying here. So I walked into the room at point I crossed the doorway all the noises stopped and there on the bed was I little girl with her mom combing her hair. I heard them talking, mother said darling you father well be home from the mill soon we have to make you pretty for him. Little answer why mommy he doesn’t love us he’s mean. Mother, he a busy man and has a lot on his mind so you have to understand about his anger and problem his live in hard with running the mill and shipping company. Little girl looked at her mom and smiled then they disappear right in front of me. Nothing else happened for about 15 minutes so I went back to living room and told everyone what I had seen. My dad ask me if they look familiar, I told him no from the dresses they were wearing it looked like they were in the 1900’s movies I saw on TV. He just looked at me and shook his head. My mother asks if they scare me or if I thought they might hurt me I told her not in no way. Miss Faye ask if they said their names I told her no it seemed they didn’t even know I was there. We went to dinner and took Miss Faye with us, after dinner we returned to apartment and the noise started again in the room, Side note the sounds were never heard outside the room not even standing outside the window of the room. Dad went to the room telling to me stay in living room, when he entered room noise got louder and the get out voice was there again saying same thing. My dad came back ask if I wanted to go into room again and I said yes. When I entered hallway the door slammed closed on the room. When I opened the door I smile flowers and the woman alone was setting on the bed combing her hair. She was singing a sound that at that time I didn’t know, later I found out it was Irish love long. I walked to bed and stood next to her she didn’t stop me then ask her “what is your name?”  She jumped and turned to me “who be thee and how thee get into my bed chamber? Mama my I ask your name this is the apartment of a nice lady who is very scared of all you. Her eyes got big and she looked hard at me then said be thee alive or dead? I live I said mama you are dead I think. She told she knows this and she has been unable to leave along with her daughter and husband.  I ask way she said “such a nice young gentleman should not hear such things”. I said maybe I can help mama her reply was no one can help then she said “he’s coming leave please leave!”  Then she disappeared and I was amazed by the whole thing. When I went in living room I ask if they had heard and everyone said they heard nothing so I explained what had happened and again mom ask me if it scared me and again I said no. AT this point we left and went home. Almost 5 week pasted before they would take me back, this was only thing on my mind school work was not really anything back then in first grade and my home life was about as normal as possible then.

5 weeks later after the holidays we all went to see Miss Faye and not to our surprise she was moving, we had been expecting it since her son left.  So my parents helped her move everything in truck and when they ask about the room she said she didn’t want anything in the room not even the bed. When apartment was empty dad ask her to keep the key till end of month as she was paid up and she agreed. The next Saturday I begged him to take me back and he gave in and we went. When I first entered apartment I could smell what at time I didn’t know but later found out that it was brimstone. I entered room and there was all 3 there the Husband was standing yelling at the mother and little girl, they were hugging on the bed crying. He been to beat the mother and knock the little girl to the floor. I yell when he did and they all stopped and turned to me. He said “boy why has thee come into my realm, I am load and master here and if you don’t want a beating then thee should leave NOW”. I looked back out door and heard my dad in the living room talking to my aunt May who had walked over. I turned back to him and said you do not scare me and you can’t touch me. He began to laugh and the woman got the terrified look on her face and little girl start crying and yelling run away please! I said I was not afraid of him and he can’t hurt me. He mumbled something under his voice and this demon appeared behind him. The demon laughed and smells awful. The man told the demon to kill me or threw me out one or the either. The demon then started towards me and the most wonderful thing to ever happen to me came at this point. This beautiful soft loving voice came from behind me saying “Demon thee has no power or dominion over this one thee must give thee name!’. The demon replied “I am Garth the demon of power and greed”. I tried to turn around to see who was behind but his hands were on my shoulders stopping me and in that wonderful voice he said to “Mike thee is fine and safe under my guard do not worry”. The demon roared in anger and started to cuss and yell thing I had never heard before and the man began to scream in anger also and for the first time ever I saw the little girl stand and smile in pure happiness. She looked at me and said thank you. Again that wonderful voice came “demon of hell free these spirits and be gone.” This made the demon scream louder and then the man disappear as did the demon the woman and little girl were there stand next to the bed smiling at me again the girl said thank you I wish we could have been friends and the mother said thank you, you have no idea how you have helped us then they both were gone. I still felt the hands on my shoulders and again I ask who are you? He whispered in my ear “you are my name sake and the lord himself sent me to you”, I was amazed and ask are you an angel? Yes Mike I am a massager of the lord and only God”. Can I see you I ask, he replied not now the time well come when you well need me again and you will see me when the lord deems its time. His last words that day to me was never come back to this room as a child for the demon is not gone but just away and he was gone. I ran out to my dad thinking many minutes had past but he ask “nothing happening?” I said a lot I was in there for long time he replied Mike it’s only been about 3 minutes. I been to tell him what happen and had to tell mom and many others over the next few days and weeks. After about 5 years people forgot about this but to this day if I go by that building I can see the eyes of the demon in the window. Last note on this they have converted this apartment in condos except for that one it is empty till this day and they have tried to tear the building down many times. It seems the equipment fails when it gets close to building and small accidents happen to works that enter the apartment.

At the age of 16 I did more research on this and found that the land had belonged to man who owned the lumber mill and a shipping company. He was a greed angry man who had more or less bought the daughter of another land owner for a wife. He wanted a son form her but she only had 1 child and young girl. This angered him and one day he killed them and disappeared himself. The land was sold to town and many years later were divided into land site for building. The spot this apartment was on would be about where the house was that this man own and lived in.

I have had many other experiences with this type of thing and have seen the angel many times and yes people it is the Arch Angel Michael. He has stopped me at least 5 times in my life from dyeing. I will be telling many more parts of my life with this, I see ghost and hear voice every day of my life and want to start helping others.