Eerie Encounters : The Bill Vaile Story Part I

 After working at NASA as a robotics engineer for 15 years, Bill Vaile quit his job in 2002 after divorcing his wife and moved back to Arlington, Texas to be with his brother. To have a fresh start in his life, he started working in his brother’s water purification company.

Terrified by a Strange Woman

 Just a few weeks after he joined his brother’s company, Bill had to take up a Saturday house call to make a good impression on his co-workers. Bill’s work was to demonstrate the installation and usage of the company’s water purification system in the customer’s house. When he was about to leave for the customer’s house, the dispatcher told him that the customer was adamant about him reaching her place at exactly 5 o’clock. She wanted to make sure that he did not arrive a minute early or late. Although it sounded weird to him, Bill obliged.

 When he reached the customer’s doorstep at exactly 5 o’clock, Bill was greeted by loud terrifying screams coupled with the voice of a woman chanting something nonsensical. In the middle of her chants, she kept saying, “go away” multiple times. Not sure what was going on, he peeked through the slightly opened door of the house. As he visually scanned, he saw three men kneeling down on the floor forming a circle. A woman was walking around them with a book in her hands, chanting something that did not make any sense to him.

 Although a complete sceptic, the eeriness of the chants was starting to get into his head and he decided to leave the place. While he was about to leave, the woman started staring right into his eyes while pointing her finger at him. Bill felt that the woman was trying to harm him and escaped the place at once. Once he was at a safe distance from the house, he called the dispatcher, told him about what had just happened and requested to not be sent to that house again.

A Terrifying Night 

 Later that day, Bill cooked his dinner and sat in front of his TV to watch it while he had his dinner. While watching the TV, he noticed something dart across the room in his peripheral. Bill assumed that it was a rodent that should have infiltrated the house and he scanned the entire house hoping to find it but his efforts ended in vain. Since it was already late, Bill decided to check again the next day and went to sleep. His sleep, however, did not last long as he was woken up by the sensation of something running over his foot. He immediately concluded that it was the rodent he had seen earlier and checked the room completely but he found nothing.

 Bill convinced himself saying that he was just making stuff up and went back to sleep only to be woken up yet again. This time, he felt his bed shaking which immediately bought him out of his slumber. But when he opened his eyes, the shaking stopped. Bill thought it was an earthquake but all other objects in the room were in place. Being a pragmatic person, Bill tried to find a rational explanation for this but couldn’t find one. As Bill kept surfing the internet searching for any nearby events that could have caused the shaking, his internet connection stopped working. Since he was not able to not troubleshoot the issue himself, he called the service provider.

 While speaking to the executive, he suddenly started hearing a static sound which interrupted his conversation with the executive. Nonsensical chatters in a demonic voice followed this static. Bill was creeped out hearing this voice and immediately cut the call. A few moments later, the executive called him again to inform him that the internet connection was sorted out. When Bill asked this executive if he had heard this static, he confirmed that he also heard it and apologized to him for the fault being on his side. After searching on the internet for a radical explanation for a really long time, Bill finally gave up and went back to his bed.

 As Bill was trying hard to go back to sleep, he started hearing sounds coming from underneath his bed which frightened him. As he kept keenly listening to this sound, he saw a hand slowly crawl up the bed and when it was about to catch his leg, he pulled his leg to his chest and the hand went back. Bill got into a foetal position and spent the rest of the night in fear.

Eeriness Continues

 The next day, Bill did his best to not say anyone about the weird events in his house as he felt people would not believe him. He returned home later than usual and left the lights turned on for the night. As he kept watching the TV in the well-illuminated house, the lights turned off by themselves. Petrified by this, Bill ran into the closet to retrieve his flashlight. While in the closet, Bill started hearing the boxes on the topmost rack of the closet slamming. With every minute he stayed inside the closet, the slamming grew intense. Bill understood that whatever was inside the closet did not like him being there. So, what was the entity terrifying Bill? Find it in the next part.