Alternate Perceptions Magazine, October 2025

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The Bedroom Invader

By Albert S. Rosales

Location:

Prenton, Merseyside, England

Date:

September 2022

Time:

night

A woman reading a book in her bed at her house on St. Alban’s Road, thought she heard a noise outside the bedroom door. It was near midnight, and she was alone in the house because her husband was working nights. The door slowly opened, and there stood a strange-looking man, completely in silhouette because of the unusually strong light behind him.

The woman noticed the faint sounds of people laughing and shouting behind the alarming silhouette, as if some party were being held outside on the landing. The figure wore a slouch hat – similar to an Australian bush hat – with the brim turned up on either side. The terrifying visitor had glowing reddish-orange eyes and prominent metallic teeth and was about six foot five or taller.

The woman found she could not move, and she gazed in horror as the shady intruder walked towards the foot of her bed. He stopped and pulled the duvet off the king-sized bed, then started to laugh. The woman suddenly regained the power to move and reached out to grab an old alarm clock and threw it at the figure. At that moment he vanished and all of the sounds of the people outside the bedroom came to an abrupt halt. The woman got up, went downstairs and called her best friend in Moreton. Her friend assured her she had merely had a ‘hypnagogic nightmare’ – a realistic bad dream caused by a form of sleep paralysis sometimes experienced by a person as they start to nod off.

The woman assured her friend it had not been a nightmare and was only too glad when her husband returned from his late shift. After that night, the woman slept downstairs in an armchair.

Source: https://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/23231447.tom-slemens-haunted-wirral-eerie-bedroom-invaders/