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"Once I caught her when she was barely four trying to —_contacts?’" Then Dyer realised what was wrong: the boy's nock over a piece of equipment onto a newborn. I went eyes were black. "Just like my great-grandmother had o grab her; the eyes turned jet black." told me about," she said. "I didn't get much sleep that The girl terrifies Davidson. "That child knows that 1 night. | still feel creeped out every time | think about it." now," he said. "Once her grandmother picked her up Islamic exorcist Ar-Ruqya Ash-Shareeyah said the and, as she held her, the kid glared at me over _ behaviours of black-eyed children and the people who grandmother's back, eyes turned black, and she smashed = encounter them are all too familiar. "The similar er fist into her hand." incidents I have come across are where a person may Davidson is convinced that something dark inhabits the experience fear when coming across certain individuals child. "I believe the unnatural black eyes can be a_ who are possessed by a strong demon," he said. "The condition of the soul, a lack of one or a spirit takeover," reason the initial person experiences fear is due to e said. him/her also being possessed, but by a weaker demon Samantha Dyer grew up in a religious home and knows __ who is frightened of the latter." hat these black-eyed entities are evil. "I always remember my great-grandma as a fragile old woman __ Entities without borders sitting in her recliners with thick knee-high Dallas Black-eyed kids don't seem to have boundaries. As Cowboys socks on, watching a televangelist," Dyer said. you've read here, people have encountered black-eyed "She was from Texas and she was a strong Christian. | children in Missouri, Texas, California, Canada and the remember her telling me Bible stories and about how __ Middle East. The following are eerily similar encounters prayer can heal anything." from the American Midwest and But she also remembers her . . . Great Britain. great-grandmother talking about Davidson IS convinced that dark entities: shadow people something dark inhabits * Kansas, USA and beings with black eyes. "She . " . It was warm for a December old me that sometimes demons the child. I believe the afternoon in Hutchinson, will try to look like someone you unnatural black eyes can be Kansas, when Katie came home now, to trick you into talking to from work in 2008. Katie's ride hem, then they will change into a condition of the soul, dropped her off across from her solid black beings. She told me a lack of oneora spirit duplex, and as she stood in the o never ever talk to someone a . street, her ride moving slowly hat looked familiar in my takeover, he said. away, she knew something dreams because it was just a wasn't right. "I noticed two boys demon trying to fool me." standing in my driveway," she Then Dyer's great-grandmother told her something that said. "One had longer dark hair and the other had his as scared her since childhood. "She told me sometimes hood up so! couldn't see him very well.” demons can come in the daytime and they will look just The teenagers, about 15 or 16 years old, seemed to be ike you and me," Dyer said. "And when I asked her'How watching her. Katie felt they were waiting for her. She will | know if it is a demon or not?', she told me all —_ steeled herself and walked nervously across the road demons have black eyes. She explained that eyes are the — toward her porch. The boys had lurked around her window to the soul, and if you have no soul, like a neighbourhood for months, but they'd never been so demon, then you will have black eyes." bold as to stand this close to her home. "I had seen them As a teen at a church retreat, Dyer saw what her great- —_ before, lingering in the yard, but they always left before grandmother meant. "In the middle of the night, another —_ got out of my ride's car," Katie said. "| had seen them late girl who | was sharing a tent with woke me up to walk to _ at night as well, standing across the street when I would he bathrooms with her," Dyer said. "Once we fumbled go outside to have an occasional late-night cigarette." out of the tent, we noticed two of the boys were almost But although pangs of unease told her to run, the umbling out of their tents so we decided to all walk —_ teenagers’ boldness angered her. She stopped and asked ogether.". When the teens reached the bathrooms, Dyer — them why they were on her property. "They told me they and one of the boys stood outside while the others went needed to use a phone and that the neighbours would in—and they saw something that haunted Dyer for years. _ not let them in," she said. "That was when | noticed their "A boy who was wearing a hoodie came onto the same __ eyes: they were coal black. Just black. No white and no’ path we were on," she said. "As he passed us, there wasa__ even a hint of iris or pupil." oul odour that followed him, and I felt uneasy." As the Fear shot through her, but, as evenly as she could, Katie boy walked past them, he turned and looked at them over told them she didn't have a telephone. She walked up is shoulder. "Something was off but I couldn't place it,", her porch steps and began to unlock her door when the Dyer said. "Once he was out of earshot, the boy | was boy in the hood spoke. "He asked if they could come in waiting with said, ‘Did you notice those sick all-black for a glass of water," she said. contacts?” Then Dyer realised what was wrong: the boy's eyes were black. "Just like my great-grandmother had told me about," she said. "I didn't get much sleep that night. I still feel creeped out every time I think about it." Islamic exorcist Ar-Ruqya Ash-Shareeyah said the behaviours of black-eyed children and the people who encounter them are all too familiar. "The similar incidents | have come across are where a person may experience fear when coming across certain individuals who are possessed by a strong demon," he said. "The reason the initial person experiences fear is due to him/her also being possessed, but by a weaker demon who is frightened of the latter." something dark inhabits the child. "I believe the in unnatural black eyes can be a condition of the soul, a lack of one or a spirit takeover," he said. 62 * NEXUS Davidson is convinced that FEBRUARY - MARCH 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com