The following written confession was submitted via email:

I had Encounter with my brother probably about 13 years ago that has changed my life, Left me with permanent Anxiety and fears and have spent every year since Researching online, watching Every Ghost Show and Paranormal Show trying to find something to help me understand what my Brother and I encountered.

We used to spend a week at our Aunt and Uncles house with our Grandparents and cousins in [redacted], Indiana. One of these weeks the trip was planned on a week were my cousins had school which was unusual because it was typically planned during school breaks every year, so I was probably 10ish and my brother was 7ish I can't remember what year this happened, but we had a sleepover with our cousin in a pull out Sofa Bed that was located in the family room downstairs. The Family room was adjacent to a Dining room that had a open archway into the family room and the Kitchen was Connected to the dining room by a regular doorway that had no door on it. So we were Woke up by my Aunt getting my cousin up for School and it was early morning not pitch black but not fully daylight. After she left with him, my brother and I were lying there in the family room and we Heard what Sounded like a LOUD Explosion I can't over state how load it was. Then maybe 1 minute after that there was a Almost Cliche Ghostly Moan type noise, also Extremely Loud, then what Sounded like a Metal Door being pushed open and grinding across a floor. Extremely Extremely loud. Then maybe 2 minutes later the Dining Room Gradually Lit up Deep Red as if a Graduation Switch was Bring the lights up but I don't remember it Lighting up the Family room adjacent. Then this Thing that was probably 2 1/2 feet tall dressed like a clown with a Human like shape and solid as any person came from the Kitchen doorway, ran into the now Red lit dining room and jumped up onto the Table and turned and looked directly into the Dining room at my Brother and I, My brother was on the side of the bed closet to the Dining room and this thing after standing on the table and watching us jumped down from the table and ran into the Family and jumped up on the End table that was maybe a foot from my brother and again just stared at us, it had a huge smile with Thin Fang like teeth, it's movements was almost the way that Midget Runs where there movements are kind of Labored and Clumsy. It then Jumped down from the End table and ran back into the Dining room and around the corner into the Kitchen. Then the Red light in the kitchen slowly and Gradually Went away and it was over. I am not comfortable telling the story and for years I thought it was a dream until my brother who is Autistic mentioned it probably 7 years after the ordeal confirmed that it happened because i never told anyone up to that point the story. We have come to call that Creature the Clown Demon.

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