After a little research about this story, and the meaning of 3 in the bible, strange resemblances appear throughout similar stories of Mormon missionaries. As everyone knows, the number 3 stands for the Trinity all throughout the bible. These spirits don't agree so much with the teachings of god. "The fallen" have always had the power to mock the Trinity.
"In
2001 I was serving a Mormon mission in Guayaquil, Ecuador. As you might
know, missionaries are paired up in twos and are called companionships.
My particular companion at this time was a young guy from Chile. We
lived in a little two level home made of cinder blocks and cement just on the outskirts of a small town
near Guayaquil. We lived on the lower level. My companion had lived in this home for a couple of months before I moved in, and at this time, I had moved in 2 months prior. .
One
morning as we were studying, we heard what sounded like footsteps
running across the floor of the second level, right above our heads. We
looked at each other and instantly dismissed the idea of mice or rats
because the footsteps were so loud and hard, they could not have
possible been from a small rodent or animal.
The footsteps ran from one end of the floor to the other. Because he had
lived there longer than I had, I asked him if he knew what was on the
second level. He told me that he had never even been up there and as far
as he knew, we were the only ones in the house. It was an eerie
experience to hear the footsteps, but we didn’t trouble ourselves
anymore on the issue, and we went about our regular
missionary schedule.
Roughly
a week later, as we were again studying, we heard the same thing above
our heads. This got us really interested in finding out what was on the
second level, so we decided to investigate. We found that there were only two ways to get up to that level. One way was through our room. There was a door that sat right
next to the front of my bed; however, this door had 8 or 9 locks that ran up and down the door as if someone bolted that door shut with the intention that it would never be opened again. I didn’t think much about the door
until we heard the footsteps, but I remember thinking it was a bit
spooky. The other way to the second level was through the kitchen. There
was a large black steel door
that
opened up to a spiral-type staircase and led right up to the second
level. It seemed as if this door had not been opened in years; we had to
pry it open using our strength and a couple of tough kitchen utensils.
We were able to get the black door open and ended up ascending the
staircase. The only light source we had were candles, so we had a couple
of lit candles to give us the necessary light.
When we got to the second level, and to our astonishment, there were a
lot of pictures of little children. These pictures, some actual and some drawings, were positioned in a circle around what seemed to be burnt candles. There were no drawings
on the floor, just burnt candles and melted wax everywhere. We thought
it was a little creepy and we had that feeling that encouraged us to
leave it alone
and not worry about it, so we left after looking around a little and
again went back to our regular schedule.
A couple days later we were just getting back from a day of service and we
both decided to hit the hay a little earlier than normal. As I mentioned
before, there was a wooden door next to the head of my bed with 8 or 9
locks on it. As I was laying there on the bed just relaxing and staring
out my window, I heard three
VERY loud and distinguishing knocks that came from the other side of the door.
KNOCK. KNOCK. KNOCK. Instinct kicked in and I threw the sheets over my
head, scared out of my mind because I knew that there was only one other
way to get to the staircase that led upstairs and that was in the
kitchen. I yelled at my companion, who was in his bed at the other end
of the room, but he was asleep and
would not wake up. I yelled at my compainion again, praying for help, but he couldn't hear me.
I
must have passed out eventually because the next thing I remember was waking up at exactly
3:00 am. I pulled my head out of the covers to look around and see if
anything was unusual, but there was just a storm outside and a lot of
lightning.
The
next morning, we got up for companionship study, and I relayed the
story of what happened to me that night. I told him about the knocks and
waking up at 3. As I was in the middle of telling him, he looked at me
strangely and asked, “What is that on your face?” I felt around my face
but could only feel a little burning when my hand went over three bumps on my face.. I darted to the bathroom mirror and to my horror, I had
three very long scratches on the right side of my face that ran from
the top of my forehead to the bottom of my chin. They were very red long
distinguishable scratches. I sat there staring at them, thinking of any
possible explanation as to why they were there and why three. I kept
thinking about the three knocks and waking
up at 3:00 am and now three scratches...
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