Long post, but here you go @acenancy
Context: My family and I always go on trips to hang out and have some quality time, usually this happens in areas right outside city, because they love going to the beach.
One of those many trips, we went to a place that had 3 houses right next to each other, it could have been a 3m separation between them, a bbq area and a pool.
Each family chose their house, and my core family chose the first one. But what was odd about our house it's that it seemed to have come with a dog. It looked like an ordinary dog, just laying in the entrance of the house. Naturally, my dad would always tell her to leave, but the dog never payed attention to him.
I found it so weird that the dog only seemed to stay in our house, while she never went to where my aunts or cousins where staying. On the first day, one of my cousins went to ask the owner about the dog and he said it was his dog and also the protector of this land, that we would need her. Obviously my cousin was confused and i just thought he meant figuratively. We later found out what he meant.
During the day, the dog would sleep on the porch of my house, didn't really do anything. But when the first night hit, around 7, she would be alert, always moving, like guarding the house. A curious thing that happened was that everytime a member of my family or me would cross the 3 meters to get to the other house, the dog would go with us, right next to us, once we where in the other house it would return to my house. And when she saw one of us start moving back to the house, she would go and walk us back.
The first night I thought that was really weird, but the 3 meter distance was dark so I thought she was keeping us company. When we finally went to sleep, we realized why she would walk with us or why she slept during the day to be awake at night.
My brother and I were sleeping in one of the rooms and around 2/3 am, things started happening. First, there was an awful sound of several dogs wailing as if they were being murdered mixed with a woman's cry. But in between those sounds, really softly I could hear a woman laughing. Since I was sleepy, I thought it was a party or something and I didn't really pay attention to it. But, the witch started bothering my mom in the other room, holding her in place so she couldn't get up, also smashing things in her window.
My mom prayed several times but the witch bothered her until 4 am. During all of this, the dog was barking and guarding the door. When we woke up, we were all weird because we knew what had happened except my dad who was fully asleep. My mom started talking about it and my brother and I were sort of relieved because it meant we weren't crazy or anything. When the whole family gathered, my mom talked about it and some of them said that the witch also bothered them. One of my cousins is totally cool about those things (idk how she can be?!) and she was just like "Hey just place an inverted broom at the front door and you will be fine, that's what I did". It didn't work for us btw.
I went to the dog and gave it food, thanking her for protecting us and not letting the witch get any closer, my mom and my brother were really thankful, my father didn't understand anything because he doesn't believe in those "things".
The second night was actually worse than the first. This time she appeared in my mom and brother's dreams. With long black hair covering her face, and wearing a dirty, old rope. She would laugh and ask them to step outside of the house. That night, the dog barked louder than ever before, which woke me up several times. Everytime I woke up, i would look at my brother and he would be awake, sitting in the bed, looking at the wall or the ceiling. I asked him what had happened, if he wanted to watch a movie or something. He refused, said he was fine and that I should go back to sleep.
In the morning, they told me. What was scary was that the witch's description of my brother and my mom, was the same. Like the same dream. That's how we confirmed the whole thing was real. Before we left, we thanked the dog one more time and prayed really hard so the witch wouldn't follow us home. We never went there again. And that was like in 2018.
If you ever encounter a witch, don't look at her when she has "transformed", she might curse you and drive you insane until you can't deal with it anymore. They usually look like regular women but when they shift to their true form, it's best to stay clear. At least that's how it is in my country. Don't know if it's the same everywhere.
