Indian Grim Reaper

My dad John was visiting a friend’s house in Bellefontaine, Ohio. They had just completed renovations to their house, and they told my dad to not to go onto the back porch alone, although they had not specified why. They also told him to wake them up in the middle of the night if he had to go to the bathroom, and for him to not go alone. The restroom was connected to the back porch.

My dad woke up late one night and he didn’t feel like waking up his friend Ralph, so he just walked to the back porch by himself. He said that once you were on the porch, you knew that you weren’t alone. He walked over and went into the restroom. When he came out, the air was so cold that he could see his breath, even though it was the middle of Summer.

Something caught his eye and he turned around. He said that the thing he seen was almost as tall as the room, and that it had no face. The best way my dad could describe it, was that it was like the Grim Reaper with a spear. He mentioned specifically that what he saw was a spear and not the scythe that Grim Reapers usually have.

My dad ran out of the room and woke up Ralph and his wife Linda out of their sleep, yelling and screaming that a demon was on their porch! Ralph was not the least bit concerned and told dad that it was fine, and that he would explain it all to him in the morning.

He didn’t go back to sleep that night. He just sat on the couch holding Ralph’s gun in his hand, just in case the thing that he had seen came into the living room. One door was all that separated the living room from the porch.

The next morning dad said that Ralph and Linda sat him down and explained everything that had happened previously to them. They had bought the house and everything was fine. After living there for a few years, they decided to do some renovations to make it how they wanted it to be.

While the foundation to the porch was being dug up, they found human remains. It wasn’t really much of a surprise because Bellefontaine sits where an old Shawnee Indian settlement used to be, so there are many burials in the area.

Linda grew up on a Shawnee Indian reservation, and knew that the bones should be treated with respect. She intended to have them placed in another gravesite, so they’d get all the respect they deserved. But the night that the bones were removed, she suddenly became very ill.

Ralph said that Linda was so sick, that she couldn’t even move, her eyes were glazed, and her breath had become more like gasps. Ralph said that he went against his better judgment and brought a Ouija board into the house to try to figure out what was going on. He knew that the discovery of the bones definitely had something to do with it, since everything was fine there before that.

He said that the spirit made it clear through the board, without any hesitation,
“Put the bones back or the woman will die!”

It repeated itself twice and then nothing else came through the board after that. He got up, grabbed the bones along with a small offering to make up for disturbing the spirit’s resting place, and buried them where they had been found.

He said that Linda was back to normal the next day, but that she didn’t really remember anything about what had happened to her the day before.

They said that after that day, anytime someone is in the garage, or on the back porch, the spirit shows itself as a protector of the grave.

Ralph told my dad that it has never hurt anyone, but that nobody has ever walked towards it either.  He said that whenever something is needed from those areas of the house, they make sure that there’s at least two people in the room at the same time for safety just in case something bad happens.

My dad was fine after they told him about everything. They’ve all told me the story dozens of times. To this day, I’ve never been on the back porch by myself and I never intend to either!

The Indian grim reaper was a guardian of the dead person. He was most likely protecting the deceased person’s final resting place when it was disturbed during the renovations. When the bones were put back where they were found, the woman’s health got better, and there were no more problems.

Although she definitely could have died if the bones weren’t put back where they were found. I have heard of similar stories of people disturbing graves, often times by accident like what happened in this story. Their eyes become glazed; their breath gets very cold, and foggy. Some people get better and live long healthy lives, while others die of heart attacks, cancer, or some other ailments likely brought on by upsetting the dead.

-Location: Ohio, United States

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