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I've recently come in contact with strange....creatures, I guess you could call them. They seem to be attached to locations, though we're not quite sure. They choose people to "protect" (but they will hurt these people if necessary for they don't like to be talked about) that have moved into these houses or near these locations. They seem and feel like demons but for some strange reason I don't think they are (but then again, that could just be me =P). They maybe like demons but are "their own creature" I suppose. I'm not sure what they are and if anyone had any idea then I'd really like to hear it.

Additional information: They present themselves as black blobs though sometimes they can human shaped and try as I might I can't figure out their gender. I guess they really don't have one.

Maybe this is a diffrent breed of demon.

It's actually all over the place. It's here in Michigan and over in Kansas that we know of so far.

How can you tell that they would be very complex constructs? (by definition, constructs are artificial. xp )

And when I asked about the terrain, I meant directly corresponding to where they show up. Like if they seem to show up in areas that are elevated, or next to a lake, or next to a cemetery or something.

It sounds similar to something that had been "attached" to a friend of mine for quite a while. She was told that she had a great power, though she has no idea how to use it at all. I've tried teaching her some basics, but while she understands, she cannot do.

I've noticed it more as an arachnid type of apparition, or kind of like the Face Huggers from Alien. They have many spider like legs - probably about six, a tail much like a scorpion, and no real visible "head". It's over the spine and neck area, sometimes stretching over the skull. They feed off of energy, draining for existence, making it a parasitic and highly resilient symbiote.

She lives a few blocks from a lake, near the down town area of a bigger city. I don't think it's either, I would just connect it to her potential. In case anyone was curious, this is in Wisconsin.

Well, thanks at least for not jumping to conclusions and assuming they are demons. Assumptions just make me die a little inside, when you pile them up into a lump.

Well, so they're blobs that seem to be attaching to people, and seem to be hurting them if need be, and they seem to be showing up in multiple states.

For the record, Washington is the best state, and the best town is the town I live in. Will I tell you? No, I won't tell you.

Here are the possibilities as I see them.

1. These demons don't exist. they are a figment of some overactive imaginations.

2. These demons do exist, albeit their primary source of existance being the magically inclined people who saw them where they are.

3. These demons do exist, and they are creatures born of the energy/thoughts of individuals around or related to the places they appear to be gaurding.

4. These demons exist, and they are creatures from some other place, astral plane, 49th elf kingdom, w/e, and are basically spiritual entities emigrating here for some who-knows reason.

5. These demons exist, and are from some classical source of demonry, I.E. Hell, Sheol, Hades, lake of fire, ect, and were sent by some Summum Malum entity in order to just mess things up.

My personal opinion under the circumstances discribed would be the third option, as I know of no source more complicated and powerful than human possessiveness, fears, and subconcious, and this includes all the gods I do and do not believe to be real. It would also give them a reason to be in the places that they are, and there would be no need to go into yet another cosmotology about exactly how hell and demons and death works, as we have enough of those already. Of course, nothings for sure.

Oh, yes, and my options rule out outright lying or misrepresentation of information, because when you show a healthy sense of reality and skepticism, I tend to treat you at your word until you show that trust to be misplaced.