Evil presence when praying the rosary
            QUESTION from Yvonne on August 20, 2003

Dear Bro., I hope this is the right forum to ask this questions. I was going to seek help from a catholic friend of mine, but was afraid she wouldn't know what to say to me. Here goes. I was raised pentecostal, and have always been taught to stay away from the Catholic church because she is the devil, and the anti-christ, and not of God and ect..., but when I married my cradle-catholic husband, and started asking him questions about his faith, he didn't know what to say! So I took it upon myself to study and do research to find out for myself what the Catholic church is all about. So for about eight months now, i have been educating myself in the faith by reading books, reading questions and answers on the EWTN website, reading questions adn answers here, going to mass, and so I decided a couple of months ago that I wanted to become catholic so much, and that it is not the bad things I was told that it was. So I am currently in Catechumic Classes and very excited. My question is that I started praying the Rosary before I went to bed at night. It made me feel very relaxed and sometimes I would fall asleep praying it. One night I was laying on my sofa, praying my rosary, the T.V was not on, and everything was really quiet, and all of the sudden I felt and heard this loud "woosh" sound, like something had flown past me. The strange thing is this "whoosh" whatever it was, I felt it go into my ear and into my body. My body suddenly got very, very hot. I dropped my rosary suddenly and put a pillow over my face and did not move the whole night.I was very scared. I felt such an evil present in me, and around me. I was so nervous. I was thinking it was God telling me not to pray the rosary, since I had always been such a devout pentecostal, and this denomination does not believe in Praying to Mary. But when I would pray the rosary, i would always make sure to meditate on the mysteries of Christ so he wouldn't think I was replacing him with Mary, which I feel a lot of Catholics do. I told my husband what happen, and he told me to quit praying the rosary, which I am now afraid to do, becasue I do not want to experience that feeling ever again. I then got over it, but I have not prayed the rosary since, but a while back, before that happen, I made a little alter like thing in my living room. It is actaully a big box that I put a red sheet over. There is a crucifix hanging above it on the wall and I put candles on the alter, and I lay my bible on the alter, and I hung my rosary on the crucifix, to kind of symbloize Mary being there with Jesus when he was crucified. I would pray and read my bible there. Well, the other day my husband confess to me that ever since I made this alter, that he has been so scared in the house, and he has felt evil spirits in the house. I asked him what was making him feel like this and he said he didn't know, but he asked me to take away the rosary from the crucifix, and put it away and see if that helped, so I did that. This is very strange for him to feel like this because he is from Mexico, where he had an alter in his home, and they have a very strong devotion to Mary. He was also very excited when I put the alter up. My question is, what could that whoosh have been that I heard so loud and felt it go into my body through my ear. Also, why does my husband feel like this now? Any imput wold be wonderful. Thanks, Yvonne