MIB part 1

 Ive had a lot of people ask me about the MIB, or men in black as they are called. These encounters  jump the timeline ahead a couple of years but I guess I can get back to the earlier alien encounters later.
  Do to the rising cost of alcohol and my fathers inability, or more like unwillingness, to pay the mortgage we had moved out of our home in West Corners and into a second floor apartment in Johnson City. That would be the last time we lived in our own home as a family. It was sometime in late 1967.
 I remember we were living there for quite a while and I was happily attending Abraham Lincoln elementary school, when Richard Nixon was elected President. Rumor had it that he was going to make us go to school on Saturdays, I was horrified. But back to my story.
 I remember we had moved into the second floor apartment without a hitch. The move was quick as a lot of our belongings were left behind in West Corners. We had been there for several days and life was going on as normal. It was the third night in the apartment that changed all that.
 I had gone to bed at my regular time and was fast asleep. I was a sound sleeper, not one of these kids that get up in the middle of the night to raid the refrigerator or sneak into their parents bed. When I went to sleep, it was a done deal. Except for that night. That night, in the literal blink of an eye, I woke up. I was not groggy, half asleep, or even tired anymore. I woke up and i was wide awake and fully alert. I was more than a little startled.
 It was dark outside and very quiet. If you knew my family, "quiet" obviously meant that everyone  was asleep. The only light in the room was shining in the window from a conveniently placed streetlight across the road. It gave me just enough diffuse light to be able to see in my room.
   I was just laying there looking around my room wondering why in the world I was awake and so fully awake at that. I lay there thinking of what i should do, I was considering maybe getting up and going to tell my parents i was awake when suddenly i noticed my closet was doing something funny.
  It was a long closet, there were no doors on it and i could see all my clothes hanging inside. The funny thing was, the inside of my closet was slowly getting darker. My hanging clothes were slowly being engulfed by a pitch blackness.  I wasn't sure what i was seeing, the rest of the room stayed dimly lit at the same low light level while the inside of my closet was growing darker and darker.
 It was not fast by any means, but took several minutes. The dark seemed to be confined to the area inside my closet. All the while the darkness grew, I was seeing movement, not constant, but every now and then it looked like a blurry hand would move through my closet, just outside the dark, much like someone was putting their hand through smoke, or testing the water. I realized there was someone, or something, behind the darkness, just a few feet away.
 I was pretty much frozen in place by fear at that moment. I watched both amazed and terrified as the inside of my closet, in about five minutes, turned into a very dark black hole.
  It seemed like hours but was probably no more than a minute or two,when I watched, while in an even more terrified state, as a leg slowly came out of the darkness and planted a foot outside of the dark, outside of my closet, into my room.