When I was a kid (I was 8 at the time) I had just laid down to go to bed. I grew up in a very small home and had no bedroom door. The doorway entrance closest to my bed led to the living room. My house had a single landline phone, and the cord for this phone was plugged into the wall in my bedroom (this is important).
As I lay there, I could see the lights from the TV in the living room flickering into my bedroom from the doorway, even with my eyes shut. My parents were watching TV that night as usual, so I shut my eyes and tried to go to sleep. As I lay there, I noticed the flickering under my eyelids went away, which usually meant that one of my parents had entered my room, so I opened my eyes. To my surprise, instead, there was an extremely tall figure in the doorway staring at me. Pitch black, large brimmed hat, and the works. At first, I wasn’t afraid, then it moved towards me. As it moved, a very subtle purple glow could be seen from underneath of it, as I looked at the purple glow, I became completely immobilized and could no longer breathe. I went into a panic, but my body felt as if it weighed way more than usual, and thus moving was extremely difficult.
Finally, I managed to roll out of my bed and into the floor at the figure “feet”. From there I could see the cord for the landline phone across the floor, and out of desperation since I couldn’t call for help, I grabbed the cord and began yanking it lightly, which got my parent’s attention in the living room. They entered my room and turned on the light, and as soon as the light came on, I was able to breathe again, and the figure vanished. That is all.