I was probably 5 yo, so 1988-ish. I don’t remember why my mom had my brother and I sleep in her room that night. I do remember feeling a bit scared.

I woke up in the middle of the night and there was a humanoid standing by the closet. It was shining, or glowing. It wasn’t radiating light from itself, exactly, but light was somehow coming from it. I can’t explain it. I didn’t think much of it at the moment, like “ooh, an angel!” Nor did I stop to look at all the details. I just remember feeling contented and comforted and fell right back to sleep. It wasn’t until years later that I gave it a second thought, then I wondered what I had seen. All that was left of the memory was mostly a vague impression.

Probably related?? I finally told my mom about it when I was a teen. She gave me a little more info. My dad used to collect really creepy movies and stuff and he kept it in that closet. She used to have dreams of demons coming out of the closet. I did not know these things as a kid. Maybe something malevolent really was there and the being was protecting me? Angel?