A mysterious case happened in the state of Michigan to a 59-year-old woman named Sloan, who always believed that one day she would win the lottery. Since her youth, she was sure that luck would smile on her sooner or later. Several times a month she bought tickets, choosing them not at random, but guided by her inner feelings and signs of fate.
But that day was different. The day before, she felt a strange excitement, as if an invisible entity were calling her, pushing her toward an unusual decision. Sloan was irresistibly drawn to Tarot cards. She didn't often resort to such practices, but this time her intuition told her that she needed to know her destiny.
The fortune-teller to whom she went was experienced, and her predictions often came true. But as she laid out the cards, she suddenly froze. Her eyes widened in surprise, then changed to alarm. The cards pointed to imminent wealth, but with it came a shadow - something dark, hidden behind the promise of good fortune.
- You are about to receive a very large sum of money," the fortune-teller said cautiously. - But this money is for a reason... It will bring changes. Some of them will be good, but be careful - fate rarely gives something for nothing.
The woman walked away thinking, but her excitement overcame her doubts. The next day she bought even more lottery tickets than usual. It was as if she was drawn to this decision, as if luck itself was standing over her shoulder and whispering: "Now is your moment."
As the tarotologist predicted, it happened.
A lucky woman won 500 thousand dollars in the lottery. She couldn't believe her eyes, checked the ticket several times, but the numbers hadn't changed. It was real. Her life was turned upside down overnight.
The first thing Sloan did was to buy herself the dream car she'd been dreaming about for years. Then she went traveling - for the first time in a long time she allowed herself to feel freedom. The woman began investing, wisely allocating her capital. She even found a fortune teller who predicted her winnings and gave her a generous sum of money, believing that without her words nothing would have happened.
However, the story didn't end there. A few weeks later, strange things began to happen.
At first, she began to have disturbing dreams in which mysterious figures, hidden by shadows, reached out to her, as if demanding something. Then small but ominous incidents began to happen: lights that had gone out turned on by themselves, the telephone dialed numbers spontaneously, and her new car, parked outside her house, started in the middle of the night without the key in the ignition.
Frightened, she went to the fortune-teller, hoping for an explanation. The woman listened attentively to her story and then turned pale.
- The money that came to you wasn't just luck," she whispered. - You don't realize it, but it's connected to something dark. You got more than you deserved, and now someone or something is demanding payback.
The fortune-teller suggested a special ritual to break the connection with the mystical power that had brought the winnings. However, when they began the ceremony, the house became a nightmare: the candles went out by themselves, the walls seemed to shake, and a deep low whisper came from the mirror. Suddenly, one of the cards used in the prophecy flashed into the air, and a burnt silhouette of a demonic figure appeared on the floor.
- It's not just an omen! - exclaimed the fortune-teller. - You need to get rid of that money right away!
Sloan, panic-stricken, decided to give almost all of her winnings to charity, leaving only the smallest part to buy herself a small, modest home. After that, the weirdness stopped, the dreams disappeared, and life returned to normal.
But sometimes, as she walked past the lottery kiosk, she felt someone invisible watching her, and the ominous whisper echoed in her head again, "Tyou could have gotten even more...."