I grew up in this part of town, passed the cemetery on my way to and from school for years. Never felt anything negative and never had anything follow me home, until just this past summer, a decade and a half after I first moved away. Since then I've learned I'm a sensitive, and my skills are just starting to develop.My best friend had recently moved in with me and thank the gods he did, because he's a very powerful sensitive, medium and witch, and knew right away when something bad followed me home. I had just come back from taking a walk through my old neighborhood that day because I was visiting someone living in it, and for the first time I didn't want to walk on the same side of the street as the cemetery. The energy of the place had changed. Just a few minutes after getting home he asked me if I felt anything was off. To be clear, he did not know where I was and certainly didn't know I'd walked by a cemetery. He said he saw something moving around *fast,* because it was trying to avoid being seen, but he kept watching it and started talking to it. "What are you?" "Why are you here?" "Stop trying to hide. I can see you wherever you go, so just stop trying." It did not stop trying. He's been developing his abilities since early childhood, and as a medium is well-versed in ghosts, spirits and other things following *him* home, but had for the first time, in 7 years of being my best friend, witnessed something following *me.* And it wasn't nice, and it wasn't human. He identified it as a fae creature, one that is extremely difficult to get rid of once it's latched on, and said we needed to do a banishing ritual immediately. I'm unfamiliar and uncomfortable with actual spells and rituals, scared of doing something wrong and making things worse, so I was hesitant. He's a grey witch, and I prefer to work solely with the light, prayers and calling upon angels and guides. He knew that wouldn't work but we tried it my way first anyway. It's a dark entity, but not a demon from hell, so calling upon God and angels and human ancestral guides had no effect on it. As I did my prayers, I heard it laughing at me. My friend knew it would get worse fast, so we had to act fast. That same night, we did some proper witchcraft, really potent stuff with a lot of ingredients. We trapped it in a vessel, and near the end, I got this notion to drip the candle wax over the edges of the lid to make it completely airtight, my hands shook and I ended up dripping a line over the top of the lid. I saw that line, and in my mind I saw a full pentagram, the symbol of protection, then continued pouring the wax until the pentagram was complete and closed. My friend said that was a genius bit of spirit guide channeling, and now, even if the jar breaks, the thing can never escape. It was safe to just chuck it in a dumpster, and that particular being won't ever hurt anyone again. However, I walked past the cemetery again, and although nothing followed me this time, I felt what was going on in there. Someone or several someones did some amateur magicks in there and they did it wrong, opened a portal, and it's not safe there anymore. I won't be going back until I'm confident that either I can banish the beings and close the portal myself, or until someone else has done it.