In the predawn hours of April 18, 2008, I suddenly woke up from one of those nightmares where I was experiencing a strange sensation of my bed violently shaking....and that I was beginning to fall off. Dismissing it as just another bad dream...I went to asleep again. Woke up later in the morning to watch the news with this
breaking story: Quake shakes Michiana: Locals report feeling southern Illinois tremors WNDU TV asked viewers to submit their personal stories by email, and Maureen McFadden read mine on the evening news show, in which I described my experience as something out of a movie scene from
'The Exorcist'_