SUPERNATURAL ENCOUNTER
Scrooge experienced a supernatural encounter with an unearthly visitor who drew aside the curtains of his bed. The visitor is described as a strange figure, fluctuating in appearance, and is implied to be a ghostly or spiritual entity. This is a confirmed event within the narrative.
SCROOGE
The curtains of his bed were drawn aside, I tell you, by a hand. ... Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as close to it as I am now to you, and I am standing in the spirit at your elbow. It was a strange figure--like a child; yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child's proportions. ... Even this, though, when Scrooge looked at it with increasing steadiness, was _not_ its strangest quality. For, as its belt sparkled and glittered, now in one part and now in another, and what was light one instant at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness; being now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body: of which dissolving parts no outline would be visible in the dense gloom wherein they melted away. And, in the very wonder of this, it would be itself again; distinct and clear as ever.