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Did I See a Ghost?

After I had moved into a new house and had been living in it for about three years when something very strange happened. Up until then, I had never seen anything out of the normal, just heard a few thumps in the night, but never thought it was strange. However, on this night I was getting ready to go to bed and was putting my ear plugs in facing the mirror. Suddenly I thought I heard a noise coming from above my room. As I looked back to the mirror I saw the window curtain behind me move as if someone had passed or a breeze had hit it. Frightened, I went to the window but it wasn’t open. I thought maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me. I was so tired and so scared that I finally fell asleep with the night light on.

I never knew what the incident was about and after a few months I forgot about it until another very strange thing occurred. The house is very large with lots of rooms and hallways. As I was in the back of the house letting my dog in, I saw a shadow out of the corner of my eye. It appeared to be several little girls running down the hall. Terrified, I ran from the house wondering how I could have a shadow when no one else was in the hallway. How could this be? I decided to never to talk about these incidents or even ask my parents about the house’s previous owners. To this day, I still sleep with a night light and never go out of my room unless someone is with me, even if I’m not sure whether or not I saw a ghost.

Submitted by Brian, July, 2005

 

When I Used To Talk To Walls

In the summer of 1991 my father passed away from cancer. At his funeral, my mother buried him with a ring that he had given her on their first date. As you can imagine, my mother was depressed for a long time over his death.

When I was younger my mother would constantly walk into a room and find me talking to what she thought was inanimate objects. However, she just pushed it off, assuming that I talking to an imaginary friend. This continued until I was almost nine years old when she finally said, "Aren’t you a little old to have imaginary friends?"  I told her I wasn’t talking to an imaginary friend and described my friend to her - what he looked like, how old he was, etc. She thought that I was just playing until my ninth birthday when the man gave me a present – a ring. When I showed it to my mother she started to cry instantly. When I asked her why she was crying she said she believed me about my friend and told me the story about my father and the ring. To this day I still keep in touch with my special friend.

Submitted by Robert Durst who is now 14 years old. June, 2005.

 

 

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A Ghostly Attack

 

Years ago when I was about ten years of age, I was actually attacked by an apparition. My family and I lived in an apartment in a small Arizona town. It was early in the morning and my dad had not yet come home from work. At the time my parents had been studying Wicca and were dabbling in White Magic. Everyone in the house was still asleep. I dreamed that I was playing with my older sister's doll -- Angie. My sisters wanted to go to the park and I told them no, I wanted to go later as I was playing with the doll. The doll had a long white gown and long straight black hair. I felt a scratch on the inside of my right arm and suddenly woke up as it hurt badly. I looked down the hall and saw a tall thin figure of a woman in a long white gown with dark straight hair leaving my bedroom. I looked at my arm and saw three long scratch marks that resembled the devil's pitchfork and my arm was bleeding. I went down the hall to see if anyone was up but no one was. I stayed on the couch the rest of the morning. When my dad came home, he asked what I was doing up and I told him I could not sleep. When mom got up I told her the story, but no one could figure out what had happened. I have never before or after been attacked by a spirit or entity.

Now, my mom, I, my daughter, and several other family members have paranormal experiences often. I often know when people are going to die before it happens, and I have known when other things will happen as well. Until recently I was afraid of the gift but I have since been studying Wicca and Spiritualism and understand things better. I have had nights when spirits visit me in bed, or they appear to talk to me in rambunctious groups (it sounds like groups). I have seen the light without being sick or dying but I was told I could not stay. I am not afraid of these things anymore and am taking measures to understand them. My dog does get bothered by a spirit in our new apartment and was attacked on several occasions in a house I purchased. I tell the spirits that bother him to leave and they do. My daughter is also studying the paranormal and although right now she is afraid, I think that once she understands she will be okay.

Submitted anonymously, July, 2005

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Staring in the Mirror

This story is probably different from the many others you have heard.  I think the key to this was that prior to this experience, I had been trying to become more religious and more Christian like.

I had just smoked a little weed with a friend and went inside my house as he headed home. As soon as I stepped into my room I was overwhelmed with an intense feeling -- a feeling I couldn't begin to describe.  The only thing I can say is that I was shaking and on the point of tears.  I believe it was some type of spirit, though I’m not sure if it was good or evil.

After kneeling down on one knee and trying to figure out why I felt the way I did, I heard a strong voice in my head. However, it was the strangest thing, as the voice wasn’t speaking to me in words, but I knew what it was trying to say. It told me to go in the bathroom, take my contacts out, and look directly in the mirror.  When I did as I was told, I experienced something totally out of the ordinary as I was looking in the mirror. Staring directly into my own eyes the strange feeling intensified and everything except my head was blurred out. Suddenly, I saw my eyes pop out! The only way I can describe it was similar to looking at a 3D book. When you’re supposed to cross your eyes, certain images pop up. Well, that’s how my eyes popped out at me. Then my mouth started moving and spitting out words that I wasn’t thinking of on my own. The only phrase I remember is saying, "Oh my dear God, I am changing right before my own eyes."  

It’s been about three months since this happened to me.  Afterwards, it was like something took over my whole body. I kneeled down on my knees and my elbows hit the floor when suddenly my thumbs went straight on the upper part of my eye (right over my eyelids but under my eyebrows.)  At this point it was like something was speaking to me – through me! Once again, my mouth started moving and words started coming out o my mouth, but they weren’t my words. It told me not even to try to move -- that I was frozen in time for that moment. I remained in that position for a good half hour while this “spirit” talked to me. (I believe it was either God or Satan.)  The things it told me are too personal for me to share -- all I can say is that what “it” told me were things that scared the living sh** out of me. The really weird thing is that when I walked out of the bathroom and looked at the clock, it said that only a couple minutes had passed.

I fell asleep scared, and woke up twice just as frightened, wanting to believe it never happened.  I am dying to know if anybody had experienced anything remotely close to what I have experienced. Please email me if you can relate. Please email me if you can relate.

Submitted by Bryan Weber, June, 2005

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Haunted - Still .....

Living with ghosts isn't easy. Mine are tolerable but it sickens me to no end knowing that I can never get any privacy. I also feel like hauntings are very sad, as these lost spirits are not living with the truth – they need to turn to the light and move on.

I have found that by sleeping on the edge of my bed, it helps to keep the spirits from sitting there. However, this doesn’t stop the paranormal thumping on my bed. After a while it stops and all is quiet until it is time for me to awaken. Then it starts up again.

If I wake up during the night, this unseen entity seeming realizes that I’m awake and the thumping starts up again. I’ve tried the coded knocking sequence, asking for four thumps for a “yes”; however I have counted as many as twelve thumps after this request. This ridiculous!

I have felt a feathery grip attempt to remove my c-pap head gear [nasal mask] from my face. I have also felt feathery thumps on my chest and have been shaken violently by my feet. At other times, this unseen spirit acts as an alarm clock, slapping my feet to wake me up at the time I usually rise. Unfortunately, it they seemingly cannot distinguish the difference in weekends and weekdays.

It’s been a while since these things have happened, but I still hear spirits in my head calling me with terrible phrases such as: “:"You are [bleeping] hypocrite-you know that? A [bleeping] hypocrite!"

I get the strongest feeling that some other spirit is trying to keep some of these shenanigans at bay; however, I don't like any of this at all! I have spoken aloud so that they can hear. But having had a near death experience myself, I can understand why they do not listen.

I have discovered that I have lived around ghosts all my life, just never knew they were there. The paranormal activity got really bad about 1996, and one of these "entities" wears a hood too....!

Submitted Anonymously - June, 2005

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A Ghostly Friend

A couple of months ago my niece was killed after having an automobile accident. Her name was Keshia, she was just 14 years old, and a wonderful person.

She was with a friend that had just gotten her driver’s license when the tragedy occurred. While riding along with her friend in a van, her friend lost control of the vehicle and they hit a power pole. Though startled, the two were ok until Keshia got out of the vehicle. When she did, a power line came down upon her and she was electrocuted.

When my step-sister Kelli, who was Keshia’s best friend, and I heard the news from my father, we were shocked. Standing there speechless, I soon began to notice that room got very cold. I knew there was a spirit there, but wasn’t sure if it was Keshia or the a little girl that has been haunting our house. After we heard the terrible news, Kelli and I went outside. It was raining with lots of thunder and lightening. Suddenly, we both looked at each other and Kelli said, “Tasha, no.” I felt that Keshia was there and said to Kelli, “Keshia is with us.” Kelli responded that she had felt a hand upon her shoulder.

Later that night, I saw the little girl that haunts our house and for the rest of the night she followed me through our home and up and down the stairs. Finally, when I went to bed, I couldn’t take it anymore, I told her to leave me alone.  She responded by putting her hand on the bed and then she left.

Now, I believe that on the hardest night of my life, that ghostly little girl, that I don’t even know, was trying to help me. I feel bad that I made her leave but I couldn’t take it anymore. All I could think about was my niece. In Loving Memory Of Keshia. We love you.

Submitted by: Tasha Lynn Carman – I am now 15 and it has been a couple of months since my niece was killed. In the meantime, I have only seen the little girl a couple of times. Everyone at high school misses Keshia a lot. If you would like to contact Tasha, you can email her, May, 2005

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A Haunted Apartment in Longview, Washington

Hi, my name is Jojo and this is a story about my mom's apartment that I know very well. When I was about 16, I woke up to the sound of children laughing and running out in front of my bedroom door. Thinking it was my little brother, I got up to quiet him, but soon found he was fast asleep.

When I went back to bed I heard the children’s sounds again, followed by a high pitched child’s scream! Afterwards, I began to hear water running in the bathroom, like a bath was being drawn. Getting up, I went across the hall to the bathroom where the light was on, though it hadn’t been on before and no one was in there. I checked to see if the faucet in the bath was running, and it was not --  in fact, the tub was dry as a bone. Eerily, I continued to hear the sounds of water flowing. Looking back at the bathtub, I briefly saw someone floating as if they had drowned. Then suddenly, the tub returned to normal -- no body, no water, nothing out of the ordinary.

Though I was frightened, I went back to bed again and within moments heard little girls playing outside my bedroom door. Determined to ignore it, I did nothing until I heard a horrible voice saying “Get Down Here!” My immediate thought was that the voice was talking to the little girls. As I sat up in bed, I heard a loud gunshot, a girl screamed, then another gunshot. For long moments, it was still and quiet. Then, I heard the sounds of cupboard doors slamming, followed by yet, another gun shot. By this time, I was starting to think that I was crazy, until my little brother screamed. Rushing to him, I asked what the problem was and he told me he had heard a gunshot.

Frightened and curious, I began to explore the internet and found that an old man, who was very abusive to his grandchildren, once lived in this apartment.  But the abusiveness didn’t stop there, he ended up killing all three of them. He murdered his grandson by drowning him in the tub and killed his two granddaughters with a shotgun.

I have since talked to the ghostly spirits of these children, asking them why they will not move on, only to find out that their grandfather will not let them. To make matters worse, my little brother has been haunted in his dreams by an evil spirit who abuses him during his sleep.

Submitted by Jojo - I am a student at Lewit High school of Longview, Washington and I have never believed in ghosts until this incident. April, 2005

Well, Jojo was looking for some help in ridding these ghosts, but provided a bad email address, so while we posted the story, the writer cannot be contacted..

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