Since it’s Halloween season, and I’ve always wanted to share my ghost stories online, I thought I’d take the opportunity here. I plan to go in chronological order (the third story is my personal favorite), so let’s start with when I was a kid.
My mother was a huge Sci Fi fan, so I watched more than my share of Star Trek & Unsolved Mysteries when I was a kid. I had quite the active imagination, but I was also very skeptical – I always tried to find logical explanations for things I’d experienced. My first encounters with a spirit had no other explanation.
I was sitting on the couch in our living room, and my parents were sitting together in the kitchen behind me after dinner. From where I sat, I could see the hallway to the rest of the house. One night, I saw a man, glowing white & dressed in what I can only describe as 1950’s business attire, walk down the hallway to the rest of the house. I shouted, & told my parents, & of course they told me that there was no such thing as ghosts & not to worry.
But for a couple years after that, I couldn’t shake the feeling that someone was around me whenever I was alone in the house. Now, the house isn’t that old. It’s not like anybody died here, so I had no idea who it could be. And that’s what really frightened me.
Another night, I was alone in the house. I was probably about 8 years old. My father was outside shoveling the driveway, in anticipation of my mother coming home from work. I was, again, watching tv on the couch. The living room & dining room were one room, separated by the couch. So, with my back to the dark dining room, I felt like someone was behind me. Not menacingly, just…there. I looked out the windows as though someone would possibly be casing my middle class family’s home with 3 feet of snow in the backyard, but there was no one there, nor was there anyone in the dining room. I tried to ignore it, but I couldn’t shake the unsettling feeling! So I got up & walked to the bathroom on the other side of the house. I just sat in there for a moment, before it felt like someone walked by the door & was standing in the doorway of the next bedroom over. You know how you can sense the movement in the air when someone quietly walks by you? That’s what it was. After a couple minutes of feeling like someone was waiting for me in the next room, I decided I’d rather wait impatiently for one of my parents to come in the house in a more comfortable spot, so I went back out & sat on the couch. A few seconds later, I felt someone walk by & sit back down in the dining room. It was like I could’ve watched them walk by, but I couldn’t see them. Another 10 minutes or so passed before I started panicking. I started pacing around the house, looking out the front door to see how close my dad was to finishing the driveway. It got to a certain point, where I just stood with my back to the front door, & I yelled out into the house 3 times in a row “I don’t know who you are or why you’re following me, but you’re scaring me! Please go away!” And it went away. Just like that.
Fast forward about not quite a decade, & I found out who it was. My mom admitted she believed in ghosts, but she wouldn’t tell me why. Come to find out, she was married once before my father, for about 10 years. They couldn’t have kids, so he got sucked into a gambling addiction, slipped into major depression, and eventually ended his own life. I absolutely think that spirit was his, just babysitting me when no one was around. And I feel like I’ve made peace with him. I also feel like he never really went away, just kept further distance.
So there’s my first ghost story! I have a few more to share, so stay tuned!
And if you have any spooky stories of your own that you’d like to share, please do! I’d LOVE to hear them!
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