Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

I’ve experienced ghostly things and always known someone who had experiences as well.

My brother and I spent a lot of time at our grandparents’ house. Whenever we spent the night, we would sleep on the couches in the living room. To set things up for this experience I had, in the living room, there are stairs that lead to the upstairs part of the house. The steps were made out of wood and at the bottom of the steps the floor had carpet. So anyway, one particular night, I woke up to the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs. It sounded like someone was coming down real slow in heavy boots. I was laying on the couch with the top of my head facing in the direction of the stairs. I thought it could’ve been my grandpa coming from upstairs so I laid still pretending to be asleep.

Soon after, I didn’t hear the footsteps anymore so I lifted my head to look and no one was there! The light from the bathroom, which is right across the hall from the living room, was on (My brother was afraid of the dark) and some of the light was pouring into the living room so I had plenty of light to see. I got up to look in my grandparents’ room and there they were fast asleep.

On a couple of occasions, at my grandparents’ house during the day, there would be knocks at the door but no one would be there. After a while, my grandmother would tell us not to answer the door because to her, that was “death knocking.” I would always get scared.

On several occasions at the house I lived in with my brother and mother, I would hear footsteps running up and down the hallway. One night, I was sitting in the living room watching a movie and I heard footsteps running down the hallway towards the kitchen (Which is next to the living room) so I turned my head to look and I saw a foot! So, I got up and looked and of course I didn’t see anything. The only other person who was home was my mom and she was sleeping.

Another time, my brother and I saw a man walking sideways from my mother’s bedroom to my bedroom. He was dressed in all white (White top hat, white suit and shoes) and his face was all black (Couldn’t see his eyes or anything!). We walked down the hall to look in my bedroom but no one was there.

Also on a few occasions, when I’d be laying in bed at night, a big, bright white light would shine in my bedroom out of nowhere even though it’d be completely dark.

Sent in by Michelle Brown, Copyright 2009