Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

I had just recently moved into a new house in South Dakota. It is pretty old as you could plainly see by the outside and inside designs. So about a week later, my little brother told me that the room to his door was shaking in the middle of the night. I told him it was probably our cat jumping off a box in the hallway. So he believed me. The next day, he told me he heard knocking on his door and that the doorknob was moving. I really didn’t have anything to say because I didn’t have a backup theory. So that night, my brother slept in my room.

My door was almost completely shut. We talked for a while when the door slowly started to open. At first I thought it was my cat coming in to sleep on my bed. Nothing entered my room! I was freaked out and my brother was hiding under the covers. I was talking to him trying to calm him down when the blinds shook and my door slammed shut! I ended up falling asleep under the covers that night.

For the next week or so, there hadn’t been anything out of the ordinary happening. So I felt comfortable in my own home. Then along comes Friday. My parents were going out with a couple of their friends and I was watching my little brother and sister. They decided to go to the park behind our house. So I decided to go and take a bath. So I’m in my bathroom pouring the bubbles when I was “pushed” into the tub. I was yelling at the top of my lungs because I had gotten my clothes all wet. I thought it was just a silly prank my siblings were pulling on me. Then I realized, they were outside. Nobody was in my house but me.

All the windows in my house were opened to let in a nice cool breeze so when my siblings heard a scream, they came running into the house. They came into the bathroom and saw me crying and being soaking wet. They were looking at me as if I was “It” the clown. So I looked into the mirror and saw that my nose was bleeding and I had a bruise on the side of my cheek the size of a golf ball! I had to wash the blood off of my face so they stayed in the bathroom with me while I showered.

I told them what happened and of course, my sister being the know-it-all, said no one was in the house and that I slipped. My brother believed me, though. So I told them to tell my parents that I slipped and fell into the bathtub.

My sister apparently pissed off the ghost so the next morning, she woke up to a bruise on the arm and scratches on her face. So now, if one wants to go outside when mom and dad aren’t home, we all go. If one is in the shower and mom and dad aren’t home, the others wait in the bathroom. As for sleeping, lets just say we use extra blankets and pillows from now on. So remember, when you think you’re alone, you may not be.

Written by Kaleigh-Nicole Pedersen, Copyright 2009