Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

I am only 13 but have already had a lot of ghostly experiences. I would like to share some things that have happened, most of them were quite a few years ago, some more recent.

The clearest one happened a few years ago,I must have been about 11 or 12. It was very late one night, and I had been having quite bad sleeping problems. I went through a phase of never being able to get to sleep for hours and hours. So one night, it must have been about 1 am, I was still awake. The rest of the house was quite, so everyone must have been asleep. I was very restless so I got up and turned on my bedroom light. I opened my bedroom door wide. Now, outside my room is the ton of the stairs, and the wall opposite (attached to the stairs) is made of brick. The light from my bedroom was shining onto the brick wall.

All of a sudden, I saw a black shadow of a little boy run across the wall. I no that there was no one behind me, because I don’t share a room with anyone, and my room is quite small. I was really freaky.

Another time was, when my older sister had the room I have now (the one with the black shadow) she said she saw something. She said she saw a boy staring through the window at her. She said that she blinked and rubbed her eyes but the boy was still there, but after about a few more seconds the boy sort of blew away with the wind.

Another time, my mother was in the lounge talking to my father about my grandparents (who had both already died when this happened). Anyway, they were talking about them, when suddenly a picture of them what was hanging on the wall suddenly fell down!

My brother claims that he was walking down the landing one night, it was dark, and he saw two white orbs floating around in his room (which is next to my room).

When I was about 9 I had a different bedroom. And it was night again, and the room was pitch black. Suddenly a light from outside the window came on, I went to the window but saw  nothing. Then when I got back into bed the light kept flickering on and off really quickly. I ran into my parents room but they told he it was nothing and to go to sleep.

And another time was when I was trying to get to sleep, I was sleeping in my mums bed and she was downstairs and hadn’t gone to bed yet, (I cant remember why I was in her bed!) I was half asleep when I heard a knocking. “yeah?” I called but no one answered, the window was open so thought it was the wind or something, I heard it again and called again, but still no reply, it kept knocking so I shut the window. But I kept on hearing that knocking, so I went into my brothers room to see it he was playing a trick, but he was fast asleep. The knocking continued, but I managed to get to sleep. In the morning I told mum and she said she hears knocking sometimes, but can never figure out what it is.

I had a sleepover once, (this was in the room with the black shadow) and I fell asleep, but in the morning my friend said that when I was asleep, she kept hearing banging coming from the wardrobe.

Also, I always hear breathing and footsteps outside my room when there’s no one there. Like I said before, outside my bedroom is the top of the stairs. Apparently, the top of the stairs is the most common place for a ghost to “hang out”.

My mum says that sometimes when she’s in the kitchen washing up or something, she hears someone come in and senses someone standing behind her, but when she turns around there nothing or no one there.

My mums friend is one of those people who can tell if a spirit is there, and can communicate with them and so on,one day when she was round, I decided to ask her if she could come outside my room (and the top of the stairs) to see if she could feel spirits. She said it was my grandma and granddad who were there, but they were just looking after us. That explains the picture falling down, but now the little boy.

My dogs bark at thin air too. I think that this is everything, and if anyone could help me to find out what it is, or how to do anything, then that would be great. Thanks for reading.

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