Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

1994 -1995

My family moved into my old house in 1994, I was 2 years old at the time. The first night we moved in my sister and I started to hear organ music coming from our bedroom closet. I got up and went to investigate and when I opened the closet doors there was a man leaning against the doorway. I could see only his body and his hair but I couldn’t see the face and he was 6 feet tall. We screamed and when my mom ran in and turned on lights he was gone (She said it was just a nightmare.)

March 21 1994, 9 am I was getting ready for the first day of preschool when I started to hear footsteps in my room. I called my sister who is 4 years older then me and she told me she heard nothing but as soon as she put one foot out the door it started up again. That night she told our parents on what we heard, they said it was nothing.

March 23 1994 was the night when the nightmares began. In my nightmare I’m walking down a road chasing a guy. Than I was lying in the middle of the road and I see a truck in front of me. Than there was a flash than I saw some high schooler laughing at me. Than there was another flash and I was in a house with red carpet. Down the hall there was a guy staring at me then the house caught on fire. I woke up screaming and after that I slept with my mom the whole time we were living there.

A month after the nightmares began things started to kick up. We would hear footsteps in the hallways at night. Light bulbs would explode, locked doors would be found open, stuff like beds, TV’s, tables, and toy’s would move on their own. Than the night before we moved, I forgot the date, we started to hear fighting in the hallway. I went to take a look and there in the hallway I saw the same man that I saw the first night we moved in. But this time I could see his face. There was blood running down his cheeks and a bullet hole in his forehead. When I started to scream my mom ran out of the room and she saw it. She woke up my dad and he ran out and when he saw it we pack up and moved early the next morning. We will never know who he was and we didn’t want to know. This is not the end it’s only the beginning of my life of terror.

1995 -1996

We moved into a duplex in Concord on March 17th, 1995 it was quiet but that didn’t last. March 20 1995 it was my 3rd birthday and my mom put me down for a nap while she was get ready for my birthday party later that day. Around, I think, 2 or 3 pm I woke up with someone or something shaking my mattress. When I opened my eyes there was nothing there but I had a really strong felling of being watched and it felt like I was in danger.

A week after we moved in I was sitting down for breakfast while watching a pup name Scooby Do with my mom (my dad was out at sea at the time). We both started to hear crying coming from the attic. When my mom went up to check it out no one was there. Later that night I had another nightmare. I was running down the same street but this time I saw myself getting hit by a pickup truck. Then I found myself lying on the ground of the high school and I could hear screaming. I ran to the main quad and I saw everybody killing each other. Than I found myself standing outside the firehouse. That’s when I saw someone get shot and I saw my older sister running to that persons side crying and she was yelling at me to get some help but I couldn’t move. Than I found myself standing in the hallway in some house with red carpet and next thing I knew the house was gone, there was nothing there but broken glass, cars on top of each other, piles of wood, and bodies then I woke up crying.

April 10th 1995, I was home sick with the flu and I was lying down on the couch watching cartoons. When I started to hear footsteps down the hall and I thought it was my mom, so I called for her but she never answered. When I was about to get up to see what she doing there was nobody they’re. Than my mom walked in from the garden and she asks me “what are you doing off the couch?” When I told her of what I heard she told me I was just sick and tired you needed my rest.

April 12th 1995, 6 am I got to use the bathroom. While I was walking down the hallway I started to hear footsteps behind me but when I looked there was nothing there. So I continued down the hall then I started to hear the footsteps again, this time I ignored it. Then while I was going back to bed I heard someone call my name. Then there was a loud crash coming from my room so I ran to the living room and slept there. (To this day I still sleep in the living room and wake up at 6 am)

As month’s goes by thing’s got worse. People getting hurt, my dog kill himself, mirrors would explode, stuff like pots, pans, and plates will be thrown, we kept seeing a girl with short brown hair around the house. Then the night before we moved I woke up from a nightmare and I saw a man with a knife standing outside my bedroom window (It was the same man from before) I got up and walk to the backyard and there he was. Before he vanishes he told me to “be careful he will get you.” We moved the next day.

1996 – 2000

We moved into an apartment complex on Teakwood Dr in Oakley on March 20th 1996. “I love it” I heard my mother told my dad. “It’s prefect for us finally the kids don’t need to share a room any more.” Than my dad turn and look at my mom. “Um honey they will have to because this place only has three bedrooms.” ” Who going to share with whom?” my dad answer as he look back in the back seat at us. “Sondra (my oldest sister) is going to share with Casey (my other sister who I talk about at the begging) and Scott (my older bother who I hate so much) is going to share with James (guess who that is).”

As we drove through the gate of the apartment complex something about it gave Casey and me the creeps. But we just thought that our memory on what happen last year was getting to us. But soon we will find out that we were wrong. Later that night we woke up to the sound of footsteps in the attic. “Do you see anything up there hun?” my mom scream up to my dad “no it just old apartment old building always make noises that could be the case”. But Casey and I knew that not the case “But old buildings don’t wear army boots ” I told myself. After that night everything went quiet for a year.

March 20th 1997, my 5th birthday it was a day I will never forget. “Make a wish James” as I blew the candles out all the lights in the apartment went out. “What happen to the lights?” ” Maybe it a blackout” ‘no it cant be the street and stop lights are still working.” I look up at her “Mommy what happen to the lights?” Just as soon as I ask her we started to hear what sound like someone with boots on walking down the stairs. “Hun is that you?” ” No I’m right here.” As the footsteps got closer I got really scare. “Mommy what is that?” ” I don’t know James I don’t know.” As the footsteps enter the kitchen it stop and the lights turn back on.

March 25th 1997, I was having the same nightmare that I have been having for years. But this time something was different about it. I was older around 17 or 18 years old in this dream. “James, James” I can hear somebody call my name as I run through the halls of the school with blood everywhere. “Come on James I just want to talk to you” just as I thought I was home free I bump into a dead end. then there was a shotgun blast then I started to scream. “James James wake up your having a nightmare” I woke up with a shadow leaning over my bed when I blink my eyes it was gone when I look at the clock it was 6 am.

March 30th 1997, 9:45 pm I woke up from the sound of the thunder so I got up and went to my sisters room. “Sondra I’m scare can I sleep with you?” Sondra look up at me “fine climb in.” As I laid in her bed looking up at Casey bunk. When I started to notice I was being watch from the closet. So I got up and look around than I finally look over at the closet (what I saw that night still scare me to this day) I saw blood red eyes and a voice told me ” how dear you” than there was a shot gun blast. than from out of nowhere there was screaming than the screaming turn into thunder and as lighting flash the red eyes vanishes. than I pass out and when I got up it was 6 am.

June 5th 1997, 10 am “James come down for breakfast” I woke up to my mom’s voice for the first time in month. “James hurry up your scrabbles eggs are getting cold.” “I’m coming” as I got up and started down the stairs the whole apartment went freezing cold. At first I just thought the heater was broken but when my dad check it out “anything hun?” “everything working fine I don’t what wrong with it.” just then we started to hear knocking on the walls and windows and then there was crash down the stairs when we look there was nothing there.

As years go by things got worse TV turn off and on by them self, the burners on the stove turn by it self, people getting attack in their sleep, pictures frames flew off walls, anger rose in my family (were fighting more), the list goes on and on. the day that we move (we just move 2 doors down) as I enter the other apartment early that morning to move my stuff into my new room I started to fell like I’m being watch than I hear a child laugh that when I ran out of there. What you read is 100% real. More coming soon.

Written by James Bartlett, Copyright 2009