Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

I have a friend named Stacy. On Saturday evenings she cleaned a church for a little extra cash.

One Saturday night I’m at my buddy Dave’s house when she calls us all freaked out. She said that she was hearing voices and foot steps and that we needed to come over there and keep her company. So we jumped in my car and headed on over.

When we got there she was standing outside because after she had gotten off the phone with us, she heard a loud bang in the crawl space that runs over the sanctuary of the church. Dave and I decided to go in and have a look around. This is where things get a little crazy. I’ve never had an experience like this.

When we walked into the church, I got a feeling like something wasn’t right. Almost like I shouldn’t have been there. Kinda like I was being watched.

We checked one of the Sunday school rooms and I immediately wanted to get out of there. The room was really cold and it seemed almost darker than the rest of the rooms in the church. Dave said he felt the same way. I happened to look in the room as we were leaving and one of the little rocking chairs started to rock back and forth, like somebody just took a seat. Dave saw it too and we decided to press on with our “investigation”.

After a few minutes of just looking around, all three of us heard the noise Stacy was talking about coming from the crawl space. Against Dave and I’s better judgment, we went to look and see what was causing the ruckus. So we went into the pastors office which is were the ladder is to get into the crawl space.

Dave went up first and shined his light. After about 15 to 20 seconds he called out “hello?”, like he was talking to someone. The hair on the back of my neck started to stand up. I had the feeling that whatever was in the church, didn’t belong there. Then Dave shouted “Oh my god” and jumped off the ladder and shut the door to the crawl space.

I asked what he saw and he said “have a look for yourself”. So I did. At first I couldn’t really see anything. Just three or four boxes stacked in the back of the space. Then I saw a shadow. I didn’t think anything of it at first until it moved. I called out to it and that’s when it came at me. It wasn’t very big, but it had no face and it made like a hissing noise. I freaked and the three of us got the hell out of there. The three of us haven’t been back since, nor do I want to go back.

A true story. Dave and I have had a few wild adventures like this one. We’re both adrenaline junkies and whenever I’m home, we always go find places like that church to wander around in.

Written by Andy Nolin, Copyright 2009