Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

When I was 13, and alone at the house, I was on my computer downstairs talking to my friend on aim. My dog was in the house with me and he kept barking like crazy so I went to see if he needed to go out but I just saw him staring at some blank spot on the carpet. I figured it was a bug or something so I just went back to the computer. A few minutes later I saw a blue light shining from upstairs. I immediately figured it was just the TV so I left that also.

Hours later I went into my parents room to get the phone. The thing you need to know about my parents room is they have a mirror on every wall, above their bed and on the headboard of their bed. I’m already afraid of the dark so I could have been imagining things but what I “saw” when I looked in the mirror at the dresser was what looked like someone is a white dress with blonde hair laying across one of the corners of the bed on their side with their arms over their head. It was very quick because as soon as I thought I saw that I ran out of the room and called my friend crying and her dad came and picked me up. I checked the room when he and my friend were there and there was nothing on the bed but the gold comforter so that made me even more uneasy. This, however, is not the “paranormal encounter” I was truly terrified of.

What really scared me was when I was 15 and I was sleeping in my bed. Everything happened quickly and at once but these are the details. I hear a really low and loud sound like a really low drum maybe and it was about every 3 seconds I think. But it kept getting louder like it was getting closer to me. And I remember my heart racing and wanting to cry but not being able to and that’s when I realized that I was completely stiff, my teeth clenched together and my fists clenched. I was freaked out about not being able to get up or yell and the sound was just not helping the situation. I felt a pressure on my right arm as if someone was grabbing me and got really scared and just kept saying “oh god oh god” in my head afraid of what was happening. After I felt that though I was able to move again and I fell out of bed and stumbled down the stairs. It wasn’t until I was able to move again that I noticed I hadn’t been breathing throughout that entire thing but I was crying and trying to breathe as I left the room. My brother in law was asleep on the couch so he hopped up and ran to me but I couldn’t really speak because of the crying.

A week later it happened again but this time I didn’t hear the noise or feel anything but the stiffening of my body and shaking got worse and I was more aware of the fact that I couldn’t breathe or move. After it happened that time my mom took me to the hospital. They did too many tests to count making sure it wasn’t seizures (which my brother had when he was younger) or anything psychological. They had me hooked up to a machine while I slept to check for brain patterns but didn’t fine anything so told my mom it could be night terrors but that I was perfectly fine.

A month later though when I was at my friends house and sleeping in the bed with her it happened again but with a lot of differences. My teeth didn’t clench, I still didn’t hear a sound or feel a presence but I did see someone at the end of the bed. It was dark so I couldn’t make out features but I wasn’t that afraid because we were sleeping in her brothers bed so I figured it was him coming home from his dads. Another difference was I was able to move my right leg a few inches because I had been trying to get it to move towards my friend to wake her up. When I COULD move I woke her up and told her what happened but then she got scared and woke up her mom because I guess her brother was gone for the weekend so he couldn’t have been there.

I consider myself slightly paranoid with anything paranormal so I can’t say it was ghost or anything. Especially since it didn’t occur at the same place each time. And my mother’s only explanation was that it could be a demon and told me if it ever happened again to repeat Jesus’ name in my head (or out loud if possible). It never happened again after that but, since I found this site and the doctors couldn’t tell me anything, I thought maybe someone else had an idea of what may have happened. Please let me know if you do. Thank you.

Sent in by Christie, Copyright 2010 TrueGhostTales.com