Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

The Strange Kids in My Bedroom

My story takes place in my old house in Topeka, Kansas. We had moved in when I was about 2 years old. Nothing at all out of the ordinary had happened to me until one night I awoke in my bedroom in the middle of the night. I then saw three figures in my bedroom, one girl on the edge of my bed, one boy leaning against my wall, and one trying to get something off of my dresser. Okay, so now you are probably thinking that I am just making this up. Or that I was dreaming, as I was five or six at the time. I assure you though that this is true.

Well to say the least I was extremely scared. I do not remember what the girl on my bed was saying but I do remember that it seemed she was trying to comfort me. She was the only one that spoke to me. It seemed …

A Spirits Gasp

This happened when I was in fifth grade. We’d just moved from Missouri to Kansas and rented a house. My sister and I are very strong believers of the paranormal, but our parents (especially my mother), aren’t so easily persuaded.

I’d just gotten home from school (maybe ten minutes after I’d gotten home) and I was talking to my mother in the kitchen while she was getting food for me. Just as I finished up a sentence, we both heard a very distinct, human gasp. My eyes went wide and we both stared at each other for a long moment. Finally, I got up and searched the house for an answer to the strange sound.

At the time, my sister was out with her friends and my father was at work. None of our animals (a cat, dog, two parakeets, two hamsters, two guinea pigs, two hermit crabs and lots of fish) couldn’t have made the noise. Our front door …