Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

Ghost in a new house? How could that be? and how come nobody believes me?

Hello. My name is Kat. My family and I moved to our house about 5 years ago.  For the first 2 years it seemed like the house was perfectly normal, but the summer of my ninth grade year, strange things began to happen.

The first strange occurrence was when I was alone in the house on the computer by our guest room.  It was around 4 in the morning and I was about to go to sleep so I decided that I would go to the restroom beforehand.  As I made my way to the bathroom, I kept hearing strange noises coming from the attic.  (the attic is right above the door of the bathroom.. and the bathroom, attic door, and guest bedroom are all within 7 feet of each other.)  The noises sounded like footsteps right above my head.  I looked up, and they started to get louder.  then all of the sudden they stopped.  there was nobody home at the time as I said and there is no way anyone can get up into the attic because it is blocked off by a bookcase.  and it didn’t sound like a rat.  I’ve thought of all the possibilities of what it could be. I never heard it again after that night,but there were other strange occurrences.

I was taking a bath one night and my cat decided to follow me in for some reason (he never does this).  I was relaxed in the tub and I looked over at my cat.  He looked very odd.  He kept following something with his eyes…. something I couldn’t see.  I thought it might be a bug so I just disregarded it…  but then all of the sudden… there was a small splash in the water that I was in… kind of like if you put your hand in water really quick and then take it out.  I was completely still at the time and my cat was all the way on the other side of the bathroom.  It scared the crap out of me. That never happened again either, but every night, I consistently have this very strong feeling that someone is watching me from the guest bedroom – every night  and it’s not in any other part of the house,only that room.

My friends and my mom have had some other experiences as well. One time my best friend was sleeping over.  I had fallen asleep and she was on the computer.  It was around 4 in the morning and she told me that she heard footsteps coming from downstairs. They sounded as if they were going up the stairs. She thought it was my dad because he’s a big guy and they were heavy footsteps.  She disregarded it until nobody showed up at the top of the stairs. Then she decided to go see where he went.  Once she got down the stairs, she went to my parents room… my dad was fast asleep, snoring and nobody else was up in the house. My cat was asleep at the foot of the bed. Also, my ex boyfriend was on the computer and heard a heartbeat coming out of the wall that was right in front of him. On the other side of that wall is the guest bedroom.

The last occurrence happened about 6 months ago.  My mom and I were downstairs watching TV and we heard a faint “hello.”  We didn’t know where it was coming from. We thought it might be from the TV, so we muted it. We heard the “hello” again.  It freaked me out. We never heard it again and my mom still doesn’t believe me even though she heard it!

Nobody in this house believes me except the friends that have actually had experiences. My house is brand new, well it was new when we bought it, nobody lived in it. The only thing I can think of that it could be is my grandmother.  She had cancer and stayed in the guest bedroom before she died and I believe we kept the ashes in that room for about a month.

Written by Kathryn, Copyright 2009 TrueGhostTales.com