Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

I’m currently at my cousin’s house, and I was going to save sharing my experiences until after I got home, but I figured I’d better do it now before I forget.

My cousins moved into an old house that creaks, groans, and has a few ghosts. We’ve all spotted a white cat in the living room and my youngest cousin and I spotted a black and white cat in the kitchen. I actually touched the black and white cat.

I was sitting in the kitchen, looking out the window. It was night time and they didn’t have any power at the time. I was waiting for my oldest cousin and his friend to come inside from the garage. I was just sitting there when a cat walked up. I figured it was my oldest cousin’s cat, because they have the same coloring, so I started petting it. It wasn’t until I really looked down at it that it looked up at me. The eyes were gold (not green like the cat I thought it was) and the markings were all wrong. It gave me a scared look then ran off and disappeared into the dark.

All of us have also experienced the feeling of falling down the basement stairs or have actually fallen down them. In fact, I’m the only one that hasn’t fallen. And every single time we go up the stairs anyone of us can distinctly hear footsteps or the slide of heavy jeans behind us. It never fails.

There’s also a locked door in the basement that no one can open but the landlord. I’ve seen a large dark shadow figure over there. He appeared to have horns. I’ve also seen a woman, laying on the ground a few feet away from the door. She’s blonde and she’s wearing a 60s or 70s style white dress and stilettos. She’s got a massive blood spot on her stomach too. She just lays there.

My cousins, their friend, and I have all seen a tall man (whom we call Jared) and a young, preteen, boy (whom we call Nick) in the basement too. We’ve seen Nick’s happy face all over the basement, but never upstairs. He’s short, skinny, with brown hair and a blue plaid shirt. He’s really sweet. Jared isn’t so nice. He hasn’t touched any of us to my knowledge, but he’s creepy as all get out. He looks a lot like the little boy. We think he’s the one that follows people up the stairs. I’ve seen him in the kitchen and dining room a few times.

My eldest cousin says that there is also a teenager down there by the name of Christopher. I don’t know much about him, but my cousin claims to have seen him, so I believe him.

Upstairs, I’ve witnessed a little girl with golden cat eyes. I know she’s wearing saddle shoes and some sort of dress. Her hair is relatively long, but she really doesn’t allow me to really see her. She’s let my aunt and Samuel see her. She usually hangs out in the dining room, kitchen, bathroom, and a back stairwell that my family can’t get into. My cousins tell me that they see her in the stairwell window all the time.

Now here’s one that actually touched me. I don’t even really think she’s a ghost. I think she might be one of the fey. I’ve seen a flash of light tan and a rainbow orb in relation to her. She’s seems to roam everywhere on the first floor. I’ve only really seen her once, and that’s when she was touching me.

I was laying in my younger cousin’s room, resting my eyes, the fan was on and it had been. I was feeling my hair tickle my neck and my cheeks but it never moved much. I astral projected and roamed the house. I saw most of the ghosts in the basement, but I was still very much aware of my body. I kept feeling my hair move way too fast across my face, neck and shoulders, and occasionally I’d feel something stroking my hand. When I returned to my body, I saw a dark blonde woman in a light tan dress smiling down at my body and stroking my hair. I immediately went back into my body, then the sensation was almost immediately gone. She didn’t have wings or anything, and would’ve reminded me of an angel if my aunt hadn’t suggested that she was fey to begin with. Its possible that she’s a friendly ghost too. I don’t know. She didn’t frighten me because she just looked so protective and motherly.

The things in the basement (with the exception of Nick) and the little girl all freaked me out. The little girl and the dead blonde lady in the basement only freaked me out for a moment, but I’m still scared of everything else and Jared worries me. This lady just seemed kind and understanding.

My oldest cousin’s bedroom is in the basement and he has windows that look up into the vacant house next door. When I went down there the first time and looked up through the window, I saw a woman in dark grey. Her dress looked really old. Like something Lizzie Borden would’ve worn. She also had blonde hair (I know, lots of blondes) and it was pinned up. She was pale and she looked stern. She had a black broach at the base of her neck. She was just next door. My aunt says that she sees stuff like that almost every time she looks over there. The woman wasn’t there when I looked back. I’ve seen glimpses of her when I look over. She’s usually just walking around.

Today, this man was walking by the house with his dog. I was sitting here, at the computer and I watched him whip out his cellphone and just stop there. A little later, cops pulled up. They, with the man, knocked on the door, then walked around the outside of the house. When they got closer to this house, I heard them say “Someone’s in there. They’re either hiding or just being really quiet”. Minutes later I heard them banging really loudly on the door, and I realized they were trying to bust in. One of them said that they’d rather break a window so they went around to the back were there’s a bay window and got in. The man left, and a little later, the police left, laughing about “stupid kids” and “false alarms” and having to break it to the landlord that his old bay window is now busted. Take from that what you will.

Now back to this house. My younger cousin and I have seen a girl on the stairs leading to the upstairs apartment to this old house. My aunt and my older cousin reacted to our report like it was nothing new. So I guess they’ve seen her too. She just sits on the stairs and stares at you. That’s all she does. And upstairs, after the lady and her boyfriend have gone to work, you can hear random footsteps and when you’re in the bathroom you can hear indistinct talking from both above and in the stairwell (and basement stairs next to you). The worst is when you hear whispering in your ear.

The first time I heard this whispering, I was in the shower. I thought it was the water or something at first until it got louder. I heard my name (my real name) and the names of a few members in my family. I couldn’t make out anything but the names and it sounded like a man voice and it was right in my ear. I was horribly scarred and I kept sees flashes of something in the corner of my eye. I rinsed out my hair and got out as quickly as possible. That was the second time I took a shower. Its happened maybe seven or eight times sense I’ve been here (I’ve been here two weeks). Once more while I was in the shower, once while I was washing my hands, twice while I was washing my face for bed, and a ton of times while I was using the facilties. I never catch more than names and the occasional exhale of breath on my cheek. Its always in my ear and it never happens anywhere but the bathroom. I’ve seen flashes of light and shadow in the mirror and out of the corner of my eye, and I once felt hands on my shoulders when I was washing my face one morning. I wash my face a lot because I have pretty bad acne break-outs if I don’t.

Wow! People are inspecting the house next door again. Maybe I should tell them its empty. There’s no cellphones or cops yet. Huh.

I know this stuff sounds strange, as if I’m taking some of the weird stuff as common place, and that’s because I am. Most of my family is quite spiritual. We believe in balance and expanding you psyche as well as your education. So astral projection isn’t as weird as it sounds to us, and I forget, sometimes, that its weird for others. I’m no expert on any of these things. I just tell it like it was and like it is. I can elaborate in comments later if need be.

Sent in by Nix, Copyright True Ghost Tales 2008