Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

My grandfather died around 6 years ago. A few months after this happened is when I started having paranormal experiences.

June 19, 2005

I was spending the night with my grandmother a few months after Larry (my grandfather) had passed away. I was around the age of seven. I had woke up one night, and I saw my grandfather standing in the doorway.

“Papaw, is that really you?” I asked. I didn’t get a response, instead he walked into the room, and passed through the wall beside my bed. Since my bedroom at the time was the master bedroom, i didn’t think anything about it. I just went back to sleep.

I woke up in the morning, fresh in my mind what had happened a few hours ago. As I start to get out of the bed, I hear my papaw’s voice.

“Don’t worry,Kayla. Everything is fine.”

I had no idea if I was imagining it, or what. I ran downstairs and told my mamaw. She just looked at me. Finally she said, “Don’t worry, sweetie.” Then she pulled me aside and told me, “I know how you feel. I woke up one morning, and I felt his arm wrapped around me. You know how he always slept. Anyways, I’m sure he is your guardian angel.”

I just walked away, she doesn’t know what I saw last night, I think. I went back upstairs, and sat down at the computer. Since I was only 7, I had trouble finding what I needed. I searched “Ghosts”. Heck, I didn’t know what I wanted to find, all I knew was that I needed to know if it was his ghost, or just a dream. As the search results came up, I saw one that was interesting.

It said, “a ghost will remain in the human realm until it has succeeded in what it needed to do. Then it will pass into the light.”

I didn’t know what some of the words meant, but I was smart for a 7 year old. I knew how to use context clues. Then I was searching for the word paranormal, and I found out that the light is the after life.

Present day

I know now that I have always been able to know if the paranormal is around. I still don’t know if what I saw that night was a dream, or real. If someone can help me, I would be most gracious. Thank you

Sent in by McKayla Wallace, Copyright 2011