Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

Hi, my name is Artisha and I work at a hotel in Central Washington. I’ve been working here almost a year and am a devout Wiccan with psychic abilities. I am 22 years old and have FELT spirits (ghosts) my entire life.

For me seeing is not believing, where I have always felt them near me, my older brother is the one who got the visions. They are horrible bloody, visions of mangled specters or sickening accidents, some even violent beings. Sometimes when we were together one of his visions would kind of bounce off him or channel through him to me, I think because we’re so close.

Any way, here the last six months or so my brother has battled with an addiction to meth, which I believe helped to block him from the spirit world. I think this sent the spirits that would normally go to him, to me.

I’ve always believed the hotel to be haunted, ever since my first night shift (11p.m. to 7a.m.). I could see the shadow figures move through the halls out of the corner of my eye, hear children playing in the pool when no children were in the house. There are even certain stairways I will not walk up and I refuse to ride the elevator.

About two months, maybe more, ago I was working the night shift which includes me setting up the breakfast buffet. I walked down the hall to the ice machine and was filling a pitcher with my back to the hall. Suddenly I had a vision, I was watching myself in third person and I could see the shadowy figure of a man behind me. He stabbed me in the back with a dagger. As soon as I had the vision I felt a very evil and angry presence and immediately felt the need to leave the area.

To this day I will not stand with back to the hall. Never before had I ever had a vision that involved me directly and upon talking with my brother, he informed me that he had never experienced one like that before either.

Sent in by Artisha Shacrum, Copyright 2008