Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

When my husband and I moved into our house, I began “seeing things” out of the corner of me eye, like a shadow moving across a wall. My husband said it was probably a reflection of a car going past or a tree blowing in the wind. I noticed our cat wouldn’t go all the way down the hallway or into the bedroom at the end of the hall.  If you picked her up and tried to carry her down the hall, she would fight to get away.

Our oldest daughter often came to visit and on one occasion asked me if I had ever seen anything strange in this house. I told her about the shadows and she said “Yes, I see them too”. One night while she was visiting, my daughter and I were watching TV and my husband had gone to bed as it was very late.  The lamp on the table between our chairs was on and my small dog was laying beside me in the chair.  He stood up and was looking toward the doorway, (wagging his tail like he was glad to see someone) when I saw a softball sized shadow run toward my chair, like a spider running across the floor.  I instinctively lifted my feet and it disappeared under the chair.  My daughter had seen it too and asked what that was. My dog jumped down, and stuck his nose under the chair, still wagging his tail. I looked under the chair and even moved it, but didn’t see anything. My daughter and I, though startled by this, talked how it was strange that we weren’t frightened by whatever we had just witnessed.

A few months later, while again watching TV, my husband had fallen asleep in his chair after eating supper and my dog was in his usual spot beside me in my chair. Once again he stood up looking toward the hallway, and was wagging his tail.  I looked over at the hallway and saw what at first I thought was smoke, then realized it was mist rolling into the room.  The mist stopped and began to take the shape of an old man, dressed in colonial garb.  When I yelled at my husband, the old man disappeared.  My husband said I must have fallen asleep too and dreamed it.

My husband never believed our daughter and I was seeing anything strange in this house until we had a contractor here measuring the family room for new flooring.  After he was through taking measurements, he was standing in front of the hallway, giving us the information on the new flooring.  Every so often, he looked over his shoulder and down the hall.  He asked us if there was any one else in the house.  When we said no, he said it was strange, but he could swear he saw an old man standing at the end of the hall.  I spun around and said to my husband, “See? I told you so!”  I told the contractor about seeing the old man and he too said he felt no fear in this house.

Shortly after this took place, my husband and I went to a Halloween party where there was a fortune teller there for entertainment.  We didn’t participate, just watched and listened to him tell the other guests things about their life and themselves.  Later that evening he approached me and asked me if there was something I wanted to know about in my house.  I immediately assumed my husband had told him about what I had seen, so I told the guy my story.  He in turn told me this spirit wasn’t going to harm us, but wanted us to know he was there.  He also told me that now that I had seen this man, I wouldn’t be seeing shadows any more and that was true.  To this day, I don’t see things out of the corner of my eyes and my cat now goes all the way down the hall and into the bedroom.

Sent in by “Night Worker”, Copyright 2008 TrueGhostTales.com