Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

My story starts when I recently right before I moved back to my mother’s house. My friend had just gotten a new apartment with another friend so I had to move back home as I could not afford rent by myself. My mother and stepfather had always told me that they suspected a ghost was in their house, and I had even lived there for a year just the previous year with no paranormal events occurring.

Just before I moved back, I had purchased the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition that comes with real working night vision goggles. I was excited to show them to my family and have them try them out as well. Well, it just so happens that I had also just seen the movie Paranormal Activity as well, and ghosts were actively on my mind.

Anyway, I went with my sister over to my mother’s house for a few hours, where we played with the night vision goggles, talked, and watched TV. As my sister and I were preparing to leave, I decided to go outside and use my goggles, as it was now night. I started to look around outside, seeing nothing interesting until my gaze came to the side of my mother’s house. There is a small vent on the side of the house where the attic is and what I saw astonished me. I saw what appeared to be two glowing balls side by side between two of the boards in the vent. What’s even more peculiar is that they were about the size of human eyes and the same distance apart as a human would have. This of course freaked me out and I then proceeded to have my stepfather try on the goggles and look to see if he saw them too. He did, but we were all too afraid to look inside the attic for fear of what we might see. So we left it at that and went home. I moved in about a week later.

One night about a week after moving in, I was practicing guitar with my shirt off. I suddenly felt what I thought was a breeze move past my back. What was very peculiar was that my window was shut and the air-conditioner was turned off at this time. I thought then that it was my cat that was sitting on my bed that had maybe ran past me, but I looked to my side and she was asleep where she had been for around an hour. I started talking about this event to my family and even went so far as to openly mock the supposed “spirit”. I even used my night vision goggles around the house, and I even used them to look in the attic to no avail.

About two weeks after this is when the event happened that has truly scarred me to this day. I had gone to bed early one night, and found myself awoken and unable to move. Suddenly, it felt like someone started grabbing my throat to choke me. I was fully awake at this point as I realized what was happening to me. I noticed that the lights were on in the other room and I heard my sister and her boyfriend talking with my mother and stepfather. I desperately tried to yell for help, but no matter how much I tried, I couldn’t manage more than a whisper. This continued for several minutes as I started to believe that I might actually die there in my bed, helpless against whatever invisible entity was attacking me. Suddenly, after what seemed like an eternity, I was able to move and I got up and out of the room as quickly as I could.

I told my family what had happened, but they didn’t believe me and said I was just having a nightmare. I know otherwise though. After that night, I stopped using the night vision goggles and sold them on craigslist. I also stopped talking about the spirit and I haven’t had any events happen since. If anyone can shed some light on what may have caused this event to happen or can get me in touch with a paranormal investigation agency, please comment. And to think, my girlfriend’s father doesn’t believe in ghosts…

Sent in by Josh Wilson, Copyright 2010