Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

Once I was at my friend’s house at a sleepover and one minute we were all laughing and talking loudly and I remember not even feeling tired but then there was a flash of light and then pitch blackness.

I looked around and all of my friends were asleep, it was almost like I had been hurled forward a couple of hours into the future. I suddenly felt really thirsty, I was scared to get up so I tried to ignore it. I waited at least an hour but I just couldn’t get to sleep because I was so thirsty, in the end I got up and made my way to the living room door.

I turned the door handle and pushed the door open. The hall way was in complete darkness and I couldn’t see a thing. I felt my way around the wall but I couldn’t find the light switch. At this point I was seriously considering going back to the front room, but the kitchen was only down the hall.

I made my way to the door and started to open it, my heart was beating rapidly and I was scared to open the door all the way. I suddenly froze, too scared to move, strange vivid images started coming into my head of dead rotting faces and decaying flesh. I shook my head and opened the door fully. I turned the light on and was scared to death by my own reflection in the window.

I then made my way over to the sink and took a glass from the side and turned the tap. After finishing my drink, I started to make my way back to the living room. I turned the kitchen light off and suddenly everything went completely black. I was scared and just wanted to go back to bed so I ran down the hallway and could have sworn I felt someone brush past me but I tried to kid myself that it was someone’s coat hung up at the bottom of the stairs.

I finally reached the front room and jumped back onto the pull out sofa-bed. I closed my eyes tightly shut and desperately tried to get to sleep. It felt like my heart was in my throat as I lay on my back, too scared to move. I suddenly felt like someone was standing over me so I opened my eyes and I don’t know whether it was real or if I was just so scared I imagined it but for a split second I saw a face looking down at me with a wide open mouth and wide open eyes. I was so scared that I just fused my eyes close again and didn’t dare look up again until a few minutes later but there was nothing there anymore.

I didn’t tell anyone in the morning because I thought my friends would think I was being stupid and seeking attention but I asked to go home early because I felt sick, now when ever I am asked to go to my friend’s house for a sleep over I make excuses, I was really scared because nothing like this has ever happed to me before.

Sent in by Harriet Millop, Copyright 2008