Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

I personally don’t know how to begin my story but I was standing outside my house on the walkway up to my porch at night (like I do every night), taking my dog out to use the bathroom.

As I was waiting for my dog to do her business, I noticed something moving from the corner of my eye. I swung my head to my right and saw a human figure’s shadow that reached the top of my neighbors second floor window.

As I unconsciously ran to my dog, picked her up and flew up the porch stairs, I noticed it began to walk towards the backyard. In the midst of me noticing this, I yanked open the screen door, and ran into the house.

Now to go into more detail: my neighbor’s house and mine are both two stories tall and a good 15 feet or so apart (I’m not going to go outside and measure it). In between our houses is a street lamp at the edge of the curb which shines against the side of my neighbors house a little bit.

I went outside the next night again while taking my dog out, and decided to “investigate” what I actually or believed saw. The street lamp was on as always, so I went in between both houses to see where my own shadow would stand up against my neighbor’s house… I’m about 5’5. When I saw that my shadow wasn’t up to par with the not even 1/4 of the house I knew something was wrong.

If I get closer to the house my shadow would be just as tall as I am. If I got further away by standing next to my own house, my shadow got smaller.

I’m truly at a loss for words when it comes to what the shadow was, but it was something. Nobody’s shadow could’ve reached that second story window. I think it’s impossible.

Now that I think about it, the shadow didn’t seem to move until I started to run into the house. It makes me wonder if it was watching me that entire time I was out there.

Of course on the night I saw it I told my parents: They think I’m nanners and their use of sarcasm wasn’t delightful either, but I know what I saw.

Sent in by Abbey M., Copyright 2010 TrueGhostTales.com