Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

The Strange Kids in My Bedroom

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A Spirits Gasp

This happened when I was in fifth grade. We’d just moved from Missouri to Kansas and rented a house. My sister and I are very strong believers of the paranormal, but our parents (especially my mother), aren’t so easily persuaded.

I’d just gotten home from school (maybe ten minutes after I’d gotten home) and I was talking to my mother in the kitchen while she was getting food for me. Just as I finished up a sentence, we both heard a very distinct, human gasp. My eyes went wide and we both stared at each other for a long moment. Finally, I got up and searched the house for an answer to the strange sound.

At the time, my sister was out with her friends and my father was at work. None of our animals (a cat, dog, two parakeets, two hamsters, two guinea pigs, two hermit crabs and lots of fish) couldn’t have made the noise. Our front door …