Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

In my haunted apartment in Ocean Beach, San Diego, I developed a taste for jelly beans as a snack. I used to sit on the end seat of my couch and put the bag of jelly beans on a TV tray next to me. One evening I ate several from the bag and as usual picked out the black ones and sat them on the TV tray next to the partially eaten bag. The next morning, I was going to take the remainder of the bag to work with me, but the half-full bag and even the black jelly beans were not there.  I did a cursory search but did not find them. A couple of days later, I opened the “junk” kitchen drawer where I kept my rubber bands, and lo and behold, kind of buried in the back of the drawer under lots of miscellaneous stuff was the bag of jelly beans with the black ones in it which I had picked out. The bag was rolled up tightly and secured with a rubber band.

About a week later, my computer expert came over. I opened a new bag of jelly beans and offered some to him and sat it on top of the CPU in front of him. I ate quite a few myself. After he left, after fiddling around for awhile, I was going to rubber band something else so I opened the junk drawer. I found a partial bag of jelly beans there wrapped tightly and rubber banded .  I stopped dead in my tracks and thought hey, wait! I had only bought two bags and took one to work, so where did this partial bag come from? I then looked for the remainder of the bag we had just been eating from, and it was gone! This was the same bag, wrapped and rubber banded again and placed into the same drawer where my spirit(s) had hidden the previous bag!

A couple of weeks later, they did it again. They just love to hide my snacks. Every night after dinner, I snacked on dry Waffler cereal right out of the box. I was eating it while sitting in front of my computer, moved to the couch to read the newspaper, then back to my computer…when I again looked for the bag, which had about 1 ½ cups of cereal left in it, it was gone. Poof! I hadn’t even left the area! The living room/dining room/kitchen kind of ran together as one large area, so I started in one corner and looked in every cupboard, in the refrigerator, in the garbage can, behind the couch pillows and on the floor under the TV tray that I used as an end table, everywhere imaginable and the bag was gone. But I foiled the spirits! I had a bag of Apple Cinnamon Cheerios which I opened. I thought that one of these days I would open some drawer or door and find it, just like I had found the jelly beans before, but they never reappeared.  The spirits now appear to be in possession of the “cloak of invisibility.”

I have often wondered what it would look like to see something floating across the room. It’s so rare to actually see something move as to be almost nonexistent. The spirits seem to like to shock us and do their moving of objects when they are out of our sight.

Sent in by Sandy Fuersich, Copyright 2010