I have been fascinated with ghost stories ever since I was a child and I grew up seeing shadow figures passing by on my peripheral vision, there are times I also see faceless entities walking about in broad daylight, I never considered myself to be a clairvoyant, but I really do encounter strange things. This story about the most terrifying experience I had with the supernatural, it happened during the time when I came back to my family home for a vacation.
Because of my work I had to live away from my home, it’s only been one year since I was away the time this story happened, but it felt like a very long time for me. The night I arrived home I noticed that the house felt dark and gloomy, I ignored the feeling because I thought that I was just tired from my long travel. After a few nights I kept having this unsettling feeling that something weird was going on with our house, my suspicion was confirmed one day when my younger sister talked about a strange old lady that she kept noticing standing upstairs on the walkway overlooking at people on the ground floor.
At first I thought it was kind of weird because I have been seeing shadow figures walking around the house, a middle aged woman with a fuzzy face, a young girl wearing a white sleeveless shirt, but I have never encountered an old lady before. My sister described the old woman as a scary looking entity with messy black and grey hair, and the striking feature is that this lady always looked angry with furious eyes. I wasn’t sure if I could believe that because there’s no way a new entity would just move in inside the house and my sister is not that very keen on seeing stuff like those (not that I know of.)
One night I was going to get a drink of water from the fridge at the kitchen, there was nobody on the first floor at that time and there was nobody else at the kitchen either. As I walked toward the fridge I felt pins and needles sensation rising up from my spine and my head began to feel bloated and very heavy. Being a paranormal enthusiast I immediately realized that this is a sign that there is something paranormal going on at that very moment and that was confirmed when I looked up to the first floor walkway and saw a hideous looking entity.
It was the old woman with eyes full of anger staring straight at me. I instantly froze for a moment as fear gripped my whole body and I was trembling. I mustered some courage and yelled out to the entity saying “you don’t belong here!” and told it to go away, after that I dashed off to the living room where my sister and mother were watching TV. Then I went back to the kitchen area (yes folks I went back) to see if the entity was still there, and I was relieved to see that it was gone.
Since then we never saw the entity, and the house was not dark and gloomy anymore. In addition to that incident, a strange thing happened, one of the trees on our backyard suddenly shriveled and died for some unknown reason, other plants and trees around it were unaffected, but after that I never noticed any shadow figures anymore nor the frightening old woman. Although I have read articles that relate spirits with trees and plants, I’m not totally sure if those entities inhabited that particular tree, it may not be totally related, but it’s something worth speculating over. You can say what you want but it really did happen, I also have other experiences, but that would be another story.
Sent in by Bry Taverner, Copyright 2011