Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

This actually happened to my mother, but she repeated the story many times. I have passed it down to my daughters, exactly as it was told to me.

When my mother was a little girl she lived with her extended family in a large house with a large country kitchen. One night all the women of the house went out and left my mother with her grandfather to baby-sit her. She was 7 years old and the year was 1926.

She loved her grandfather, and they were sitting around the table in the big country kitchen having a late evening snack. Unexpectedly the back door to the kitchen opened and in came a number of small, hooded figures. My mother said they were dressed in black, with black hoods, their faces weren’t really visible and they were small, child sized. She said there were 10 or 12 of them. They came silently in the kitchen and made a circle around the table. They didn’t say anything.

Her grandfather calmly said to them “Please go. You are in the wrong place.” And they silently went out as they had come in.

We often talked of this story…who were they? where did they come from? Did my great-grandfather actually know who they were (after all, he didn’t get alarmed or excited)?

My family had been involved with the supernatural… my great grandfather (the same one as in this story) was a Pennsylvania Dutch Pow Wow practitioner, my grandmother a Spiritualist. I think there is more to this story than will ever be known.

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