On this page are of my own ghostly encounters and strange things that have happened to me. The links will take you to other decent ones I have found on the web. If you have any True Stories send them along with an Email!

I awoke at around 4am. I walked downstairs and turned on the tree lights and the Tv. My two older sisters were asleep back in their room, my brother was asleep up in his room and I could hear my father snoring loudly up in his room with my mother. I felt that I was not alone. Like all my life, feeling someone watching me and waiting. I had an older brother who died many years before from Pnuemonia at the age of two. I always thought he was my gaurdian angel. I asked if someone was there, I just couldn't shake the feeling. And what was I doing up at 4am anyway!? I was too old to be excited for Christmas, so why was I up?I asked again if someone was there, but this time I asked if it was my brother to show me a sign. Not even a minute later our fire place coals lit a bit to red, and then started a tiny fire. I got a little scared. A little scared?!! You may say.. but I had encountered so much in my life that I didn't mind these things. I told my parents when they got up. I was a bit reluctant to tell them because they never believed me when I told them about these things. Wouldn't you know it.. they didn't believe me.

Ever since we moved to our bigger house a half an hour away from our old one I felt connected in a way to the downstairs. Our house was oddly planned out. You walk through the front doors and then up about 8 stairs to enter the living room, kitchen, dining room, 3 bedrooms and a bathroom. When you walk downstairs it had another living room with two big walk in closets, a fire place, a bathroom, laundary room and a bedroom.

The closet closest to the hallway was my own. I was only 11 when we moved into that house and used it as a place to play and get away from my family.

A lot of times when I was alone in the house ( of course) I would hear like someone running up and down the steps. My dog would bark at the steps, the fireplace, our rocking chair and sometimes scratch in the corner of my closet looking up barking. Many times I have tried to tell my family about everything, but they never believed me.

One day I was in my bedroom listening to music on my headphones. I saw my door moving as if someone was trying to get in. I took my headphones off and heard one of my sisters calling to me. It sounded as if she was very scared. I opened my door to see what was wrong and she ran in my room and hid behind me. I asked her what was wrong and she said, " Were you just playing the piano?" I said," No I was listening to music." She then went on to describe the tune that the piano was playing. I thought it was strange so I walked out of my room and passed my mother who was just sitting on the couch staring at me. She thought I was playing a prank on them. I walked downstairs to where my other sister used to have her piano. Then I remembered that she had sold it to someone a month before. I walked back upstairs and told my sister that she was hearing a ghost and walked back into my room and shut the door. I wish I would have stayed behind to see her face. You can actually read something about this on the web.

Many of the spirits that I do see are usually around nighttime. I can see the outline of their bodies. The outline is like white smoke. Usually they can be viewed by a soft light shining on them, such as a light from a street coming into your window at night. This was a few weeks after he had died. It was around 12 at night On Mother's Day and I was listening to music. I had the lights off. I turned around to see him standing in front of my thermostat. On my front door there is this side panel that is just glass, and the light from outside was giving him away. I knew it was him, because if I don't get scared, it is someone I know. And the only person I knowthat tall and skinny figure was him.

My dear old best friend and I were playing down in her basement. We were just playing around like every other 8th grader. Her mother had these pictures on the wall that had been stuck there for 7 years. Something decided to play a joke upon us. I was writing on her chalk board, our names and that we would be best friends forever. All of a sudden the pictures came flying off the wall and smashing on the floor. I felt my face drain of blood and I couldn't move. It was a good thing that she had the strength for the both of us. She kept calling to me and finally came to pick me up so we could run upstairs. A half an hour later we decided to risk it. We went back down and I picked up the chalk board. I began to place other girls names in her slot. Nothing would happen. As soon as I put her name there, the papers that were inside the frames flew up in the air. We never went back down there again.

The Oujia Board. If you use it correctly--It DOES work! No matter what anyone might tell you. My friends and I use to play with that game almost everyday. Our fingers would be a half an inch above the mover and it was like a magnet. Somehow, My best friend and I conjured up something evil. It said it's name was Ethan. Now this is before the actor Ethan Hawke even came out, This name back then was never heard of. It was extremely rare. Around us anyway. We believe that Ethan was the same spirit to do the pictures, stating in the story before. Ethan followed us throughout the rest of the summer, and sometimes in and out of our lives for the next few years. Later that night, I walked home in the dark, I was scared, don't get me wrong, but my friend was watching me, I had to hold my pride. I walked in my door and the tv was on. It was some sort of cowboy and Indian movie and the first words I heard were, " Ethan hold it , right there!." You can just guess what I was thinking. Why of all the times that I watch tv, I never hear that name? But yet after today I hear it? The phone rang instantly and it was her crying. She was very scared. She wanted to sleep over. But after I told her what I had encountered she changed her mind.

I was on my computer until 11:30pm one night. I became really tired and decided to go to bed. I shut the lights off and headed back to my room. I got into bed and started out on my back. I saw a dark apparition above me. It was just in the shape of a head and I could see the arms ( what I believe to be) flowing around me. I had enough of that and decided to lay on my side. About 5 inches from my face was something as tall as a two-year-old. It started off as smoke and then formed an outline. I began to see the mouth, nose and cheeks form and then the eye sockets. As it was doing this it stayed in a smoky white kind of figure. I became very scared at this and hid under my blankets. Which scared me even more, because I never was THAT scared to actually hide like a child. This happened in August of this year (2000) and it hasn't happened since.