MY FIRST GHOSTLY ENCOUNTER
(Sheryl)
While going to college, two friends and myself rented an old, small house in the country. The house used to belong to the landlord's mother, who was then deceased. The landlord's lived right next door, in a newer home.  Each of us, all had our own bedrooms, mine was quite dreary with old, dark paneling.  We had a small kitchen with a back porch full of windows and a very large bathroom. In this bathroom, was a walk-in closet...as big as the bathroom.  In this closet were some odds and ends and also a couple of boxes in the corner, containing mostly junk.  One day I was vacuuming this bathroom...because it had kitchen style carpet, with a non-electric hokey.  We didn't have an electric vacuum. The toilet was situated straight in front of the closet door and while I was moving the sweeper over the carpet something very unusual happened. The closet door was open so that I could see inside and in the corner were some boxes with loose hangers lying on top.  I was no where near this area, when suddenly one of the hangers began floating up into the air and hung there, waving at me! I was so scared I ran out of the bathroom all the way to the living room, where my two roommates were sitting. They looked at me funny and asked calmly "Why are you so white"? I stuttered "I think I just saw a ghost"!  I explained what had just happened and immediately got up the courage to go back in the bathroom.  I walked over to the closet to inspect that hanger for fishing line, thinking perhaps they may have been playing a joke on me or something. I didn't find any explanation for what I experienced that day and chalked it up all these years as my first ghostly encounter!!




A VISIT TO THE GRAVEYARD
(Bre)
About a year ago, a couple of friends and I were making a video for class, in the local cemetery. It was very late at night, sometime between midnight and one. Anyway, we were in the back part of the cemetery, facing the older graves. As I was looking down there, I noticed this mist sort of thing moving between the graves. After about a minute of watching it, I noticed it was kind of the shape of a person! I freaked out a little bit and asked my friends if they had seen it too. They all said no, so I figured it was just my eyes playing tricks on me. But, about five minutes later, I glanced down into the same area and saw the same thing again, only closer! This time, one of my friends also saw it. He said a couple of choice words to the effect of "Let's get the heck out of here"! So we did, but every time we go there, even in the daylight, we get this chill and a feeling like we are really not wanted there. Not many people believe me when I tell them this, but I promise, IT HAPPENED!!




LINDSEY'S GHOSTS PART 1
(Part 2, continued on Texas page)
(Lindsey)
I've been recording my experiences since I was very young. When I was about four or five years old, I was staying in my Grandma's house and my cousin and his mom were sleeping close by. My Grandma and Grandpa were sleeping in their room. For some reason I couldn't sleep. I guess my brain wouldn't turn off. Well, I decided I needed something to drink; I looked into the kitchen and considered getting up. Instead of seeing the dimly lit kitchen with its old appliances and dusty surfaces, I saw seven or eight heads floating in the kitchen entry way. They reminded me of the shrunken heads in cartoons. Most of them had ponytails and wrinkles. They seemed to be swaying and rolling while laughing at me, but I didn't hear a sound. I didn't scream or yell; I just hid my head under the rough blanket I was using and nearly cried. There was a terrible, panicked feeling over my entire body and I wanted to go huddle with my cousin or something like that. When the feeling went away in a time that seemed like forever, I woke my cousin up and he slept with me (after hearing my story) for the rest of the night.

Now; in my cousins house, only a block away from my Grandma's house. I woke up one morning to find out that Tyler went to sleep in his Mom's room. I got up to go see if he was awake and started to walk through the "Jack and Jill" bathroom. As I stepped in front of the bath tub, a huge rat, the size of a large, over weight cat, ran right in front of my and disappeared in to the tub. I turned back the other way and hid in my cousin's room until his mom came and got me.

In my beloved apartment area in Des Moines, a friend of mine was staying the night and y Mom was out on a date. My friend and I planned to sleep in the living room and wait up or her. We were very worried about burglars, so we have a large knife close by on a table. I was about nine years old and she was 7 so it seemed like a sensible thing to do. We heard something crash into the bathroom tub and decided to check it out. Naturally we brought the knife with us. We had no idea what we were going to do if there really was a robber in there, but we went in and checked the entire bathroom. Nothing looked out of place and there was no reason to believe anyone had been in there for hours, except for that noise.

My cousin I mentioned earlier and his little brother (who wasn't born until a little after those experiences) came and spent the night and Tyler and I went to sleep. Samuel claims he couldn't sleep and woke me up. We sat there in the darkness after I promised to stay awake until he fell asleep.  All of the sudden, the light in the closet turned on and a dark outline of a large person stood there. I covered my little cousin's mouth so he wouldn't scream; I was a firm believer that screaming made it worse. The figure faded away and the light went out. We didn't sleep until daylight. (The next day we found out that whatever happened made the light burn out)

In my middle school, I was there since 6th grade; I got into P.E. class late and had to change my clothes while alone in the girl's locker room. I didn't care and didn't think anything of it, until I opened the door. I immediately heard LOUD whispering. I went in and pretended it was the other girls in class. I opened the locker and pulled out my clothes. I got changed, mostly at least to the waist. The whispering got louder, but I couldn't hear a word of what they were saying so I went to check it out. I was sure some one was playing a trick on me. We would a girls locker room be haunted? I checked EVERYWHERE in that locker room. I even got on top of a locker to stick my head in an open vent the girls sometimes used to skip class. It was actually softer up there. I went back to my locker and finished changing quickly. I didn't dwell on the experience until I was out of the locker room. I didn't want to freak myself out.

I have a picture of a woman or man on a non reflective door. It was at my middle school's year book signing party. The person is nearly transparent, but impossible to miss. I found orbs in the pictures too.

In a military fort behind my apartment area, my friend and I saw a flash of light in the darkened window of the building. We talked about it briefly, but that was all we did or thought about it. (Read more of Lindsey's encounters on Texas page)




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