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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 23:11:21 -0700 (PDT)
To: guestbook@ghosts.org
yourname David
email strngs@aol.com
I grew up in a very ordinary house in a very ordinary part of southeast Denver. It was a small house, maybe 1,200 sq. ft. upstairs and 1,000 sq. ft. downstairs. A simple house for my parents to raise four kids in. Nothing out of the ordinary happened in the first ten years of living there but things quickly took a turn for the worse.
In 1983 I was fifteen . I began to get scared of the basement and I wasn't the only one, my older sister and older brother began to become uneasy when they were alone. It was cold in a few parts of the basement, something that wasn't the case previously. I have two sisters and a brother, all older and both of my sisters had already moved out. My brother and I each had our own rooms in the basement. There were cold spots that were mainly in my room and a storage room but were prone to move around at times. We both had trouble getting to sleep because we both felt that we were either being watched or at times like there was something(s) in the basement with us. We both felt like there was more than one presence in the basement.
One night I woke up and there was a person floating eye to eye with me only about 10 inches above me. I lost it, started kicking my legs and flailing my arms but they went right through him. Slowly, he shook his finger at me and shook his head as if saying "no, no" and floated back into the corner and disappeared. It took me about five minutes to get the nerve to jump out of bed and run over to the light switch, which was in the corner where he disappeared. I can remember that my brother was not at home that night, I never said anything to my parents but I let my brother know what happened and he believed me.
The person (or whatever it was) was not translucent, in fact, other than a large scar under his left eye and that he was floating above me and my arms and legs went through him, he looked quite normal. The next day I was watching the news and I found out a couple living about three houses down from us were found stabbed to death. That REALLY freaked me out. They were a young couple and my oldest sister knew them, not really friends but knew them. I never told her what I saw but I did ask her what they looked like and she told me. The husband as she described him could have very well been the figure above me but I can't be sure it was unless I saw a picture of him. To this day I can still picture him in my mind with the clarity I saw him that night.
A few months later I was sitting in my bed and reading with my dog, a small poodle named "Dink" laying next to me. All of the sudden Dinks head shot up in the air like he noticed something and looked over at the door and began growling. The light was on in my room but I could see a large patch of white, very misty, floating in the entrance. It just stayed there for about thirty seconds and then began slowly drifting into my room. I could feel massive chills going up and down my back as I saw it float to the corner and start coming toward my bed. I pushed myself to the back and the corner of my bed, as far as I could to get away from it when it stopped and floated back towards the same corner I saw the figure two nights before and disappeared. I knew I wasn't just seeing this thing myself because I noticed that Dink was following it with his eyes also and still growling. Before it disappeared Dink jumped off the bed and took off out of the door. I heard him a few seconds after it disappeared growling and whimpering by the stairs in the other room and then heard him run upstairs. Once again I sat there for about five minutes, got the guts to get up, peek around the corners, while glancing in every direction around me. I got to the bottom of the stairs, looked around once more, just in case and took off like a shot up the stairs. I swear I must have been three feet in the air when I reached the top and flew into the kitchen.
Two weeks later I was asleep in bed when I heard my brother call my name and whisper, "Come here, hurry." I was expecting to get hit by him or by an object when I came around the corner, a practical joke that he used to pull on me all the time. When I entered the room he told me not to say anything but to look over into the storage room. There were no doors in the basement, just walls separating the room and the door frames with no doors in them. The storage room always bugged me because an old couple lived in the house before us and the man was an artist. The wall to the storage room was nearly twenty feet long and the man painted a huge scene on the wall, not just a part of the wall but the WHOLE wall. There were farms, rivers, bridges, cattle, people, trees etc. I don't know why the wall bugged me but it did. Well, my brother pointed into the storage room and to the wall and whispered for me to look. It's hard to explain what we saw but it looked like a patch of air about three feet wide and 5 feet high in front of the wall was moving in waves. At first the patch of air just stayed in one place but then began slowly moving from the left side of the wall all the way to the right and back again, then disappeared. We both looked at each other and were speechless. I sat down on the bed next to him. Nothing was said for a minute or two, like both of us were making sure that it wasn't going to appear again.
There were many small occurrences such as things missing and then being found later in places that were already looked at many times before. My brother or I would usually get blamed for this. My sister swore that she saw a black shadow of a man run across the upstairs living room and knock over a vase that was very important to my mother and then dissipate through the wall.
My cousin , we'll call him Jim, is a year and a half younger than I and lived about five houses down the block from me. His next door neighbor was an older man in his seventies. He was very good friends with Jim's family but I didn't know him very well. One night Jim was in bed when a large glowing figure of a man appeared in his room and stood there for about thirty seconds while Jim stared at him and then disappeared. He was somewhat scared but not terribly so and was able to get back to sleep. When he woke up in the morning he went in to the living room and told my aunt and uncle what happened. They then sat him down and told him that the man next door had passed away over night. Jim swears that it had to have been his neighbor and that maybe he was checking up on him or saying goodbye.
I had a friend, we'll call him Steve, who I went to high school with, a very nice kid with a very nasty father. He didn't treat Steve or his wife very well. At times he would beat Steve to the point where Steve hated him. They lived in a large house about two blocks away. One day Steve was in the bathroom when what he thought was the devil appeared in his mirror and said "I've got your daddy" and disappeared. He ran screaming across the street to another friends house and started crying and telling them what he had seen. Four hours later he got a phone call from his mother saying that his father had died of a heart attack at work. Steve is not one to tell a lie and I believe that he saw something.
All of these events in my neighborhood happened within a one year period from 1983 to 1984. I know that a few of these occurrences may have a natural explanation to them but there are few that don't. There have been no other occurrences in my parents neighborhood since then, that I know of. I have not lived there in ten years but am in contact with many of my friends and family constantly and visit my parents all the time. They still live there. I have been slightly interested in ghosts and the paranormal since then but I haven't studied and believe it or not, am not totally convinced in ghosts. Maybe someone who is a little more educated in the paranormal or can give me natural explanations or can elaborate as to why it all happened, especially in one years time. Is it coincidence? Part of me wants to say yes, it is coincidence but another part says something more than natural has happened.