This happened when I was 15 years old.

My family and I lived in a small town that had very few stores. One Saturday my aunt wanted to take me to the nearest big city (Jackson, MI) to go shopping at a mall. We were both very excited to become again part of civilization. We spent the whole day there and around dusk decided it was time to start the hour long drive back home. It only takes two roads to get from Jackson to the town we lived in. The first road is an express way then you get off on a regular 2 lane road.

So we get on the express way and we're just jabbering away about all the things we bought and saw that day (on the express way mind you) when suddenly we both look around and I say to her, "Where are we?" She looked scared and said she didn't know and that she hadn't gotten off the express way, but we were on a small dirt road. We kept going straight for a while until we saw a building, we were going to ask for directions. The building was what looked to be a small country store and had two dirty overall and straw hat wearing men sitting on rocking chairs on the porch. They stared at us.

We turned around and headed back the way we had come. We were silent for a long time and just as suddenly as before we were on the express way. We looked behind us and it also was express way. We got off the express way and got on at the same ramp we originally took only this time we did not end up on that dirt road again. I can find no explanation for what happened. And it still freaks both my aunt and myself out.

When I was 15 my mother sister and I moved into a trailer in the country. And by country I mean deep country. Aside from a small store that closed at 4pm there was nothing within a mile, including other homes.

Not too long after we moved in my mother met a new boyfriend. She was soon spending many nights at his house and because my sister was still very young Mom took her along with her. So there I was in a small just about run down 25 year old trailer in the middle of the woods all by myself. We didn't even have a television. Of a week I was probably alone there 5 nights.

The first strange things that I heard were the front door open and close and then footsteps down the hall to my mothers room. I always thought it was my Mom coming home so I'd go say "Hi" and no one would be there.

Then the hallway tapping started.

At night I would hear tapping along the hallway as if someone were walking down the hallway and had their arms out to either side, knocking on both walls. About a week after that started the tapping came from the outside of the trailer, all around it.

Even though my mom wasn't there she was pretty strict and I wasn't allowed to have guests. And I was scared of her so I obeyed. So for the most part I was alone there with Them. The really scary part began when they became interactive.

One day after school I was sitting on the kitchen floor talking on the phone with one of my friends. I tapped a little tune on the floor, and immediately after the tune was tapped from the other side. No matter how long a tap tune I did right after they too did it, perfectly.

One night I got permission from my mother for my friend to stay the night and the same thing happened time and time again. Until I said, "Don't do it this time." and they didn't repeat it. That night my friend and I were both woken up 3 times by the door opening and closing and by the footsteps. My mom, nor anyone else came home that night.

Not too long after my mom met her sister Cathy for the first time. Cathy was 27 at the time. She spent the day at the trailer with us, then invited me to spend the night with her. I accepted, and I soon found out why she wanted me to stay. As soon as she had put her kids to bed she told me that she could sense that I shared her gift in being "aware". I soon told her all about what I was experiencing at the trailer and found out that she had sensed the presences, and that they were not bad. She told me about seeing little lights in the corner of your eyes and asking them to appear and they will if you are ready for it. I don't think I ever will be ready for a full on appearance. She told me many ways of 'controlling' spirits, especially if they make you scared or uncomfortable. So far I had been both. But nonetheless I brushed off most of what she said as being silly stuff.

That summer I frequently woke up in the middle of the night having the feeling that someone had just said something very close to my ear. On one particular of these occasions I got up and my mother and her boyfriend were home in the livingroom talking. I went outside to sit on the porch and get some air. I had been outside for about 5 minutes when I heard a voice. It was neither male nor female. And I felt as if it was all around me, coming from every possible direction. It said, "I've got your baby." Although it was not menacing I was terrified. I quickly ran into the house and told my mother who thought I was crazy. The sentence made no sense at all, I had no children.

I checked on my baby sister to be safe, she was fine. I'm still unsure what the voice meant but my husband and I have been trying to get pregnant to no avail for about three years now.

I recently found out that my mother experienced very similar things at that trailer. That is why she spent so much time at her boyfriend's house. I moved out after that summer. My mom moved out a few months later.