This story takes place when I was just a newlywed (about
10 years ago). A family emergency had forced my husband
and I to move from California to Texas. Because of such
short notice we moved in with my brother-in-law his wife
and their two kids. They had a four year old daughter
Allie and a newborn son named James.
I immediately formed a strong bond with Allie. I
don’t want to say that she was neglected but more
attention was placed on James and Allie was often left
out. She was a very lonely and sad child when I met her. I
would often see her playing by her self and talking to an
invisible friend which she named Greta. As I began
spending more time with her strange things began to happen
around the house.
Let me first start by explaining who was in the
house when these things would happen. They would only
happen when my husband and his brother were at work. So
this meant only Allie, her mom, James and I were in the
house at this time.
It began with just seeing things out of the corner
of my eyes. Whenever I was playing with Allie in the
living room, I could see the shadow of a person standing
to the left of me. Of course whenever I would turn around
to see what it was, nothing would be there. Also whenever
I was with Allie in the house I would get the distinct
feeling I was being watched. I began to get extremely
bothered by this but it never seemed to bother Allie so I
thought maybe I was over-reacting.
As soon as my husband got home, all the feelings
of being watched subsided and Allie seemed to get bothered
by his presence there. She would just sulk around the
house and not let anyone not even me get close to her.
One night as I was drifting off to sleep I began
to hear the soft murmurs of a conversation drift into my
bedroom. Since our room was next to Allie’s I assumed she
was talking in her sleep. I tried my hardest to ignore her
but my curiosity got the best of me. I tried to listen as
hard as I could to what was being said without actually
getting out of bed and eavesdropping. But all I could make
out was the muffled sounds of someone talking. I then
noticed the light coming from Allies room. The digital
clock next to our bed read 11:49 (yes I remember the exact
time). What in the world could be keeping a four year old
up at this hour I thought, so I got out of bed and made my
way into Allie’s room. That’s where I found her still up.
I asked Allie what she was doing still up and who she was
talking to. She smiled and only said “Greta likes it when
I play with her at night, so she wakes me up.” A shiver
ran down my spine. “You were talking to Greta just now?” I
asked. She nodded and smiled. All the hairs in the back of
my head stood up. “Tell Greta you can play with her
tomorrow and to let you go to sleep” I said as I slowly
began making my way out her room Allie stopped me by
saying. “I can’t play with Greta tomorrow she gets mad
when I play with you. She does not like being ignored” “Go
to sleep” I said. As I walked out of her room I nearly
fainted. That was just the beginning of what was to come.
The next morning I decided to have a serious
conversation with Janet (Allie’ mom) about Allie. I asked
her if Allie made up stories often about Greta her
imaginary friend. Janet looked puzzled and said that Allie
did not have an imaginary friend. (I really don’t think
Janet could remember if Allie did) Needless to say that
conversation ended up nowhere.
I found it difficult to question Allie about
Greta. It only seemed to agitate her and she never gave me
a straight answer. Meanwhile the feelings of being watched
persisted Along with a few other incidents. The T.V. never
seemed to stay on one channel while Allie was watching it.
While I would freak out Allie would just laugh. Whenever I
would pass by Allie’s room I would get the feeling that
someone was in there, even though upon closer inspection
no one was there. On a few occasions I would hear
footsteps in her room when I knew for a fact that she was
not there.
One of the freakiest incidents happened near
Halloween. I had bought a glow-in-the dark nail polish for
Allie, but before I could even give it to her it
disappeared. Within seconds of leaving it on the counter
for Allie it disappeared. I tried my hardest to find it
but gave up and decided to buy her a new nail-polish
tomorrow. It is important to know that I never mentioned
that I had bought a nail-polish for Allie to anyone, and
also Allie was not in the house when this took place.
Anyways on to the incident, it was near midnight again
when I heard Allie speaking to her self. Allie’s bedroom
light was on but this time as soon as I got up to check on
Allie the bedroom light turned off. Determined to see what
was happening with Allie I entered her room. A chill ran
down my spine, I got the feeling of someone else being in
the room with Allie. Allie was in her bed pretending to be
asleep (I could tell because she was fake snoring). “Allie
I heard you talking what are you doing still up?” I asked.
Allie did not answer me right away. But when I sternly
said Allie, she replied “Greta was just showing me a
present she got for me.” As she lifted her hands up from
under her covers, I saw that her finger nails were
glowing. “Where did you get that?” I said I was astonished
that she had somehow found the nail-polish more than
anything. “Greta gave it to me.” Allie said. Somehow this
bothered the heck out of me. “I am sick of hearing about
Greta. Greta does not exists tell me the truth how did you
get the nail polish!” Before Allie could answer I felt
breathing on the back of my neck. It was ice cold and it
made me get goose bumps all over. I was frozen with fear.
Allie was now almost crying, “You made Greta mad” she
said. Someone was behind me but I did not want to turn
around. Then I distinctly heard the voice of a female
whisper into my ears “LEAVE”. I did not have to be told
twice, I ran out of Allie’s room so fast I nearly tripped
over my own feet.
When I got to my room I was distraught. The next
morning I told my husband everything that was happening
with Allie and he listened but did not try to come up with
an explanation. He remained quiet and said that we were
moving out soon. I felt guilty leaving Allie alone with
Greta, so I told my brother-in-law what was happening with
Allie. As soon as I mentioned the name Greta his face went
pale. He said “Greta was the previous owner’s wife, but
she died a few years ago. How could Allie know about
Greta?” So I said the first thing that popped into my
head. “Pay more attention to your child because I if you
don’t someone else will.”
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