Hi my name's Emma and I'm from London in the uk, I have
many ghostly experiences that have happened to me but I've
decided to share this story out of all of them as I wasn't
the only person to see what I had seen.
It happened to me about 7 years ago and I swear I saw
something even though many people don't believe me.
I've lived in my house my whole life and have had a few creepy
experiences there and the fact that our house is in front
of a graveyard doesn't help the feeling of creepiness.
Our back garden leads onto the graveyard with only a high
wall separating the houses and the head stones.
I was about 9 at the time and I shared a room with my
younger sister Katy. My bed was by the door and Katy's bed
was next to mine with about a metre gap between us.
A few nights before the incident happened I was lying
awake in bed reading with my lamp on, I was really into my
book and hadn't stopped reading for quite some time when I
suddenly just stopped through mid sentence for no apparent
reason. I looked around the room and over at my sister,
which I often did to check that she was ok, as I'd always
had this fear of people I loved dying. I didn't really
think anything of it as I had never really thought about
anything paranormal before and didn't really think
anything of it. I continued reading when I again got this
feeling to stop mid sentence I looked around again feeling
slightly uneasy now and huddled deeper into my covers, I
was just about to start reading again when I heard
banging, it didn't sound very loud and it didn't sound
like it was coming from the neighbours, it sounded as if
someone was opening and closing the chest of drawers in my
mum and dad's room, I hadn't heard my mum or dad come up
which I thought was strange as you could always hear when
someone was coming up or down the stairs.
I didn't think anything of it, I just thought that I'd probably been so
involved in my book that I just hadn't noticed them coming
up. The banging of the drawers continued and I couldn't
concentrate on my book, instead of feeling scared I was
beginning to get quite annoyed as the noise had been going
on for at least five minutes, I pulled my door open to
tell my mum to stop the noise as I was trying to sleep, I
whispered 'mum' so I didn't wake Katy up but there was no
reply but the noise paused and then continued.
I whispered for my mum again but still no reply, I looked over at my
sister and decided she was in a deep enough sleep for me
to call out normally. I called out for my mum and she
answered me from downstairs, this shocked me a bit as I
honestly thought she was next door, I asked if my dad was
down there and I was told he was and to my surprise I was
asked what I was doing because they could hear a faint
banging sound. I told them I wasn't doing anything and I
could hear it as well that's why I had called down, this
freaked me out a little bit but when my dad said it was
probably just the boiler and he'd look at it the next day
I didn't really think anything of it. I decided to stop
reading and laid in bed when I noticed that the noise had
stopped (it had been continuing whilst I was talking to my
parents), I got out of bed and went into my mum and dad's
room which is next door to mine and saw that all the
drawers were open, I closed them all not wanting to be
blamed for rummaging through their things and went back to
my room freaked out and scared.
A few days later I woke up at about 2am which was strange
because I'd never really woke up half way through the
night before unless it was to go to the bathroom and I
didn't need to go, I rubbed my eyes and pulled my covers
around me, I looked over at my sister to check she was ok
and turned on my side facing the door, I'd only been
facing the door for a couple of minutes when I got this
feeling that I had to look over at my sister again, I
turned over and saw a woman floating over my sister, I
just stared at her and she just sort of smiled, I hid
under the covers breathing heavily scared by what I had
just seen, I stayed under the covers for what seemed like
ages not knowing what to do, I wanted to call for my mum
but I didn't want to speak and I wanted to check my sister
was ok but I didn't want to come out in case she was still
there, eventually I peeked out from the covers and there
was nothing there. I got out of bed and leant over to my
sister to check she was ok, she was but I stayed up the
rest of the night cuddling her just in case anything did
happen to her.
The next morning I didn't know whether I should tell
anybody what I had seen and decided against it as I didn't
think anybody would believe me. After that night nothing
seemed to happen, a few things had occurred but could
easily be explained rationally such as the doors opening
which could be caused by drafts and things going missing
then appearing again in obvious places which could be
explained as not looking properly in the first place.
I hadn't forgotten what had happened to me but I just put
it to the back of my mind and after a few weeks of being
creeped out I just sort of went back to normal.
A few years after the experiences had happened, me and my
mum were talking and the conversation lead to ghosts and
paranormal activities, I decided to tell my mum about what
I had seen. When I had told her about it I was expecting
her to tell me not to be silly and for her not to believe
me but instead she had a story of her own.
When she and my dad had just moved into the house she was
sleeping on the sofa when she woke up feeling like someone
was watching her, thinking my dad had come in from work
she sat up on the sofa to say hello, instead of seeing my
dad at the bottom of the sofa she saw a woman, my mum just
stared at her and she seemed to be smiling, my mum rubbed
her eyes and closed them again thinking she was imagining
it but when she opened her eyes again the woman was still
there, my mum opened and closed her eyes a few more times
but the woman didn't go away, my mum said she was
obviously freaked out by that point and didn't know what
to do, my mum said she was just about to get up and run
towards the door when the woman just faded away in front
of her. My mum said she didn't feel threatened at all just
frightened by what she was seeing and the ghost had just
stood there and smiled the whole time, which was what the
ghost I had seen also did. When my mum described the sort
of clothing she was wearing and how she had her hair tied
up in a sort of bun we both realised that we had seen the
same thing.
I tried to find out some information about our house but
had no success, I've never seen the woman since but have
often sensed things and heard noises when no one else is
home, the TV and radio have also come on by themselves a
few times.
Neither me or my mum had felt threatened by the woman and
I have come to the conclusion that maybe she was just
letting us know that she was there and that there is
another life after this one.
Contact me here:emsybaby2002@yahoo.com
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