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From: critter1@iglou.iglou.com (Bob Myers)
Subject: Critter's Ghost
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Summary: Ghostly (?) Experiences I have had in my home.
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I have been reading ghost stories for a while now, and see that my little
experience is nothing compared to some of those by others in the group. But
I must say, this happening is one of the scariest I have ever had.


First, I have to say I have always been interested in the paranormal and
unexplainable, but have always been skeptical. I have never had any strange
experiences like this any place else. I have been up during late hours before
and have spent a lot of time alone in other places and late nights at friend's
homes. I have never seen or imagined seeing things in other places and I have
never been scared or even been thinking of seeing ghosts. Nothing strange has
ever happened until I moved into this house. But even to this day, I still
wonder about what I have experienced and if there is a "real" explanation for
the things I have seen. 


This is a bit long, but please bare with me. I want to give you some
background and go into some details. These are experiences I have truly had
and relate them as I remember them.


Since I have moved into this house (about 8 years ago now), there have always
been little things that I have wondered about. Frequently, while sitting in my
basement and watching television, I would see things out of the corner of my
eye. I used to have this ball light at the bottom of the stairway to my 
basement. Twice, I saw what looked like some kind of cloud, about the 
height of a figure, but wider, move from just under the light up the 
stairs. After I changed the light fixture, this never happened again.


Then, while sitting in the same place, I occasionally saw something move  
across the carpet in the room on my left. This happened on several 
occasions. I tried to explain it as light from a car or a reflection off  
my glasses, but there are no places for light to get into the basement on 
that side and since this only happened occasionally, it just wouldn't be 
practical for it to be a reflection off my glasses. I have been through 3 
different televsions, so it could not be a reflection from that. Later, 
while sitting in another part of the room, with a house full of people, I 
saw this moving across the carpet again. This both interested me and 
spooked me at the same time, knowing I saw this from somewhere else this 
time. The movement has always been from the front of the house to the 
back, never the other way.


In my bedroom on the first floor, after I put in an overhead fan, at times I
thought I could hear low voices, as if in a large room behind a closed door.


Well, I always put these things aside in my mind thinking I was just imagining
them. My biggest scare came when a friend of mine was over late one night. We
were into a long computer session, as I have frequently done with friends on
the weekends. We had been talking about some weird things like backwards
masking on records and the Beatle's mystery in the songs. I'm sure that didn't
help matters. Anyway, a little after 4am, I went upstairs to the bathroom
leaving my friend downstairs to play with the computer. I was thinking in my
mind that when I went back down there, I'd ask him if he had any ghost
experiences. Anyway, while I was washing my hands, I saw this arm beside me.
(For some reason I remember all my thoughts as if imbedded in my mind.) I
remember thinking, my buddy wants to try to scare me. I quickly turned around
to startle him, but all I saw then was an empty bathroom with the door 
closed behind me. I quickly jerked my head back around, looking in the  
mirror over the sink. Looking in the mirror, I glanced over my right 
shoulder: nothing. I then looked at my own face, with my hair now in 
front of my eyes from the startled jerk of my head when I turned. There 
was nothing.


I quickly dried my hands, opened the door, and quickly headed downstairs. My
friend could tell something was really wrong. I told him I saw -something- in
the bathroom. I told him I saw an arm, a forearm. I remember it was
beautifully colored, like the vivid color of an old Technicolor movie and the
skin was smooth, like that of a beautiful young woman. I don't remember a had
or a body, just seeing the forearm.


My friend and I talked for a while, and he was getting ready to go. We talked
for about 15 minutes, and then he was leaving. I was still shaken, and it took
all the courage in me to move through my kitchen toward the sink to open my
garage door... it was getting too close to the bathroom down the hall for my
comfort. We talked outside for about another 20 minutes. I did not want to go
back into the house. When he left, I left too, driving around for about two
hours until it was daylight. I then went home and went to sleep.


After this incident, I thought about these other things that I just considered
imagination. I couldn't sleep with my bedroom door open after that (as if
closing the door would really protect me from a spirit). I guess I just didn't
want to accidentally see anything. And even though I had to be at work by 6am,
I wouldn't get up until at least 5am. I felt safe during the day, and was
persistant on having lights on in the house.


I told a number of friends about this. I had one come through saying they felt
a presence in the house. Another one said the same thing. They both felt an
unusual feeling in one particular room. Another friend said he also felt
strange in that same room. I couple of girlfriends of his were over one time,
and one of them related to him that she felt uncomfortable in my house. She
knew nothing of what had happened. As an experiment, another of my buddy's
friend, who knew nothing of any of this, was asked to walk though every 
room in my house. Afterwards, I asked him if he felt uncomfortable or  
strange in any room. He said not really, except for maybe in this one 
room... the same room that everyone else felt strange in.


Anyway, there is this one friend who says he can feel things. He has known
this for a long time. When I first met him, he told me a story about knowing
who his stepfather was before ever meeting him. I didn't think much of it at
the time, but after he came to my house we talked about some of this. He sat
down in a chair just beyond this one room. He let his mind wander and he could
feel certain things. After talking about different things he sensed in the
house and around it, he really seemed to be getting into a deep state. 
All of a sudden, his eyes started getting really red and watering up. He 
said that he sad, but he felt good about it. Then he said, "Don't tell 
anybody I told you about this." I replied, "What do you mean?" He again 
said, "Don't tell anybody I told you this." Again I questioned, "Don't 
tell anybody you told me about what?" He said, "I didn't say that." I 
told him he did. He said that he didn't. I insisted, "Yes you did. You 
said, 'Don't tell anybody I told you about this.'" My friend said that he 
DID say that, but he didn't mean to. He said -HE- did not say that.


This freaked me out and freaked him out as well.  I told him get up out 
of that chair and we moved to the other side of the room and discussed 
more about what he said that he knows he said but didn't really say. Both 
of us were clearly shaken.


I told a few people of these happenings. Some believed and related their own
experiences, while some thought I was just a little goofy.  Nothing 
happened for about six or seven months, and I finally settled down, being 
able to sleep well at nights and with the bedroom door open. Then one 
evening, I saw this scurrying across the carpet in the room next to where 
I was watching television. But this was different than other times; I 
actually saw somewhat of a pressing down of the carpet and the movement 
was in the opposite direction this time, from the back of the house to 
the front.


A bit later, my friend who sensed things dropped by to visit. He asked 
if I had any more problems. I mentioned that I didn't. He said he 
couldn't feel anything in the house any longer and then I proceeded to 
tell him what I saw.


About a month ago, some friends were over and we were messing around in the
computer room. While someone was showing me how to get around on Internet, I
saw this somewhat glistening thing near the upper part of the room near the
computer room.  It looked like light reflecting off some crumpled 
aluminum foil. I just took it as seeing things. A couple hours later, one 
of my friends, the same one who was with me the night of my "sighting" 
looked in the same direction I saw the reflection, and appeared a bit 
startled. I asked him what was wrong. At first he said nothing, but then 
said he saw kind of a shadow up near the ceiling. It was in the same 
place I saw my glistening object. ?????



-- 
Bob Myers (Critter)





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