Ghostly
Feeling
My name is Mark. I have had some interest in
ghosts
and the paranormal since I was small.
My first instance of meeting a ghost was in fourth
or
fifth grade, or
Thereabouts. My great-grandmother had just died.
My father didn't want me to suffer in school, so I
wasn't told
until that weekend, near the end of the year. I
think
it was Thursday,
though to be sure, I'd have to search back through
dates
to find out,
and I don't know where that year's calendar is. But
never
mind the exact
day of the week. Sometime either in the middle or
late
in the week, I
awoke at nearly one or two in the morning, feeling
sick.
I looked up,
finding that my eyes were already open, without my
having
consciously
(sp?) opened them. In front of me was what looked
like
a shadow,
although it was white. It may have been a mist, but
whatever
it was, it
seemed harmless. I soon drifted into a doze,
apparently,
as I do not
remember whatever happened after that. I would have
left
it very well
alone, but that weekend, Saturday, my dad called me
and
my brother into
the kitchen and told us that Mama Nona, as we called
her, had died a few
days earlier. This may seem like the end of the
story,
but it is not.
Before even this happened, I had knowingly been
sensitive
to electricity
in the air, much like EMFs. I had always been able
to
tell if an
electric appliance was on or off, or on, but not
working.
Several times
I came home from school and found the TV on, when
there
was nothing,
absolutely nothing, on the screen. The little light
that
usually signals
that the TV is on was long since burned out, but I
knew
still, that the
TV was operating. As I was saying, these feelings,
almost
like sounds
too high pitched to hear, began to come even when
there
were no
appliances within any long distance. In sixth grade,
I would ride my
bike to school, and I would "hear" the noise. This
had
never happened
before. I passed it off as someone's TV turned on in
a home nearby or
something of that sort, but the sounds continued to
follow
me all the
way to school. I never would have worried, but
televisions
suddenly
started being left on, as well as computers and
radios,
when they were
shut off only minutes before. Downstairs, when we
were
remodeling, the
TV was unplugged, and all other electric appliances
removed
from the
room. I walked in, got a bad feeling in my stomach,
and
walked back out
intending to go to the bathroom. When I left, my
stomach
felt fine. I
returned to find the electric "noises" in the room,
when
there was no
appliance in the entire downstairs on at the time. I
know, I checked. I
never thought about taking a picture, but maybe I
will.
I seem to be
finding myself suddenly turning to look behind me,
sensing
someone
there, but there is no one. I thoroughly believe
that
my
great-grandmother's or someone else's ghost has
anchored
itself to me.
However, it cannot leave the old section of town.
When
we go to visit
relatives out of town, the ghost, or whatever it is,
stays behind, as
the sounds do not follow me. And, even more
surprising,
after we put an
addition on our house, the ghost stopped following
me
there, as well. It
seems the ghost cannot leave the places that existed
when it was a
living being.
Thanks,
Mark
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