The Floor Above Us

From: Sarah (ceiinwyn@aol.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Basement
Source: Form Submission

I've always believed in life after death as in Ghosts however I've never had anything happen to me until I moved into my current resisdence. Everything started when I was 14. One experience ( There were more than one experience leading to the ulitmate experience more or less) I was taking a shower in my new bathroom. For some odd unexplainable reason I locked myself. It was a spontaneous action I took. I happen to look out into my shower door(My shower door is the see through but blurred type) and I saw a slender, entirely black cat. I thought instantly that my cat Figaro got in. I forgot I locked my door. I dismiss the cat and continue to wash my body. Later it occurred to me my bathroom door was locked. I discussed this event with my sister and she consiquently saw a black cat as well.

A few days or maybe weeks later I got outside to retrieve my bike. I causally looked at my screen door and saw two children staring at me. I stared back absorbing the moment and detail. One child was male, taller and older than his sister (maybe his sister) standing next to him. They both had blonde hair, the female had long straight hair, and both were wearing plain colors such as yellow pink green and blue. I started to look around for the source of the reflection on my screen door, however no one was around. The children's reflextion appeared to be standing on a hill (There is a hill behind my house in the yard beyond my backyard in my neighbor;s yard). I turned to look at the hill behind our house and no children were there. I called out...mostly shouting hello, but no answer except my echo returned to me.

These experiences once again were little events leading to the climax. I wasn't really spooked by these events...they seemed so small in conparison of what I thought a paranormal event would be like. I'm not sure how long it was since I saw those children when I was with my sister that day. We were home alone as usual and happened to be in our basement instead of upstairs. The house rule is to let the dogs out before going to the basement so they don't make a mess. We were feeling lazy so we let the dogs and made sure every door was lock. While down stairs watching TV we heard this walking upstairs in our kitchen. The footsteps had the distinct sound of a foot sticking to the floor. The foot steps were loud and heavy. All of a sudden whoever was upstairs jumped up and down three times. Each time the house would shake as if a heavy 350 pound or more person was jumping in our kitchen. My and I was cuddle together listening to whoever in our kitchen.

When the jumping was finished, we sat on our futon listening. Again we heard foot steps venture out from the kitchen into the living room and into the hallway above us. We ran upstairs to the kitchen to see if anything was damaged, or moved. Nothing was touched or misplaced. We returned to the basement when the person began to walk into the kitchen and jump. Whoever was up there played cruelly with our minds three times. After that the jumping and walking never reappeared that day. Later that day, however, when my mother returned we told her what happened. She didn't believe us. She reacted like any one else would.

I believe the Ghost in our house was playing with our minds and so far they haven't continued but I'm still living there so they'll continue their game and scare us until they finished with it all. THanks