Ghost in the Basement

From: jamel toombs (jtmunie@hotmail.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: philadelphia
Source: Form Submission

My story begins on a snowy, rainy morning in southwest Philadelphia. This was a Saturday morning and my mother decided that she wanted to do some very early spring-cleaning since all my siblings and I were stuck in the house do to the weather. Anyway she assigned tasks for all of us to start on and as one finishes we will go on to help someone else and so on until the house had a complete makeover. She told my big sister to go and start to straighten up the basement. (We used the basement as storage and my mother had wanted to organize it and she figured what better time to do it then now when she had lots of help).

When she told my sister to go in the basement my sister told her that she would prefer to clean something else but my mother insisted that she start on the basement. My sister started crying and explained to us that she had been having dreams about entering the basement and something was waiting for her. She said every time she went down to the basement that something would grab her but then she would wake up. My mom asked why didn't she tell anyone of this dream and my sis replied that she felt foolish about it.

Now my sis is a prankster so we all laughed and told her good joke and good acting for making it so believable. My mom told her to go anyway and she sent my bro with her. My sis really looked scared but being obedient she and my bro started down the stairs and through the kitchen to get to the basement entrance. Just as they were about to open the basement door, the doorbell rang and loud beating and screaming was coming from the front door. As we all ran to the front door see what was going on, there stood my aunt (who lived down the street) in nothing but a nightgown crying and shaking. Now remember it is cold and raining outside, not to mention we are in Philly and she is out there half naked in panic mode.

Anyway my aunt was screaming no one go to the basement. So as my mom calmed her down and my aunt regained her composure, she explained that she had a dream about my sister going to the basement and something was there waiting on her. She had the exact same dream my sister had but she saw how the dream ended. At this point I was thoroughly freaked out. My aunt said that in her dream my sister went in the basement but would never return alive and that what ever down there was pure evil and had all thoughts on killing or hurting whomever.

Anyway we all decided to go down into the basement and as we did we noticed some footprints that led from the bottom step of the basement into the middle of the basement floor then disappeared.My aunt is a really religous woman and she began to bless the house cause she believed that the intruder was a demon but my mom immediately thought burglar, but how could the intruder be human, since all the basement windows and the one door that led to the outside were locked from the inside. No one had broken-in and why did the footprints just disappear in the middle of the room. My question is how could my aunt have the same dream as my sister and if it were a demon or evil spirit then why would it target my sis.

Someone get back to me at jtmunie@hotmail.com. Thanks for listening or should i say reading.