Shadows

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Story type: Ghost
Location: Jacksonville, North Carolina
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I began seeing shadows after both of my mother's parents died. We had lived with my grandparents for about a year and a half, I watched both of them die slowly of cancer, I knew from the very beginning that my grandmother would die but I didn't exactly know about my grandfather. My grandfather died when I was nine and in August of that same year we moved into our new house.

This house was completely new, it had just been built and I was happy. Until about July of the next year. My family had our own little garden and I had come in early from working in it but my parents were still out there, and my sister was out on a date. I had a strange feeling when I was sitting in the living room and looked out of the corner of my eye, there in the doorway of the kitchen was a tall skinny shadow. I was so scared because I was the only person in the house, I looked directly at the shadow and it disappeared. I screamed as loud as I could and it must have been pretty loud because my parents came running in all the way from the garden which is pretty far out in the backyard/feild.

It was later that night that my mother told me my grandmother had seen shadows also, it was weird because I had never been told of these strange occurences. More so was the fact that my mother didn't have any type of sightings with shadows. What also seemed odd was that my sister use to hear footsteps when she was at our grandmother's house. That however was just the beginning of many strange shadows.

Over the past 4 years I seen at least 6 different shadows. However, one shadow still haunts me. I saw it one night and it was moving, it was actually walking like a persons shadow does when they walked and that scared me a lot. It had been walking down the hall towards my old room. I had moved out of my old room because I was always scared in it I was afraid of something in there, and it was strange that the shadow was headed towards that specific room. That night I had a weird dream and the shadow came to life, the shadow's person like being was what appeared in my dream. In my dream the shadow's person like being told me to be cautious of what was waiting in time.

I still have to this day to figure out what that means, or what exactly he meant by it to me and it's been over a year since that occurence. Here lately I've been able to know things before they happen, it's funny though kind of like seeing the future. Some times it scares me but I don't know maybe it's all part of the supernatural. I wonder though why my grandmother and I are so alike but everything about us and my sister have skipped my mother and made me feel so inferior.