Children See More

From: Angela Bosse (angela.bosse@gmail.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Netherlands, at my house
Source: Form Submission

I believe children have the gift of seeing ghosts. I for one remember certain things about when I was little. Back in 1992 (I was about 8 years old) me and my mother lived together in a pretty large house. I always slept in my mothers bed. This night I woke up being thirsty. I calld my mother. Please note the room was huge, and the only light came from the hallway. The door was always opened. After a few minutes my mom walked into the bedroom and stood at the footend of the bed. She looked somewhat angry or irritated. I remember looking at her face and thinking about what I had done to make her so upset. But then again she wasn't standing close to me so I couldn't really see her that well. But nevertheless I sensed an eerie feeling in the room.

I told her I was thirsty. She then told me she would get me a glass of water but insisted I'd immediatly go to sleep after that because she didn't want me to bother her. I thought this was all pretty strange because she usually didn't get mad about things like this. So I nodded my head, my mom walked out of the room into the hallway. At the exact moment she left the room my mother walked into the room, sat next to me on the bed and asked me what was wrong and if I had had a bad dream. When I told her I was thirsty she gave me a glass of water, kissed me on the cheek and left the room. Back then I didn't think about this all that much, some years later I realised that the first "mother" walking into my room wasn't my mother at all.

This is not my only experience with ghosts. Another one happened to me when I was 13 years old. We just moved into a new house together with my stephfather and my new born baby brother. The house was build in 1908. It was big and old. On one night my parents were at a friends place and left my on my own to babysit my brother. He was fast asleep and I was watching TV. All of a sudden there was a power faillure. All the lights went off. I waited for a few moments hoping the power would go back one. It didn't. This all happend in the summer and I could here my neighbours outside talking. So I went to check it out to find the entire street was without power. I wanted to call my mother but the phone was dead, which is strange cause technically speaking you don't need electricity for your phone to work. After this I walked into the kitchen and found some candles. I went back to the livingroom, sat down and lighted 4 or 5 candles. But all of them we're blown out. I tried it again without any help, the flames didn't last. I went to check if maybe I had left the door open thinking it might be a draft from outside. All the doors and windows were shut. I tried to light the candles several time, it didn't work. Everytime I lighted them the flame would just die. And these candles came straight out of the box they were brand new. I tried lighting some other candles, same thing happened. After 20 minutes the power went back on.

In the same house allot of strange things happend. One night (I was 18 years old) I came back home from a party at a friends house. It was around 3AM. I lighted a lamp in the dining room and sat at the dining table drinking some water and smoking a cigarette. All of a sudden something came over me, I fellt extremely cold and had goosebumps all over me. I felt as if someone was standing behind me. I turned around and saw nothing. But in all my curiousity I asked (out loud) if there was anyone in the room with me, and if so if he or she could give me a sign. At that moment the lamp went of and on. I asked if it was a male, again the lamp blinked. After that I asked him if he meant to do me harm, one blink for yes two for no. The lamp blinked twice. Afterwards I asked him more question but they were left unanswerd.