Home Alone

From: Andy (misfiend06@yahoo.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: fontana ,CA
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Tue Feb 27 03:41:41 2007

A couple years back my Dad remarried and we moved into a house my stepmother grew up in.For the past few years her cousin lived in the home and for some reason hung himself in the tree in the backyard.Shortly after they cut that tree down leaving the stump. The house remained empty untill we moved in.I was kinda creeped out knowing the fact that her cousin commited suicice in the back yard.I always felt the presents of someone like as if I was being watched. My dad worked late so I spent most of the time home alone unless one of my brothers or sisters had been there.

I liked to watch t.v and talk to friends on the phone so I wouldnt feel so lonley and one night i started to here foot steps as if someone were running up and down the hall. I also started to hear footsteps on the roof and the house would get real cold. I told my family but no one believed me; they never heard anything .It only happened when I was home alone and sitting in the living room. Months went by and I continued to hear the constant foot steps but i tried to ignore it but it got worse.After a while I would start hearing stuff in the kitched . From the kitchen you could see out the sliding glass window where the tree once was.I was always afraid to look.

The nosies continued to get worse. I would here the cupboards open and shut and sometimes the refridgerator would open up and I would shut it and shortly after it would open again. Thats when I really started to freak out I knew I wasnt crazy. I knew something was in that house. So I put child safety locks on the cupboards and that nite I could hear the cupboards try to open. Then the next nite I woke up and went in the kitchen to find scratch marks in the cupboards and i explained it to my family then they began to finally believe me.

The next nite while I was sleeping i heard tapping on my bedroom window and when i looked over i saw a shadow of a tree on my wall and I quickly hid under the covers.I knew we didnt have a tree because it had been cut down so i got really scared. When I peeked again the shadow was gone. I began thinking I had made the spirit angry because the noises began happening not just at nite but in the day time as well. I'd hear footsteps behind me as if someone where walking behind me and turn around to find no one there.

I couldnt understand why the spirit always bothered me and no one else.So I asked my step mom if she possibly new a reason why .She explained that me and her cousin looked similar.He had some of the same features as me dark complexion ,brown eyes we were around the same hieght as well. I thought to myself maybe he felt threatened by me. I told my brother about it and he explained that he had seen me walking in the backyard at nite. I thought to myself and I told him I never walked in the backyard late at night. He told me he always seen me walking threw the hall and into the kitchen and sometimes outside.He thought id been sleepwalking or something but thought nothing of it. I told him that it wasnt me. I never slept walked. Right then and there I knew my brother had seen the spirit and i had a second believer but the thing was I had never seen the spirit. I only heard things never seen anything.

One night I asked my brother sleep in the living room to see if it was in fact me sleep walking.He agreed and slept in the living room that night. Around two in the morning my brother ran in my room and woke me up in shock he told me he saw something that looked like me walk threw the hall and into the kitchen and walk outside thats when he got up and ran to my room to see if I was sleeping and found me in bed.We got up and looked out the window and we could see something passing back in forth near the tree stump then it looked at us and began walking towards my bedroom window we both hid under the covers and were to afraid to look we both eventually feel asleep. The next morning we woke up and were both petrified to find our names written in the dirt outside near the tree stump. Thats when I said this is enough we have to do something about this so we had a priest bless the house and the noises stopped. We eventually moved out and I havent had any other ghost experiances since.