Poltergeist

From: Laurie (laurieskog@yahoo.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Miltona, MN
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Sun Jan  4 22:40:00 2009

My family moved to our house in Miltona, MN when I was 6 years old. My 16 year old sister got the bedroom in the basement and immediately began to complain of regular disturbances. She said a man, who was a black shadow, would pace around her bed, then lean over her face and whisper to her in a different language (Swedish or Norweigan). This continued for years. She moved to college when she was 18 and one of my three brothers then moved to her basement bedroom. All of the rest of us kids were too frightened to go down there!

Once my brother started sleeping in that room, the shadow figure paced around like before, but never leaned over him to talk. He did show me a bruise on his back one day and claimed that the man had pushed on his back and it felt like something had gone right through him!

Throughout the years, my brothers, sister and I experienced lights turning off, encyclopedias falling off built in book shelves, etc. My mother never experienced this once.

I moved back home at age 23 and decided to go into the basement bedroom one morning to workout. It had been converted to an exercise room. When I opened the door, I saw a man leaning over a grave in the middle of the room. I had never seen someone look so sad! He looked up at me and disappeared. A few minutes later as I was ready to start exercising, I heard the strangest noise I have ever heard in my life! There was a sound like water dripping up in the corner of the ceiling. Since there are no water pipes in this area of the house, I stepped closer confused. The noise changed to that of an energy buzz. It became louder and louder. It was dripping, buzzing, and making a strange chirping (or squirrely) type sound. A ball of energy came down from the ceiling and brushed against my cheek and ear. It went across the room and started to come at me again. I was terrified and ran and told my mother. She, of course, laughed and teased me about it.

Soon after, lights started to switch off on my mother also. My brother heard the same strange noises coming from another room. My lamp began to wake me up each night by glowing when it wasn't turned on! My stereo would switch off by itself at night, or blast on loud volume during the day when I least expected it! The TV would switch off when I was watching it, and I was terrified to come home from work to an empty house. The lights in the living room and hallway would flicker until someone else came home. I was too scared to go beyond the living room and would sit there by myself! The lights would stop flickering as soon as someone else would walk in the door.

I found myself sleep walking at night, which I never did before. I was having dreams of possession, and I think that it wanted to possess me! I think that there was the ghost of the old Norweigan man, but I think there were other entities as well. I saw a little girl ghost when I was 7 years old and my brother saw it again 20 years later. I think there were was also a dark entity there, and I don't think that it was necessarily the old man.

This did not stop haunting me until I moved out. Since, the TV has turned off on me when I have been visiting. A light switch turned off right in front of my eyes, but it seems the more I ignore it, the less energy it has.