A Haunted Birthday Party

From: Dianne (ravyncat@yahoo.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Amarillo, Texas
Source: Form Submission

This is a true story describing the events that occurred on July 8, 1990. It happened on my 17th birthday.

To celebrate my birthday, I invited two friends to spend the night. We were going to stay in my family's barn, which is about 200 feet from the house. This barn is older than the house and was actually used as a barn until the mid 80's. Then my parents fixed it up to be a sort of playroom/workspace for the family. At this time the barn had one little room with a sink, a large central room, and a small side room with three windows. The barn had a front door and a back door directly across from each other in the main room. The barn had electricity, a phone, and an air conditioner. About the only thing it was missing was a bathroom. OK. Now to the spookiness.

The night of the party was clear and hot--typical for July in Texas. My friends and I stayed up late watching rented movies and decided to go to bed about 2am. My friend Julie was sleeping in the small side room. She had all the windows open because it was a nice night. I was sleeping on one side of the big room--towards the front door--, and my friend Jamie was sleeping across from me, underneath the air conditioner vent. I was feeling jumpy that night, and carefully locked both doors of the barn. I couldn't sleep because I felt scared and stupid at the same time. (I was 17--way too old to be scared!) I started hearing two girls talking. I couldn't hear what they were saying, and assumed that it was Jamie and Julie. Then Julie appeared at the door to her room and asked me and Jamie to be please be quieter. She had to get up early for a dentist's appointment.

Well this was confusing! Jamie immediatly said, "But it's you and Dianne talking. I'm trying to sleep.!". I replied that I wasn't talking to anyone, and Julie agreed. We all thought that was weird, but went back to bed. I still felt scared and kept hearing 'whispering sounds', but noone else could hear them. I decided to ignore them and try to sleep. Then we all heard nasty laughter and music outside of the barn. I jumped up and ran across the room and turned off the air conditioner so we could hear. It was silent, then we could hear snaps as Julie closed the windows in her room. She said she couldn't see anything outside. Suddenly the laughter came back with screams and music. At the same time three loud knocks were heard on both of the doors. Then it went away.

This freaked us out, but we were too scared to walk outside to the house. We looked out the windows in the side room and saw nothing. It was a bright moonlit night.

Eventually we went back to bed. I remember feeling scared and hearing whispering all night long. I prayed a lot and finally managed to sleep.

One last weird thing happened. Julie had to get up early to make her appointment, and I vaguely remember her leaving. The entire room seemed to be filled with smoke, and I wondered who had been smoking before I went back to sleep. Later Jamie told me that she had dreamed that I was smoking, and thought it was weird because she thought the room was all smoky when Julie left! We told my parents and they didn't believe us. My Mom tried to blame it on my brother, but he was not there that night. He was staying with my dad, and at 15, was to young to drive himself home in the middle of the night. Since then, many more creepy things have happened at the barn. Now my Mom won't go in there. More stories at a later date!