Lonely Ghost Child

Name:            Renee
Email:           renee@ttinc.net
Location:        Riverdale, GA
Anonymous:       
Type:            Ghost
Date:            Wednesday, November 24, 1999
Time:            09:44 AM

When I was about 15, my parents bought a house in 1991 that was built in 1983. They purchased the house from the original owners who had a small child, I'd say less then two years old. In the back yard was an expensive wood framed swing set that looked like it had been there as long as the house. My parents didn't want it and asked if the sellers wanted to take it with them and they said no, but they would remove it for us. This stuck us as odd, because it looked like it must have cost several thousand dollars to build and they had a small child who could eventually use it.

Well, time passed and we were all settled into our new house. My father was working the 2nd shift at the time and would be asleep from 3:00 a.m. till about 11:00 a.m. One morning when my sister and I were in school and my mother already at work, my father awoke to a noise in the house and decided to investigate thinking one of us was home sick. He stepped out of his room and looked out into the hallway and could see mine and my sisters rooms directly across from him. We weren't there, but out of the corner of his eye he thought he saw something in the laundry room to his right. As he turned to look he saw a small child around the age of five or six standing in the corner against the wall. He was startled and reached over to turn the light to get a better look at this unfamiliar child that apparently had wondered into our home. When the light came on the child vanished and my father had no scientific way to explain what he had seen. He told my mother about it and neither knew what to think so they ignored it.

My family would gather in the family room in the evening to watch TV. together. My sister always sat on the floor and played card games while watching TV. Every time she was finished she would place her deck of cards on top of the TV. or the entertainment shelf and then go to bed. For a while she didn't play with her cards and one night as we all sat quietly watching TV, the cards began to fly off of the of it one by one until all 52 were strewn across the family room floor. All four of us froze as we watched this un-nerving action. We didn't know what to think and my mother and I laughed nervously. It definitely got our attention!

My sister began playing with her cards on and off again, but every time she stopped for any short or long period of time the same thing would happed. We all had the feeling that the previous owners had another child that died in the house and it's ghost was lonely. We were never afraid to be alone once we realized we had this occupant because we all had the feeling that he was lost and scared and didn't understand why he was there and what had happened to his family. We believe that the child was lonely and found entertainment in my sisters card tricks and when she stopped the shy ghost child became bored. There weren't any out of the ordinary things that we could connect to a haunting, except opening and closing of doors when there was no one in that room, but of course, it was the cat or the dog that could have done that, right?

We lived there for six more years with these happenings and then my parents retired to Florida and sold the house. I hope that the new owners have something interesting for this sweet lonely little boy.