Mimic

From:  J. T. Naylor jtnaylor2@comcast.net
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 12:50:48 GMT
Type: Ghost
Story-type: Personal experience
Location: Unknown, U.S.A.
Source: Email Submission

Well....I don't really know where to begin, so I'll just jump right into this. My family and I moved into our new house when I was 3 years old. This was the time that it was completed (so no one had ever lived there before). Anyway, from that time on...I began to have terribly graphic, and violent nightmares (things that a 3 year old child should not be seeing in his sleep ). The nightmares began to become more and more spurratic... and I grew used to them. The first really strange thing I can recall is hearing voices as a small child...when no one was in the area of the house that I was in... .The voices laughed and giggled about the boy who lived here (me). In my sleep at night I would awaken to the feeling of someone running their fingers through my hair (although no one was there), I was always petrified and could never move when this happened, I would lie motionless for hours until I eventually fell asleep again. On one occasion in which this happened I managed to turn and glance behind my head. (okay this is where it gets kinda' crazy...just stay with me)...when I turned I saw an image on my headboard of my bed ...a hand not like a lifelike hand...because this one was a STRANGE green color...not glowing to the point of giving off light around it..but somehow glowing just the same. In all other respects it was as real as it gets. Now imagine this hand on the headboard like your reflection in the mirror...and as I glanced at it..it slowly receded into the wood. (like for instance if you were to back away steadily from a mirror ....*shrug* best example I could give)

Let's see..what's next...well, now that I've attemped to describe the strange 'green' color, I'll try not to waste time doing it anymore..because everything that was seen has always been that way. Now whatever this is that caused me to see all these things loves to imitate people. One night I woke up (out of my bed, lying face down in the carpet with my head facing into the hallway)...the hall was completely dark...no light at all. Down the hall comes a string of 'paper-doll' like figures...one after the other.. .walking in front of me...there must have been several hundred of them that I saw scroll down the wall in front of me. Each one of them was identical, it was a cut-out silhouette of my sister (who was out of town) each of the figures was attatched to the one behind it by the hair ( my sister had very long flowing hair at the time). That's all I remember of that...I must have passed out or something...I was paralyzed and couldn't scream to save my life. The next morning I woke up to my parents shaking me ..obviously upset, it seems they found me lying under my bed ice cold..they thought I was dead somehow *shrug*. An interesting fact about this is that my bed had locking hospital rails on it (because I was very young and had a bad habit of falling out of bed in my sleep)....but the rails were still locked into position when my parents found me the next morning.

Hrmm...what to talk about next... Well, another hard thing to explain is that everything I or anyone else has ever seen (or heard) has been just inside the hallway from my room...actually just around the corner there. On several occasions at various ages I remember glancing up at the doorway and seeing a 'foot' or a 'hand' sticking out into my room from the hall. Just as if someone were standing around the corner..or hanging onto the door facing from outside. These body parts were always the same erie dull-glowing green that I attempted to describe above. Every time I saw one of these, I always froze...totally powerless, couldn't make a sound. But on the few occasions that I did manage to let loose with a scream, I always wished that I had never done it, because then dad always came running :) After trying to explain to dad about what I saw he would laugh and then take me on a tour of the house looking under beds and in closets and saying "Any green men in here?" Since none answered, he would say "see there..no green men in this house!" Heh...but I new better...I'd lie awake several nights after one of these occurances, scanning the room all night for anything strange, and sleeping when the sun began to rise.

Well...for a while I had convinced myself that it was just me...and that I must have been crazy for 'thinking' that I saw such things (as some of you may also be thinking by now)...but then someting happened....SOMEONE ELSE saw it !

I must have been 11 or 12 by this time.....my parents and some friends are in the den sitting around talking. Myself and 2 other children, decided to play a little hide-and-go-seek. We turned off all the lights in the rest of the house, and I was sent to hide. I walked into an extra room, and climbed into a closet...closing the door behind me. Now the other 2 kids came looking for me...they walked down the hall and went straight past the room that I was hiding in...I heard one of them say "haha! Gotcha'.. come on out!"..then the other say something like "we see you! Come out!" Now I'm pretty confused since I'm very well hidden...so I come out of the closet... open the door and walk out BEHIND the other 2 kids. I said "Hey, you didn't find me!" They immediately freaked out and told me how they saw me at the end of the hall 'PEEKING AROUND THE CORNER AT THEM'...they mentioned that it looked like I had some kind of wierd green halloween paint on my face. THIS freaked me out pretty bad...I was very confused about the whole thing.. .since I had never seen the face I was at first pretty alarmed to hear that the face was mine! And also this blew my whole theory that I was just a crazy kid.

Hrmm...just more of the same happening until, I believe I was 14 or 15 when my best friend at the time had spent the night at my house. My parents had left early that morning and we were alone. He was in my room, playing a game when I left out to go to the front of the house to watch TV. I had been there about 25 minutes when I hear him storming down the hall stuttering gitterish that I can't quite understand. He's very upset and quite shaken when he finally spits out "W-w-w-w-w-w-w-were you j-j-j-just b- b-back there!!??" I reply "umm...nooooo" He then walked over and took a seat and told me that he saw my face looking around the corner at him, and my hand holding onto the door facing, both were of a green color.

None of these people had been told about what I had seen before...

Well, for those of you still with me.... not much happened that I noticed for a long time...I'd always catch crazy things happening out of the corner of my eye, but nothing major. The next thing that is actually worth telling about is something that my girlfriend saw..not I.

I was in the bathroom shaving.....she had been watching tv...she walked out of the den into the kitchen and glanced down the hall looking for me. This is when she saw 'me' walking down the hall...(which was dark), turn and walk into my room......she was following behind and when she got into my room ... which was also dark..she began to call my name, looking for me. I heard her calling and came out of the bathroom and said "what??" Heh...she came FLYING out of the dark room and hall pretty freaked out. I told her the stories and of all the things that I had seen there before, after hearing all of them she wasn't really afraid....more amused than anything.

The last strange occurance that I can think of is not 'seeing' but 'hearing' something very strange...something that freaked me out pretty bad. I was in my room with another girlfriend watching TV or something. No one else was home...my mother was gone with a friend and wouldn't be back until later. Now from outside my bedroom door (which was closed) I hear my mother (again, who ISN'T home) say in a low tone of voice "J.T."....that's my name heh.. I turned to my girlfriend and said did you hear something....she casually said 'yeah....your mom's calling you.'...oooookay..so I hop up and go open the door...NOTHING..no one's there...*chillbumps*...we searched the entire house ...room by room...then looked in the garage..her car is still gone. We sat around talking about what we'd heard for hours...til my mother eventually came back home.

Well...I know this wasn't the most exciting story you've read...but it's a true one. Though lots of strange things have gone on in that house for all these years..these are the best examples I could think of to write about. If anyone has any ideas or input about this story....please feel free to E-mail me. I'd love an expert (or any ) opinion. And if anyone has had a similar experience....please write to me also, I'd love to hear them!

Thanks, J.T.