The Problem in My House

Name:            Angelique Anne Ryman
Email:           angeliqueryman@hotmail.com
Location:        Gibraltar
Type:            Ghost
Date:            Wednesday, April 12, 2000
Time:            01:45 PM

Gibraltar is a small place in the South it is known as "The Rock". Most people in Gibraltar believe in Ghosts and the supernatural as they have been told true ghost stories since very young. Nearly every person living in Gibraltar has experienced an account in which ghosts or spirits as i call them have been sighted.

During my life as far as i can remember i reckon having experienced my share with the supernatural world of spirits. My mother tells me stories about when i was young, she said when i was about three years old i used to talk to someone constantly but there was never anyone there. Although i don't remember because i was very young she says that i had conversations and that it was a girl called Illyanna. My mum freaked every time she heard me talk to her. My brother and shared a room when we were very young and my mother recalls having heard the sound of a rattle coming from our room but when she went in the room we were fast asleep and there was no rattle.

Now i will tell of incidents occurred to me and some with witnesses present. The usual disappearing of things have occurred in my house, i have even got used to putting something somewhere and it disappearing. Once my family and i went camping to Portugal as we usually did every year and as every year we brought things for the family and ourselves. I bought this bag which i loved and it wasn't sold in Gibraltar so i was really happy that i had it. When we got home back from our camping trip it was missing and so were some presents my mother had bought. My father looked everywhere for them and they had disappeared. Of course this is no proof that ghosts got the missing things but read on and you will see my amazedness. My mother assumed that we must had left them behind by accident, i was very angry and had been very sad all night. We were tired so we all went to sleep except for my mother who was putting some things away. When everything was cleared my mother also went to sleep. When i woke up in the morning my mother says "so where did you find it?" i was very confused i didn't know what she was talking about. When she woke up she saw the bag nicely set up on the floor of my corridor like if it had been exhibited. We asked my brother and my father if they where the ones to find it but it was neither. I guess i was so upset about my loss that the spirits thought that this was a sick joke.

Another incident which for me and my family who was present gave us all the creeps was when were all sitting on the sofas watching TV and in our sitting room we have a set of encyclopedias, trophies and statues. Then suddenly in a split of a second one of the encyclopedias landed on my fathers head even hurting him. There was no explaining this it was impossible for that encyclopedia to dash out across the room hitting my father. There was no wind and even if there was the encyclopedia is very heavy and fitted very tightly together so tight that i sometimes find it hard to pull out. What is more amazing even is that it occurred two more times once again with another encyclopedia that fell on me and another time with one of the trophies also falling on me and all three times there were witnesses present. Other objects have also been thrown and sometimes noises as if something had been thrown have been hard and when i have gone to see it there was nothing.

Once i even saw a bright light approaching me closer each time until i closed my eyes tight and it disappeared. Many other things like the noise of a pearl necklace being broken and falling to the ground making a grate noise as if marbles had been dropped to the floor. When we asked the neighbors they heard nothing and no beads were dropped by them. My mother as well as i wanted to know more about the happenings in my house so she went to a spiritualist, a medium and told her our problem. The spiritualist said it was a joker, it was someone that liked playing with us, that explained the hiding of things. She gave us a hint and it was to record the house while there was no one there and when best to do that than on a hot summers day when everyone including the neighbors are at the beach. So my mother made sure none of the neighbors where home and recorded the house. It was the most amazing and frightening result, when the tape was heard there where noises of furniture moving, our furniture. Low voices, footsteps of a man and other strange noises were heard. The tape was never heard to the end my mother was to freaked out to hear it all. The strange thing is that the tape was never found it had disappeared and still today we have searched for it but it has not been found.