The Girl

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Story type: Ghost
Location: Cheshire, England
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There were a few strange occurrences in my parent's house, when I lived there about 4 years ago, but this particular happening remains the most significant. I think I must have been about 17 at the time and every time I went to bed I would listen to my headphones until I drifted asleep. One night around 12 to 1 o'clock I was listening to my music in the dark, eyes closed, as usual, when I 'felt' like someone was in the room, it was the sort of feeling you get when you can sense someone stood behind you, know what I mean? Anyway I opened my eyes to see a girl stood at the end of my bed, instinctively I shouted an obscenity followed by my sisters name. The reason I shouted my sisters name is simply because I thought it was her since she is the only young girl in the house. Even as I shouted I flung my headphones off and switched by bedside lamp on to find the girl had disappeared. Now you are probably thinking, as I did, that the figure was a trick of the darkness or I was half dreaming, and so I left it like that. I didn't tell anyone for about two weeks, it wouldn't have interested my Dad and I didn’t want to scare my sister and my Mum would think I was making it up, plus as the days went by since, I began to convince myself it was my imagination and I nearly forgot about it. A couple of weeks later me and my Mum got on to the subject of spooky things, and she asked me if I’d seen anything strange and I told her I had but I thought it was my imagination then referred the question to her, she said something like, 'yes I have, first I thought it was your sister.' At which point I gasped and had to interrupt her to tell of my experience. She then told me that about two weeks ago at around 12 to 1 o'clock she had the same feeling I did which made her and my Dad wake up and open their eyes to see a girl stood next to the bed, the door had been opened and the girl was stood there as if she'd just walked in. Instinctively they thought it was my sister and asked her what she wanted, the girl didn't reply at which point my Dad closed his eyes and tried to get back to sleep and thought nothing of it. Believing her to be my sister, my Mum rolled over to sit on the edge of the bed to see what she wanted. But in doing that movement she took her eyes off her for a moment and when she looked back the girl was gone and the door was closed.