Ghost Stories

Floating Man

Although I havenever had any first hand experiences I have still had many peopletell me their first hand experiences. I am only 18 years old buthave had a deep interest in the paranormal (ghosts) since I wasabout 8 years old. I am going to try and write as many stories asI possibly can but bare with me as I have to change the names torespect peoples privacy.

When an auntsuddenly died of cancer the house in which she used to live beganto have strange things occurring. At first everything was quietuntil the youngest son became very ill. His temperature becameextremely high for a case of flue. As he lay on his bed havingdifficulty breathing, he saw his paper aeroplane which, washanging in the hallway rapidly start moving at high speeds in alldirections. You may think that this doesn't mean anything butwhen there was no draft around at all then there is something forthe little kid to be frightened literally half to death.

Putting that downto some not present wind, The family tried to continue with'normal average family life'. One of the daughters went tohospital for a minor operation and when she came home to recover,she awoke in the middle of the night and felt very thirsty so wasgoing down to the kitchen to get herself a glass of water. Whenshe got into the kitchen she was filling her glass from the sinkwhen she heard her name being called. When she looked up at thewindow directly above her head, she saw an image of an old man.It was a very old man with white hair, a long white beard andlong fingernails. He was calling her name and using his hands tocall her towards him. She frantically started screaming as he wasfloating about a metre or two above the floor and he knew hername. The image was moving backwards as if to vanish slowly intothe background hoping that she will somehow follow. She screamedand screamed until her other sister woke up and helped her to getup and away fr! ! om the kitchen. When she later told the rest ofthe family what it was that she saw nobody believed her. They allthought it may be a delayed effect of some medication she hadpreviously but she was adamant that she saw it in fullconsciousness. (Another friend of mine, totally unrelated to thisstory and family told me once that she had seen a very similarman once who nearly frightened her half to death too. Thishappened when she was taking the rubbish out in the daytime. Shesaw the image of an old man on the garage door, floating abovethe floor. The description of the man, and what was happening i.e.the fading and repeatedly calling her name for her to follow him,was very similar to what I have just said. This girl was in adifferent city totally although it happened at maybe around thesame time.).

Although you may bethinking that this must be a one off happening for the previousfamily, Many other unexplainable things happened. For example,when in the kitchen listening to music alongside cooking, themusic would suddenly change. The tape of old songs would not evenhave to be in the system but old music would still be heardcoming from it, until the stop button was pressed. This old musicwould be of the type their deceased mother would listen to. Alsowhen the front-room remains closed for a few hours during the dayespecially, on walking in to it you can smell a sweet rosy smelland also the room goes from stone cold the instant you walk in toa warmer temperature.

The few times I hadvisited and stayed over prior to knowing about any of theseexperiences I only felt a sense of fear. I, for some unknownreason was scared of looking in the mirrors upstairs as I felt Iwas being watched. After finding this out it may have explained alittle bit but it didn't make me feel any better.