Backyard Ghost
I've been lurkingfor about a month. Nothing really very paranormal has happenedaround me until yesterday.
About 2 years ago, I moved onto a piece of land in thecountryside of southern Alabama. It's 2 1/2 acres with 2 fishponds in the front of the property. We moved a new double widetrailer onto the land near the back of the property.
I have to put in a bunch of boring details because it all fits into play with what happened.
We use the side door on the house because that's the only door wehave steps at right now and it's easier to access. The side dooropens into the laundry room, which opens into the den, whichopens into the dining room, which opens into the kitchen. Theden, dining room, and kitchen are in the back of the house, withwindows looking out onto the backyard. The power pole is set backa bit from the house in the backyard.
The area around the power pole has always creeped me out. I justfelt that something was there..maybe a spirit. At times I havefelt like I was being watched and the radio has malfunctioned afew times, but nothing major so I always just shook it off.
Something happened last week that I'm reluctant to shake off. Itwas about 11 at night and I got the feeling I was being watched,so of course, I looked around. No animals were staring at me so Ifigure it's my mind trying to freak me out. I was on the phonewith my friend and we're both into the paranormal and I told himthat I felt like I was being watched. His response was somethingalong the lines of "yea whatever." Then it got coldaround where I was sitting (in the computer area). I thought thatthere may have been a draft. No windows were open and the heatwas on. It was only cold around the computer area. I went intothe kitchen, still on the phone, looking for the camera because Iwas gonna take pictures of the area because I was thinking "whatthey hey, it just might be a ghost". I couldn't find it andit was warm in the kitchen. So then I walked back through thecomputer area (still very cold) and into the bathroom (warm). Ilooked in the mirror for a minute and then went back to thecomputer area where it was still cold. And as I did these thingsI told my friend on the phone what I was doing. He told me to tryto communicate with the entity. He told me to ask "Is therea spirit here that I'm not aware of? Give me a sign" so Idid. Then it got really hot within like 2 seconds. My friend waslike "Wow! Ask if it's there to protect you or not. Ask fora sign." So I did. (Now this I forgot to say earlier, mykitten has a cold and was breathing very loudly and sleeping onthe sofa which is near the computer area so I could hear her.)Then I could no longer hear the kitten breathing loudly, butgently and softly like she should be breathing. Then my friendtold me to ask it "for what particular reason are you here?"So I did. Then I got really dizzy and fell out of the chair andbumped my head on the floor and in the process of all that Idropped the phone and apparently I screamed but I don't rememberscreaming. But everything was back to normal like it was beforeit got cold. Then I picked the phone up and my friend was like"Holy sh*t! What just happened?!? What was the crash?!?Why'd you scream?!?" I don't know what was going on but didI have contact with a spirit?
Something else I shook off was very recent. In fact, it happenedtwo days before the sighting I'm getting to in this story. I wasgetting ready to go to the football game at my school. I had myjacket on and as I walked out of the bathroom to head to thegame, it felt as if something or someone pulled on the back of myjacket...like it was trying to keep me in the bathroom...like itdidn't want me to leave. I figured it was my imagination but nowI'm not too sure.
Ok now to the story I started this to write about.
It was Sunday afternoon at about 2:30 and it was a cool day (nottoo hot outside). Let's see...the date...November 11, 2001.
I was babysitting my niece and nephews while my mom and sisterwent Christmas shopping. My nephews had gotten thirsty so I wasin the kitchen making koolaid for them. My youngest nephew was inthe dining room looking out the window along with the dog (daschund).I glanced in there and he looked at me and smiled as smallchildren tend to do. Then I continued with the making of thekoolaid for the older boys.
Then all of a sudden the dog started barking like mad and Nick(thenephew in the dining room) said, "Kelli, who's that guy?"(sometimes you can see the neighbors from the backyard) So I wentinto the dining room and looked out the window. There was nothingthere. Not a thing in sight but that power pole. So then I lookedat Nick and said, "Where? What guy?" and he pointeddirectly to the power pole and said, "The guy." Ilooked again, just to be sure I wasn't missing a person standingout there. Still nothing.
Just about then the dog ran to the side door and was going crazy,jumping at the door and barking. Nick followed the dog in there,so I, of course, followed as well. I opened the door to let thedog out and my nephew was standing in front of me and he lookedout the door and gasped and said "The guy!" and pointedout the door and then he started to go out the door. I saw noguy, no person, no animal, nothing. I grabbed my nephew andpulled him back in the trailer and shut the door and locked it,all very quickly.
After that, I made my nephew stay in the kitchen with my while Ifinished up the koolaid. Then the rest of the time I wasbabysitting, I didn't allow him to leave the room.
And I know the child was not imagining a guy being there. Therehad to be a guy there. The child is only 2 years old. He onlyknows of ghosts as being a white sheet. He knows if you put awhite sheet on then you're a ghost. That's all he knows aboutghosts, besides the fact that they're "supposed to be scary".
The childs mother has been able to see and since spirits andentities her entire life. I feel that he may have gotten hersixth sense. What do you think?
Oh and sorry this is so long. I've read some stories on thewebsite that people apologize for the length and I don't thinkthey need to because those tend to be the short ones. But mine,on the other hand, is very long so I'm apologizing.