Ghost Stories

Baby Monitor

I have been readinga lot of the stories on this site and been scaring the crap outof myself. But it's been fun. I'm still going through them. But Ithought it was time to send in something of my own. I can'treally explain what the incident could be. Maybe it was ourimagination or maybe just some weird coincidence. But it didoccur.

I was maybe around 10 years old and I was visiting a friend ofmine at their house in Los Angeles County. They are a smallchinese family and they had just recently had a new baby in thefamily. And also, unfortunately a death in the family too. Agrandfather who had lived with them for quite a a while hadrecently passed away a few months before. He had taken care ofthe newborn when he had been alive whenever the parents were notaround.

Now, my friend's parents have this intercom system placed in thebabies room. Whenever the baby was to cry or such, you can hearher through a walkie talkie sort of thing that came w/ theintercom system and u can place it in the room where you can hear.But sometimes the frequency gets mixed up and you can hear musiccoming from it sometimes off of local radio stations but that wasonly if you had the walkie talkie thing flipped onto the wrongchannel.

On this particular night my friend and I were watching TV in theliving room and her parents were sitting around reading andchatting amongst themselves too. And the baby was fast asleep inher room that was in the back of the house. The intercom systemwas placed on a table right next to her crib and the walkietalkie was placed in the living room with the rest of us on acoffee table all with in hearing range of us kids and the parents.We could hear her soft even breathing letting us know that shewas sound asleep.

A while later we heard the baby making gurgling noises but wedidn't make much fuss over it. A little bit later we started tohear her making more noise as if she was waking up and wasgetting ready for her famous tantrum cryings. My friend's dadstarted to get up to go and quiet her down but the mom stoppedhim and told him not to worry, she'll quiet down on her ownmaybe, just give her some time.

So the dad sat back down and the noises eventually stopped. Aboutfifteen minutes we heard noises again, the baby was definatelyawake and began crying softly. The was a occurance that happensfrequently whenever I was over at my friend's house and I didn'tmake anything of it. My friend and I just continued to watch ourTV program. Eventually the baby started making more noise that itwas interfereing w/ our program. The mother proceeded to get upand go to her room when the baby quieted down and we heard an oldman's voice telling her to hush and be a good little girl and notto make so much noise. This was all said in chinese too just likemy friend's grandfather use to speak it w/ a slight accent. Thebaby quieted down and we could still hear the old man's voicequieting her down and talking softly putting her back to sleep.We could also hear soft rythmetic pattings on her small back thatyou would usually do when u want to quiet down a small child.

My friend's mom freaked out and quickly ran to the back roomfollowed by her dad and us kids. We reached the room and her momwas bending over the crib checking on the baby and she was fastasleep again (If she had even been awake in the first place.)There was no one else in the room. The dad checked around too. Hetold us kids to return to the living room to check out the walkietalkie to see if it was on the right frequency channel. So wewent back to listen and we could hear my friend's mom and dadtalking quietly in hushed voices.

So it had to have been the right channel because we were hearingright. We reported back to the parents and everyone was mystifiedand a little creeped out.

Was it the grandfather's spirit returning to take care of thebaby or just a strange frequency occurance from a radio station.That happend to be playing an old man's voice in chinese? It wasvery long ago but I still remember the incident and it sort offrightened me. I still went over to my friend's house after thatincident and nothing else out of the ordinary happened after thateither.