by a83p2@unb.ca
I have been a believer of the paranormal since I was very young but it was only when I got older that I actually began to experience the paranormal in a full blown way. When I was 17, my family and I were living in Calgary, AB, Canada. We lived in a relatively new house in a nice neighbourhood so the suspicion of ghosts did not necessarily cross my mind.
I have been a believer of the paranormal since I was very young but it was only when I got older that I actually began to experience the paranormal in a full blown way. When I was 17, my family and I were living in Calgary, AB, Canada. We lived in a relatively new house in a nice neighbourhood so the suspicion of ghosts did not necessarily cross my mind.
We hadn't been living there for long though when strange things began to happen. One day, when my brother was alone in the house he heard someone calling my name. It was coming from upstairs and it was a female voice so my brother automatically thought it was my mother.
After about 5 minutes of this calling he remembered that he was the only one home! I was just coming up the street when the door to my house flew open and out came my brother, running full speed. I caught up to him and convinced him to go back into the house and together we searched the top floor but there was nothing. The windows were closed, ruling out the possibility of someone's voice carrying through the neighborhood.
This made me nervous mainly because the voice was calling for me and no one else, but I put it out of my mind and continued with life. Then life took another scary twist. I was sound asleep one night (and I sleep like the dead, no pun intended!) when I suddenly woke up. The door to my room was slowly opening and someone was walking into my room.The person stopped at the foot of my bed. Not accustomed to the dark yet, I merely assumed it was a family member but when I said "What's wrong?" the person turned, left the room, and did not close the door. I was scared stiff!
After about 5 minutes of this calling he remembered that he was the only one home! I was just coming up the street when the door to my house flew open and out came my brother, running full speed. I caught up to him and convinced him to go back into the house and together we searched the top floor but there was nothing. The windows were closed, ruling out the possibility of someone's voice carrying through the neighborhood.
This made me nervous mainly because the voice was calling for me and no one else, but I put it out of my mind and continued with life. Then life took another scary twist. I was sound asleep one night (and I sleep like the dead, no pun intended!) when I suddenly woke up. The door to my room was slowly opening and someone was walking into my room.The person stopped at the foot of my bed. Not accustomed to the dark yet, I merely assumed it was a family member but when I said "What's wrong?" the person turned, left the room, and did not close the door. I was scared stiff!
I finally gathered up enough courage to go get my mom. I told her what happened and she assured me that neither she nor my father had been in my room. My brother said the same. I told my mom that I would not go back to my room without her so she came in to my room and as we were sitting there in the dark, we heard someone run down the stairs!! We both went and got my dad but when he checked the house, he found nothing and all of the doors and windows were locked. This is the scariest thing that has happened to me so far with regards to the other side and I never did encounter anything else in that particular house but I could never again stay there alone. I always felt a presence that did not seem to like me very much, whenever I was alone in the house.
I live in my own apartment now and have not experienced anything that intense, but I did feel someone breathe in my ear last week while in the shower...