My Personal Experiences with Ghosts By: Arielle Caldwell
My
Personal experiences with ghosts
Arielle
Caldwell
Growing
up, I never really believed in ghosts, aliens, the supernatural, etc.
I didn’t have an imaginary friend, nor did I feel like I needed
one. I was a dreamer but I was literal. The first time I experienced
a ghostly encounter was in Louisiana where I’m from. I was young
but not so young I could have imagined it. My great aunt, Auntie,
lived alone in a duplex style, old, creaky home. I never met her
husband. He killed himself many years prior. The front of the house
is what she used as a bedroom...2 beds across from each other. My
brother and I would go visit her on summers and I always loved it.
One night, something woke me from my sleep. I rolled over in bed,
wide awake, and saw a glowing figure floating horizontally over my
Auntie. I didn’t scream but it did frighten me. It was his face,
his old railroad lantern from when he worked on them. I never saw him
again except that night.
Where
I currently live, there is a ghost who shares the residence with us.
He doesn’t hurt us, scare us, or try to run us off. We live
peacefully together. No one believed me at first when I said there
was a spirit living there.
One
encounter of many was after I had just had knee surgery and was laid
up in bed. My bedroom door was open and I could see across the room
and downstairs to my second level. (Split level, not 2 story home)
There was a black figure that moved quickly down there. I blinked a
few times, and it was gone. This spirit likes to play pranks on me.
He knows what irks me. My pictures on the walls have to be straight
and all my cabinets closed. I’ll wake up the next morning and
they’ll all be moved or open. Sometimes, I’ll just turn my back
and turn around to the cabinets open. Most recently, my roommate made
a pot of coffee and forgot it one morning. When she went to dump it
that night, it was steaming hot. The machine had been off all day. I
told her it was the ghost messing with her now. Every so often, when
people stay the night, they can hear someone walking down the hallway
or making noise around the house. My neighbor, before we even moved
in, saw it out in my pasture and watched it jump a fence. Whatever it
is, I’ve never felt uneasy around it, just annoyed that it likes to
play games too much.
I may
have started out an unbeliever, but after several events that have
happened to me personally, I do believe in the spiritual world and I
also believe we can coexist in peace.
Arielle
Caldwell, author of The Nerita Torlan Trilogy, Chasing Freedom, and
After-Ending (coming 2014)
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Thank you so much for being on my blog. Wow! Your ghost sounds pretty cool, I have not had a spirit or ghost in any places I live. I sometimes wonder if it would be cool to have one or be glad I do not.
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