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tilly pierce house after phenomenology

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105 was over at the eisenhower

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conference center on march

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24th in gettysburg my sister jean and i

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stayed two nights at the historic

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quaint and haunted tilly pierce house we

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were the only guests in the in both

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nights

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so any noises were either ours creeks of

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the old building or something paranormal

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we stayed in the pink room which is on

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second floor in the front of the house

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here is what happened the first night at

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around 4 20 a.m

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we both woke up to movement down the

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hallway towards the front of the house

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it sounded like creeks on the floor as

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if someone was walking down the hall

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but we also heard the noises above our

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room then we heard the creaks and knocks

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coming to our room

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i looked at the door expecting something

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to open it as someone was definitely at

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our door

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then i felt a huge chill come over my

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entire body

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i was in bed i get a chill in goosebumps

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when a spirit is near me

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typically so i felt the presence of

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someone very near

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the feeling lingered only a few seconds

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and then was gone

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we slept the rest of the night in peace

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the following night at around 11 30 i

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sat in the hallway and tried to make

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contact with the ghost cat that has been

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reported

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i was told that one could hear meowing

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and two weeks ago

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two people saw the apparition of a cat

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walk through a door

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so i had my psb 7 ghost box turned on

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and was calling out

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here kitty kitty kitty hoping to hear

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some meowing

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instead i heard the voice of a human

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spirit say cat

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very distinct and clearly that night in

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bed we heard some creaks in the house

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but nothing like we had heard the night

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before the tilly pierce house is a

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beautiful

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quaint and historic place to visit the

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location is ideal and i truly believe it

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is haunted

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the spirits are just curious and i never

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felt afraid

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ouija board experience recently i've

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seen a lot of talk on here about ouija

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boards being bullcrap and bunk

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so i thought that i would share a story

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that to me at least refutes this

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honestly i suppose if i hadn't had the

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experience that i had that i would think

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they were just toys as well

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certainly in the time since this story

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happened nothing even close to it has

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ever happened again

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and i've tried multiple times with

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multiple people

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also i live with a serious skeptic my

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husband

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he has told me that he would never

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believe this story if he didn't know me

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so intimately

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and knows i wouldn't make it up and if

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the story hadn't been corroborated by

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other members of my family who are well

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beyond trustworthy

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so i do understand that some disbelief

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is going to come into play here

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all i can say is that all of the

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following is entirely true and you can

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either take my word or not

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so this happened when i was about 16

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i'm 38 now so that puts it about 1997 or

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it was new year's eve my parents had a

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party to go to and

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for some reason i can't remember right

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now i wasn't going out

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my older brother and his partner along

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with my oldest sister

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all decided to come over and stay in

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with me even at 16 my parents didn't

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care if i stayed home and got drunk with

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my much older brother and sister

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eight years and 13 years older than i

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so the four of us proceeded to get

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entirely drunk accompanied by a

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procession of mixed drinks and champagne

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we watched the ball drop on tv and did

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the usual new year's eve stuff

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but after a while we started to get

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bored and look for things to do

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we played some cards but after a while

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it got boring as well

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i suggested playing with the ouija board

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my friends and i had bought a ouija

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board to play with a few weeks earlier

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since my parents were the most liberal i

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was the one hanging onto it at my house

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we'd done a little messing around with

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it but the usual teenage bull crap and

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accusations of pushing the plunge head

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nothing had happened up until now being

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drunk and open-minded the other three

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agreed and we got out the board

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at first we contacted a spirit that

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claimed to be named naomi

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and my sister remembered my

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great-grandmother's middle name had been

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naomi

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she'd hated her first name and we

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chatted with the spirit for a while

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nothing momentous was said and certainly

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not anything that would make your hair

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stand on

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end my parents came in and we stopped

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playing while my brother had to help

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hall my drunken mother to bed

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after that my sister and my brother's

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partner were getting drowsy

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and both of them decided to crash for

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the night my brother and i

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however decided to stay up and keep

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playing around with the board for a

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it was nearly 3 am at this point at

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first we didn't get anything at all and

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we sort of stopped asking questions

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just talking with our hands resting on

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the plunge head then it began to move

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we asked who are you it answered eugene

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an unlikely name and we were still

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fairly drunk so we laughed at this quite

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a lot

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eugene seemed like a very nerdy and

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silly name for a ghost

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we asked why are you contacting us

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eugene

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we received the answer afraid that

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seemed a bit more serious

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we asked why are you afraid eugene i

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replied music

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music over and over nonsense then we got

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a series of numbers

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puzzling my brother had the bright idea

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to turn on the radio to station

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indicated by the numbers

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to our surprise there really was a

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station there the song

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don't leave me stranded by heart was

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playing the board immediately started

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saying

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heart heart heart i thought my brother

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was just playing off of what he was

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hearing and was screwing with me

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then it started saying don't go don't

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leave me

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don't go church church afraid

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don't go over and over and over

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reassured we weren't going to

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go but it dwindled into nonsense after a

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while it was getting really late

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early and we decided to go to bed the

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next morning which was nearer to

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afternoon we were having new year's day

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breakfast when the phone rang

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my dad answered it and went off into the

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bedroom to talk

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we were still eating when he came back

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out and said it was my grandmother on

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the phone

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apparently her brother eugene in arizona

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whom we weren't even aware of the

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existence of

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had had a heart attack the night before

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he had died multiple times on the table

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during the night and had to be revived

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we were stunned we told my dad the

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entire story and he was flabbergasted

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a day or two later my grandmother called

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again to update my dad

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and he told her the story she was

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stunned into silence

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she said that when eugene had regained

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consciousness the first thing he had

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said was that he was so afraid for his

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soul

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because he hadn't been to church in 20

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years and he wanted to go to church

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immediately and have a preacher come in

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it was almost as if we had been some

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sort of lifeline for him that night

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i myself i'm firmly agnostic i don't

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know what's out there

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but i do know because of this experience

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that there's something

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i've been fascinated by the paranormal

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home sweet haunted home orange

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california

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for the last 10 years i've lived in a

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house in old town orange california

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it started about eight years ago when my

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daughter was two years old

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she used to talk to an imaginary friend

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that she called tina

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at first i didn't think anything of it

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until i realized that tina never left

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from my experiences with that imaginary

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friend when i was little

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my imaginary friend went everywhere with

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me

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so i started to ask her questions and

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she told me that tina went swimming

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without her parents

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i didn't think this was something that a

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two-year-old would know something about

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i would hear her talking in her room and

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every time i would go in

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she would say that tina just left out

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the window as if tina didn't want me

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coming in the room

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one day she told me that tina had

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touched her face

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that was it i got my husband and he

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walked around the house and said tina go

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home from then on we never heard from

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tina again

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that's when all the shadow people

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started i would see them walk down the

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hallway and into the kitchen

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not ever looking at me as if i was never

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there

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friends would come over and say they

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thought they saw people standing in our

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hallway

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things would go missing all the time and

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then show up later in places that we had

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already looked etc

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one day this lady that i had never met

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before told me that i have portal in my

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hallway

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i don't know how this lady knew anything

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about anything going on in my house

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i had never met her before but in fact

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all the activity was in the hallway i

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was in a bad place in my life

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i was drinking a lot so i kind of

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thought that all of this had something

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to do with that

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but as things got better i noticed that

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the activity was still there

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i thought that this is all in my head

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because my husband would never admit to

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anything until it started messing with

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him

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at one point we were both awakened in

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the middle of the night to a strong

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smell of smoke

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when we both woke up out of a dead sleep

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to check it out it faded to cigarette

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smell

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then went away i watched a doll on the

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middle of my dresser and raise up and

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fall off

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that freaked me out things begin to slow

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down and didn't happen again for a

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couple years up until a few months ago

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as soon as we started discussing moving

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that's when the activity started again

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as if it doesn't want us to leave i have

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a doberman who would bark at corners and

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be scared to go into certain rooms

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totally out of his character static in

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the phone line started

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my husband freaked when he heard some

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sort of voice that we had never heard

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before

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it wasn't me and it wasn't him i don't

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know who was on the phone line with us

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but it didn't sound human currently we

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are looking to move not really because

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of the haunted house but for other

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reasons

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but it doesn't seem to want to let us go

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i must mention that never once have i

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completely felt threatened it's just

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very unnerving to live with this heather

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hot breath on my neck i was in my early

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twenties living with my mother back in

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los

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angeles california it was pretty late

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just about 3 am

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i remember the time clearly because back

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then most tv

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programming would go off air at that

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time with maybe one or two channels

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showing reruns

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but the major networks all did the

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national anthem and ended their

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broadcast day

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and then the station would go off i

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recall laying on the couch

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on my side facing the tv with one arm

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hanging off the edge of the couch on the

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floor

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and sensing a pressure in the room which

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literally made my ears pop

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suddenly the tv station went blank with

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no sign off

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and as i started to get up to reach for

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the remote control i realized i couldn't

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move

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suddenly the couch creaked from the

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weight of some unseen force

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and i was literally pressed into the

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couch i heard and felt hot breath on the

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right side of my neck

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and felt something like three fingered

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claws very thick grabbed the back of my

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neck

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i struggled but the weight of whatever

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was on top of me was too much

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and this entity was very powerful

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somehow i managed to get my left arm

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that was on the floor to force myself

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up while my right arm was still pinned

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underneath me

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as i forced myself up i remember saying

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the lord's prayer loudly

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our father who art in heaven and

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suddenly the pressure that was in the

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room vanished

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just as quickly as it had came like

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popping a balloon and i could hear the

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tv snowing in the background

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i got up but nothing was there and

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turned every light on in the room

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but what really spooked me was that the

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couch i was lying on was less than a

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week old

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and whatever forced me into it was so

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strong that two of the supports had

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actually cracked under the pressure

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after reading the story submitted by

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your reader i am certain that what she

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the well-dressed spirit i have been

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following your website for many years

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and i commend your commitment to share

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your knowledge and expertise and all

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that is paranormal and unusual

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but i do wish to remain anonymous as i

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wish to protect my children

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i have had many strange encounters of

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the paranormal sort over the years of

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which they are things i will disclose

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another time

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but i have had an encounter with what i

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believe is a spirit or something

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that not only i have seen but my son has

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seen over the years

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and recently now my daughter i wouldn't

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normally ask for assistance

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but this being has for the first time

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made physical contact with my 14 year

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old daughter

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i shall start at the beginning my

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husband and i and my son moved out of

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our old cottage because we basically

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outgrew it

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it was also haunted by an angry old man

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who didn't like us interfering with his

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house

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but we didn't mind he just threw a

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wobbly every now and again when we

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decorated

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we moved into an old three-bedroom 1958

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council house in november 1999.

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from the first moment i walked into the

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house i loved it the energy was amazing

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there was a lot of love in this house

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after investigation we discovered that

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the house was owned by a lovely couple

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who used to foster children

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as the couple got older and retired the

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wife eventually died of cancer

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in hospital i believe and the old fellow

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wanted to sell

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and move into a retirement home sadly he

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had a heart attack and died about

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a month after settling into his new home

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dot i would often hear movement

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downstairs late at night when everyone

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was in bed

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and the food cupboard in the kitchen

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would open it makes a distinctive squeak

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when opened

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i would often call out and ask who's

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scrumping in the cupboard for snacks

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but when i looked there's no one there

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after about a year or so i was walking

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across the hallway upstairs going into

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the spare room

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when out of the corner of my eye i saw

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something by the wall in my bedroom

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so i took a step back and there was a

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man about my height five foot eight

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he was wearing a black dinner suit his

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hair was dark

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short back and sides with the top of his

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head slipped back with a wax or pomade

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he reminded me of a type of james bond

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he wasn't menacing and i didn't have a

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bad feeling

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i was just startled he was just standing

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there with his back to the wall staring

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at me like it was perfectly normal to be

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there in my bedroom

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i thought he was smoking a cigarette too

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as he had something in his right hand

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i blinked and probably saw and he was

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gone

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this has happened before with other

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spirits so i guessed if he wanted

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something he'd be back dot a couple of

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years went by

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and i found out i was pregnant with my

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daughter so we made the sparrow my

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nursery and moved her son from the back

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bedroom into a bedroom

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and we moved into his room it wasn't

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long before my son who at this time was

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nearly seven

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said he woke up and saw a man standing

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in his room

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so i asked him what he looked like and

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he described the man as wearing a black

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coat in trousers and that he just stood

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and looked at him

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my son said he wasn't scared and went

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off to sleep

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about two years later he said he saw the

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man again dressed the same

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but this time at the end of his bed and

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it looked like he was trying to say

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something to him but when my son turned

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away he vanished

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several years later now and my son is in

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his teens

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he said he saw him again and this time

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he was sat on the end of the bed

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and again it looked like he was trying

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to say something to him

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then he vanished each time my son said

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he wasn't frightened at all

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he was just surprised he was there i

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just kept telling him it was his

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guardian angel or probably a deceased

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family member looking after him

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i discussed this with my mother who said

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she knew of no one that fit the

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description in the family

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now my son is 20 and he has left home

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we have never discussed this with my

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daughter my 14 year old daughter has now

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moved into my son's room

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and even though it's only been a couple

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of months now she has already seen this

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man three times in her room

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and she's scared she keeps hiding a

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knife under her pillow to protect her

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and i have to confiscate it with her

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active imagination she believes it to be

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this slender man character

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i have explained that this slender man

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is a made up internet phenomenon not

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real

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and that this man she sees has been in

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this house since we moved in

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way way before this internet creation i

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also told her not to be frightened

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and that she is to ask him to leave if

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she sees him again

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well last night she was so frightened

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she actually text me at 2 40 am

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from her mobile under her covers to tell

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me he was in her room

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she had told him to leave but he had

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touched her foot

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she said it felt icy cold and she hid

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under her duvet and eventually fell

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asleep

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i didn't see the message until the

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morning as my phone is on silent at

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night

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an assortment of quartz crystals dotted

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around her room

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which i convinced her would keep him

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away i hope for her sake it works even

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if it's a placebo effect

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i just wondered if you could shed any

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this is lon strickler if you like this

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it would help us if you would give it a

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then subscribe and click the bell icon

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