The following is a former winner of the Amazing but Incredibly True Story Contest.
Copyright Muse Enterprises, 1996
My husband and I had moved into his sister's house for a few months. Once while we were sitting down having a cup of coffee, my sister-in-law started telling me stories about her cupboards opening and closing after she went to bed, nail polish being moved from the medicine cabinet to the kitchen cabinet, etc... After much talking we both felt tired. She decided to take a nap in her room and I went into mine and left my door open which was across the hall from her room. I then heard footsteps coming up the stairs. Thinking it was my sister-in-law, I looked out into the hallway only to see no one there. Then I noticed the door to her room was closing as she was laying on her bed. I got so scared I picked up my poodle, closed and locked my door and eventually fell asleep myself.
I was later awakened by my husband coming into my room. He told me that my door was open and the dog was at the top of the stairway barking and my sister-in-law was still sleeping. I told him that it couldn't be because I had closed and locked my door. We just looked at each other strangely.
That same day my husband was getting undressed while I was down in the kitchen. He had the door to the bedroom open and he heard footsteps coming up the stairs. Now, my husband doesn't believe in anything "supernatural." He looked out into the hallway and saw an image walk by very slowly and stop at his doorway. It looked at him. He said that he saw the body from the waist down actually turn. He said the image was of a white cloudy matter with a tint of orange around it. After it looked at him, it turned back and kept walking straight down the hallway. He followed it, but it disappeared. When he came down to the kitchen to tell me about it his skin was as white as a ghost.
The same evening that this happened my husband and I were sitting on the sofa watching tv very comfortably when all of a sudden I had this wierd feeling come over me. I paid no attention to it. I put my arm around my husband and he quickly put his shoulder down. I asked him why he did that and he said it was like I had put a 40 pound weight on his shoulder. Then he started explaining to me afterwards that I got up without knowing what I was doing or saying, looked at him in a very strange way and said, "I'm going outside and have to get hit by a car."
I finally came to my senses not knowing I had done this and all of a sudden felt very light again, whereas before all this happened I had actually felt like something had actually come into my body, there was a heavy feeling inside. We went to bed and I decided the next morning to call this Reverend I had been in contact with, and he said he would come over to my house and check things out. We walked all around the house together and as we walked up the stairs into the hallway, he felt a coolness and a breeze coming from the bathroom which was located across the hall from our bedroom. He went into the bathroom and asked if there was anything behind the linen closet. I said, "Not that I know of". He still wanted to see if there was anything there because he said that it was the coldest place and he was feeling that something was there. I took out all the towels, blankets, etc...and found a hatchway in the back that opened up. As he opened it up, looking at us both was a statue of the Virgin Mary. I asked my sister-in-law if she had put that there but she said that she never even knew that hatchway was in the closet.
This Reverend sat at my table, said some chants and said that we had three ghosts living in the house with us. He told me to get our children out of the house for at least a month, which I did (I took them to my mother's) and then he proceeded to go into my bedroom and light a religious candle . He told me that whatever I did, I should not let that candle blow out. It had to be lit for seven days and by the time the seventh day came around, the candle burned out on it's own. As soon as that happened, we had no more problems with ghosts bothering us.
I did do some checking on my own though and found out that the house we lived in was on a buriel ground dated years ago. Needless to say, my husband and our family all moved out as well as my brother and sister-in-law.
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