By Julie Achterhoff
When I was a
little girl of five or six I went travelling with my family in our travel
trailer all around the southwest, including an Indian reservation in Taos. It
was in a trailer park where my younger sister and I met a slightly older boy
whom we made friends with at the playground.
The boy’s name
evades me now, but he ended up inviting us to his trailer to “see something
neat.” We followed him to his trailer, which was empty. I don’t know where his
parents were, but I remember wondering why a boy his age was alone.
We sat in his
living area for a bit when he told us to come look at his bathroom. We followed
him in, and saw a regular, small trailer bathroom with a roll of toilet paper
on the back of the toilet and a bathtub, along with a sink. Everything looked
pretty normal. Then he told us to go back in the other room, which we did.
Then he told us
to come back and look in the bathroom again. We did as he said, following him
back into the bathroom, wondering why in the world he wanted to show it to us
again. Well, the truth of the matter became clear as soon as I turned the
corner and peeked into the bathroom once more.
Where there had
once been a plain old roll of toilet paper on the back of the toilet was now
the disembodied head of a real live ghost! I could see the face and also right
through it. And in the bathtub was a full-bodied ghost! They looked just like
the ghostly apparitions you see at the Haunted House at Disneyland. I don’t
remember if they moved or not, but I sure did. I and my sister ran back out to
the living area of the boy’s trailer as fast as we could. I looked back to see
if the boy was coming out, too. That’s when I heard a strange moaning sound. I
was terrified. But I couldn’t leave when the boy was still in there.
Moments later he
came running out with what looked like white cream of some kind all over his
face, and finger trail marks in it. He ran screaming out of the bathroom and
straight out of the trailer, never to be seen or heard of by me again. My
sister and I ran out, too, all the way back to our own trailer.
I remember
trying to tell my mother about what had happened. I was very young, so she
didn’t take me seriously, just telling me there was no such thing as ghosts.
This story has stayed with me throughout my life. Sometimes I think there
really were ghosts in that boy’s trailer; other times I think maybe his parents
worked for Disney and had this trick set up in their trailer. I guess I’ll
never know.
Have you ever seen a real life ghost, or know of someone who has?
Author of Quantum Earth, Deadly Lucidity, Native Vengeance, and
Earthwalker- Earth can be Hell for a VAMPIRE.
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Yes and Yes. We had some weird things happen in the house i grew up in.
ReplyDeleteThat would freak anyone out!
ReplyDeleteI believe I have seen something but it happened so quickly I can't be sure. I had a flat in a converted church and always used to get that prickly cold feeling. One day while brushing my hair in the mirror I saw someone standing behind me, I whipped around and there was nothing there, turned back to the mirror, nothing. Scared the pants off me it did. I moved shortly after because there was an unexplainable stench throughout the whole flat, had people in checking the drains and everything - got so overpowering and with the mirror experience too - I was outta there.
The house I live in now I believe is haunted, I always feel like there is 'something' in our hallway. I went to one of those shows that has mediums set up for the day and she told me my house was haunted. She told me I felt a presence in one particular area of the house and she thought it was maybe the hallway/stairs area (yep!) She said it was a previous owner of the house who simply didn't know that they were supposed to move on. Her name is Ivy. Now I don't know if it's true - I do know how I feel. I do know I'm not scared like in my previous experience so believe whatever it is isn't trying to scare us. We've had a few occassions where stuff has gone missing, just dissapeared and after a while we say 'Ok Ivy, enough now can you give it back please?' And within half hour we will find the item in plain view :)