June 23, 2008
Dad's Home Early
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Cheryl Sheridan, Pontiac, Michigan, February 22, 1985
My first encounter with the supernatural occurred when I was 14. It was
around 12:00 AM. I was lying in bed when my step mom came in to tell me that
my oldest sister had delivered my twin nieces. I was of course very excited
and was unable to fall asleep. At the time, my dad worked the afternoon
shift at GM. About a 1/2 hour later, I heard what I thought was my dad come
in the door from the garage. I heard the kitchen light get turned on. Then
the hallway light was turned on. I heard the bathroom door open and
footsteps going into the bathroom. Someone turned the bathroom light on,
then turned it off along with the hallway light. After that, I didn't hear
anything else. I of course assumed it was my dad getting home earlier than
usual. However about another half hour later (around the time my dad would
usually get home), I heard him come in from the garage. He turned on the
kitchen light then turned it off again and went to bed. The next morning I
ask my stepmother if she had gotten back up after coming in to tell about my
nieces and she said no. She had went right back to bed and had fallen asleep
quickly. To this day I still cannot explain what I heard that night.
I remember that night so vividly, I can still picture the lights turning on
and the sound of the footsteps. Other weird stuff would happen around the
house, however nothing as vivid as that occasion. My stepmother and myself
would hear footsteps upstairs, when we were down stairs watching TV. Of
course no one would be home but us at the time. I had heard that my
subdivision was built on what used to be Indian tribal land, but was never
able to confirm it. Not sure where I would even start looking, but I would
love to do some investigation on the area.
