Added October 4, 2002
Father Ghost
Rate this encounter:
Cheryl, Somerset West, Cape Town, South Africa,
2000 cheryl_harvey@hotmail.com
My friends and I went through a stage where we would hang out a lot at
one girl's house. She, her mom, and older brother had lived there since
before she was even born -- her father had bought the house, and had
died a couple of month before my friend, Tracey, was born.
She was always telling us stories about the house being haunted by the ghost
of her father, but I never really believed her. Of course, the house did
freak me out a bit -- I didn't like being alone in any of the rooms,
especially if it was nighttime.
One night I was sleeping over -- we were all in the TV room and it was late
at night. I needed to go to the bathroom, which was through the kitchen,
down the passage and at the far end of the house. All of the lights were
off and the doors between the kitchen, passage, and lounge were closed,
because her mother was sleeping. The light for the kitchen was at the
door leading to the passage, so I had to walk through the dark kitchen
to get to the light switch.
When I went into the passage, I closed the kitchen door and hurried down the
pitch black passage (all the bedroom doors along it were closed), and
went into the toilet.
When I came out, I was walking down the passage back to the kitchen, when I
suddenly felt and "heard" something rush over my head and down the
passage. I didn't really see it with my eyes, but it felt very black and
kind of shapeless. Of course I freaked out and rushed into the kitchen
and into the lounge. My friend said to me that it was probably her
father saying hello.... some hello!
Other friends have also had weird experiences in that house -- hearing the
kitchen chairs moving around when they know they're the only ones there
and that kind of thing.
