Thursday, September 11, 2008

Do you believe in ghosts?

Ever since I was a young girl, I have been fascinated with ghost stories. I have watched many documentaries on haunted houses, and have read about many true ghost stories (I even have an interesting encyclopedia on haunted houses). But no matter how interested in the subject I was, nothing could prepare me for the frightening event I had experienced.
It all started when I was in my room just looking through my things. Then I found an old music jewelry box my great grandmother had given to me long ago. After I winded the box so it could play the music, it didn’t do anything. It was broken. I remember being very upset because my great grandmother had given it to me before she died. It hurt me to see a present and memory from her had died as well. So, I left the box alone and started to do something else. About 30 or 45 minutes later, out of nowhere, the music box started playing. The box only plays music when the lid is open, but the lid was shut and the music was twanging very slowly. After that, I ran out of my room.
I have always felt uncomfortable in my room, and I never understood why. It was always the coldest room in the house (which should’ve given me a hint), and I feel freaked out when I’m in there unless I have something noisy on, like the TV or the radio (maybe to unconsciously drown out the voices of the spirits in my room). There have been countless times when I have woken up in the middle of the night terrified, yet I don’t know why. There have also been times when I wake up on the couch instead of in my bed. That means I unconsciously woke up in the middle of the night and went to another room, possibly to escape something disturbing my sleep. And, now that I think about it, a friend of mine who claims to be slightly clairvoyant had mentioned she felt uncomfortable in my room as well.
Do you think I have a ghost in my room, or have I jumped to conclusions because I'm so interested in ghost stories?

2 comments:

A day in the life of an English Teacher said...

Hmmm interesting (and scary!) indeed! Ghosts is one of those things that I don't know if we'll ever know truly exist. But it's always curious to hear from those who've had encounters because it challenges our notion of reality.

Alex M. said...

Interesting. Idk, I've always been curious about ghosts and the afterlife. I have a friend whose claimed he had a few scary encounters with ghosts but who knows? Most of them occured when he was younger and I heard that little kids have a tendency to "hallucinate" according to my older brother. Hey, if it is a ghost, it could be the ghost of your great grandma.