The Basement
by anonymous

I don't believe in ghosts, aliens, or angels either. But I do believe that what happened to me was real. I will tell it as it happened, and you can decide what you think it really was. As a child, I saw things and had dreams that most people usually do not experience. But at this time that is not important. Because after seeing a shrink or two, I saw these things no more-- until a year or two later..... which brings us to the night of the first of three unbelievable events that I can remember happening to me. This is all true!

It was past midnight, and I was supposed to be asleep. (Remember, at this time I was only ten or eleven.)

Then something woke me up. It wasn't a rude awakening--I don't think it cared for me to be awake. In other words..... I was sweating and aware that something was in the room with me.... but not sitting up.

Then I slowly looked up..... and saw a very dark shadow.... darker even than the night. The moonlight was shining in through the two windows--so everything was dimly illuminated.

By the way.... I was on a bunk bed and my brother was on the lower part...... still sleeping.

What I saw was a small shadow figure. It was sitting at the edge of my bed.

Then it turned and looked at me...... but it had no face..... I was too scared and dumbfounded to scream or move. So I sat there and looked at it for a second..... and then it turned and jumped off my bed but made no sound as it hit the floor.

That was when I screamed bloody murder.... and slept in my parents room for the rest of the night.

Since then, two more not so usual events occured.

I will only describe this as a playfull type of trick.... involving a keyboard playing downstairs in the basement. When we went to turn it off..... it already was!

At this time--being that there were multiple witnesses--a special clearing was done on the house. This proved to be quite effective.... as no events have occured in our house since.

But one more crazy thing did happen. The important thing to note on this one is that it happened outside.... not inside the house.

I will start out by saying that I had only two friends at the time. One was in another state..... the other had no reason to lie when he told me he was in the house the whole night.

Well anyways..... across the street I heard someone calling my name..... at first only whispering. Finally they were talking loud enough that I went to the window.

I saw someone out there.... but I did not recognize them whatsoever. They were my age.

Being me I went to the door and was ready to go outside and see what the hell they wanted...... but before I was able to open the door my parents came out and made me go back to sleep.