Unexplained Occurences

From: Jerry (jerraine_2000@yahoo.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: At work Otisville NY
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Thu Aug  5 17:18:31 2010

Back around 1999 or 2000 I was working in a group home of disabled adult men. It was a very pleasant work environment, a large one story added on ranch style house. I worked there about 5yrs but these occurrences happened more in the later two, before that we had two different people claim they each saw a curly haired boy in the corner of their eye for a second then when they looked towards him he was gone. these happened at different times and there was no such child in the house.

My first occurrence was during the evening bath time. I was assisting the guys one at a time while my house Director stayed in the living room watching TV with everyone else. The guy I was assisting had cerebral palsy so I usually had him sit on a bather board in the tub to shave him. I was sitting in the edge of the tub, the Vanity was on my left and a window with metal blind a curtain was straight ahead. I opened the shampoo lid earlier and purposely sat it flat on the vanity near the back. We were in the midst of shaving when I caught something in me peripheral vision fly from behind me across the room, smack into the window curtain so hard it "banged" on the blind behind it, then it fell to the floor and sort of bounced and wiggle to the middle of the floor-it was the shampoo lid!

There was no way it happened naturally because it was sitting securely on the counter behind other things and on my left. I got up and looked out in the hall, etc, everyone else was out watching tv and noone had come near the bathroom!

The other incident was another time I was in the hallway off the kitchen folding laundry, approx 40 min before my relief came in at midnight. All of the men were in bed sleeping at the other end of the house. I distinctly heard scuffing foot steps in the kitchen (I should add we had a resident pass away prior that walked just like that. he died in the house). My first thought was my relief was early, so I went to the kitchen and noone was there. all the guys were asleep in bed upon checking. So I went back to the laundry. A few minutes later I distinctly heard a heavy sounding zipper sound coming from the kitchen, like a leather pocketbook. Again I thought she must be here early, went to the kitchen again and noone was there, all was as before.