Encounters with the Other Side

Name:            Antonia R.
Email:           Annierarivas@netscape.net
Location:        My home in Queens, New York
Type:            Ghost
Date:            Thursday, September 21, 2000
Time:            10:59 AM

This all began when I was 11 and till this day it still is happening to me (I'm 19). It all started when my family and I moved into a house a few blocks from our recent home. I always felt as if someone was always watching me once the sun went down. During the sun-light hours of the day a woman would always seem to be calling my name and of course I would answer thinking it was my mom. The door to my room would always slam with such force that my mother would have to call my father to the door open to get me out to the room. It always happend even if the window was closed. The door to the apartment would open by itself even when the chain was on the door.

Though weird things like that would happen I wasn't scared until we moved into our recent home. I remember my mom giving me a tour of the new house. When she took me to the basement door I became overwhemled with fear.

Thoughout the time when we were fixing up the house I was with my brother and father taking out some tools to start installing a new sink we heard a woman's voice yell "Welcome" in spanish. The voice came from upstairs when we checked no one was there and my mother was at the store at the time.

I also remember doing the dishes one afternoon and I saw a tall man with a navy suit on walking pass me and into my grandma's room. My mother says she saw a woman coming out from the basement door.

Another time she saw two children (girl and boy)looking up from the basement. Though I never saw the woman (I've only heard her) the children seem to be intrested in television and lamp that I have in my room they turn it on when I leave the room or if I'm combing my hair they turn it on. In the night you can hear them in my room "touching" the televison stall. Now they have "the habit" or calling my name in the night and giggle.

My family and I have been living with these ghost for a long time. They just seem to mind their own business they come in contact with us every now and then (expect the children that ranges for 3 to 5 nights a week!!) My mother and I have researched the house's history and to our understanding there was a family who lived there in the early 60's or 70's and the man killed himself, the woman was sick for a long time and died in the house as for the two children their identity remain a mystery. There is more to this story if your intrested e-mail me at Annierarivas@nestcape.net