Fireplace Flying

Name:            Lori M.
Email:           butterfly7_usa@yahoo.com
Location:        My home
Type:            Ghost
Date:            Monday, August 07, 2000
Time:            03:00 PM

I don't know if you would consider this a ghost story but I don't know what else to call it. And I hope no one out there thinks I'm a nut case...

From the time I was born until I was 8, I lived in the same house. I'm not sure how old I was the first time this happened - probably around 3 and it happened at least every so often for a couple of years.

We had this huge living room with fireplace in the middle of the room. All four sides were open and it had a jagged ledge on it.. My mom constantly worried about me running around and hitting my head or scraping my leg on the jagged rock edge. I'm telling you this because of this my mom didn't really like me standing on the ledge and running around it etc. My mom would continually find me on the ledge and I would get in trouble for it. But what she didn't know was why I loved that ledge so much. I know this sounds insane but when no one else was around, something would lift me up off that ledge and I would fly around the room. We had vaulted ceiling in there and I would float up there and change the speed of the fans and my parent couldn't figure out why the speeds kept changing. I would jump up on that ledge and say "Look mommy I can fly - watch" I would jump off and of course nothing would happen when she or anyone else was around. She just thought I was pretending. I know that this could've been a dream but if that's the case then it was a reoccurring one. But I can remember times that my parents would find my stuffed animals and blankets in the hall leading to the living room and on and by the fire place. We even have pictures of me as a child sitting on that ledge and I looked so happy. My mom always said that I loved that fireplace and she just couldn't keep me off it. I don't remember any force or strange being or ghost being there during these occurrences. But I loved that fireplace....very strange, huh?