Grandfather Watching Over Me

From: Anonymous
Story type: Ghost
Location: friend's house
Source: Form Submission

This story took place about 6 years ago. I was 23 and in my first year of graduate school. Due to a heavy courseload and 2 part-time jobs, I didn't have much time to spare and not much of a social life. However, I had decided to take a much needed break and visit a life-long friend who had recently purchased the house that his grandparents has owned. I arrived at my friend's house around 5:30pm. He informed me that he needed to go help another friend move some belongings and would be gone for about 4 hours. He asked me if I wanted to go, but I declined in favor of a nap. After he left, I curled up on the end of his waterbed and went to sleep with his Dachsund close by my side. Roughly 2 and 1/2 hours later I was startled out of a deep sleep with the feeling that I was being observed. My back was to the door and the hallway and I remember feeling terrified of turning over to see what was there. To make matters worse, Petie, the Dachsund, was awake and staring at the door. I was afraid that someone had entered the open front door and I was about to become a statistic. Well, I screwed up my courage and turned my head. I was shocked to see the full outline of a man dressed in clothes from the forties staring back at me. Worst yet, he was sepia colored (the brownish-red of old photographs) and completely transparent! However, his very presence seemed to encourage me to relax and not worry about the open front door - like he would protect me. I rolled back over and continued my nap. It wasn't until I awoke for good around 10pm and went to fetch myself a snack that I realized the full extent of what had happened. I eagerly told my friend when he returned about the strange occurence. I described the ghostly man and my friend confirmed that it was his grandfather. Apparently, the grandfather had died at an early age and had been viewed in his ghostly state by my friend's grandmother as well as by my friend's brother's girlfriend. The Grandfather Ghost had never appeared to a man and had not frightened the women that he had appeared to. My friend and I agreed that I had been guarded from any intruders by this kindly old spirit!