VIRGINIA HAUNTING Catie, New Orleans
This happened to me in my house in Virginia when I was 16 yrs. old. My Mom and sister and I had been living in this house for 2 years before I had this encounter. I later found out that my Mom had had previous experiences in the house, but didn't want to scare my sister and me, so she never said anything until I told her what had happened to me. Incidentally, my sister never experienced the ghost and is terrified by the whole thing. My encounter happened one night while my Mom was away on a business trip. My grandmother was staying with us, sleeping in my mothers room. I had gotten up to use the bathroom, and from where I was seated I could see the stairs going down to the first level. As I was looking, I noticed there was a woman walking down the stairs to the living room. I was confused because I didn't recognise her. She looked pretty normal; white night-gown type thing and long, dark hair hanging in a braid down her back. I continued to stare and as she turned on the landing to continue down stairs, she turned and looked at me. She paused for a moment, looked kind of puzzled, and continued to descend the staircase until she turned a corner to where I could no longer see her. Well, I had finished my business and got up to go back to bed. In my mind, I really didn't think too much about this encounter (I suppose my mind explained that it was either my sister or grandmother, although the figure looked like neither one) Just then I heard the toilet flush in my mother's bathroom where my grandmother was. I looked in my sisters room as I passed, she was fast asleep. I continued on to bed. I didn't mention this to anyone until my Mom came home from her trip. We were talking and I said to her, "you know, when you were gone I had the strangest thing happen". She immediately looked up at me and said, "oh, did she have long dark hair?". It was then that I knew I'd seen something! We started talking about it and Mother said that not long after we had moved into the house she was talking on the phone late one night lying in bed. She looked up to find a woman standing next to her bed leaning in a little staring at my mother! Well, she thought it was me and said to the person on the phone, "hold on a minute," then said to the figure, "what is it? What do you want? At that point she said the woman looked startled and disappeared. These were not the only encounters in this house with this spirit. Over the past 20 years we have owned this house, not only have I had additional encounters, but my mother, my stepfather, and recently my cousin and her daughter who now rent and live in the house. I've told them about this site and asked them to please submit their stories. One more encounter with this ghost and then I'll close. I was in college now, and home visiting. I was down in the basement folding laundry when I heard a noise behind me and felt a presence. I turned around to find a figure that looked very much like my mother standing in the doorway. She looked right at me and said, now this was the strange part, WITH HER MIND (no lips moved) "what are you doing?" I answered her back the same way WITH MY MIND (I did not know this was possible) "what does it look like? I'm folding laundry." She seemed satisfied and turned away, disappeared from my sight. Just then, I could hear someone coming down the stairs from the upper level. It was my mother calling for me to come up and eat dinner. She had been in the kitchen the whole time preparing our meal . . . .
This happened to me in my house in Virginia when I was 16 yrs. old. My Mom and sister and I had been living in this house for 2 years before I had this encounter. I later found out that my Mom had had previous experiences in the house, but didn't want to scare my sister and me, so she never said anything until I told her what had happened to me. Incidentally, my sister never experienced the ghost and is terrified by the whole thing. My encounter happened one night while my Mom was away on a business trip. My grandmother was staying with us, sleeping in my mothers room. I had gotten up to use the bathroom, and from where I was seated I could see the stairs going down to the first level. As I was looking, I noticed there was a woman walking down the stairs to the living room. I was confused because I didn't recognise her. She looked pretty normal; white night-gown type thing and long, dark hair hanging in a braid down her back. I continued to stare and as she turned on the landing to continue down stairs, she turned and looked at me. She paused for a moment, looked kind of puzzled, and continued to descend the staircase until she turned a corner to where I could no longer see her. Well, I had finished my business and got up to go back to bed. In my mind, I really didn't think too much about this encounter (I suppose my mind explained that it was either my sister or grandmother, although the figure looked like neither one) Just then I heard the toilet flush in my mother's bathroom where my grandmother was. I looked in my sisters room as I passed, she was fast asleep. I continued on to bed. I didn't mention this to anyone until my Mom came home from her trip. We were talking and I said to her, "you know, when you were gone I had the strangest thing happen". She immediately looked up at me and said, "oh, did she have long dark hair?". It was then that I knew I'd seen something! We started talking about it and Mother said that not long after we had moved into the house she was talking on the phone late one night lying in bed. She looked up to find a woman standing next to her bed leaning in a little staring at my mother! Well, she thought it was me and said to the person on the phone, "hold on a minute," then said to the figure, "what is it? What do you want? At that point she said the woman looked startled and disappeared. These were not the only encounters in this house with this spirit. Over the past 20 years we have owned this house, not only have I had additional encounters, but my mother, my stepfather, and recently my cousin and her daughter who now rent and live in the house. I've told them about this site and asked them to please submit their stories. One more encounter with this ghost and then I'll close. I was in college now, and home visiting. I was down in the basement folding laundry when I heard a noise behind me and felt a presence. I turned around to find a figure that looked very much like my mother standing in the doorway. She looked right at me and said, now this was the strange part, WITH HER MIND (no lips moved) "what are you doing?" I answered her back the same way WITH MY MIND (I did not know this was possible) "what does it look like? I'm folding laundry." She seemed satisfied and turned away, disappeared from my sight. Just then, I could hear someone coming down the stairs from the upper level. It was my mother calling for me to come up and eat dinner. She had been in the kitchen the whole time preparing our meal . . . .
