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- From: s1400070@nickel.laurentian.ca
- Subject: FOOTSTEPS AT NIGHT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.181628.1@nickel.laurentian.ca>
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- Organization: Laurentian University
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:16:28 GMT
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- Here is an account of a strange thing that happened to my girlfriend and
- myself. I guess I should start off with some background on the situation.
- My parents recently added on a large sun room just off the living room of their
- house. Since that time,(about three years ago) I have heard strange noises
- coming from this room - mostly the sound of footsteps and usually at about
- midnight. I have told my parents and a few others about these noises and they
- thought that I was going crazy. My girlfriend didn't believe me either until
- something happened recently.
- It turns out that my girlfriend and I had just gotten back from the late
- show and it was about 12:15. We walked into the sun room amd sat on the
- couch that is in there and we were discussing the movie we had just seen. We
- were sitting at opposite ends of this large couch and all of a sudden I heard
- the voice of a young child speaking. The voice was coming from just over her
- shoulder but there wasw nothing there. My girlfriend and I were incredibly
- frightened and we froze. It was all we could do just to breathe. The babbling
- child was there. He was there and we could hear him as plain as day. Suddenly,
- the voice broke into song. The kind of song that a five year old may sing, it
- was a haphazzard combination of a few words and some humming. As the song
- began, the place where it was coming from began to change. It was coming
- towards me, and I could hear the footsteps appraoching above the sound of
- the music. The voice stopped right in front of me and then vanished. We
- couldn't believe it but we confirmed with each other what had just happened.
- Needless to say, my girlfriend grabbed her coat, got in her car and left right
- away. The next day, I went outside the house to see if anyone was in the
- backyard that night. I thought that there had to be some way of explaining
- this. There was snow on the ground but there was no footsteps in it.
- Well, at times, I still hear footsteps coming from the empty room at
- night, but I'm used to it. The room is just off the living room which was
- where my grandfather had a massive stroke and met his instant death. I wonder,
- could this be a ghost of my grandfather? Why was the voice that of a small
- child??
- John
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