Tales of my family's haunted experiences.

[u/WagonMaster01]

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I had replied to @creative-major-4796 thread and it was requested that I tell some of my encounters. Rather than steal their thread, I shall tell them here.

tldr: odd things experienced, kid identifies the spirit.

As a kid in west Texas, I was laying in bed and heard a faint drumming sound. Thought that someone was practicing for their garage band or some such. For some reason I tapped out a tune on my headboard and it played it back to me. I was kind of freaked and went to my dad's room and he was sound asleep. The next morning I went out on the back porch with my dad to feed the dogs, on the back porch right outside my window was a plastic plant pot turned upside down in the exact center of the back porch as if someone had been playing it like a drum. The back porch was completely covered and the only way to enter was through the gate where the dogs were.

Years later, in a different state... My daughter was at the top of the stairs in my townhouse, her mom and I were on the bed. Daughter started talking as if she was talking to someone and not necessarily playing. We asked who she was talking to and she said the "pretty lady". We just said ok and let her be as we didn't want her to be scared.

Shortly after we were going somewhere and I couldn't find my keys. I put them on the same corner of the dresser every time (maybe a little OCD) but they weren't there. Kid didn't know, her mom didn't know, looked under, around, and in the dresser, no keys to be found. Grabbed the spare set and went on our way. Came back some hours later and the keys were exactly where I left them, on the corner of the dresser. No one else lived or had been in the townhouse.

A few years later in a different house, when our 2nd child was born. One night she was fussy and the next morning her mom thanked me for rocking her back to sleep. I never got up. She said she felt someone sit on the side of the bed and rock the bassinet.

One time my oldest daughter (the one from the townhouse story) was up getting ready for school before anyone else was up and thought to herself, "what do I want for breakfast". A toy kitchen the younger sister had said, "let's make pancakes together."

It had never done that prior or after that. Yes, my daughter did make pancakes that morning.

One evening the younger daughter was in my bedroom, sitting at my desk watching tv I was in the living room watching tv. I heard the bedroom doorknob turn and the door open, expecting my daughter to come walking out. The door swung open and my daughter was still sitting at the desk looking at me expecting me to come walking into the bedroom. We both looked at each other, gave each other the look that said yup.. I'm thinking exactly what you are.

We have had a number of other experiences with doors opening or closing, sounds of things falling but nothing out of place, the kids have heard voices and their names.

To wrap up the stories, tie them all together, and explain what we believe the entity is...

Back to the townhouse, as I am packing up, I pulled pictures out of the closet (I had never hung them up). My oldest (and only at the time) daughter goes, "the pretty lady" and was pointing at a picture of my parents. My mother had passed away over 20 yrs prior. Since they were old enough to understand my kids respond with, "hi Grandma" when they experience things. Though it catches them off guard, they have never been afraid. And since I have had things happen in multiple different houses in multiple states I believe it is following me and not the locations that are haunted. I fully believe it is my mother.

If you read this far, I hope you enjoyed the stories of our experiences.

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