This is a story about my little brother and his encounter with spirits. About 5 years ago we lived in a house with a red door in the north part of town. Lots of things always happened there starting on the first day we moved in. One morning my brother was coming out of the bathroom when he saw a little girl walking to our kitchen. He thought it was my little sister’s friend and asked her if she was hungry. She didn’t answer and just disappeared. He didn’t think anything of it and turned around to go to his room. As he passed my bedroom he saw a smaller girl in a white long gown sitting criss-cross on her legs praying. He thought it was my little sister and asked her what she was doing. She didn’t respond but after saying her prayer she disappeared. He told us but no one believed him until we all had our own experiences. Another story is when my little sister saw a spirit of a friend but he wasn’t dead. Everyone was asleep except her. She was walking to my mom and dads room when she thought she saw our neighbor with a football in his hand running to the kitchen and out the back door. She said hi and he looked at her and smiled. When she told us this we knew it couldn’t be true because he was in Louisiana visiting family. We think he was his spirit protecting her b/c he loved her so much. I have also had experiences such as hearing loud noises in our attic early in the morning. The only thing is only I heard it. My grandfather has also said that he would hear people on the roof in the middle of the night when everyone else is asleep. Everyone who has ever stayed there has heard something or seen something. We moved out after two years but not because of the ghosts. Since we still talk to our neighbors we have learned that no family has stayed in that house for long.

Nadine, Odessa, Texas