Volume 3: Ghost Stories from Texas (Joe Kwon's True Ghost Stories from Around the World) (20 page)

Touched

Uvalde, Texas 

I'm originally from Houston and recently moved to Uvalde for a new job. I moved into a new apartment with a roommate who would be starting the same day I would. Well my friend was originally from New Jersey and would go home on weekends to visit his family. We had been working our new job for about two months when my roommate decided to go home for a four-day weekend. For most of that weekend I spent just hanging out with my good friend Guz (pronounced Goose), and got home early. I got sleepy and went to sleep around ten.

The first thing I remember about this night is that I was dreaming and woke up because I felt a presence standing next to me. The first thing that went through my head was that one of those crazies must have gotten in and if this gets ugly, I might have to put some hands on him!

At that very moment a hand brushed my cheek. I knew nothing was there; my eyes were already adjusting to the darkness.

I was a bit freaked out, but sleepy too. So, I brushed it off and told myself I'd make sense of it in the morning.

I woke up again, this time I felt like I was paralyzed. I couldn't move and felt a pressure on my chest. I was in shock at what was happening. I was able to look at my chest because my head was on a pillow and I forced myself to look at the area where I felt the pressure. It felt like what ever the pressure was trying to get inside me. When I looked at my chest I could see a blurry mass on top of me. At that moment I did what anyone else would do. I asked the man upstairs for help. At that exact moment I was let go and was able to get up and turn on the lights. I looked at my digital watch that I would keep under my pillow. It was three o'clock. I called Guz and told him what had just happened. He told me he thought it was best I spend the night at his place. I told him that even though I was freaked out a little, I would stay. I didn't want it to think I was scared. So I went to sleep and stuck it out. I kept the lights on.

Don't Fear the Reaper

Borger, Texas

My parents were divorced and Daddy lived in Borger, Texas. When I was 13 and would spend the summers with there with my brother. He had a mobile home. My room was in the middle, my brother's room was at the back end, and there was a bathroom in between our rooms.

Daddy was always working and came in very late. My brother was working at a Mexican restaurant. I was home alone on the 4th of July. It was dark, and I didn't have any fireworks, so I stood in the hall window and watched the boys across the alley pop theirs.

My bedroom door was behind me, and my brother's room was to the left of me. I loved to listen to Blue Oyster Cult, Don't fear the Reaper was the one song that I had liked the most. I went in his room to play that song. The second that song started, my bedroom door and the bathroom door both slammed shut at the same time very hard. I blacked out!

I came to when my brother hollered my name. He said that I was sitting in the corner of his bed with the Bible to my chest, frozen. To this day I have no idea how long I was in a trance. We found out not long after that, that the girl my brother was dating worshipped the devil. She got the boot!

Daddy sold the trailer years later. He still stays there, about a week out of every month, in a camper. Lots of things went on, but that was the only thing that happened to me. My brother is the one that saw and had the most experiences. There is a small town right outside of Borger called Plemons. Charles Manson’s clan was there.

Ever heard of Helter Skelter? He intends to go back there when he gets out of prison. An oil Company bought all of the land that Plemons is on, then took the town down, but the spirits still remain. That is where that old girlfriend of my brother would go.

Creepy huh? It's the truth, though.

Haunted House

Houston, Texas

My husband, our ten-year old daughter, and I moved into a new house in 1979. Several strange things happened during the 18 years we lived there. My daughter would hear someone knocking on her bedroom door when I would be downstairs in my bedroom with the door closed watching TV. She would hear me calling her name when I wasn't even home.

Frequently, when my sister (same age as my daughter) would spend the night and my husband and I would be out for the evening, they would hear voices, and various noises that scared them to death.

I was home alone one night watching TV with my bedroom door closed, and saw a black shadow moving across the wall in my dressing area.

I was so frightened that I jumped out my window and ran to the neighbor's house.

The police came and searched but nothing unusual was found.

My mother stayed with us for a while and slept in the upstairs bedroom where my daughter used to sleep. She said that one night after she went to bed and had turned the lights out that it felt like someone had laid down on the bed beside her. She actually felt the pressure of the bed moving. She slept with the lights on and went home right afterwards.

Another incident occurred during a Christmas party after everyone had gone home. My father had fallen asleep on the living room sofa. I went to check on him and found him asleep with his mouth open. His lips were not moving, but words were coming from his mouth. He kept saying over and over (but NOT in HIS voice, it was a strange, tiny voice) help me, please help me, help me... I ran to get my mother and husband and we had enough snap to record this phenomenon. It was so scary that we woke him up and told him what was going on. He thought we were crazy until we played the tape back for him. Unfortunately, that tape has disappeared.

My husband never believed in things that go bump in the night, but one morning as he was shaving in the bathroom, he said that while looking in the bathroom mirror, all of a sudden it was not his face looking back at him.

That scared him of course.

Many more strange things happened in that house. My family was always afraid in that house. We no longer live there.

Someone Else...

San Antonio, Texas

This story takes place a long time ago at my grandma's house.

A bunch of my friends and I were playing outside when we decided to play Hide and Go Seek. There were a lot of us so we decided to have two people find everyone else.

We played in a big field that was between my grandma's house and the neighbor's house.

My best friend and I were looking for everyone and across the field we saw a white figure that looked like a kid run behind a rock and hide.

We both laughed and started running towards the rock. We reached the rock I yelled, "Found you!" But there was no one there.
My friend and I got really freaked out, and yelled for everyone to come out of their hiding spots. We asked them who hid behind the rock and they all said no one.

When I saw them come out from their hiding spots, they were all hiding on the opposite side of the field, so I believed them.

We kept playing, but for the rest of the night we never saw the white figure anymore. However, my friend and I are still really freaked out by what happened.

Ghost at The Foot of My Bed

Houston, Texas

So this all happened a couple years ago. My niece was about 7. She was accidentally shot by her little brother when they were playing with guns. When her little brother pulled the trigger, he didn't realize the gun was loaded and he shot her in the head and it killed her. Devastating...

So a few nights after she died, I randomly woke up in the middle of the night to find the Disney Channel was on my TV, and I don't go to sleep with the TV on. I then looked down at the end of my bed and saw a young girl watching the TV. I just thought it was my daughter, about 8 years old at the time. So, I didn't think anything of it. I just shut my eyes and tried to go back to sleep. Then for some reason, I opened my eyes a few seconds later and looked to my side and there was my daughter asleep! So at the foot of my bed was NOT my daughter, so I watched the little girl, and all of a sudden she quickly stood up vanished at the doorway.

I strongly believe it was my niece's ghost.

Blink

Houston, Texas

When I was just a little boy of about 6 years old, I experienced something very weird.

I was in my room at about 8:30 at night. It was already time for me to go to bed but I was not tired. I decided to stand by my window and listen to the frogs and the crickets as I waited for sleepiness to come. After a good 3 minutes of standing there, something odd happened instantaneously. I blinked, and when I opened my eyes, it was 9:30 in the morning. The sun was out and people were walking their dogs outside. It was Saturday so my parents were not up yet. I was still standing by my window, and I had not fallen asleep. It was as if 13 hours had never even happened, because I was not fatigued from standing, and my legs were still good for another 10 minute standing.

I have no idea how this happened, and I still occasionally look at my clock to find it a different time than it should be, but not on such a large scale as that.

If anyone has any insight on this phenomenon, or if similar has happened to you before, please let me know. This really is not meant as a scary story, simply to get some closure. I do suspect that a spiritual entity is involved, for I have had contact with "them" for many years in my life. Please post a comment if you have an idea of what happened, and if you were expecting a scarier story, I may post some more of my experiences.