Volume 3: Ghost Stories from Texas (Joe Kwon's True Ghost Stories from Around the World) (28 page)

iPod

Oglesby, Texas

It was basketball season, and I was taking shot charts and listening to my iPod. After the game ended I went home.
As I was laying in bed trying to go to sleep, I remembered that I left my iPod in the bleachers at school. But to make absolutely sure, I tore the whole house apart looking for it.

I never found it, but I had a feeling that everything was going to be okay, so I feel asleep.

When I woke up in the morning and got ready, there was just something telling me that everything was okay. I believed the feeling, and went to school.

The first place I went to was the office and asked if anyone had found an iPod. She said no. So I went to the janitors. Same answer.

So when it was time for first period, I was crying and freaking out. My iPod had information on it that could be used in identity theft.

By this point it was all over school. By the end of the day, when the last bell rang, I went and looked in my mom's car, under the seats and everything. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

I lost all hope and started setting money aside so I could buy a new one. So just to look one more time, I looked in my living room in every nook and cranny, and nothing.
So I turned on the TV and me and my mom where watching some show, when she said she was going to take a shower and went up stairs. Suddenly feeling really tired, I laid my head down for maybe 5 seconds when something just told me to look up. And there was my iPod laying neatly at the end of the atimund. And I knew I didn't overlook it, because I had turned it over a couple of minutes ago. And I hadn't moved anything or got up since I had flipped it over.

I just knew it had been stolen and that some force beyond this world had brought it back to me. My friends believed me but my teachers thought I was crazy and just made up this whole thing to get attention.

There have been several incidents since then of me losing something and then I'll look again where I just looked, and there it will be.

Blood On The Wall

Dayton, Texas

Mom and I were painting our hallway about six months back. Since our house has had previous stories with it and several experiences we have actually had, I told mom jokingly that since we are doing remodeling we may stir up the spirits. She laughed and said maybe. For awhile we haven't had much happen in our house, I guessed the spirits had gone away.

To get to the story. We were painting over old brown wood paneling. As we were painting there was this blood red color that started seeping through . It was the weirdest thing, and it was in two different spots.

Every time we would paint over it, it would keep bleeding through. It was so strange! It finally went away after we grabbed a crucifix.

Bloody Mary

Houston, Texas

A couple years ago at a day camp, me and my friends were talking about that Bloody Mary game. If anyone doesn't know what that is, its a game that a lot of kids play to try and summon ghosts. You hold hands and chant "Bloody Mary" in front of a mirror in the dark.

Anyway we were talking about it some of us were like, "let's go do it!"

And so we went into the bathroom, which is a really large bathroom, and we turned the lights off. These are by the door and the sink. Then we stood by the back wall. We were about like 20 to 25 feet away from the door, and there were three of us.

I stood in the middle and we all held hands and repeated "Bloody Mary" and all that.

The first time nothing happened to me, but my friend felt a hand on her shoulder and my other friend said it felt like a rat was in her shirt.

Nothing happened to me, so I was like, "This is stupid, and you are just imagining it."

So, we did it again and this time we heard a huge bang, and we screamed and ran over and turned lights on. The huge trash can that was 25 feet away by the sink had fallen over.
We still wanted to do it again, so we did it again. We were standing there and 25 feet away the sink turned on full blast. It was spraying cold water, and it was the kind you have to twist and pull up to turn on. It was twisted and pulled up and of course it hadn't been when we came in.

Then when my friend turned the light on, and the second she turned it on the water stopped.

Some games you don't want to play.... It might be for keeps.

Demon Friend

Austin, Texas

When I was doing laundry I went to my daughter, Sauris's room to gather her dirty clothes. I could hear her faint whispers and giggling. She was my only child, we had no pets, so I assumed she was talking to her doll.

I walked in and proceeded to get her clothes. She turned to look at me, no doll in sight.

"Sauris, who was that?"

She turned away, then stood slowly. Her eyes grew wide and she let out a high, shrill scream that made my heart skip a beat.

Sauris fell to the ground once more, and continued to talk to her “friend.” I hurried to my room where my husband was working on the computer.

I immediately shouted, "I need you to ask Sauris about that friend of hers!" I was still worried. Why had she done such a thing? She was always a quiet and calm child. He nodded and went to her room. I waited outside, listening to their every word.

It turned out she had a friend that we couldn't see named Andrew. He made her laugh and played with her. Andrew told her he was going to make her do something and he would have complete control over her. Like, possessing her. I was angry and worried at the same time.

That same night I hurried to put her to bed and she refused to listen to me. She glared in my direction, making a growling noise. "Sauris stop!" I demanded. "Get away!" she screamed and ran to hide in her closet. I could hear heavy breathing coming from the closet.

I then decided I was going to talk to Father Jansen the next morning.

We met at the church in his office, both of us quiet. "Based on what you told me over the phone it sounds like Sauris has a not so nice friend. If she screamed like that and did those things he must have possessed her. Did you do something to upset s spirit?"

I then remembered how tearing down the extra room because of the strange noises had something to do with it. "Father, I think I did upset a demon. My husband and I were tearing down an extra room. The room where the strange noises were... Where that teenage boy killed himself." I sighed.

This happened a time ago, and my daughter has not talked to him since. Turns out I was right. It was a demon and she was possessed.

This is my story and all true.

Michelle

Andrews, Texas

I was about 14 years old. My friend Nora and I were curious to play the Ouija board. She pulled it out from under her bed. So, we started playing, and a friend that had just passed away supposedly was talking to us. We stayed up all night talking to him.

The next morning we tried to get back on to talk to him, but instead we contacted a girl named Michelle. She seemed really nice and friendly, and constantly insisted that I knew her. She knew deep secrets about me that no one else knew. So, I asked my friend if I could take the Ouija board with me home.

Well, Rule Number 1 is, when you play the Ouija board don't play with it alone. And of course, stupid, curious me broke the #1 rule, and played it alone.

My friend the next morning called me tripping out. She said that she was asleep on her bed and that she felt something watching her. And a hand came through her window and started choking her. Her mom heard her kicking the wall and ran in her room and saw Nora gasping for air, and freaked out.

Nora told me to throw away the board, but I didn't listen. I played with that board hours a day. To me I felt I found a good friend, until later when weird things started happening to me.

One time my cousin was over, and I was talking to my boyfriend on the phone. All I remember is being in a dark place, and when I came to my cousin was shaking me and my boyfriend was calling out to me over the phone. When I asked them what had happened, they told me that I was somebody else. My voice changed and I was crying and ranting that my dress was full of blood, and I was in pain.

So they freaked out and told me to stop playing the Ouija board. Then the next day my other cousin came over. Her dad passed away when she was 3, and she wanted to talk to him. but something kept interfering in their conversation. It kept asking for me.

So I got on and it spelt, "I'm gonna kill you." When I asked who it was, it spelt the word "Swift." So I freaked out. I let my cousin take it home with her and never touched it again.

But it didn't stop there. At night when I go to sleep I can feel something evil watching over me. I can hear her in the bathroom, in my room, and out my window. I would see her in my dreams, there were times where she even got in my dolls.

And one night I finally had a vision. I saw me in the past of El Paso, Texas. It was the year 1876. My hair was blonde, my eyes were blue, and I was wearing an old peasant dress. I was Michelle, and I saw her being murdered by her ex-fiancé and her cousin (Swift).

Ever since then I still see Michelle and still get more clues of her unsolved murder, and I know somehow or another she wants revenge. A lot more has happened, but it's too long to explain everything. It’s been 7 years of visions, dreams, and sightings. I just want to know what she wants from me...