RUNS IN THE FAMILY My Mom always used to say that she could see a young boy, usually in the kitchen of our house. I know that she would never lie about anything like that. Also it would be most days, not just every so often. We moved to a different house, and she hasn't seen him since. She is also a strong believer in ghosts. At the house we live in now, I have had many encounters. I was in my room talking to my friend on the phone, and out of nowhere, a freezing cold breeze was in my room. I could feel it moving round in front of my face. I couldn't have been imagining it as I was on the phone to my friend, like I said, describing what was happening. This has happened twice, and both times my windows and my door were shut tight (I checked this while it was happening, and it still didn't stop). Both my sister, when we are alone in the house, and I can hear footsteps and doors slamming shut. My Mom has had another experience. Her job is to go round inspecting houses or flats. One time, she went into a house and many strange things happened. She was alone and she felt something brush past her arm, and just that arm came up in goose bumps. She walked into the master bedroom, and when she went in there a second time, the light bulb had fallen to the floor and not smashed. When Mom got back to her office, she played the Dictaphone (It had been playing all the way through) she could hear voices on the tape. It was only mumbling so she couldn't make out what they were saying. Not thinking anything of it, she erased the tape, then realising what had happened. Our dog also seems to have experiences!!! We see her looking at the air, but we never see anything. Also she has starting shaking, and when doing this, she pants. She rarely stays downstairs, and likes mine and my brother’s room (not the same room). If we shut all the doors that lead upstairs, she goes into my Moms room, and normally under her bed. She does this in my sister’s room too. Thank you for reading my story. Sorry if it was too long or jumbled. Feel free to e-mail me here ajoauk@yahoo.co.uk with any comments about my encounters. I would love to hear your stories too! Here is my update............... I was at a friend’s house after school and came home late. I went to my room, and my desk chair that I always keep under my desk was in the centre of my room. Thinking someone had been in my room that day; I put the chair back under my desk and went downstairs to find out who had been in my room. EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE, including my dog was downstairs when I asked who had been in my room. They all said no. I went back to my room to find the same chair back in the middle of my room and it was toppled over. It is a heavy chair and no breeze could have moved it. Although some of you may find this amusing, I have posters of my favourite pop star on my walls. For about two or three days a week, the same two posters keep falling down. I have no explanation for this, as if they were just falling, it would happen every time I put them up. . . Thank you for reading my update. If you have any comments or would like to give me your own explanation of my ‘encounters’ feel free to email me at: ajoauk@yahoo.co.uk UPDATE............... I would like to share with you some other things that have happened since. I was late home from school one day, and I went straight to my room. I have a desk and a chair which is always under the desk. However, when I went to my room, my chair was in the middle of my room. Thinking it was one of my family, I put it back to where I keep it, and went downstairs to find out who it was. Everyone who was in my house (including my dog) was in the lounge. No one had been in my room, so thinking nothing of it, I went back to my room. My chair was back in the middle of my room AND it had fallen over onto its back. We heard nothing. My room is over the lounge, and if it had fallen, we would have heard it. We changed our lounge and dining room round, and the phone was on the floor. I was in another room, my dog was upstairs, and my mom was in the kitchen. It came on speaker phone by itself. The next night, my mum popped out to the local shop. Our stereo player was turned on (I had it on during the day) but wasn't playing music. It is in a glass cabinet and started playing music. The next night, my mom was in the kitchen and she heard a noise. She didn't know what it was and ignored it. She then turned round to see a wine glass move along the counter and it smashed onto the floor. The noise was the glass being dragged along the counter. Although all this has happened, we never feel threatened or the need to be scared. UPDATE Yet again, more breezes came into my room, however, I put windchimes hanging infront of my window which do not move when the breeze comes. We were changing rooms around and the phone was on the floor. My dog was upstairs, my mum in the Kitchen and I was on the computer. The dialing tone came on and we realised that the moniter button had came on. I had been playing music throughout the day, and hadn't turned the cd player off, but the cd had finished about 2 hours before. The music started. The cd player is in a glass cabnit and i was in the chair next to it. Lastly I was upstairs in my room when I heard my mom scream. A glass that had ben at the back of the kitchen counter had been dragged and smashed to the floor. My mom said that she had heard a noise, but not knowing what it was ignored it. She got another glass and dragged it along the counter. It was the same noise. I would just like to add that of all the things that happen in our house, we do not feel threatened by the spirit? in our house. Thank you for reading my story. Thanks for reading my story and if you have any advice or suggestions, feel free to e mail me on ajoauk@yahoo.co.uk Submitted From: Abi, UK