The Girl in My Closet
It’s 2021, we were laughing around the dinner table this Thanksgiving talking about this and that. I turned to my mom and asked “Do you remember when Erin (My sister) would sleepwalk to your room?” promptly my mom responded “What? Erin never sleptwalked” Now either I was being gaslit or this was just another paranormal story that I didn’t realize was paranormal.
I was around 7 years old in 2006, I’ve heard plenty of stories about this house but didn’t really know what exactly they meant or what was being said until I experienced it first hand. We lived in a small town in a house my grandpa built in a very nice wooded neighborhood, the house sat on a hill looming over the houses across the street. It was a red brick house, old but not broken, new to my family, and somehow it had attracted spirits. The house on the hill called out to them like a beacon and held onto those who entered.
It was broad daylight, and I was the only one at home. I wandered around the house looking for something to occupy my time, usually, I would go outside and build forts out of sticks but that’s more fun with friends. That afternoon I was walking down the long hallway heading to my bedroom. Then out of nowhere, this young girl around my age ran past my left side, she had two braided pigtails, her dress was almost like overalls, made from denim, she wore an undershirt with red, black and blue plaid with a white background.
I have never seen her before, she didn’t push me, she wasn’t cold, and she didn’t look back. Soon enough, I learned I was not the only one in the house who had seen her. My instinct told me to follow this girl, so I did. I went into my room (Where she had ran) and she was their, at least the tail end of her went into my closet and poof, she was gone.
In future posts you will hear more about this girl, I’ll tell you right now though that we never found out who she could be. But the first sighting was by my mom and dad before I was even born.
They laid there in their bed, it was nighttime and cold out. My parents laid under the sheets watching TV. They had their bedroom light off, the door open and the hall light on. Their regularly scheduled program was interrupted by a visitor. A girl around 7 years old, poked her head into the doorway of their room. She then stepped in the doorway and stood there for a moment. In her hands was a ball. She stood watching my parents, blocking out any light from the doorway as if she were looking for a playmate.
My parents lay there in silence, when all of a sudden, she slowly turns and walks away. My mom then looked at my dad and said “Did you see that?” my dad replied promptly “You mean the girl in our doorway? Yeah, I saw her.” My mom today describes this girl as young (Around 7) with 2 braided pigtails and a dress. The spirit my parents saw that night, may very well be the girl in my closet.
