Paranormal Activity

Some of you may have heard about my dad's home being haunted by a little tot. No? Well...what a delight. I shall share some stories with you. The first "sighting" of the wee girl was by my step-sister, Caroline, who woke up one morning, sat up in bed, looked in the mirror and there was a small girl leaning over her headboard holding a red ball. When she told us this, we figured she was just being a teenager, full of angst and needed attention (you still are Caroline), and we didn't pay attention to her (how loving). But as days passed, and the weeks went by, we kept having odd encounters. My dad would be in the shower, completely alone in the house, and he would hear my step-mom's voice clearly calling his name, but no one was home. Vise-versa on her end. My ultimate fave: We rent out our back apartment to "Cousin Thomas" and when he has friends over they usually park in the front, so one of his lady-friends (tee-hee) had left and the next day saw my dad at their shared occupation and she said "Tim, I didn't know you had a daughter younger than Caroline or Syd." This took him by surprise and basically she had seen a young girl, around 4-5, with long brown hair, standing in the window at early hours in the morning just brushing her hair. No one in our family has long brown hair. So, that's pleasant. There are possibly 25+ more stories to tell (want to hear the rest? e-mail me at myawkwardblog@gmail.com and I'll for sure give you the willies) but the main reason for this post was because my friend Haley and I were going by my dads to check on the pups when we experienced an unpleasant feeling as we were walking up the stairs. Once we went inside I went into the living room to look for something, I have no idea what for. As soon as I walked in there, Haley was still in the front foyer and saw the dog gates that block the stairs (two large science-board like poster boards that we painted to look nice) move completely. So she freaked out a little, but I didn't believe her because Haley lies about everything because she thinks its funny. So we go into the kitchen to feed the dogs and as we're leaving I said "Ok, tell me what you saw again." She explained it again and as we were leaving I looked back towards the stairs and saw a shadow, but instead of it being a black shadow, it was light grey, like the color of a Macbook Pro (no, they aren't advertising) and I did a double-take and it was gone. Scared the living crap (as opposed to the dead crap?) out of me. I told Hals I had just seen something and right after I said that, the dogs starting freaking out and we got the hell out of there. You may be wondering "Why wouldn't you move if this has been going on for 8 years?" I ask myself that exact question every time something does happen, and my dad's response is always "It has character." And that's why my family may be the strangest, maybe most naive, family out there. Enjoy your Wednesday poopskies, and don't forget, have a good blog topic worth posting about? E-mail me at myawkwardblog@gmail.com. TTYL YALL.