Your True Tales
April 2004 – Page 15

Attic Ghost
by Dorian

I live in a house that was built in the 1930s. The bedrooms are located on the first floor and the attic is used as a computer office by my father and is also for storage. When I was young (about 8 or 9), I had the occasional dream of something coming down the stairs from the attic and entering my bedroom. In my dream I was scared and closed my eyes or covered myself with the blanket so I never saw what it was, but I did hear it. The closest sound that it resembles is of someone breathing very heavily or someone with difficult breathing (like someone suffering severe asthma).

The ghost, as I like to call it, wasn't bad though and I had the distinct impression that it was of an old male. In each of my dreams (several in total) this ghost tucked me into bed and then left. I always woke up from these dreams in a sweat and with chills. I had these dreams occasionally during my teens and they finally stopped when I was 16 or 17.

Then when I was 20, I had one last dream. The same thing came down the attic and into my bedroom. I still kept my eyes shut and never saw what it looked like, but this time it spoke to me it said, "I'm sorry." I asked it, "What are you sorry for?" and it just responded "I'm sorry."

I woke up from the dream, but I wasn't scared anymore. I had the feeling I wouldn't see it again.

Later, when I spoke to my mother and sister about it, my mother said that when my sister was young she saw and pointed at a figure of a dark man in the corner of the hallway. My mother, however, never saw it. My sister said that she sometimes woke up and felt there was something in the room with her. My mother also told me something that helped explain a lot. The people who lived in the house before us had a grandfather who died in the attic, which used to be a spare room. Apparently, he was very old and died of breathing problems before the doctor arrived. When my mother told me this I couldn't believe it, but she swears its the truth.

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