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Grandpa's
Ghost and Old Hag Sighting
by Tessa Lawler
For over 20 years I have seen or heard ghost, spirits, demons, whatever you wish to call them. For me it has been a lifetime looking for answers. I believe I have found the answers.
My first experience was when I was 16. I was spending the summer with my grandmother and I had gone to the lake for the whole day with friends. I came home at 10 p.m. and all the lights were off. That was very weird; she always left the lights on for me. Anyway, I walked into the dark house looking for lights, and when I reached the living room I saw my grandfather sitting in a his chair. I was shocked that he had been sitting in the dark, so I asked him where grandma was and why is he sitting in the dark. At that moment the phone rang. It was my aunt. She said they were looking for me most of the afternoon. My grandmother was at her house and she had bad news: my grandfather had died. I lost it. I started to scream, "Come get me" and I started to run to town.
Now I'm 21 and the most terrifying thing happened to me in Walton, Indiana. My husband was in the military and some nights he would get a phone call to go to the base for war games. So when I woke with him not in bed I thought he must have left a note. Now I can't go back to sleep so I will go watch TV. As I walked to the doorway to the living room, I saw my husband sleeping on the couch. The lights were left on so it was very well lit. What I saw I watched for 20 minutes. I froze, couldn't breath. There isn't a word for the fear I was going through.
Sitting on his chest was a full-size woman who looked liked she crawled out of a 3,000-year-old grave. She had her knees pulled up to her chest and her arms crossed over her knees just sitting on my husband and with just black eyes staring into his face. She never took her eyes off his face. She did reposition herself a few times. That was more terrifying, watching this thing move. My mind was racing. I wondered if he could feel her. I knew he was breathing; I saw his chest rise up and down. I remember tears running down my face, but I couldn't move. Then I prayed, "God, make her go away." She was still there. Finally, I was so numb I moved backward to the bedroom and just prayed this thing would leave. I felt like my heart was going to just stop at any moment I was so scared.
It took me five years to tell my husband what I saw. As the years went by, this spirit followed me house to house. I have three notebooks full of everything I have seen and heard. I promise you everything I have told you is the truth.
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