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March 2008 - Page 11

Landlord's Ghost Watches
by LaRhonda

My story takes place in Glade Valley, North Carolina in July of 1981 or '82. I was about six years old. I would hear my sister talking about seeing a woman in our house after our landlord died. I thought she was just trying to scare me. Then one night our cousin came to spend the night with us. Our bedroom was really small and so was our bed. I couldn't sleep because it was so hot. I got up and went into our living room where we had a shelf that was in the corner of the wall. This is were the TV sat. So I lay down under that because my other sister was on the couch.

I lay down and just happened to look in front of me and I saw a woman standing in front of me. She was just standing there looking at me. So I just covered up my head and I told myself, "I'm going to count to three and look again." Well that's what I did, and when I looked again, she was sitting beside me!

I ran into my mom and dad's room, very scared and crying. I told my mom what I had seen and she thought I was just seeing things. The next morning mom told dad what I had told her and dad said that after our landlord died he thought that he had seen a woman, too. So I knew what I saw was real.

I saw her again, but it didn't scare me like the first time. I know that I wasn't the only one who had seen her, and I knew that what my sister had said was the truth. Three of us in the house seen her, and if I had the chance, I'd go back to the house just to see if she's still there.

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