Your True Tales
May 2003 – Page 9

Ghost Dog
by Chris S.

In 1990, I was living in my grandmother-in-law's house. I had just given birth to my second child and was staying in a bedroom in her house that used to be occupied by my father-in-law when he was a boy. My grandmother-in-law's name was Virginia and she had lived in the house since the 1950s with her husband and a pet dog named Peanut. Peanut was a small cocker spaniel and was the family pet for 15 years, then passed away. The floors of the house were all wooden and there was a long hallway that led to all of the bedrooms. 

One night I woke up to hear a clicking sound outside in the hallway. It sounded as if something was moving up and down the hall in a run like an animal with it's nails clicking along the wooden floors and echoing in the hallway. I first thought it was Virginia's cats playing in the hall at night. After this the same phenomenon happened at least four or five more times. I asked Virginia about it and what the sound was. She said it was probably the dog Peanut because the cats were never in at night and would not make such a loud clicking sound in the hall with their nails. I said "oh" and went about my business. 

Now I always had my door shut and sometimes locked at night especially after hearing about this "ghost" dog. One night I woke up to hear Peanut running up and down the hall once again, and I cringed under my covers listening to him run. Then all of the sudden I heard him stop. Just then I felt as if something had jumped onto my bed and lain down upon my feet on the bed. I froze. I didn't breathe. I didn't even look out of my covers. I laid like this for about two to three minutes. I did reach out though to feel at my feet on top of the covers. Just as I reached out and touched my feet, the sensation of a heavy thing lying on my feet went away. That was the only time Peanut came to sleep on my bed, but I did hear him running up and down the hall many more times during the six months I lived there. Since then I am sure there are lingering spirits or energies.

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