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Ghost
in a Lab Coat
by David Williams
When I was 28 years old and living in the basement of my parents' house I would on regular occasion hear footsteps walking across the upstairs floor. I would hear knocks on the upstairs and downstairs exterior doors with no one outside or inside the house.
At other times I would hear voices, not one but a group, sometimes it was a sound like children playing a game and singing, but mostly just mumbles and whispers, always out of the same room in the basement.
Then one night at around 3:00 a.m. I was awakened by something (I don't know what), but when I opened my eyes there was an apparition in the bathroom adjacent to my bedroom. It stood still. I laid in my bed scared to death by the fact that someone got inside the house without the dog going nuts, opened doors and walked by my bed without my knowing it.
I lay in bed motionless for about 10 minutes (I had a digital alarm clock facing the bed that I could read). After it not moving for 10 minutes, I sprang from the bed thinking whatever it was I could knock it down before it realized what was happening. The creature/thing was standing only about three steps from me. I sprang from the bed, but there was nothing there. A few months later was awoken again and saw the same figure in the dining room that you have to walk through to get to my bedroom. I watched it again for 10 minutes or so and fell back asleep when I awoke at 6:30 for work it was gone.
My fiance at that time saw the apparition during the early evening hours in the den area while she was cooking supper in the kitchen. Scared her so bad she threatened not to mary me unless I came home from work right then.
The other strange thing is that my watchdog (an English springer spaniel) had different barks for people she knew compared to people that were strangers. About two months after my now wife say the apparition, Punkin was barking into the house with the bark that a stranger was there. Let me state that she always barked at the person, not at me or the house.
What I saw twice and what my wife saw once was a white figure of a man in a long coat like a lab coat, neither of us could make out any other details, and Punkin didn't offer any good descriptions either.
We my wife and I still hear things in the old house we bought but haven't seen anything. We hear footsteps on the old creaky floors (could be the house), but when the steps go up the stairs and walk around in the playroom it gets a little bit freaky.
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