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September 2002 – Story of the Month

The Peeking Spirit
by Marge

When I was about 16, my two sisters and I shared a small apartment upstairs in my parents' home. I slept in the bedroom which connected to the living room via a doorway with no door. My sister Evelyne slept on the top of a bunk with my eight-year-old sister on the bottom. As I lay in bed on my right side, I faced the doorway and was having a conversation with Evelyne, whom I could see in her bed. We were not talking scary stories or anything - boys, school, etc. As I was talking to her, I saw a cloud form past the foot of her bunk, gathering like a white mist. Her bunk had a footboard that came up about 18", so it obstructed her view, but I could see the cloud take shape like a small person. It then put its hands on the top edge of the footboard, and pulled itself up by its hands, peeking at my sister for a moment, then lowered itself, then holding on, and peeking at Evelyne from the side of the footboard, and then it was gone.

I had stopped talking and was just watching. It took probably less than a minute. Evelyne said, "Marge, did you just see something?" I said, "Yeah. What did you see?" She said, "I thought I saw something looking at me. Something small."

I asked, did it scare you? She said no, it seemed like a young person, maybe a child. I agreed and that was that. The apartment always seemed haunted, and there were many instances of odd happenings, but this one I remember clearly.

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