In November of 1996, I was 7 years old and living in Farmington, Missouri. We lived in the middle of the woods, and our backyard was covered with huge trees. I have always had paranormal experiences and have been able to predict the future. These paranormal experiences especially haunted me when I was a child, and I would wake up in the middle of the night and run to my parents' room.
One morning around 5:30, I woke up and prepared to run to my parents' room when I got the strange urge to look outside my bedroom window, which faced the backyard. I looked out, and clearer than anything I saw a girl sitting on the only branch on a particular tree. She must have been 50 feet up on this tree! There was no way a human could climb it! However, this girl -- who appeared to be a few years older than me -- did not scare me. I felt a sense of calmness wash over me. I went back to my own bed, and ten minutes later I looked out the window to see if she was still there.... She wasn't.
Since then I have always wondered what she was, and what she represents in my life. Was she my guardian angel, a ghost, or, almost impossibly, a real girl?
