Santa White Noise
Children aren’t immune either. While they might have visions of sugar plums, Santa Claus and piles of presents dancing in their heads, they are sometimes witness to apparitions that are not visiting from the North Pole. Richard was just six on Christmas Eve in 1976, eagerly awaiting the special morning and having a hard time falling asleep.
“Perhaps helping contribute to my sleeplessness,” Richard recalls, “I had a full-on view from my bed of the [Christmas] tree all lit up in glowing splendor. I distinctly remember trying to go to sleep. I may have even fallen asleep, but then for whatever reason I awoke. As I opened my eyes I was riveted to the scene.
“I saw something bending over the presents. It was a short figure about one or two feet tall and composed entirely of what I can only describe as white noise (the kind of static you get on a TV channel that has no signal). It just stood there, motionless. It was quite clearly there. However, when I rubbed my eyes to address an itch, the figure had disappeared. Whatever it was, perhaps I'm one of the few people who actually can claim to have seen a real Santa Claus.”
Christmas Eve Spirit
DeeDee saw a ghost on Christmas Eve, too, when she was 15 years old. She was staying at her grandparents’ house with her family, siblings and cousins. “The little ones and the adults all went to bed fairly early,” DeeDee says, “but my cousins, siblings and I stayed up a little later than we were supposed to.
“Everybody decided that it was time to turn in, so we made our way downstairs and hopped into bed. We were all just lying there chatting with the light off and the door closed when I looked over and saw a figure in the shape of a boy of about 11 standing in front of the doorway. I immediately assumed it was my brother (who was 11 at the time) and told him to get to bed. My 11-year-old brother replied, ‘Ahhh, I AM in bed.’ I looked down and could see his face. Everybody else in the room then confirmed that they were also in their beds as well. I looked up again and saw that the figure was still there.
“‘Well then, who is that?’ I said and pointed toward the door. And no sooner had I said it than the figure vanished into the darkness. Needless to say, we ALL slept on the mattress on the floor that night.”
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