I laid awake, waiting for my husband to return after dropping our daughter off for her first year of college. I had expected his return hours before this. My imagination was on high alert. Had he been in a car accident?
Then I heard the car pull into the driveway. I waited, just in case I was mistaken. I was still angry from our earlier argument. I had nothing to say to him. But I still wanted him to return safe and unharmed.
The front door opened and shut again. I recognized his familiar gait. I heard his heavy steps come along the hall toward our bedroom. My husband favored one leg and this caused him to limp. The bedroom door opened and he entered quietly. I feigned sleep. I felt his weight sink the mattress on one side. He didn’t speak.
A moment later, he left the bed and walked into our master bathroom. The door shut. The light came on and I heard him start the water for a bath. Then, nothing.
I waited.
Nothing.
The water and light were still on.
Nothing.
If he had fallen I would have heard it.
Nothing.
Not even the sound of him in the shower.
Nothing.
I left the bed and tiptoed to the bathroom door.
I opened it.
No one was in there. No one was in the shower. There are no windows. The water was running and the light was on.
Then I heard his car pull into the driveway.
I heard him open the front door.
I heard his familiar limp along the hall.
My husband opened the bedroom door. “You still awake?” he said when he saw me.
This is a true story that happened to someone I love. I was living in this house with them when it happened and had many of my own experiences. But this one topped them all.
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37 comments:
Cool! I like that!
Personally I find stuff like this doesn't really scare me much. I'm a bit of an old skeptic. Maybe it's to do with getting older but I find there's plenty of genuinely scary stuff - health, money, whatever - that makes ghostly goings-on seem, you know, fun and all, but not something I take seriously.
I have to admit I was a little angry that the ghost just let the water run, but I'm from California, where water is precious.
That's creepy. I've had a ghost in bed with me, but never had something to this extent happen.
Glad you could participate. I'm not sure this would have scared me, but it would have creeped me out.
Woah. That's creepy! If not for the running water and light, I'd have said the person had maybe dreamed it or something. Very cool!
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Oh hell, that's real spooky - kind of deja vu, and the water left running!
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That is so creepy! I'd agree with Ishta. I too would have thought the person dreamt it!
Definitely creepy! I would have been spooked--maybe a little scared.
Very scary. Opening that door and seeing no one in the room would have done me in!
I definitely would have been spooked. I'm a skeptic, too, but anything like this still scares the pants off me! (Maybe I'm not as skeptical as I like to believe!) christy
That is freaky. I think I would have been a bit weirded out. I would have asked myself if I left the light on before I went to bed, but then ...
Thanks everyone for your comments. I wasn't really scared by this myself either. But by the time this happened I had been exposed to my fair share of weird. The person that this happened to was totally freaked.
Nancy
Blogger is running so slow this morning. I hope it is just me.
Oh thats really creepie!
Thanks Summer.
Nancy
Jeez, that is spooky!
Glad you liked it Liz, if I'm interpreting your response correctly.
Nancy
That’s pretty cool in a creepy way. Thanks for sharing.
Nancy - I liked this story. It is scary. If it had been me I would have been spooked. Luckily, her husband came home right around then and could comfort her. Otherwise she would've been alone and scared. Thanks for participating. I'll send you an email in a little bit in regards to my daughter.
Great ghost story! Opening that bathroom door to no one there would have made me scream; sometimes it's not what is there, but what isn't : )
Creepy is the word Holly.
I'm glad you liked the story Patricia. I look forward to your email.
You're right Erin, what isn't there is always worse in a ghost story than what is there.
Thanks everyone for your comments.
Nancy
Oh! This is so great! Really chilling. I would've just died after opening that bathroom door. lol
Thanks for sharing :)
What a chilling story! I think I would've passed out when I opened the bathroom door to nothing but running water! Great story, thanks for sharing!
I'm thrilled and chilled by your comments Kristina and Regina. Thanks for leaving them.
Nancy
I've always believed that, just like people, spirits can be either vindictive or friendly so I wouldn't be scared...but I would have definitely been creeped out had that happened to me. I'm absolutely loving this blogfest! So many creepy stories.
Great story! Haven't had anything this dramatic happen to me (thankfully!)
Wow that is so weird!
I would have blamed it all on my imagination and the fact that I have a lot of dreams (and a lot of nightmares). Hard to explain the running water, though.
I do have a writer friend who claims there was a ghost living in his former home. He also suspects the ghost may have followed his family to their new home. I haven't gone over to check it out...
Freaky! It was deja vu then: you saw him coming home before he actually did!
Thank you Sondrae, Vicki, Misha, Patricia and J.C. for coming by, reading my post and leaving a comment. I truly appreciate it.
Nancy
Wow! That's quite a story. I'd like to read more of your true experiences!!!
Monti
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Perhaps next Halloween I'll share something different. Thanks for dropping by Monti.
Nancy
Creepy on so many levels. Thanks for posting this!
Thank you as well Roh. Thanks for leaving a comment.
Nancy
Whoa, that's so creepy! If it were me, I would have turned the water off and then ran around the whole house with a steel baseball bat, looking for the freak who broke into my house.
I had an experience like this once--some kids I was babysitting swore they could hear someone in the basement. I called my friend who was babysitting two doors down, and she said she had seen a creepy man looking in people's basement windows just a few minutes ago. So I put the kids upstairs by a phone, instructed them how to call 911 if necessary, and tiptoed down the stairs with a baseball bat. I searched the dark basement for awhile until I was sure nobody was in there.
Turns out my friend had seen the meter man, and that's who the kids had heard make a noise. Heh.
LOL...that is funny. A bat poised and ready to beat up the meter man. Thanks for dropping by and posting a comment.
Nancy
Creepy.
We had a ghost living with us in our first mobile home. He (the ghost) would come into my room and sit on the edge of the bed in the mornings after my husband left for work. I'd feel the weight of him next to me, the mattress would sink. If I opened my eyes to look at him he'd vanish.
I didn't participate in Quinn's blogfest. But its so weird that you posted my own ghost story.
......dhole
PS: see the words highlighted in green on your post? Thats the unsolicited advertising I complained about.
I'll investigate, thanks Donna. One of a ghost favorite tricks is to sit on our beds and stare at us. I tell them to get lost. That seems to work.
Nancy
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