#like I'm for real not joking it was the exact same bouncy ball

[nightmareonpeachstreet]

Ghost encounters I’ve had that I can remember off the top of my head:

1. My sister and I were playing on her bed when we were young, among other toys we had this little fairy, I think it was a Shrek mcdonalds toy or something. Neither of us were holding the fairy and it wasn’t placed anywhere above us (we had bunk beds at the time and my sister’s bed was the tallest thing in the room), and the fairy somehow fell on my sister’s head. Neither of us saw it until it was on her head and tumbling back down to the bed, but like literally there was nowhere it could’ve fallen from on it’s own.

It scared the crumbs outta me and my sister at the time, we woke up our parents and wouldn’t stop wailing about the fairy toy that was alive until our mom said she would keep it in her room overnight (literally just to get us to calm down so she could go back to sleep djdifencirjdk I’m sorry mom). Now that I’m older though, I know that the ghost in that house was actually very kind. I think they were playful, although I don’t think they were a child, because I never found any other activity in the house, and I think the reason is because the ghost was just trying to play with my sister and I, and when we got scared they felt bad and decided not to try again, which seems like a rather mature response that seems more indicative of an adult that accidentally scared a stranger’s baby in the supermarket. I’m very sorry for the misunderstanding, ghost from my old childhood home. I hope the people u live with currently haven’t misunderstood your intentions.

2. (this one is about the one not-chill ghost) one time when I was a preteen I was at a booksale with my family in an old retired military base. as I was walking by one of the tables, I felt something that felt like I banged my thigh on something. I thought to myself "oh I must've run into one of the tables on accident" so the next time I was walking by that table I was super conscious of where the table edge was. when I walked by it I once again felt a hard pain on my thigh despite knowing for a fact I didn't hit the table.

later when I walked by that table again, even MORE conscious of the table. keeping a literal eye on it. I STILL felt something bang into my thigh!! so at that point it was like "okay I am definitely being kicked by a ghost idk why he's so possessive of this table but clearly he doesn't like me very much)

3. at one point I was sitting on the couch and my dad passed by to go down the hallway. I decided I wanted to lie down, so I turned and lay down on the couch, and I was now not in a position to be able to see the hallway my dad had gone down. (my head was on the armrest and from where I was laying the hallway was basically right above my head if that makes any sense at all? like not literally above me but like the top of my head was pointing towards the hallway, not my face)

I felt a really strong presence coming out of the hallway. like outrageously strong like there was no possible way there wasn't someone there. it lingered near me once it felt like it was right next to the couch. I figured it was my dad came back out of the hallway and was just being silly, so I tilted my head back so I could look at him, and nobody was there. a couple minutes later my dad came out of the hallway, clearly having been down there the whole time.

4. once upon a time in my life when I was a teenager, I was having really bad sleep paralysis. it was like, every single night, and it wasn't the chill sleep paralysis it was like full on disturbing hallucinations type of sleep paralysis. I had recently been gifted a stuffed bunny for my birthday, and right after I was gifted it is when this all started.

at some point I had the idea "he's not near any of my other stuffed animals I wonder if he's lonely" so I politely asked him to stop giving me bad dreams and placed him with my other stuffed animals. my sleep paralysis stopped immediately. there is no longer any activity from the rabbit, so I don't know if the ghost is still attached to the rabbit or if they decided to move on, but either way I'm glad they were happy with my solution.

5. this one happened like, a couple years ago. for a while I had a group of coworkers who I was very social with, and we all used to joke whenever something went wrong or we messed something up that "it was the softlines ghost."

this one time, a large bouncy ball rolled into softlines (I literally don't know where it came from I've never seen us selling bouncy balls in our store??? usually stores have them in a big bouncy ball prison that you have to pull them out of and I've literally never seen one of those in my store, or in fact ANY OTHER BOUNCY BALLS???? I don't understand?????? this was in the backroom too so it's not like a child could have brought in their own???????????????????)

we all laughed it off like "oh where did this even come from?? haha" and I set it off to the side so no one would trip on it while we were working. around like, 20 to 30 minutes later, the bouncy ball comes rolling over to me like it's on a mission. I asked my coworkers if they moved the bouncy ball, and both of them said no.

I like to think we have multiple ghosts in our store, but we definitely have at least one. a few days ago, I even saw that same bouncy ball again!! it was on the sales floor this time and it was just vibing in the men's section. I said "oh hey bud, where've you been?"

he didn't respond, but I was glad to see him again.