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A Paranormal Experience #2. It Sat At The Top Of The Stairs!

Prologue

In life, there are just some things we cannot explain. We often chalk these situations up to be a figment of our imagination, the dark playing games with our eyes, or just the wind blowing through a drafty house. For some, these are very real experiences and known as supernatural or paranormal phenomena. The following is an experience I've personally encountered.

Please Read: The following is a story. It is a situation I've personally encountered. You may or may not take it as fact or believe it. You're allowed to be skeptical. This story is for entertainment purposes.

Now to the story!

As children, my family lived in a two story building where the upstairs where the bedrooms and the downstairs was the kitchen, living room, and so on. My brother and I shared a bedroom and our older sister had her own room, neighboring ours.

As you know from my last story, our house was or is no stranger to paranormal phenomena. Naturally, there would be many nights where we were scared for the typical imaginary childish reasons, like monsters under the bed and also, for legitimate supernatural occurrences. As as a result, we would often find ourselves tip-toeing down the creaky dark hallways to the stairs, stealthy going down each step of the stairway, and obscurely sitting on the landing to the best of our abilities. This is where my brother and I sat at the top of the stairs to listen to whatever T.V. show my mom and dad were watching in hopes to calm our nerves. 

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It is no surprise that we often got caught. From personal experience, children have super-hardened lead feet, always observed when they walk, run, or even "tip-toe" anywhere! Also, we would whisper about whatever show we were listening to or we would try to make sense of whatever phenomena lead us to the stair landing in the first place. Also, the living room was connected to the stairway and it was pretty open, so I wouldn't be surprised if our little feet were seen playfully swaying around from the comfort of my parent's couch. When we would get caught, 9 out of 10 times, from the living room and the comfort of their couch, my parents would raise their voice at us to "go to bed" and we would scurry off and go to sleep.

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One night, a night we wouldn't forget, my brother and I decided, "you know what? We're just going to play and when we go to bed, we'll just leave the light on". We played quietly for a bit, our eyes felt heavy and worn, and we crawled into our bunks and began to doze off. At our final closing of our eyes, before entering dreamland, we both heard it! We woke up startled. From two rooms away, down the hallway, and down the stairs, "GO TO BED!!!" my parents shouted! We sat in our beds and thought "...but we aren't sitting at the stairs. We're in our beds. Our sister isn't home either. So who could be at the stairs? Who were they telling to go to bed?" 

From that point on, we never attempted to sneak down to that landing on the stairs again and luckily, we didn't hear any more shouts to go back to bed.

More chilling experiences to be continued...