Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Ghost Story: A Study in Ghost.

I was in high school and privileged as a senior to sit at home studying for my upcoming exam finals. I was alone at home, sitting quietly in my room concentrating on my study books. I was oblivious to everything around me, sitting at my desk. The house was quiet, no background noise of any kind. The windows and doors were closed, no wind of any kind passing through. As I am sitting in my chair at my desk I hear and feel a sudden blowing of air into my right ear, as if someone had moved into real close next to me and blew a short sharp gust of air into my ear. I freaked the fuck out and ran from my room through to the opposite end of the house, out the patio door which opened onto the pool and across the yard to scale the fence. I stood in the street for a moment trying to figure out what the hell just happened, was someone trying to scare me, as was the family habit we often scared each other with. I walked around the street corner to the front of the house to go back inside. Expecting to find someone had returned home I walked up the driveway but saw no cars parked as nobody else was home yet, just me. I went to the front door but it was locked, I rang the bell just to be sure. Remembering I’d run out the side door by the patio I walked around the pool and went back in. I searched through the whole house, room by room calling out for whoever thought it was funny to scare the crap out of me. Turns out I was the only person at home. It was a one time thing since nothing like that happened again, I still laugh about it. My folks still live in that house to this day; it’s had its fair share of strange occurrences over the years but lately all is calm.

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