A Personal Experience By Kelli

I was only about nine years old when this happened to me. I used to live in Marion, Ohio, and I lived in this very old house that we believed a man was murdered in. The incident I’m telling you about started at around 5 p.m. and it didn’t stop until 10 p.m. My mom had just gone to work, and I was at home with my two sisters, Angelica and Amber. The TV wasn’t working, so they decided that they should tell me their scary stories. I really hated when they did that, but I have always been fascinated by the paranormal, so I quickly agreed.

They had just finished telling me one of the scariest stories ever when we heard three continuous knocking noises like boom, boom, boom, over and over again. It was coming from upstairs where Amber and I slept. We were shocked for a moment, and then Angelica said, “Let's go see what that was and then ..." she never finished that sentence; she just got up and headed for the stairs. Amber and I followed and when we all three made it up the stairs, we stopped dead in our tracks.

We looked over the little landing that we had and we saw a man, a woman, and a child standing by the bunk beds. Then we saw the man reach up and touch the ceiling, and we determined that that was where the knocking was coming from. He did that over and over again. We heard muffled crying and realized that it was the woman who was weeping. Finally, we heard what sounded like an evil laugh. As we watched the "family," we realized that it was the little girl who was doing it and when she moved, we saw what she was laughing at.

There was a man in the bottom bunk, and he was covered with blood. Angelica, Amber, and I stood there for a minute longer trying to see what the little girl was doing, and when she turned around and faced us (she actually DID) Angelica and Amber decided to push me towards the stairs. I wanted to stay up there, but they wouldn’t let me. When my mom got home a little later, I snuck away to see if they were still there. They weren’t, but now I finally understand. I understand that we are not the only ones that inhabit this earth and that I intend to figure out why those people were there and what had happened to that man.