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My First Encounter with a Ghost
Stoney Creek, Ontario
by Nadia

I have been living in the same house in Stoney Creek, with my mother and sister, for as long as I can remember. We have always seemed to have encounters with ghosts since I was very young. My mom had told me stories of experiences in other houses she has lived in. Maybe the ghosts followed us? (I'm not entirely an expert, but have read that it is possible). I can
probably write about numerous experiences I have had in this house now, but I'll start with the first experience that I can recall.

I was about 7 or 8 and in our backyard with my friend and her younger brother who lived up the street. We were inside our shed, we use to use the shed as sort of a clubhouse. Just out of the blue we heard footsteps like someone walking in the grass towards us. I thought it might be my sister. As the sound got closer, a lady who looked like she was wearing a white track suit walked by the shed, not looking or regarding us in anyway, just casually walked by. I don't really remember seeing her face, but somehow I knew it was a female. We all jumped up and looked out and she had disappeared. In the direction that she had walked was just a fence that blocked our backyard from the neighbours behind us. It definately was not a person, because the only way they could've disappeared is by climbing over the fence and we would've heard them and seen them leave.

My friends remember it happened and I also remember that summer we told all the neighbourhood kids about it and no one would go into my backyard for a year. This is the first experience I remember and it seemed they just kept continuing after that.

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