Calling Spirits

Name:            Ann Funicello
Email:           ann_funicello
Location:        Colorado
Type:            Ghost
Date:            Wednesday, September 27, 2000
Time:            02:09 PM

This happened when I was in 8th grde (I'm now a sophomore in college). Anyway, my best friend Kate and I decided to contact spirits by some kind of ritual we had heard of (I won't say what it was). We started our little seance, when all of a sudden the candles started giving out black smoke. We thought that was a little weird, because that never happened before. But we got excited (we used to get this "high" off of being scared and messing with the unknown). Because of the candles gave off black smoke, we decided to finish up in the basement. The basement was really creepy. The floor wasn't even finished it was just dirt. Another friend of ours was with us at this time, but she didn't participate because she's really religious. So we told her to stand at the top of the stairs by the light switch just in case kate and I started to freak out. So as Kate and I proceeded to do our "thing", we started to get this uneasy feeling, and over in the corner of the basement we thought we saw something moving around in the dark and then we heard this slamming sound. We screamed at our friend at the top of the stairs to turn on the light. Scared and confused she flipped on the light switch, but the light didn't go on (we made sure the light worked before we went down there). At that moment my friend Kate and I stared at each other and screamed "Oh shit!" Immediately we both started running up the stairs and boy did I have a feeling that something was running behind us up those stairs. I get a chill just thinking about it. All three of us were really jumpy at this point. As soon as we got upstairs the cash register machine opened by itself and this old antique sewing machine, that didn't even have a cord or even work by electricity, started going. The needle was moving. We ran out and didn't go back.