Can't Get Away

Name:            Berlynn
Email:           berlynn@chek.com
Location:        Riverside, California
Type:            Ghost
Date:            Tuesday, June 20, 2000
Time:            05:20 PM

Everything started happening to me about 17 years ago. I was about 10 years old and had my own bedroom. My sister Kim was about 4 or 5 and my brother, James, was about 6. One night I awoke to a small, dark figure standing in the doorway next to my bed. At first I thought it was my sister and I told her to go back to bed, but the figure just stood there. After about 2 to 3 more times of telling what I thought was my sister to go back to bed I said to come and get into bed with me, just then it him me like a ton of bricks that the figure in the doorway was not my sister, Kim had a child safety gate in her doorway and could not exit her room. I pulled the covers over my head and just kept repeating, please go away, over and over again. I never said anything to anyone. A few nights later my brother had the same experience, only he woke my parents with his panicked screams.

We moved from that house about 2 years later. After about 6 months in our new house strange things started happening. My mother could hear what sounded like a child wearing disposable diapers walking down the hall and into my parents bedroom. She then could feel pressure at the foot of the bed as if someone was climbing up onto the bed and then out the window. This went on almost the entire time we lived in that house, almost every night. Doors would also open and close by themselves and small household items, such as scissors, forks, knives, etc would disappear and appear quite frequently, sometimes while you were using them. Despite everything that happened there on a daily basis there were two very memorable occurrences. About a year after we moved in we were all in the kitchen eating breakfast at the table. My father went to answer the front door when the doorbell rang. The tile entry way, inside the house, was completely buckled. The tiles lookes as if someone had pick them up and folded them up. There was no one at the door and no one from the family had been in the entry way for about an hour. We never figured out exactly what happened that morning, but we think that the haunting had something to do with it. The second memorable event happened about a year later. I awoke in the middle of the night to some one frantically calling my name. When I sat up in bed the same small figure that I remember seeing at the last house we lived in was standing at the foot of my bed. I looked out my bedroom door and into my sisters room were I could see her asleep in her bed, with her nightlight on. When I looked back the small figure was still standing there, just looking at me, I could hear it breathing, it was that still. I closed my eyes and again said please go away. When I opened my eyes the figure was gone and in an instance later we had a big earthquake. Just as the earthquake ended, my dad came running into my room asking me were my sister was. I told him that she was asleep in her bed. He s 
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Several years went by and no one in the family had any paranormal experiences. Then in 1992 while I was pregnant with my son, it happened again. One night, about 2 am my dog, a lab/Shepard mix, jumped up on my bed. He was practically on top of me growling viciously at the staircase up to the second floor. All of a sudden he jumped off my bed and started to run up the stairs as if he were chasing something, he got to the first landing, yelped and then ran down to the base of the stairs and started barking and growling. My mother, brother and sister, who all had bedrooms upstairs came down and asked me what was going on. I told them what happened and my mother made the comment that the landlord had told here the house was haunted, and now she believes her.

Nothing really memorable happened after that until about 2 1/2 years ago. I had just moved into a condo near the orange groves. That old feeling of not being alone returned after only being in my new place about 2 months. I did not say anything to my roommate for fear of frightening her and/or our children. I talked to the "feeling" when ever it became strong and felt as if some one was in the room with me. This went on for about 9 months with no "problems." Then I started being awoke in the night by breathing and movement at the foot of my bed. It got to the point that I was very frightened and told my boyfriend about it. He stayed the night for several nights before it happened again. Needless to say it scared him to death. I talked to a friend of mine who has experience with dream translation, and the paranormal. I had the most bizarre experience. While we were meditating we could both feel the presence, and then I had the most emotional and overwhelming experience. I knew that the "ghost" was a friend of mine that had moved away several years prior and had not kept in touch. I saw him die of a heroin overdose, and I could feel how sad and scared he was. I broke down and started crying uncontrollably from simply being overwhelmed. After that the feeling of not being alone went away.

Finally about a week ago my dog died of cancer. We knew that he had the cancer, but his death caught us by surprise. That night after an emergency trip to the vet to try and save him my boyfriend and I lay in bed to upset to sleep. At about 4 am I started to smell something. I could smell my grandfather, who had passed away over 20 years ago. I looked at my boyfriend and asked him if he could smell that. Then I could hear the uneven breathing of my dog coming from the doorway to the bedroom. I started crying and the only conclusion that we could come to was that my dog was now with my grandfather and that they would be taking care of each other until I join them. After my boyfriend and I talked about our conclusion, it all stopped.