Ghost Stories - My First Sighting

According to family history (my mother!), my parent's house was haunted by my father's mother. She didn't get to see their house while she was alive, so she took up residence "later".

During summers, we placed a large fan in the window at the top of the stairs leading up to my sisters' bedroom. We put the fan on "exhaust" and it pulled air through the house from the open windows downstairs. I enjoyed standing in front of the fan and talking "through" it...the fan chopped up my words and I thought it sounded cool.

So one evening I'm standing there on the landing, shouting out through the fan to one of my brothers in the yard. I was having fun. I know, I was a simple kid. I think I was 6. After standing there a few minutes, something caught my eye from the right side. I turned to see a woman floating towards me along the bannister. She had dark hair and a white dress (the official uniform of female ghosts). I'm not 100% sure what happened next. One second I was looking at her, scared to death, and the next I was at the bottom of the stairs on my butt. It happened so fast, I think I might have jumped. Anyway, I got out of the house as quickly as I could. I told my brother what I saw and he just laughed at me. All of my siblings did. But not my mom. When I told her, her eyes got big and she told me it was my father's mother. She also told me I wasn't allowed to tell my dad about it. Apparently the story of his mom haunting us made him mad. I never mentioned it to him.

For years I thought I was the only one who had seen the ghost. But 20 years later one of my sisters finally admitted she had seen exactly the same thing in exactly the same spot. She didn't say anything earlier because she was afraid people would think she was crazy.

After my sisters had all moved out, my brothers and I moved into their old bedroom upstairs. I had two other experiences up there--and one case of actual physical contact. I will share those stories about my parent's attic after I share one story about their basement!