Quick Random Ghost Stories
Scratching in the Closet
One night, when I was still a kid, I went to bed. My brothers were both already asleep in the beds next to mine. However, my mind was wandering and I couldn't fall asleep. I laid there in the dark with my eyes closed. Then suddenly, I heard something strange. There came a scratching sound from the closest. My brothers and I shared a bedroom as little kids. Our beds were set up one right next to the other with my bed right next to the closet.
As I laid there, I held my breath to make sure I wasn't imagining it. Soon it happened again! I tried to rationalize it. Maybe it was a mouse or even a rat. But, then something struck me to scare me even more. The scratching came in a repeated pattern. *scratch scratch scratch*PAUSE*scratch scratch scratch*PAUSE*scratch scratch scratch*
I don't know how long I held my breath but I just pretended to be asleep and hoped it would go away. Eventually, my fear gave into sleep. It never happened again.
Dad Saw a Ghost
During the weekend I drove to DC with my dad and some other older Hmong men who had served in the war, my dad shared this story with us. My dad said he never really experienced a lot of supernatural things growing up. However, there was one thing that happened to him that he cannot really explain.
My dad was a military officer. He showed talent in school, so as a you as a young man, he was recruited to work with the GVP and the CIA officers. He had been away a long time and finally he was getting the chance to go home and visit his family for a couple of weeks. He was glad to be home, but as most young men do, he soon got bored. One day he decided he was going to walk to the next village and try to meet some girls. My dad got dressed up in his officers suit and completed his ensemble with his standard issueed sidearm! I laughed at that part. He said he wanted to make an impression.
My dad ended up meeting some girls (sisters). Their parents knew my grandfather and they knew who my dad was so they asked him to stay. He ended up spending the day with the sisters. They insisted he have dinner with them, so he did. By the time he was ready to leave it was dark. He said he didn't think anything of it because he grew up in the area and home wasn't that far away.
My dad started heading home. He told us that between the two villages, as was common apparently, there was a cemetary in which both villages buried most of their dead. As he approached the cemetary, he started to get just a little nervous but ignored it. However, as he got closer it was clear that there was a mist forming. The mist came together and formed the outline of a person. The mist person began to hover towards my dad. My dad said he was frightened but he stood his ground. He unholstered his sidearm and fired three shots at the mist. The mist disapated and vanished entirely. The jungle was now quiet after the three loud pops of his gun. My dad hurried home. When he arrived my grandparents were still up. He told them what happened. My grandfather did his thing to look into it and said it was nothing. Grandpa said it was just one of the people buried at the cemetary being curious.
Mom Saw a Ghost
A few years ago, my parents were living with my younger brother. They decided to sell the house and upsize. The plan was to move into a large apartment so they could update the house and show it to potential buyers without interruption.
My brother found a really nice apartment complex that had just been built a few months before. It was close to the house. This was nice since drive time to work wouldn't be substantually altered and familiar stores and restaurants were still nearby. The place was really nice. I visited it and it never seemed spooky or strange at all. Everything was brand new, how could it be?!!
One day though, my niece started crying for no reason. It was her nap time, but she wouldn't go to sleep. She was laying down with the blanket up half over her face. When my brother asked her what was wrong, she would point to an empty corner of the ceiling and say "Niv niv...niv niv!" My brother though she saw a spider or something so he checked. Nothing was in the corner. It happened a couple more times and it started to freak the adults out.
Then one day, on a Saturday morning, my mom was in the living room with the babies. She was watching TV and just playing with them. That's when she heard footsteps come into the kitchen behind her. She just assumed it was my dad. She started talking to him about what she wanted to do that day. Then she heard something that spooked her. From the bathroom down the hall, she heard my dad. He was gargling and clearing his throat loudly the way he does in the morning. So she quickly turned to the kitchen and saw that no one was there! She glanced down the hallway and caught what looked like a white cape or the tail of a long bathrobe flare up like someone walking away really quickly. She got up thinking it was my sister-in-law. She went down the hallway and checked their room. Nothing. She thought for a second and knew it couldn't have been them since they weren't even home! My brother had made my sister-in-law go fishing with him early that morning. She checked her bedroom and sure enough, my dad wasn't in there because he was the one in the bathroom. She got spooked. She calmly came back to sit with the babies and waited for my dad to come out.
When she told my dad what happened, he just prayed for her and for the apartment. Well...actuall y, first my dad laughed. Then he prayed her and for the apartment. They lived in those apartments for a year. The house never did sell so they just moved back into the house. That was the only time my mom ever saw anything that strange there. It was weird though because the apartments were brand new. I think there was something with the land itself.