Hi everyone, well I have been searching for years and years to what I would call this “apparition” its been bugging me for so long, I’ll tell you my story. When I was young about 6 or 7 years old, we had just moved to a new house, now when I moved I had heard stories of this place being haunted but for the longest time nothing happened, then strange things started occurring, my mother would hear footsteps coming up the basement stairs and even out cat got spooked and she said it tilted its ears and the hairs on its back stood up when she checked no one was there, one day I was in my room getting something while my brother and father were outside it was spring and they were cleaning up the big piles of snow separating them, well I was just about to go out and join them but I heard coughing in the room it came from the corner where the TV stand was but there was only about 2 inches from the wall it really spooked me cause no one was in the house and no radio’s were on, I passed it off as nothing.
Now here is where things would get crazy, me and my brother had bunk beds and he had the top bed and me the bottom our beds were shaped like a T and my feet were towards the wall next to the bedroom door, it’s funny no matter how much time passes I remember this as if it were yesterday, I had fallen asleep as we had an early bed time but I do remember waking up late at night it was all dark in the room I looked at the foot of my bed and there “he” was looking right at me writing this now I’m getting chills but he had a large brimmed hat and what appeared to be a cloak he was a black figure and I could not make any detail about him now the strangest thing is when I looked at him at first he startled me I couldn’t move or talk but I do remember feeling a calmness from him and I sensed no danger from him he was almost like watching over me it was very comforting I remember falling asleep then, this had gone on randomly for a time as I remember seeing him quite often my memory is still blurry from that as I don’t remember when I stopped seeing him but he was always there watching me I never did feel danger or dread.
Today is one of the happiest that I have been being able to finally see stories from other people and realize that this was not all in my imagination, though I still am wondering about the noises I heard from the house I know that it was not from the hat man as I knew and felt it to be different spirits, I have heard my name called many times from familiar voices of people I knew that were not around in houses but nothing since, one last thing has been bothering me everywhere I go I have moved quite a bit and I always have these black palm and finger prints on my wall it’s been bugging me as I don’t know what could have caused them, if you have a similar experience please email me at [email protected].
— Mike