I totally, 100% believe in ghosts. I hope everyone that meets me realizes that I'm very much a rational person and I do tend to be very suspect of the uneducated hicks that talk about their alien abductions and supernatural events but I always give them the benefit of the doubt considering I do have my own experience. I may have already told this story to people on RealPic tinychat or IRC, I can't remember.
When I was 3 or 4 years old living in South Gate, we were pretty crowded into our house as we had various people living in it all the time (my parents were way too welcoming to other families that had fallen on hard times) so I ended up having to sleep in the living room near the front yard. For a little while it was like nothing...it's hot here in LA during the nights so we had the front door open. One day, though, out of now where there voice outside the door started saying "Hi...ha hi...ha hi" in a whisper. Of course I was a bit scared but I thought maybe it was my stupid older brothers playing tricks on me. I looked at them and they were straight up knocked out so I knew it wasn't them. Even at that young of a age, I actually believed the world could be explained...I was already a science geek (I was reading comic strips at 2 years old and at 3 or 4 I was reading those kids science books...yes I was one of *those* little precocious brats) and I wanted to know what was going on. I talked to my mom about it the next day and she said "Oh it's probably the birds the guy owns across the street". I never heard a bird make whispers but whatever, my mom knew everything so I just took it in stride and didn't think much of it anymore. Until that night. Again, the whisper came, and again it was near my door. I knew it couldn't be birds across the street cause it was way too close! "Ha hi...hi...ha hi" came the whispers. I was scared again, but I wasn't getting attacked, I wasn't even being threatened. So I just dealt with it.
From time to time I would remind my mom that I still heard that voice. Different explanation came..."Oh it could be the sprinklers" "Maybe the TV is on" blah blah blah...I came to the conclusion that it had to be something that couldn't be explained, because nothing about it made sense. Years went by with every night that voice came...until my family was ready to move out. We were already transferring stuff back and forth little by little to the new house (in another part of LA). It was a week before we were gonna fully move out...that night, as usual I heard the voice "ha hi...ha hi..." but then something happened. The voice got closer, and louder, and inside the house... "ha hi....ha hi....RUBEN.... ha hi"
Hooooly shit...I got up, ran to my parents room and slid under the covers scared senseless. I was 8 years old.
After that I didn't have to be in that house no more, I stayed in our new home and I never heard that voice again. After reflecting up on it later I realized it had to be a ghost. There's no other explanation. There was this special on fox about the paranormal and one of the things they talked about was "white noise" from a tape recorder that could possibly be ghosts...and one of the voice that appeared had that same whisper I knew so well...jesus tapdancing christ
He whispered, "Jesus tapdancing Christ"?
