My daughter has also been seeing a lot more of them in the house, and is now seeing them at her school.  Today, she finally told me that she has been seeing this almost full apparition in class.  She says that she thinks that it knows she can see him, and that he looks like he is trying to avoid the other people walking around the classroom.  She said that it appears to look lost, and just keeps looking around the room.  She also said that it is wearing dull gray clothing.  She said that her friend saw that she was looking at something today, and asked her what was wrong.  Unfortunately, she was not able to just tell her. 

The other day I slipped on the stairs.  Now, I am a very athletic and have great reflexes, and don’t just go around falling everywhere.  I can’t even remember a time that I have tripped and fallen down.  In fact, I don’t think I ever have until now.  It was strange, because it felt like someone had put roller blades on the bottom of my feet.  I slipped down five steps, and luckily I was able to grab the railing and use my other arm to stop my fall.  It just didn’t feel like an accident, and I can’t say that it was anything else, but I have my suspicions.  Anyway, as I am writing this I just saw one of them run up the stairs, and about an hour ago, the dogs were barking at nothing we could see or hear, but it was at the bottom of the stairs.  These next few days are going to be interesting.

Tonight, I saw a program that I just caught the tail end of a few times before.  It was called Psychic Kids, and it was actually a pretty good show, other than the fact that it seems to focus on being scared.  The mothers are always very clingy and protective, and it seems like they make the situation way worse than it has to be. 

I know that I go down and sit with Sera, but I don’t feed into the fear.  I try to sit with her and understand what is going on, and then talk to her about why it might be happening.  We have tried to talk to them to find out what it is that they want, and we have tried to tell them to go away when we need rest.  For the most part, I think that she has become less afraid, but more frustrated because they don’t seem to want to leave us alone. 

A friend of mine suggested that we contact these people, after she read some of our posts.  I have thought about it, and maybe it would be a good experience for her to meet other kids that are going through similar things.  I know that I would have been happy to meet other kids with my abilities when I was growing up.  I had to live and learn through it all alone, my parents did not talk about these things growing up, even though they both experienced similar things.  It wasn’t until I was an adult that I found out about it.  I guess she is lucky to at least have me.

I fell asleep pretty quickly and about 35 minutes after I fell asleep, I woke up to a text from my 13-year-old daughter.  The first text I missed, and it just said, “Mommy,” the next one that I woke up to said, “Mommy Help.”  So once again I ran down stairs to find my daughter lying in bed and very scared.  I asked her what was wrong and she said that there is a face in the television.  I looked, but I could not see anything.  She refused to look in the direction of the screen, and said that it was the scariest thing she had ever seen.  She just described it as a white face with no eyes, but “very scary.”  When I touched her she was trembling.  I really hate that she is going through this, and I know that she tries to make them go away, and isn’t really afraid.  She just does not like it when they are persistent and won’t just leave her alone. 

I sat with her for a while so that she could go to sleep, and of course I could hear the footsteps in the attic again. I have heard rodents and know what those sound like, but these are not rodents.  They are the sound of the footsteps of a large person. 

The other night we went up stairs to get bins from the attic.  I had a funny feeling in my gut and my daughter looked towards the back of the attic, and claims she saw a full apparition.  She said it was as if it were a real person standing there.  I decided we would come back up later when my husband got home, just in case it were a real person.  I have heard crazier stories. 

Well, that is all that has happened during the last week.  I do keep hearing them in the stairway, attic, and in my room, but have not seen what my daughter sees.  I only have that feeling that something else is present.  I try to speak to them, but no response so far.  We will let you know though.

• 28 Days Later – I thought this movie was pretty scary.  I tend to like those movies that are on the verge of being a real possibility.  This movie did not have any real big movie stars in it, but the acting was great, and it kept me on the edge of the couch…lol.  It was much better than I thought it would be.
• Carrie – Was a great scary movie for its time.  I remember being pretty scared as a kid watching this one.
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre – I didn’t see this movie until about five years ago, and the scary part about it was that there are probably towns just like this somewhere.  The bloody guts and gore scenes were really good too.
• Saw – This one and all of its following sequels are all good for giving you chills up and down your spine.  The whole idea behind this one is the scariest of them all.  I think the one of the worst ones was in the second or third one when the girl falls into the syring filled pit.  Yuck, I hate the thought of thousands of pins being stuck in me.
• Exorcist – This movie is the paranormal scary winner of them all.  I loved this movie, and as I said before, I first saw it when I was nine.  After that, it was very difficult for movies to scare me.  My favorite scene has always been when the demons make her head do a complete 360. 
• Silence of the Lambs – A ScaryGeek classic.  I may be a bit biased as I just love the acting in this one by Anthony Hopkins.  He is amazing, and so is this movie. 
• Pet Sematary – This movie was pretty scary, maybe not the best, but definitely enjoyed it.  I had just had kids when I saw it, and when the little boy gets run over in the beginning I cried.  Then he comes back and the scene in the hallway when he is dying and says, “no fair” just made me cry again.  I know, its supposed to be scary.
• Alien – Definitely scary, and very good.  Those Aliens are the scariest of all Aliens that have ever been created.  Even better than the Predator.  This movie had me on edge the whole time. 
• Hostile - This is a movie I have not heard too much about, but it scared me because I know that there are really places like this, and that is something that makes me sick and scared at the same time.  Good movie if you like blood and guts, severed hands, fingers, toes, heads, you name it.

Well, this is just a list of some of my favorites, I will try to get a list of more together and post again.  Have fun.

I wanted to give everyone an update on the activity in our home, that has been occurring since about the middle of August of 2009.  We live in New Braunfels, Texas at the moment, with four of our five children.  Our oldest daughter is 13, and she seems to be the conduit that attracts these spirits to our home.  They are generally seen in or around the stairway, and are seen as shadow figures, orbs, bright figures, and now we are seeing actual full apparitions. 

Since August, my husband and I moved into the bedrooms upstairs, and all of the kids sleep together in the master bedroom downstairs.  This way they are as far away from the stairway as possible.  Anyway, after we put the kids to bed last night my daughter called me down to the bedroom because she was hearing footsteps in the attic.  Then she said she was also hearing voices, but she could not make out what they were saying.  I stayed with her in the bedroom for a while and then she began to get frustrated because she does not know why they won’t just leave her alone.  She said that all she wants to do is to be able to sleep.  I feel so bad for her.  We sat there and listened with her, but she said that they soon stopped.  I decided to just let her come up stairs and sleep with me, so that the both of us could get some sleep.

Well, she seemed to fall asleep pretty quickly, but I stayed awake for a bit, because I was feeling like something followed us up stairs.  I was trying to get comfortable when I heard footsteps and something in the attic.  I turned to the sound and heard it a couple more times, and then it settled down.  I didn’t tell my daughter this, but earlier before I went down to her bedroom, I was lying in the bed trying to get comfortable when I felt something grab my exposed leg, and it happened just as she called me down. 

We really are not afraid of these spirits anymore, we have gotten quite used to them.  The only problem is that they do not let us rest.  A good nights seep would be wonderful.  We will be moving soon, and I know that it will not solve our problem, but I am going to do my best to make these spirits stay right here in this house.

Dominique Dunne, who played the eldest daughter, was strangled by her abusive boyfriend in her driveway when she refused to reconcile with him in 1982.  She was only 22 years-old. 

Heather O’Rourke was the youngest daughter in the movie, and in she became ill in 1987 and was misdiagnosed with Crohn’s disease.  She had actually had a bowel obstruction which caused her to become septic, and died when she went in to cardiac arrest during her surgery. 

Will Sampson, died in 1987 at the age of 53.  He was ill prior to the filming of Poltergeist.  He was in need of a kidney transplant, and died of kidney failure.

Julian Beck had a major role in Poltergeist II, and was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1983, and died two years later at the age of 60.

Lou  Perry was murdered at his home in South Austin, Texas, in 2009. 

I guess most of these can be labeled coincidence, but during those few years between 1982 and 1988 they are not so sure.  They call it the “Polergeist” curse……Rest In Peace, Zelda!

Last night she woke me up with a text message at 11:30pm.  She was very upset and was crying.  She asked me to come down stairs because it won’t let her sleep.  So, once again, I kissed my husband good night and went down stairs to try and talk her through it all.  When I got down there she was crying, and I asked her why.  She said, that she is not sure why, but she always has to wait for all of her brothers and sister to fall asleep before she can even think about sleeping,  She feels like she has to protect them, and thinks it is because she is the oldest one.  I completely understood how she felt, because this was me when I was her age, except that I have me for a mother and Jason for a father.  We are trying to get her to see that this energy feeds off of fear, and that we need to stay strong, and make it go away.  She was still upset, and I think this not sleeping is finally taking a toll on her, and she just wants to sleep.

Well, now I am getting angry, and I decided to go one further than the circle, and I grabbed the sage, gave her a piece and kept one for myself.  I lit them both and we walked every corner of the house, especially the closet and stairway.  I ordered it to leave and she repeated after me…..and we did this through the whole house.  Then I had her come sleep with me in my room so that we could both get some sleep.  The house seemed to feel better afer the sage, and we were able to sleep.  We will see what happens tonight.

Well, I slept okay, but my daughter did not sleep at all last night.  She left her phone in her locker over the weekend, and did not have the ability to call me or text me.  She had stayed up for most of the night with the ghosts in the house pounding on her bathroom door asking her to let them in.  She said they wouldn’t stop, and that it sounded like there were two of them.  They kept knocking, shaking, and pushing on the door.  She said that they asked her why she wouldn’t just open the door for them.  She asked them to go away several times, but they then asked her why she wanted them to go, and why wouldn’t she open the door.  She said that they kept at it for hours and she looked exhausted.  She was shaking and crying when I got to her room.  I laid with her on the couch and put her to sleep and kept her home form school today so she could sleep. 

Within seconds of writing my story last night about the updates and the negative energy, the bracelet that my daughter made for me broke off…..not a coincidence I am sure. 

I guess we were not the only ones who were having problems with the paranormal last night.  When my husband got to work, the woman who works night shift, said that she kept hearing things in the building and no one else was around.  She had to get up and walk the building 4 times just to make sure there was no one else around.  My husband and I are starting to think it is just because this town is so old, and there are lots of old buildings, that there is a lot of ghost activity here. 

I have been wanting to visit the towns largest cemetery.  I am not sure why, but it seems to be calling me to it.  I am hoping to get out there before we leave this town to do just that.  I am sure that I will get some evidence of some kind to post on this site.  Well, that is all for now….have a scary day!