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.

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.

It was a Saturday night and we had all just settled down to bed when I received a text from my daughter who said that she had heard some voices in the kitchen area. She said she also had a strange feeling and would like me to come down stairs. So I went down stairs and she was sitting on her bed. I asked her what was going on and she said she was hearing voices coming from the direction of the kitchen. She then stood up and started walking out into the living areas of the house. She was walking slowly towards the kitchen and as she did this said that they were getting softer and she could barely hear them and then her eyes widened. She was looking towards the bottom of the stairway and when I asked her what she saw she said that she could see a trail of bright light like an aura or like a green colored fairy dust. I looked toward the bottom of the stairs but saw nothing.

She didn’t appear scared and just walked over to the area and as she got to the bottom of the stairway took a high step over something I could not see. I asked her what she was stepping over and she said she didn’t know she stepped over anything. Strange, so I just kept watching her and following her. She started to walk slowly up the stairs and I followed but as we got to the middle of the stairway where it turns she started to get scared. She started walking backward slowly down the stairs and said something was there she could feel it and it was now talking to her but it was not friendly. As we got to the bottom of the stairs she looked a little panicked and wanted to check Jason who was up the stairs sleeping. She was worried that it would try to hurt him. Then she nearly knocked me over trying to get by me and walked across the living room. She turned around and looked like she could barely breathe. She said, “Mom, there it is, its the large green figure…its standing right in front of us just staring at us, I don’t know what it wants.” I kept asking her what it was doing and she kept saying its just standing there, and then she looked past it to the stairs and looked scared again. She said, “there are the other things, the little dark shadows, they are at the bottom of the stairs they are moving fast and now they are by the couch, mom I don’t like those.” I asked her what happened to the figure and she said that he ran to the entryway and was just sitting there like crouching down. I asked where the dark things were and she said, “they keep moving back and forth by the couch and wait! Now they just ran up the stairs! Mom I don’t like those go and check Jason!”….I was pretty freaked out at this point and wasn’t going to leave her. I asked her again where the large figure was and she said, ” he is still by the door but now he is standing…he is walking toward us now…he is behind the couch….he is next to the couch now crouching down or kneeling…he is just sitting there staring at me and then at you….wait, now he is getting up he is standing behind the couch looking at us.” I asked her to ask him what he wanted and as she asked him she held out her hand to him. She said she wasn’t scared. As she got closer to him he started to walk toward the stairs and she said, “he wants us to follow him up the stairs mom.”

Well, neither of us wanted to go upstairs. That was where the dark figures went and those were the ones that scare her most. We did walk over to the stairway and then decided to go back to her room. I asked her if she was okay and she said she was fine. Then, not 10 seconds later she took three breaths in almost like she was hyperventilating. She was standing near to the door of her room and I asked her if she was okay. She started to cry and said, “I don’t know” and then said, “I can’t see you. Where are you mom?” I was confused. I asked her what she meant and she said, ” I can hear you, but I can’t see you…all I see is darkness and some little bright lights….mom…help me.”

I was in disbelief. I thought to myself, what kind of game is she playing here. I was almost angry and then she started to cry and she was shaking. Her eyes looked out of focus and were going back and forth very quickly. I thought to myself what could be happening and it came to me. She said, “It’s so dark mom, and there are more lights now…some are big and some are small it seems like more are coming.” I told her to stay calm and that I wasn’t going to leave her and I walked toward her and her eyes got wide. She said, “mom, there is a big bright light and it is right in front of me.” I told her that the big light was me and that it was my spirit and not to be scared. I told her I was going to touch her touch her hands and I held them in mine and she calmed right down. I told her I would not leave her and to tell me what else she saw. She said,”I am so scared, its so dark, help me get out of here.”

I was still in disbelief and so had to convince myself what was happening was real. The light in her room was on and I looked into her eyes. Her eyes were completely dilated. I grabbed a light and pointed it at her eyes and they were non-responsive. I pretended to point my finger in her eye and she didn’t even blink. She was really in this dark place and I felt a sense of helplessness. I was her mother and I didn’t know how to help her. I just held her hands and watched her.

Then all of a sudden she said, “Mom, I think I see Jake….he is running in place and there is a dog with him.” I told her that what she was seeing made sense. Jake is a dog lover through and through. She then looked towards where the baby slept and said that she could see JC and there were three lights with him. She looked towards me and said that there was my light and two others behind me. She continued like this for about 15 minutes and then she took another three deep breaths in. She started to cry and she held me like she has never held me before in her life. She couldn’t stop crying and said to me, “I can see you! I can see you! I was so scared. I didn’t think I was ever going to get out of there. I never want to be blind, of all things I could be I don’t ever want to be blind.” I just held her and cried with her.

I am not sure exactly what happened that night. I have never experienced anything like this and I can’t find anyone else who can tell what it was. I only know that I never want her to have to go through that again.