Child in Chicago

Hi, my name is Cheryl. I am 17 years old and have lived 
in Chicago Ridge IL my whole life. 

I am pretty sure that my house is haunted. 

Since I can remember, I have been seeing weird visions 
and having weird feelings in my house. It bothered me so 
much that I have asked my parents tons of times about 
the history of our house. 

According to them nobody ever died in the house. OK here 
are some of the reasons I feel my house is haunted. 

Since I was little I have always gotten up in the middle 
of the night to go to the bathroom. Now, when I open up 
my bedroom door, the stairway is right in front of me. 
Nobody lives up there, it is vacant. 

I used to think to myself that maybe I was just letting 
my imagination run away with me, but I still see things 
to this day.

I always see a mans legs on the stairs just standing there. 
I never see his face. He is always standing half way up the 
stairs. Almost as if he is trying to keep me from going up 
there. 

I also see (downstairs) a little girl that ranges in age 
from about 5-15 at times. ( Sometimes she is little, 
sometimes older) It is always the same girl. She watches 
me and my friends sometimes. I can see her in the corner 
of my eye all the time but as soon as I look, she ducks or 
hides and is gone. 

Once when I was little (about 5 or 6) I had a dream. I was 
in the white nightgown that I always see the girl in. I was 
in my kitchen but everything looked different. It looked 
old fashioned. I saw in my dream a ghost or a white spirit 
floating by one of the cabinets. I tried to scream in my 
dream but I couldn't. I woke up screaming.

I never told any of my friends about this in fear of being 
embarrassed.

But then one day my friend Cathy saw what she said was a 
little girl with brown hair and wearing a white nightgown. 
She got so scared she left my house. 

Then, about a month I had a group of friends over. My friend 
Steve went to the bathroom. On his way back, he must have 
seen something on the stairs because he asked me "Who is 
upstairs?" and I told him that nobody was up there and he 
insisted that he saw a man standing on the stairs and he 
only saw his legs.