It was Christmas Eve 1995, and our family was visiting
my grandparents bed and breakfast for the holiday.
The house was built in the early 1900's on the Antietam
battlefield, right next to the huge union graveyard with more
than 2000 graves. (The town is called Sharpsburg MD.)
I was
sleeping in a room called the smoke house. The smoke house is
a room attached to the house it has a huge fireplace and
was used to smoke and dry meats. But my Gradfather turned
it into a room by building a small loft just big enough for
a bed and a dresser, and just high enough to stand up were
the point of the ceiling was. There is a very narrow little
staircase that goes up to the loft and the bed is facing the
staircase.
Anyway I was sleeping in the bed on Christmas
eve. I remember it to be a very windy night and the house has
a copper roof so it was very noisy, with all the trees
scratching. I was sound asleep, but I woke up and had a
very strange feeling. I felt like I was floating, I could
not feel the bed touching my back. I wanted to turn my head
to see if I was lying on the bed but I was paralized. I then
felt a strong sense of Evil. It was bad and I felt like I was
in danger.
Then I saw a DARK shadow of a man rise up the staircase.
He had no features just a shadow. He stood at the top of the
stairs just kind of looking at me. I wanted to scream but I
couldn't. After what seemed like an eternity the figured vanished.
I was scared out of my mind and at the time I was a teenage boy who was
not scared easy.
After that night I never slept in that room alone. A few
days after that a few of use were talking and the subject of ghosts came
up. I asked if anyone thought the house was haunted, and my uncle who
lived near by, (and who was always watched the house when my grandparents
went away) said he knew the house was haunted. They recounted the exact
expierence I had, he was in a different room where the bed faces a
stairway, and recalled it being a windy night too. After my uncle had I
has shared the same story, my aunt who had been listening said she had
also had that happen to her, but had never told anyone.
Most people I tell this to don't believe me, but I swear it to be true.
