This is real ghost stories online.

When you're a child and have paranormal experiences, very likely you're going to be dismissed.

Oh it's your imagination you're a kid you're seeing things it's this it's that it's that

da da da da da da da da. You know and you know sometimes I understand where that's coming from if you're the parent you're trying to calm the child down you're trying not to play into fears because you know kids you know sometimes it is nothing sometimes it is just you know something outside or the house making

noises because you're a kid and you're learning that you know life can throw strange

noises at you sometimes and it's just normal.

But seeing shadow figures moving around your room at night

vividly for years on end, that ain't normal.

And if you saw it, you know it. It doesn't matter what age you are.

If these things are happening over and over, you know you have those experiences.

Our next story is just that someone recounting those experiences and all the dismissal

that they had throughout their lives but then finally getting the validation

that they were not alone in those very haunting years. Take a listen.

Take a listen. I'm currently 23 years old and first saw what I presumed to be a ghost was when I was in third grade.

A child or not I know what I saw and I was not seeing things because I was young.

So before anyone quickly judges what I say, understand I saw what I saw like you see daylight every day.

I was not dreaming, nor was I in any sort of sleep paralysis.

No way, shape or form. It was as clear to me as the day of when it happened.

I remember watching Are you Afraid that I saw this figure. I mentioned this because I always used to blame that show that night

I mentioned this because I always used to blame that show that night for seeing what I did, but you'll understand

in a moment why that was not the case.

Remember watching that show with my brother and sister, we all fell asleep in the same bed with my brother to my

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