This is Real Ghost Stories Online.

Sometimes the most mysterious or scary or dark figures that we see or experience

if we're having a paranormal experience are not necessarily the worst of what's out there.

Sometimes, that's just how it's presented.

Sometimes that thing that looks very innocent or that you're feeling that seems kind of innocent is the most threatening. It's trying to build your trust, gain your trust,

to come in.

What we hear in our next story is just that.

Looks like a spirit of a little girl.

Following in a distance, always kind of there for many years.

But is that innocent-looking child really that?

Take a listen. Let me start from the beginning. because it's obviously the best place.

I won't give my name, but I'm 31 from Canterbury, England.

From a very young age, I would see things constantly that I couldn't explain and still can't to this day.

But from listening to many paranormal podcasts, it's clear I'm not the only one who has seen these things.

This is just a few of them, and I hope to put the others down to written word as well.

I must have been seven years old.

Still shared a room with my older brother, who was 10 years my senior at the time.

He moved out at 17, and it all started just before he did. At our bedroom, we shared a bunk bed.

Myself on the top, my brother on the bottom. It was a pretty standard bedroom, apart from the black paint that my brother somehow convinced our parents to paint the room,

two sets of draws and one of those enormous TVs that took a couple of full-grown men to move.

A far cry from the slim-line versions of recent years.

The bedside table next to my brother's bunk,

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