Early memory of the paranormal

Something took place in the night when I was very young. The event has never faded from my memory even after at least 70 years. I think it was my first encounter with the paranormal. At the time my bed was still in my parents room, so I could not have been more than 3 or 4 years old. I was moved in with my older brother by the time I was five, maybe before. The episode began with my being awakened by the voice of a little girl who stayed with her aunt and uncle next door. She called my name at least twice as it was this that woke me up I recall saying "What are you doing here?". It was the middle of the night and the girl would not be wondering around and even at my young age, I knew it. Then came the cryptic message, "Mary says to get up at Moon." As she said this she moved closer to my bed and then she just disappeared. My mother was awakened by the talking and wanted to know what was going on? I tried to tell her and she said I had just had a nightmare to go back to sleep. I was teased about it the next morning at breakfast, especially by my older brother who had his own bedroom. But my mother said, "He was talking about Donna Sue and even making up her answers". Whoa, no way was I talking for Donna and if this was a nightmare how did my mother hear two voices. This episode was so vivid that I have never forgotten it. Donna Sues mother remarried and Donna went back home to live. I even saw her wedding announcement, many years later, in the paper. I wonder sometimes why this episode has stayed with me. Dreams, if such it was, are usually forgotten quickly. Yet if this dream had any meaning, I'm totally in the dark as to what it might have been. I'm guessing this took place around 1942 or 43.

Ghost of a child

As I have mentioned before, my wife uses a different bedroom due to a leg problem that that requires attention at off hours during the night. Last night we turned in about midnight; she to the room we call the Noah room and I and our two schnauzers the master bedroom. This morning my wife told me about an episode she experienced last night in the Noah room. She said her leg was bothering her and she was in the process of getting up to take care of it (she had not as yet turned on the light which is on an end table beside the bed), She caught movement out of the corner of her eye. When she looked toward the movement she said she distinctly saw a child, of 3 or 4 years of age, with long light brown hair, and dressed in a long white gown move across the bedroom and out into the upstairs hall. She did not see the child's face as it was turned from her but she recognized the gown as the type that very young children were often dressed in (both sexes) during the 1800's and early 1900's. She knew she was not having a waking dream as she went about correcting her leg problem and then got up to go to the bathroom. The Noah room is never pitch black with the lights off as there are three windows, one of which fronts main street and its street light. She was uncertain whether the child was male or female because this type of night dress was common for both in that time period. There were young children in the household of the builder and original owner of this 1857 house. Perhaps the spector was one of them. This is not the first time my wife has witnessed a "ghost", so she knew pretty quickly what she had witnessed. People generally do not believe in ghosts until they, themselves, experience it. Knowing you are seeing something extraordinary can have a profound effect on a person. The strange thing is, you are not scared, like the cartoonists imply. Curious, yes, or questioning; but not scared. Interesting.