Some paranormal events can be very amusing and some remind us that what we are dealing with is unknown and we shouldn’t make any assumptions.

I was attending my first big birthday party, it was for a little girl in my class whose parents wanted to make a big deal out of her turning 10. I remember it being lots of fun, brightly colored and ridiculously silly.

At the end of it we all piled into sleeping bags and started talking about ghosts. Though none of the friends I had then knew about my own experiences I remember thinking it would be nice to talk about it. I never really got the chance.

The birthday girl’s older brother came into the room at key moment during a ghost story and scared us all. Nothing like a room full of squealing little girls, I’m surprised her parents didn’t come storming in, but perhaps they were somewhere laughing at all of the excitement.

I remember that her brother was not nice. He laughed at us for being scared and then proceeded to pick on his little sister. I think her name was Anna, I can’t remember for certain, but know that I liked her.

The brother continued to taunt her and called her stupid. I think Anna and some of the other girls shot back insults at him, I know I didn’t, I was too timid.

Finally the brother got tired of his game and turned to leave, but as he did he very meanly announced that we were all stupid because there were no such things as ghosts.

He was standing next to a side table on the edge of the room when he said it and he had all of our attention. Right after the words were out of his mouth a large glass paperweight scooted off of the table and fell on his foot.

It must have hurt, because he even swore. Naturally, the room erupted in laughter. We must have all been shocked, we all saw that there had been nothing there to move the paperweight, but I think seeing him hop around was just too funny after he had been so mean to really to take it all in.

Though experiences with ghosts and hauntings don’t often take violent turns, I know that we all appreciated that one. The brother was not seriously hurt, but he didn’t say anything else to us as he stalked off and he didn’t come back that night. He looked a little scared when he left.

What exactly happened that night? Could it have been a ghost that saw fit to scare the boy? Or perhaps it was Anna who may have never known to learn telekinesis, but gathered all of her energy in anger and reacted without understanding it?

I know we spoke of it for a long time that night. We had all decided it was a ghost. A cute boy ghost if I remember correctly. I didn’t see anything that night, so I have never really been certain what caused it, but it was kind of funny.

Goodbye for now, another end.
Until a time we meet again.

-Seline