Now I know I'm supposed to tell this story as if were a ghost story, but in this case, this example of a time when I was fraught with peril is my experience with the supernatural. Everyone has those moments when they think they've seen a ghost. Whether you went a tour of a supposedly haunted asylum or if you just live in an older house, there's always this moment of "wait was that a ghost or am I being paranoid?" This moment was something that I couldn't explain was terrified in the moment.
About two years ago I attended a summer camp at some college in Ohio that I forget the name of. It was an arts camp and included two weeks of living on campus. During our orientation, some of the tour guides (who were current students at the college) told us the college used to be a hospital during the tuberculosis pandemic. Never believing in the supernatural, I thought nothing of it and continued with the camp.
One night I randomly woke up in the middle of the night because I felt someone sitting on my bed. My initial thought was my roommate trying to scare me. But as I rolled over and saw that she was lying in her bed, my stomach dropped. I slowly tilted my head to look down towards the edge of the bed. The end of the bed was dipped down, as if someone was sitting on the edge. Obviously I was terrified and turned to see if my roommate was seeing what I was seeing. I roll over and I see a glowing, mountain-dew colored cross above her bed. It was almost like a light projection, as it was glowing on the wall. I instantly became petrified to the state of being not able to move. I somehow ended up being able to fall asleep later that night.
The next morning, I approached my roommate and told her what I saw the previous night. I was nervous that I was just seeing things and it was all in my head. When I finished my story, my roommate's eyes widened as she told me she saw the cross too.
Of course we both freaked out and, not having any other explanation as to how it happened, we concluded that it was a ghost.
awesome!!
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