The house that I live in with my parents I have lived in
for 15 years. It has no particular history, just a generic
house built in the late 70's in Brisbane Suburbia. To my
knowledge no one has ever died in the house, or on the land
that the house was built on, as it used to be a flower farm
(not very frightening). However, I started to notice a
presence when I was about 17 or so.
When I finished high school, I decided to take a year off
before going to university and therefore was at home during
the day a lot more. I started to notice that around 3-4 in
the afternoon there was someone walking down our drive way.
Now we have dogs, and the kind of dogs that don't let
people in through the gate. So often I would wonder who was
walking down our driveway. I'd usually see this person out
of the corner of my eye but when I looked they were gone.
On more than one occasion I thought that my mother had come
home from work early and went out to meet her, finding
there was no one there.
I decided that this must be a trick of the light and went
on with my life. Towards summer it got more frequent, and
always at the same time of day. One night I was talking to
my Mum about these things and she said that she had seen
exactly the same thing, but didn't want to tell me because
she thought I wouldn't believe her. She confirmed
everything, even the time of day that she was seeing the
figure. And that she would sometimes think that it was me
or my Grandfather coming to visit.
Neither of us worried about it, it wasn't a threatening
experience. We just saw a figure in our driveway. On one
occasion we had the whole family over for a barbecue and we
were sitting in the living room waiting for my boyfriend to
show up. Neither me nor my mother had told anyone else
about the figure on the driveway, and both of us noticed it
at the same time. We turned, thinking that my boyfriend had
got home, only to find that no one was there. One of my
aunts (who is incredibly skeptical) turned her head as
well, also thinking someone had just walked into our yard.
Since then this figure has been seen in our kitchen and in
the hallway. Always just lingering in the shadows. Both me
and my mother seem to think that it is a man, but we
haven't ever been able to get a better view. We don't know
who he is or where they came from, but seeing as we have
never had any harm come of us, we've never really worried
about our shadowy figure.
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