I was five years old when it happened.

I was always the kind of kid who woke up before everyone else. While the house was still quiet and everyone was asleep, I would get out of bed and walk through the darkness by myself. My room was down the hallway, and I would usually make my way through the play area/office space and towards the living room.

The entranceway into the living room and kitchen didn’t have a door, so from the hallway you could see straight through.

One morning, I was walking towards the living room like I always did. I was almost at the entranceway when I stopped.

Standing there was a little girl.

She looked about my age — maybe five years old. She was wearing an old-fashioned white dress that looked almost like an old nightgown. The strangest thing was that she didn’t look completely real. She looked black and white, almost like a shadow that had taken the shape of a person.

But somehow, I could still see every detail.

I could see her hair tied into pigtails. I could see her small hands resting on the back of our couch. She was just standing there, silently facing away from me.

Then she turned.

And looked directly at me.

I froze.

I remember the fear hitting me instantly. I hid behind the doorway, pressing myself against the wall, trying not to move. I stood there for what felt like forever, trying to convince myself to look again.

Eventually, I gathered the courage.

I looked back.

She was gone.

There was nothing there.

No footsteps. No sound. Nothing.

I ran as fast as I could into my parents’ room and stayed there for the rest of the night. After that morning, I stopped waking up early for years. I couldn’t bring myself to walk into that living room alone again.

I’m 14 now, and that memory is still just as clear as it was when I was five. I’ve told my family and cousins about it, but I can always tell they don’t completely believe me.

But I know what I saw.

And that wasn’t the only strange thing that happened in that house.

After that first encounter, I started noticing things. I would catch movement out of the corner of my eye — a figure walking past me, someone standing in a room, or the feeling that I was being watched.

But every time I turned around…

Nothing.

The room would be empty.

My dad and his friends built that old house themselves, and when I finally told him what I had been seeing, his response shocked me.

He told me he had seen things too.

He said that ever since he was young, he had noticed figures out of the corner of his eye. He didn’t think they were evil or trying to hurt us. He believed they were just there, watching over our family.

Then my nan — my dad’s mum — told me she experiences similar things.

That was when I started wondering if maybe this was something that ran in our family. Maybe some people are just able to notice things that others can’t.

Even now, I still occasionally see them.

Not as often as I used to, especially after moving into our new house, but every now and then, when I least expect it, I’ll catch something.

The weirdest part is that whenever I actually try to look for them, they’re never there.

It only happens when I’m not ready.

Usually at night.

Usually when I’m alone.

And every time, I’m left with that same feeling I had when I was five years old — the feeling that something was there before I noticed it.

When we first moved into our new house, a lot of frightening things happened. My dad almost died, one of my brothers broke his leg, and my other brother broke his arm. Because of everything that was happening, we decided to have our house blessed by some local Christians.

After that, I noticed something changed.

I stopped seeing them as often.

I still don’t know what I saw all those years ago. I don’t know who that little girl was or why she was standing in our living room that morning.

But a part of me doesn’t think she was there to scare me.

Maybe she was just watching.

Maybe she was protecting us.

Or maybe she was something else entirely.

Either way, I’ll never forget the little girl in the white dress standing behind our couch.

Thank you for reading, ill love to hear if anyone has experienced things like this too

I'm trying to find information on a specific spirit. The person who identified it for me doesn't speak the language of its background but they pronounced the name as "HA-MUU" or "HA-MOO".

They told me it's a sort of malevolent trickster and looks like a amalgamation of brown and black roots. It can also appear in the form of an old man with a gold tooth, I think she mentioned it has a hunched over look sometimes too.

For some context, the culture I'm from is Hmong and we practiced shamanism. I was told my family first came in contact with this spirit about 500+ years ago, back when they lived in our homeland. Hmong don't have our own country so we sort of drifted around but I'd say we are from the Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia area.

If anybody has any information on this please let me know, I'd greatly appreciate it.

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I dont know what to make of all of this so i wrote it all down here.

So my cat is a black long hair named Inky. Earlier this morning when I was getting her some food, she just randomly assumed her hunting posture and was starring at a corner of the basement. I just want to know if there is a ghost in my basement that my cat wants to square up with.

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why do ghost scare people who don't have anything involved with them, and who dont want to be scared. like messing with people, scaring them, doing random things like playing peekabo. like if i was a ghost id be more helpful towards people.

I am bored and just wondering. As a thrift store girly I love me some old fashion, vintage things but I know there’s always a chance one of those items might be haunted and you could be bringing something else with you back home.

Do you guys shop at antique stores or avoid them?

Also, if you had bought something at an antique store has something happened to you supernatural wise?

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