My Paranormal Experience While on Holiday
By Matthew Nielsen

I used to spend a lot of time in the summer at my grandparents usually doing kids stuff such as, swimming, snorkeling, and a lot of time tubing or water skiing. Lucky for me there used to be a lot of kids that used to live 2 cottages down and 2 that lived right next door. For some reason we never really spent much time at my cottage we always went over to their cottages. I think one of the biggest reasons for this is because of where our cottage was located on the lake. It was very shallow off the end of the dock and had a lot of rocks in the water making it hard to jump in. The other two cottages we used to spend a lot of time may have had some rocks but it was usually safe to jump off the end of the dock.

One day we were going to have a game of what we call tube wars. Tube wars are where you go out in two tubes behind a boat and you try to throw the other person off their tube. We always remember to wear our life jackets and play as safely as we can, meaning we don’t get pulled behind the boat at full speed. I ran down to the basement which only the one door leading in from outside the cottage. I walked in and the first section of the basement had 3 rooms all unfinished. To the left there was an open room used for storage to the right was the tool room and behind it was the furnace room which was only big enough for the furnace and enough room to do any work that may be needed. The second section of the basement was taken up by the huge rock the cottage was built on. It was only 2 rooms 1 small room on the far right which housed the water filtration system; we used water from the lake, and the water softener. We always kept anything related to the water in the second section on the big rock that way it had a chance to dry out. I stepped in and looked in the first two rooms just in case someone got lazy and threw them in there instead of where they were supposed to be. I got halfway to the other section of the basement when I saw a shadow coming out of the room with the water filtration system. I quickly said hello and waited for a response. I heard nothing but I continued to watch the shadow walk out from that room towards the doorway in front of me. It began to scare me as soon as I didn’t get a response because I knew that no one else was supposed to be in the basement as everyone else was upstairs in the house. I thought to myself well maybe someone came into the basement threw the crawlspace but being the smallest child in cottage and barely being able to fit I knew there was no way anyone else would attempt it. I called out to whoever was in the other room 1 more time but when I didn’t get a response right away I turned and ran out of the basement. I didn’t bother to close the door I just ran to the corner of the basement turned around and watched the door to see if anyone was going to come out. I stood there for a few second but it felt like minutes I could feel my heart pounding every time I felt it pound it felt like it was coming out of my chest. When I didn’t see anyone come out I turned and ran up into the cottage and sat next to my grandma without saying a word.

I never did say anything to anyone about what happened that day. I never asked who it was nor did I ever talk about it again. Now some 15 years later no one can remember anything of that day so I will never find out what it was that I saw in the basement that day.

I decided to create the website http://hauntedcabin.net as a way of finding out what happened to me when I was a child. I further expanded to add a discussion forum located at http://hauntedcabin.net/forum to allow other people the chance to share their story just as I did.

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