Creative Stories

The Woman in the White Dress

    In 2017 I just turned 18 and got out of school I was at my new house and my grandma was there helping me unpack and we realized that I left a few boxes in the car so we went out to the car and got them. When we came back in all the things I just unpacked was back in the boxes I didn't think anything of it I just said to myself it was just from lack of sleep and went back to what I was doing. A few weeks later I had all my stuff from my grandma's house and it was my first night being in the house by myself. I was up late watching a movie and when it ended I went upstairs to go to bed and I saw a woman in a white dress standing in the door way to the room beside mine. I said hello and she just turned and walked into the bedroom I went after her and when I got to the room and looked in no one was there. Again I said to myself its just lack of sleep and went to bed. As I was laying there I was thinking about a dream I had a couple months ago. The dream was about one of my friends moving to a new house and a man in a rocking chair kept asking her if she knew about the woman in the white dress and my friend kept saying no then she went back to her house and went inside and there was a woman in a white dress hanging from the chandelier and then I woke up. Now I was actually thinking that maybe there's something going on so I call my grandma and she comes over and I told her all about it then she calmed me down and said she'd stay with me so I go back to bed and she sleeps on a air mattress beside me. Around six o'clock in the morning I feel something touch my hand like fingers running across mine I thought it was just my grandma so I ignored it. A few minutes later I felt it again this time it startles me because I think there is something wrong with her. I turn the light on and look at her and she jumps awake and asks me what's wrong. I asked her if she touched me and she said no I'm like well something did and she asked if I was sure that it wasn't just a dream. That's when I told her that it happened twice and the second time I was wide awake. She got me to calm down and said it was okay and I went back to sleep. The next morning I woke up and my grandma is packing my stuff up. I yelled and asked her what she was doing she yelled back and told me to never yell at her again and that she was packing my stuff. I asked her why and she said that she woke up early for no reason and there was a woman in a white dress standing over her and when the woman in the dress didn't do anything my grandma went to back away and the woman grabbed her by the arm and told her that if she didn't leave she was going to kill her. So my grandma got up and started packing and the woman in the white dress followed and told her that she better take me or she would kill me as soon as my grandma left. So I started helping her quickly pack. All of a sudden as we're getting the stuff put in the car I realized I left my phone in the house so I told my grandma to get in the car. I went back inside to get it when I get in the living room where I left my phone I grabbed it. When I turn around the woman was there crying saying that she's sorry then her face got really red and she yelled "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE" so I ran out and jumped in the car and never went back. Later that day I went around town asking about the woman in the dress. Everyone kept looking away like they didn't know anything about it. Then I finally got to this antique store and there was a man in a rocking chair asking if I knew about the woman in the white dress and I said no but I asked him if he could tell me about it. So he told me to sit down and I did in the chair beside him. He told me that in the 1960's there was a woman that hanged herself from the chandelier. She was bipolar and could be the nicest person in the world and the next she could be trying to kill you. He looked at me to make sure I was still paying attention. Then he went on with the story the woman could never get anyone to love her and so she hung herself and the next day the man that she loved came to herself and saw her hanging and he told the police that he was going to ask her to marry him. This time when he looked at me I asked if he thinks I could stay in the house and he said that she would probably kill me. I was so upset but I knew he was right. So I go find my grandma and asked her if I could stay in her house until I get enough money for a new house and she said I could stay with her as long as I liked as long as I never went back to that house so we went to her house and we never saw the woman in the white dress again.