All My Ghosts

The Old House

When I was a baby we lived in a single wide trailer on the same plot of land that my current home stands on. 

The trailer wasn't really old but it was certainly very creaky and would rock if someone walked through it. 

There has as far as I know never been a death in the old trailer nor on the property. Keep this in mind when further reading my stories. 

My mother was a stay at home mom and she raised my brother and I and took care of household chores while my father went to work during the day usually into the evenings. 

One particular day, my father was working and my mom was back in her bedroom which was on the opposite end of the trailer than me and my brother's room was. 

As far as I remember my mother telling me the story, my brother, who was two years old at the time, and I were both down for naps at the time this happened. 

My mother heard the door open and shut and she called out for my father, but no reply came. 

She felt the trailer rock as though someone was walking down it, and I believe she told me she heard the footsteps as well. 

She called out for my father again, and when no reply came, she got off of her bed and made her way down the hall and to the kitchen area. 

To her surprise, there was nobody there. 

I recall her saying this was not a singular event that happened, and she did have other creepy things that happened in the trailer, but never anything as significant as this single time.