Scary stories & Urban legends

Tracy

When my wife and I bought our first house, almost every night we heard what sounded like a kids footsteps running down the upstairs hallway and other random sounds.

A few years later when new son was 2 or 3 we would hear him talking in his room at night. One night I asked who he was talking to, he said "Tracy". I asked who is Tracy, and he says "the girl who lives in the wall. She's usually nice, but sometimes she scares me." He then described a girl with brown hair in a yellow dress who would play with him sometimes, and occasionally wake him up.

A couple years later we had added on to the house and moved the master bedroom downstairs, switching the kids rooms around. Our youngest was now in his old room, and about ready to transition from crib to toddler bed. She would cry almost every night in that room. Her first night in the toddler bed we heard a loud thud followed by screaming and rushed into the room, thinking she had fallen out of bed – she was on the other side of the room.

We looked up the history of the house but didn't find anything about any missing little girls or anyone with the name Tracy that had lived. Eventually,we moved.

The house was empty for a few months after we moved and the neighbor across the street called my wife one day, said about a week after we left she thought she saw our daughter looking out the window so she waved to her – and then she remembered we didn't live there anymore.