Arizona Ghost Stories

She started to describe the trouble she and her family had experienced. I was so interested in the little she did say that I asked her to hold her thoughts and come right over to our house. I wanted her to tell her story in the presence of Marcus and his mother. I informed Mother of some of the story which our neighbor had told to me over the phone. Mother responded by saying, “Let’s just wait to hear what she has to say.” Soon there was a knock on the door and I showed the neighbor in.We sat around the kitchen table and she told the most incredible and scary story I have ever heard.

Our neighbor started her story by saying that after having purchasing the antique dresser from our yard sale, she had dusted it off and placed the dresser in her guest room. “I loved it,” she said “I even bought a blue flower vase and a brass brushand- comb set that I knew would enhance its look. These I placed on top of a white doily on the dresser. It looked beautiful. I also went out and purchased a cute little embroidered boudoir stool and placed it in front of the dresser. It was now complete.”

The following weekend, her daughter had come to visit from Phoenix and spent the night in the guest room. During the night, the daughter said that she was awakened by a noise in the room. She slowly opened her eyes and saw that seated at the dresser was a strange blonde-haired woman. The woman was busy brushing her hair. She then noticed that the neighbor’s daughter was watching her and turned to face her. In a split second, the blonde woman was standing at the side of her bed! Her daughter was shocked to see this stranger in her room. She watched as this ghostly woman violently waved her arms
above her head.

The daughter noticed that the ghost woman was opening her mouth wide and making facial gestures, which gave the impression that the ghost was screaming with hatred or pain but, strangely, made no sounds.

Soon the daughter found the courage to grab her pillow, which she threw at the ghost. Immediately, the image of the ghost woman disappeared.With tear-filled eyes, the daughter turned on the lights and sat on the side of the bed trying to compose herself. She was not sure what had taken place. Did she dream it, or was she visited by an actual ghost? She soon grew tired and leaving the bedroom light on, crawled under the covers and fell back to sleep.

In the morning, the daughter told her mother about what she had experienced the night before, describing it as a nightmare. Our neighbor told us that she was fascinated by her daughter’s story, but skeptical.However, our neighbor’s skepticism soon
ended when they both went up to the dresser and discovered that on the new brush-and-comb set were several strands of blond hair! Since they are Chinese, our neighbor, her husband, and daughter all have quite dark hair.Whose hair was on the brush?

Our neighbor lifted up the brush with the blonde hair strands and showed her daughter. The daughter, very apprehensively stated, “Well, see, now you have the evidence in your hand. I told you there was a woman in this room with me.” Our
neighbor needed no further explanations. Immediately, she and her daughter removed the dresser from the guest bedroom and placed it in the garage where it was covered with an old carpet.