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Posted by Madonna on October 29, 2009, 10:35 am, in reply to "This is the first time I ever told this story."
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Happened back in '81 when I was visiting my fiance in Dayton, OH...summertime. He lived in a small basement apartment under an old drugstore near Wright-Patterson AFB.
One night while I was sleeping on the couch, a little after 3am, the radio on the end table behind my head turned on and woke me up. This radio was an old Panasonic with knobs you had to turn to switch it on. Beside it was the clock with glow-in-the-dark numbers. I was irritated and groggy as I looked at the clock, but then turned my head and glanced toward the bathroom doorway. (I could see ok as the window over the couch was glass block and there was a street lamp outside)
Standing in the doorway was a full-body apparition...a woman in a long, brown dress that reached the floor. Her hair was pulled back into a bun and she was looking at me intently. I froze, literally petrified with fear (first time I ever truly understood that phrase...
) I couldn't move or utter a sound, and I wanted desperately to call out to my fiance asleep in his bedroom just 20 feet away. All I could do was shake and stare at the woman. She disappeared after about 5 seconds or so, but I swear it felt like an hour.
Immediately after she vanished the radio switched off. For 45 minutes I lay there stunned and terrified unable to move a muscle, fully expecting her to return any second. I was finally able to bolt off the couch, race into my fiance's bedroom, and dive on top of him, a blubbering idiot.
Never saw a ghost before that and haven't seen one since though I've had my share of "touches" by unseen entities that I attribute to my family members crossed over. Even had my old pup, Arthur, show up during the night and lay against my leg...not Cinder, and I was still awake when I felt his presence.
Anyhoo....that experience in Dayton scared the bejeebers out of me, and I wondered if the ghost-woman had been a pioneer that homesteaded there many, many years before the drugstore was ever around. 
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