Background: I went to McDonald’s with two of my friends and asked them both if they had any ghost stories to share. AH told me that coming from a Mexican background, she was raised very in tune with ghost culture, and personal experiences only strengthened her belief. I asked her to share the one she considered most influential in her beliefs.

AH: So when I was a little girl, I always felt like very superstitious about stuff. I don’t know why, like, paranormal activity, but specifically, there’s one thing I felt, like, really creepy … I had never felt something like that in my life before.

So I used to live in, like, the back of, like, this house in the studio, so it was just one bedroom, one living room, and the kitchen and bathroom, which were, like, the tiniest little things ever. 
And then me and my brother slept in the, in the bedroom, but it was like the front door. So where the bedroom was, the front door was. And then the living room was where my parents slept.

I always had my mom sleep with me because I was so scared of, like, living there. I always thought something was outside the house, because you could hear everything, like, it was so creepy. I was, like, 7 years old, so I was still a grown ass kid, sleeping with my mother. because I was scared. 
But then one night, I was, like, having this dream. About, like, my dead great grandparents for some reason. And then I woke up and I was like, what the fuck?

Like, I had never met them in my whole entire life, ever. I don’t know what they look like. I don’t know anything. But I knew it was them because they were with my, like, my grandpa and grandma. 
And then I wake up like, what the fuck? And then I noticed it was just my brother next to me and I was okay. So I went back to sleep, and as I was sleeping, I felt like something, like grab me, like hold me. It was like freaky. Like [as] if it was hugging me. I don’t know, but then [] I woke up and nobody was near me. Like, my brother had gone on top of the bed because we used to sleep on the floor.

So our brother had gone to on the bed at some point in the night. 
So…it just felt like this [] pressure feeling, like, going all around me and I couldn’t move. It was crazy, and I was like, Ghost? But I don’t know. 
But I think it was my great, my great grandparents, like, specifically my grandma, ’cause it was, like, during the anniversary of her upper death.

Interviewer: When did this happen?

AH: …Near the anniversary of when my grandmother died. It was around my brother’s birthday so somewhere in January. That’s pretty much it, but there’s so much more stories I can tell you, but they’re not my personal stories.

Interviewer’s Thoughts: I’m not sure if I believe in ghosts yet, especially since this could’ve been caused by sleep paralysis or other sleep conditions. However, I do think the timing that this occured in is interesting. Seeing her great grandparents in the dream before later realizing it was the anniversary of her grandmother’s death does lean in favor of this being a potential ghost.