This is a really cool thread. Love ghost stories - I even watch Ghost Hunters on SciFi.
I have a story, but it is more of a guardian angel story than a ghost story. This event took place when my daughter was approximately 18 months old. She and I were playing in the floor of our living room when DH arrived home from work. Just about an hour earlier I had placed a casserole in the oven for dinner, and it was time to check on it.
Before leaving DD alone in the living room, I popped her favorite video into the VCR (a Barney video). As usual she was completely engrossed within seconds, so I went into the next room to check on dinner. My plan was to return promptly to sit with DD, but just as I was closing the oven door, DH enters the kitchen and begins discussing his day at work.
No more than 2 or 3 minutes could have possibly passed when both DH and I looked simultaneously toward our bedroom door.
He said, "I wonder what that little squirt is up to?"
Knowing full well that he was referring to our daughter, and since I had just witnessed the same event, I replied, "I have no idea, but we had better go see."
We walked into our bedroom fully expecting to find our little one involved in her favorite pastime of scooting around in Daddys shoes, or possibly digging around in a box of his ball caps. To our surprise, she was nowhere to be found! By the looks on our faces, we each knew the other was quite puzzled.
DH said, Didnt you just see her in here?
Yes, I did. She walked right around the end of the bed here.
Exactly! said DH.
I immediately turned back and walked into the living room only to find that DD was not in sight. I noticed that our guest bedroom door, which is on the opposite end of the house from our bedroom and is always shut, was now ajar. A lump came into my throat because I knew there were things in there that she didnt need to find. I had just decided a day or two earlier that I needed to purchase one of those safety covers that prevents a toddler from opening doors. Unfortunately, I had failed to make it to the store to pick one up.
DH and I hurriedly walked toward the door and once inside we discovered the whereabouts of DD. She was sitting at the foot of the bed with a mouthful of tiny plastic game pieces from one of our pre-baby travel games! This game was inside a heavy dresser drawer that to this very day I still do not know how she opened by her tiny little self, but she did it by golly! She could have choked while DH and I were discussing his so-called horrible day at work.
Needless to say, the day didnt seem quite so horrible considering what could have happened if it had not been for our daughters little guardian angel.
(Oh
and it also goes without saying that the child safety doorknob cover was purchased the very next morning.)