Child In Red

Since I was a child, I always want to experience paranormal occurrence. Here in the Philippines, it is part of our culture about ghost and otherworldly beings ("lamang lupa and the likes") to be discussed by others who experienced "it" and the curious ones. I was raised here in Bataan and in my exact municipality with large population, numerous ghost stories matches with them.

Proceeding with my experience (which is my first experience to see them happened on my second year of high school), my classmate came knocking at our house and said that she would want to lend my notes because of her absence yesterday. I gladly lent her my notebook and decided to accompany her going home. She didn't disagree since she was on a solo and it was 8:30pm late. On our way, I met one of my friends and asked him to accompany me so that I have someone to walk with on my way home.

On our way home after accompanying my classmate, we talked about events. As we got closer to our house (which is in front of an unoccupied unfinished three story house), I got sight of a girl, I think 5-years-old wearing a somewhat faded red simple dress with flowers printed on it, passing in front of us meters away and I think heading towards our doghouse. I didn't see her face since her head was bowing downward. I thought she was a normal kid so I ignored her and continued talking with my friend. As we got near our doghouse, I look around to search for the kid because I'm concerned that she might get bitten by our dog. But to my surprise, there was no sign of any person there. Our dog is also silently sleeping inside. There is also no way that kid can exit that area. I automatically asked my friend if he saw a kid girl walking towards our doghouse since he was with me at that time when I saw her. I also even thought he also saw her because the street was empty except us and the kid. But he said, "Ha? Wala naman. Bakit? Hala! May multo sa inyo." ("What? Nope. Why? Oh, there's a ghost in your house.") He laughed at me, trying to scare me and I was still wondering what is it that I saw.

My friend and I parted ways and, still wondering about that kid, I realize that the kid came from the unfinished house in front of ours, which is unoccupied for a year. How come that she comes from there since it was too dark at that unfinished house and not usual for a kid to walk around at late night? Is she a lost soul?

Sorry if I'm not that good at English language and it is also my first time to see ghost and my first entry here. I'm 18-years-old and still studying. I'm happy that I can share my personal experiences here. Thanks.