When i was 12 years old my family(mum, dad, sister, brother and my dog Pedro) and i moved into a big 2 storey house in Styx Creek, Newcastle. From the first time i set my eyes on the house i had a gut feeling we wouldn't be alone in there. When we first moved in the kitchen and 2 of the 4 bedrooms seemed really decrepit but that was fixed soon enough. On the first night i stayed there all i could was the floorboards in the hallway creeking and when i looked out nothing was there. On the second night we were all sitting in the lounge room watching a movie when the chandaleer fell from the ceiling which was really strange seeing as it was only 1 day old. The creeking floorboards continued then after a week my siblings and i started hearing children laughing, weeping and even calling out our names. We told our parents but they didn't believe us of course. About a month later a made a new friend who was interested in supernatural stuff so i told him about the strange noises. He told me if you want to find out if your house is haunted you take a photo of your tv when it's turned off and also at night time. I grabbed my mum's camera and took a photo that night of the tv.

A couple days later my mum developed the photos. She came up to me and said, "Why did you take a photo of a horror movie." so the first thing i did was grab the photo and ring my friend. He came over straight away. On the photo was a picture of a ghoulish figure dragging what looked like dead body down a dark corridor. After that my parents started complaing about eerie noises coming from the basement. One night i awoke to the weeping of Pedro (my dog). It was coming from the basement. I went down to the basement. When i reached the door the weeping stopped after a large 'THUD'! I walked down the steps and turned the light on revealing Pedro. I started calling his name but he wouldn't move. I went up to him and realised he was dead! There was a large cut on his head. I looked next to him and saw my dad's mallet with blood on it. I then heard a child's weeping again so i turned aroung and saw the same ghastly figure as in the photo. I yelled out to my parents. They came down and saw a quick glimpse of the macabre apparition but it then vanished into the wall. The next morning our things were packed and we didn't look back. Anyway thanks guys for reading my ghost experience and i hope you liked it. Sorry it was so long. I tried to keep it as short as possible but it was difficult. I even left a whole heap of things out. Thanks again!!