I'm at my house. But that night I was so scared that I called my mom to come and pick me up from there. When we were on our way home, I told my mom everything that had happened at work, and she laughed and told me, "I've never seen you this scared. I thought you didn’t believe in ghosts." I told her that I wasn’t so sure about what to believe now. She then told my stepfather Armando who reassured me that I was old enough and that I shouldn’t be afraid of those things that don’t even exist and that he was going to show me that it was all in my head. We went to our backyard where we have some construction lights since we're trying to build a garage there. He went and turned them off, and I saw him do it. Then he said, "We're going to talk to the ghost." Of course I was scared and didn’t want to do it but went along with it anyway. My stepfather stood in the middle and commanded in Spanish, "Baker, if you're here and need something, show yourself to us!" The second he finished the sentence, the construction lights went on. I was so scared that I couldn’t scream or even move. We just looked at each other with scared eyes for a few seconds. Then I decided that it was my turn to be brave and went to check the light switch and it was on! I almost cried because I had seen my stepfather turn it off! I started shaking and told him, "That's it; I'm going inside. You deal with the ghost!" and ran to my house. Nothing else occurred after that, but we couldn’t explain what had happened in the backyard and how it was possible that the lights turned on and the creepy feeling we got when it happened. I'm still not sure if I believe in ghosts. But, I respect what people think about the supernatural a lot more than I used to. And I promised myself I would never laugh at ghosts or people who said they saw something. This world is full of mysteries, and some things are meant to be respected and left unsolved.
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