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I recently read posts by @dalane and @inertia4 about some eerie experiences they had. Sent chills down my spine! But it reminds me of an experience I had as a child. My family had rented a vacation cottage on the shores of a lake in a popular vacation spot. It was an old, historic 2-story house, and the bedroom my brother and I were sleeping in was upstairs. On the morning of our first day there, I was looking out the bedroom window, and in addition to the beautiful view, I could also see my reflection in the glass. But in addition to my own reflection in the window, I could see behind me a couple of buoys and rope laying on the bedroom floor. Yet, when I turned around, there was nothing on the floor! But as soon as I turned to face the window again, I could once again see the rope and buoys in the reflection! Thinking it was an optical illusion, or that the objects were somehow reflecting from outside, I went downstairs and into the yard and searched all around. There was no rope or buoys anywhere in site. I didn't say anything that day, but the next morning at breakfast I mentioned it to the owner of the house, who had stopped by to see how our vacation was going. She turned pale white when I mentioned the rope and buoys. She had said she had seen the same thing before in that very same room! She then told us that the original owners of the house had a child who lived in that bedroom that drowned in the lake. After the drowning, the family couldn't stand the heartbreak of being in that house and sold it and moved away. The owner said that she often saw the rope and buoys in the reflection in the glass in that room, but that I was the first person other than her to ever mention seeing them. It freaked me out so much that I couldn't sleep in that room for the rest of our vacation. Instead, I slept downstairs on the couch. I was afraid to even go back into the room again for fear of seeing the rope and buoys in the window reflection again! I was also convinced that I would see the ghost of the child who drowned!