Just wanted to share what my first experience with the paranormal was. I was about ten years old at the time, and my bedroom was at the opposite end of the house as everyone else's. It was about midnight one night, when I looked over toward my dresser, and saw a soccer-ball sized ball of light. It was pure white with a ring of blue around the edges. When I saw it, I was terrified, more because I didn't know what the heck it was than because of the thing itself. At that point in my life, I had never really thought of ghosts, or ever experienced anything like that before, so I had no idea what to think. As I stared at this ball of light, I heard my name called twice. I remember just huddling under the covers for a while, before I final got up the courage to jump out of bed and run out of the room. I went to the other part of the house to see if anyone was awake, but everyone was asleep. I stayed in the kitchen for a while, not knowing what to do, then tried to sleep on the living room couch. After a couple of hours, I finally went back to my own bed. The next morning, I asked my siblings and parents if any of them had called my name during the night, but they all said they hadn't.
I didn't experience anything else paranormal until 7 years later, but I never forgot that night. I still have no idea what the ball of light was though, or why it called my name.
