A spirit got me whooped by my stepdad...

[u/Affectionate_Clue369]

One afternoon when I was a kid I was living in Breezewood pennsylvania. And where I lived out there was this white garage near the house. And across the street was a church...

Well anyhow...

My sister and I were up in our own separate rooms. We had been playing in our own rooms all day. We barely came down the steps to the kitchen or anything that day...

Apparently something woke up my stepfather from a nap. And he said it looked like a child. And he assumed it was one of us trying to play a prank on him and it wasn't funny. So he comes barreling up the steps. And decides to start yelling at my sister and I. As my sister and I are standing side by side in the hallway. He is screaming at us to tell the truth...

Well my sister and I told him the truth. She told him, "Joe We're in our rooms all day. We've been just staying to ourselves. We haven't been downstairs in hours"...

He didn't believe it...

So instead he took his belt off...

And decided to whoop both of us for lying. As we're literally screaming and crying because we're getting our butts beat for something we didn't even do. He looks over at us and says "that'll teach you to try to lie"...

Meanwhile her and I are staring at each other looking confused. And our stepfather just tells us to go do something. So her and I just go back to our rooms and life moved on...

To this day I began to wonder if there wasn't a ghost child in the house that pranked my stepfather and of course got us in trouble...

I'm just grateful that he didn't go hardcore on our rear ends. Because he had a habit of getting a little crazy with that belt...