Unlikely Strangeness

I moved into my newly built house about 9 years ago ( just south of Gettysburg, PA ). The first night there I had a horrible dream about ghosts being in my house. I figured it was only new house jitters. Several years later, I was sleeping in my room and around 4 am, I heard a crinkling noise. I thought my dog had gotten into a bag in the closet, but then I remembered that I had let her out of my room a little while earlier.

Being a logical person, I moved on the next idea that maybe a mouse had gotten in my room ( it was winter time). In my tired confusion, I quickly realized that the noise wasn't coming from the floor, it was coming from a stack of crates that I use for food storage. Naturally, I started to panic because someone or something is playing with an unopened bag of chips and it's pitch black in my room so I can't really see. I jumped up, ran to the door, flung it open and switched on the light. I stood by the door, unmoving, just glaring at this bag of chips, trying to make sure I wasn't imagining it all.

I watched in horror as the bag of chips slowly crinkled and sank in as if an invisible hand was grabbing the bag. I couldn't believe what I was witnessing as ridiculous as it sounds. I even moved the bag to make sure there wasn't actually a mouse trying to eat the food. Nothing. I have never been so scared in my life. I still can't come up with any other explanation other than the paranormal.

J