This whole paranormal experience as I mentioned above was totally unexpected.  It was something my brother and I were honestly not expecting to encounter. Heck, we didn’t even have any moment of a paranormal thought come across our minds during this point in time.

It was the last week of June when my brother and I scheduled to take a trip to go visit some family.  We haven’t seen our grandparents in 5 years after they moved to another state.  It made it harder when they moved again to live with one of our aunt and uncle since they are getting older, it was easier to know they were closer to someone in the family.

Once the end of June approached, my brother and I decided to drive from Arizona to Missouri where our grandparents, aunt and uncle live.  I had nothing against flying there, but since the family lived in a smaller town in Missouri, I thought it was easier and best to drive there so I had a car of my own and didn’t have to waste money renting one.  Plus, my aunt and uncle still had to work while my brother and I were visiting, so I thought it was just easiest to have my car.

Now, this whole paranormal experience occurred during our trip up from Arizona to Missouri.  I love to drive, so it wasn’t a huge challenge for me, especially when I have my brother who is old enough to drive, so we were able to trade off driving.  

Originally, my brother and I had plans on stopping in the tail end of Oklahoma, near the border of Kansas for the night.  However, when we approached the town we planned on staying, there weren't any hotels that came up for us to stay the night.  It was also around this time that our father called to see how our drive was going and we told him that we were trying to find a hotel for the night since we couldn’t find one in our location. 

Our father said that, if we were able to, Liberal, Kansas wasn’t too far from us and had plenty of hotels to stay.  So, after checking and seeing that we were an hour away from Liberal, Kansas, I decided to drive there and we found what looked to be a recently new hotel. One of the well known brand hotels.  And what made it even better, there was a Chicago’s Pizza across the parking lot.  It made plans for dinner even easier.

My brother and I got a room that was located on the 3rd floor.  It was a lovely room.  Two beds, a large shower, tv, even a couch. It was honestly one of the nicest two bed suites I’ve seen in a while.  And it was around the time we got lucky that we got to the hotel because we got hit by the approaching thunderstorm in the area.  I won’t lie, my brother and I were prepared to encounter a possible tornado warning and whatnot.

So, after we relaxed, got dinner, my brother and I passed out pretty early.  For the two of us, we’re both night owls. We could pretty much stay up til 3 am and further if we wanted too. But since we still had about 8-10 hours of a drive left before we made it to Missouri where our family lived, we decided to head to bed early, around 10 pm.  We were exhausted from already driving about 12-13 hours from Arizona to Kansas.

When I went to bed, the last thing I remember was my brother laying in the second bed. His bed was the one closest to the small living space where the couch was that has one of those wall dividers between it.  My bed was closest to the bathroom and window to the outside.  It was around 3 am when I woke up to what I thought was snoring.  When I woke up further, it was more of a groaning noise I was hearing.  So, I went to turn around to look at my brother to try and wake him up in hopes I could get him to re-adjust or something to hopefully bring down the groaning or snoring I was hearing.

Though, when I looked over, I didn’t see him in the second bed. I heard the groaning a few more times and got up, using my phone’s flashlight to navigate the dark hotel room. It was when I went around the small divider that I saw my brother laying on the couch, his back facing me.  So, I woke him up and asked if he was okay because he was groaning really loud.  In his sleepy state, he said he wasn’t groaning.  I told him he was and asked if he could try re-adjusting in hopes it would help him prevent groaning again.  I’m a very light sleeper. The simplest of noise or light will wake me. No joke.

After that, I went back to my bed and fell back asleep.  Now, I would like to inform, that I was unaware that the reason my brother moved to the couch was from a paranormal experience.  

It wasn’t until it hit around 6:30 am when my paranormal experience happened.  I had my alarm set for 7 am.  I was laying in bed when I slowly woke up to the feeling of what I could best describe as someone walking on the bed.  Imagine if a little kid, dog, or cat was walking along the top of the bed sheets.  For me, it reminds me of my cat’s Sonny and Cher walking on top of the bed when they want to come up to me or my boyfriend.

Knowing that my cats weren’t there, in reflex, I moved my legs thinking it was just the sheets moving from the mass of my body being wrapped up.  I felt the same sensation again and repeated the same movement, moving my feet.  Of course I was fully awake at this point but kept my eyes closed until my alarm went off.

I was laying on my side, back facing the window, front facing towards the front of the room, when I suddenly felt the sensation of something crawling, more like walking up along my side. Again, it felt as if one of my cat’s was crawling up along my body.  It was that moment that got me to push up and look around. Once I pushed myself up and looked around, there was nothing on my bed, nothing out of the norm.

But I was at a point where it was weird and unexpected.  So I literally said, “Fuck this” and got out of the bed and shut my alarm off that had about 20 minutes left before it went off. I grabbed clothes and went to take a shower to get ready for the day.  

After I finished getting ready, I woke up my brother to see if he wanted to get breakfast or get ready. He wanted to get food first and I was waiting for him to wake up more before heading down. As I waited, I decided to tell him the weird experience I had about an half an hour prior before I woke him.  

He looked at me shocked and asked if there was anything else and I told him no.  I asked him specifically why and if there was something he had similar happen to him.  My brother told me it was around midnight, almost 1 am when he had his paranormal experience. 

My brother was lying on the second bed, closest to the main entrance of the hotel room. His back towards the window and my side.  He told me that he woke from the feeling of someone wrapping an arm around his waist. As if a significant other was trying to spoon you and wrapped their arm around you.  My brother wanted to swing out of being startled, but he didn’t, thinking it might have been me.  But when he looked over, he saw no one behind him.  He only saw me sleeping in the other bed.

Startled and a little on edge, he got out of bed and walked through the hotel room to make sure that there wasn’t anyone in the room with us.  Not finding anyone, my brother moved to the couch we had in the hotel room.  Once he laid on the couch, he felt the presence of someone watching him.  Looking up and towards the wall divider that divided the beds from the living space, he claimed he saw a shadow figure sitting on the wall divider looking at him.  He quickly turned his head back and closed his eyes until he fell back asleep.

After hearing that, I started wondering, even to this day if it was my brother that I really heard groaning.  It was definitely an experience my brother and I wasn’t expecting to have but it makes for a nice story to share with people.