In my family we always have and always will go to church on Christmas Eve. Now we go to church every week, but for the Christmas mass we go to a Cathedral in the city.

Where my family always sits there is a very fancy wood piece carved into the wall about 150 feet from us. I have never liked the church. It is so old, and don’t get me wrong, it really is beautiful, but I have always gotten a bad feeling by it.

When I was really little I thought I was seeing someone walking behind it. But all I could see was a shadow. I never pointed it out to my mom or dad because I thought that I was imagining it. Then Christmas Eve when I was in fifth grade I saw a man looking at me.

That was two years ago, now every time I look at it that is all that I think about. Last year I did not see anything. This year, there was a white body, like pure white. I looked closer and I saw the same face that I saw two years ago.

We sometimes go there during other times of the year, the face is never there. And on Christmas Eve we go to 5:00 mass, so I would not be tired. There is a mausoleum under the church. Three bishops are buried there. But they would be in heaven now, right?

Sent in by Erin, Copyright 2009 ChristmasChimney.com