It was so strange, I had to do a double take!

This happened a couple of weeks ago, but I just had to share this bizarre story with you.

We were spending the weekend at my parents to celebrate my mom's birthday, so my brother and his kids were there and my friend Stephanie was there as well. My parents were at work, so they didn't have the opportunity to witness something so bizarre!

It was Sunday morning and everyone (except my parents) were in the living room watching football and hanging out with the kids, when I thought I heard a voice in the other room. At first I thought it was one of my mom's friends just walking through the door like they have done or someone had left the tv on upstairs, so I go to investigate. I open the front door to see if anyone is outside and it's clear, but I still hear the voice. So I turn around and look up the stairs and see a little girl standing at the top of the stairs! I was so shocked that I had to do a double take! At first I thought I was seeing things, but it was a real girl! I called for my brother and asked him if he knew who she was and I believe he was in as much shock as I was.

My first thought was "how the hell did she get in here and who is she?" Were my parents hiding a blond girl in the house and not telling us about it??? This whole time, she's repeating the name Josephine. So I go upstairs and ask her what she's doing here and she still keeps repeating "Josephine". So I ask her what her name is and she said "Allison", so I ask her where her parents are and she starts saying Josephine again. While I'm doing this, Bill and my brother are outside looking for a parent who might be looking for their lost child, but it's a very quiet Sunday and no one is out.

Meanwhile, I finally get her downstairs and outside and my brother and Bill start knocking on doors to see who she belongs to. They end up finding a house that knows her and then points to the house next door. They knock on the door and sure enough, it's her house. She ended up living 4 houses down from my parents.

I'm just surprised that no one was looking for her. She was a special needs child so that proved to be a little difficult in the communication part, but she was not scared at all to be in our house with strangers, or at least she didn't show it.

Lesson here is that you should always keep your front door locked, you never know who may walk through it!