The cold wintry nights remind me of a travel nurse assignment I had in Stowe, Vermont. My family always went with me on my assignment, this included my son. He was about 18 at the time.
 
The agency I worked for had rented a very nice house for us. It was located in a very remote area of Stowe. All the houses on our road were rented to skiers. Except for weekends and holidays we were very much alone. It was a large house with approximate. 3000 sq. ft. This included a master bedroom above the den with its own stairway. The two parts of the house were very well separated.
 
My son had the rest of the upstairs to himself. His part of the upstairs included 3 bedrooms, several closets, a huge bathroom and two large skylights in the hall. The walls had several photos and mirror everywhere there was space for one.
 
We were so far way from anyone else that unless we went out, we never saw another human. I remember one day when the maintenance company came by to pick up the garbage, all three of us were standing at a different window just staring at the man in the truck. It was good to see another human.
 
Because this house was fully furnished, all we had to do was bring our clothes and toothbrushes. We felt very much like the family in Stephen Kings book, “The Shinning”
We were told almost all houses in New England were haunted. We were inclined to believe it because the sounds the house made at night, as the temperatures dropped would send more than one chill up our spines.
 
One night we all noticed the house was creaking more than usual. The moon was full, Ben stayed up late to watch television, after my husband and I went to bed. He went to bed much later and got up some time in the night to go to the bathroom.  Everything was totally dark after he turned off the bathroom light.  As he was returning to his bedroom, he had to go around a small turn in the hallway. All at once he saw something staring back at him. It was his height; it has messy fur or hair on its head. It was dressed in white and it was walking toward him. He made a mad dash for his room. He said his heart almost jumped out of his chest.
 
He ran into his room and grabbed a chair and propped it against the door. His heart was still pounds as he looked for something heavier to put against the door. As he was looking around for the next thing he was going to use as a barricade for the door, he got a glimpse of himself in the mirror over his dresser He was wearing a white tee shirt and had light colored sleep pants
 
All at once he started laughing. The creature that almost scared him to death was reflection of himself glowing from the moon shinning through the skylight.
 
He waited till daylight to un-barricade his door just in case.