Suicide Silence - a real life ghost experience

(I entered this is the "Ghost Story" comp. these events really happened...)  
 
"Suicide Silence"  
 
 
I walked down Fox Street one warm afternoon from my house to go to my friends house, just five houses away, but never got there that day. Three houses down, as I passed the candy girls house another girl was standing on the porch and she asked me if I wanted some candy. Well I was about 10 years old and what 10 year old boy doesn't want candy? And besides, this is the house where the candy girl lives and she would always invite me in for a few pieces of candy when she saw me walking by. So of course I went in as she held the door open for me. I heard the door creek and close behind me. Now one thing you should know about the candy girl is that she was actually an older woman, probably in her 60's, but I wasn't really sure, I had known her my whole life and she was always very nice to me. I just always called her the candy girl because she had always handed out cany to the neighborhood kids. But for some reason, she didn't seem to be there. So I walked over to the table and grabbed a few pieces of candy, as was usual, from her candy dish.  
 
Just as I was about to turn to leave, I heard footsteps coming from the kitchen. It was the candy girl and her husband who came to see who was making noise in the living room. When she saw me she scolded me for just walking in without knocking or asking for some candy instead of just taking it. So I told her the girl invited me in and said I could have some. She asked, "what girl?" in a harsh tone of voice. I turned to point and say "that girl", but she wasn't there. The room was empty so I ran over to the door and looked outside but there was no one around and not enough time had passed for her to get away. So I just said, she's gone but she was just here right at the door.  
 
Then the candy girl looked at me with a look I had never seen before. Her eyes were like fire and she began screaming at me to get out of the house and never come back again. I was so scared I ran back to my house and hid behind the couch in the living room till my dad came home from work.  
 
I never told anyone about that until many years later when my brother asked me if I had ever seen a ghost and I said maybe, but I wasn't sure. I told him what had happened at the candy girls house that day when I was about 10. He was like, oh my god, you're kidding me. He said he saw the girl too. He told me it was the girl that used to stay there with her Aunt, who was the candy girl. But the teenage girl was dead. She had killed herself with a shotgun blast in her shoulder. Several years later my brother was talking to one of her relatives who said that it was an accident because she bought the shotgun as a gift for her brother. Not an unusual thing in Gloversville, NY as most people from there are hunters. Apparently she was getting it ready to give it to him as a gift when it went off.  
 
In the hospital she kept saying it was an accident and was begging them to save her. But they couldn't stop the bleeding and she died. My mother was a nurse there and saw them bring her in just as she was getting ready to leave for the night. She never told any of us about that at the time.  
 
Was it her ghost on the porch that opened the door for me that day? I never touched the door except to leave, so unless the door opened by itself, who else could it have been?  
 
JJ