Haunted House?

[snubbyfan]

My wife's Father passed away in 2019 and her Mother in May of 2023.
Her Mother was a bit of a hoarder and we've been taking the 6 hour round trip to clear out and organize the house most every weekend and spend the night there.
We've supplied Goodwill with most of their inventory, distributed a lot of stuff to family, cleared out the trash and recycled loads of stuff.
Anyway, the house has a nice deck and sometimes, I'll sit out there and smoke a cigar. One time I felt somebody kick the back of my chair. I thought my wife had snuck up behind me but when I looked, there was nobody there.
I was going through a mound of stuff in the living room when I saw what I thought was my wife out of the corner of my eye but again, when I looked there was nobody there.
Another time while I was vacuuming upstairs, I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a figure that looked like my wife's Father looking up the stairs at me.
Lately, I've been hearing footsteps at night and music, at low volume, coming from her father's downstairs office.
Kinda cool, I wonder what'll happen next.

 

[lihpster]

If it was my ghost you were hearing, I can tell you what would happen next. Either I'd finally clear my browser history, or my laptop would suddenly fly across the room and land on a very large magnet that just seemed to be there for no known reason.

 

[robvious]

hopefully he points to the hidden registered magnum and gold bars in the walls

 

[Doug627]

Been there. I had the house blessed and the "spook" moved on.

 

[Rustyt1953]

A timely thread. While I don't hold much truck with haints I can't quite discount them, either.

We moved here to our forever home in a forever community on a forever street in a forever house just three months ago.

While handing out candy on Halloween night my next door neighbor thought it a fitting time to enlighten me on the history of my new abode.

My living room was the scene of a murder/suicide in 2007. A couple with four kids (12th grade, 8th grade, 5th grade and kindergarten) entered into a bitter divorce. The wife took the kids and moved in with her mother. She asked the husband if she could come over while he was at work to get her kids' things. He said OK.

After she dropped her youngest off at Adams Elementary where she volunteered 5 days a week to help defray school activities costs. She went to retrieve some things. The husband had parked his car on the next street over and lay in wait. She stuck her key in the door, walked in and he shot her. He then threw her body on the porch and ate a bullet.

I told my friend Kev about this and he found the original WCPO news story. I found other media accounts of the event.

This doesn't bother us as far as living here. I asked our realtor why this wasn't brought up, not that it mattered, and she said she didn't have to disclose that.

Kevin then found this for me:


I ain't afraid of no ghosts.

 

[arjay]

I have a few tales about one particular house and an old school friend owned an 1880s hotel in an old mining town for 20 years and boy did he have some stories. We spent an evening swapping yarns and catching up a few years ago and drove one sceptic friend right up a wall lol

 

[jeffrefrig]

Our last dog Daisy, every once in a while, would get up on the end of the couch and bark at the ceiling. Our bedroom is above the living room and supposedly that's where the previous owner died. He finally must've made it to rest his soul. Either that or Daisy got used to him.
Edit to add: I can see why you can't sue or something because the ghost would usually be the only witness.

 

[sophie]

You guys are just plumb spooky.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Mom's dad was a refrigeration tech at City Ice & Fuel (owned by his cousins) in the 30's. I would be flummoxed by an A/C problem in my career. All of the sudden I would have a solution that I never encountered before. I had one of these one day about 65 years after his death, and a City HVAC inspector was next door and walked over to check my EPA certificates and noticed the repair. He said he hadn't seen that one for over 40 years! I said I figured it was from 1930's technology. OOO-EEE-OOO! Gramp died at 33 years old, 9 years before I was born! I don't think it runs in the DNA!

Ivan

 

[pharmer]

If any apparition asks you to "pull my finger," run. Joe

 

[Rudi]

Every culture reports "ghosts". I used to frequent a bar that was haunted. Saw a couple weird things.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I was born in a country steeped in the lore of the land walkers.

Mum taught me this at four. Made an impact it did:


"On young Albert Ramsbottom's birthday
His parents asked what he'd like most;
He said to see t' Tower of London
And gaze upon Anne Boleyn's ghost.

They thowt this request were unusual
And at first to refuse were inclined,
'Til Pa said a trip t' metrollopse
Might broaden the little lad's mind.

They took charrybank up to London
And got there at quarter to fower,
Then seeing as pubs wasn't open
They went straight away to the tower.

They didn't think much to the buildin'
'T weren't what they'd been led to suppose,
And the 'Bad Word' Tower didn't impress them,
They said Blackpool had got one of those.

At last Albert found a Beefeater
And filled the old chap with alarm.
By asking for Ghost of Anne Boleyn
As carried her 'ead 'neath her arm.

Said Beefeater 'You ought to come Fridays
If it's ghost of Anne Boleyn you seek,
Her union now limits her output
And she only gets one walk a week.

'But,' he said, 'if it's ghosts that you're after,
There's Lady Jane Grey's to be seen,
She runs around chased by the 'Eadsman
At midnight on th' old Tower Green.'

They waited on t' green till near midnight,
Then thinking they'd time for a sup,
They took out what food they'd brought with them
And waited for t' ghost to turn up.

On the first stroke of twelve, up jumped Albert,
His mouth full of cold, dripping toast,
With his stick with the 'orses 'ead 'andle
He pointed, and said 'Here's the ghost!'

They felt their skins going all goosey
As Lady Jane's Spectre drew near
And Albert fair swallered his tonsils
When the 'Eadsman an' all did appear.

The 'Eadsman chased Jane round the grass patch
They saw his axe flash in the moon
And seeing as poor lass were 'eadless
They wondered what what next he would prune.

He suddenly caught sight of Albert
As midnight was on its last chime
As he lifted his axe, father murmered
'We'll get the insurance this time.'

At that, Mother rose, taking umbridge;
She said, 'Put that cleaver away.
You're not cutting our Albert's 'ead off,
Yon collar were clean on today.

The brave little lad stood undaunted
'Til the ghost were within half a pace.
Then taking the toast he were eating,
Slapped it, dripping side down, in his face.

'T were a proper set-back for the 'Eadsman
He let out one 'owl of despair,
Then taking his ladyfriend with him
He disappeared - just like that, there.

When Pa saw the way as they vanished
He trembled with fear and looked blue,
'Til Ma went and patted his shoulder
An' said, 'Sallright lad, we saw it too.'

Some say 'twere the drippin' as done it,
From a roast leg of mutton it came,
And as th' 'Eadsman had been a Beefeater
They reckon he vanished from shame.

And around Tower Green, from that moment,
They've ne're seen a sign of the ghost,
But when t' Beefeaters go on night duty,
They take slices of cold drippin' toast."

~ Marriott Edgar

 

[ACORN]

A story told to me by a friend.
My friend's father was born and raised in one of the Carolinas. Sorry, I don't know which.
Anyway, he decided to drive to see his elderly mother back home. A fairly long drive.
Upon arriving and some catching up, they went to the kitchen for coffee.
Suddenly his did said "Well, I see you mom. I'm going home"
The mother asked "You saw him didn't you?"
His dad replied he had.
His dad told me later he had seen a Confederate soldier walk down the hall past the kitchen.

 

[jeffrefrig]

Twilight Zone...

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Ghoses.... feets don't fail me now!!!!!!!!

 

[NYlakesider]

Way back when (late 50s) I was a early teen my best friends house was rather interesting. They saw and heard strange things at times and in fact one time I was there when something happened that could not be explained.

Somehow they found old records about the property that said it was used as a cemetery and supposedly all the bodies were exhumed and moved in about the 1910s. Original the property was way outside of the city limits and as time moved on was made part of the city so that was why the bodies were moved.

 

[WR Moore]

I was watching one of those ghost hunter shows. While there's some bunk on those, one that really got me was on the Gettysburg battlefield. They had a static camera pointed at a Union gun position. At one point, for a very brief time, the nearest gun had a spectral crew.

Darn near every big house with servants quarters seems to have allegedly had a pregnant staff member hang herself, producing a ghost.

 

[djohns6]

I have never experienced anything like that myself . My wife and her family , and one of my sons definitely have . My wife will occasionally tell me that she smells cigarette smoke in our house . This is her father visiting . Other signs indicate that her Mother has been there .
There were a lot of other things that her family experienced in their home .

 

[snubbyfan]

Our last dog Daisy, every once in a while, would get up on the end of the couch and bark at the ceiling. Our bedroom is above the living room and supposedly that's where the previous owner died. He finally must've made it to rest his soul. Either that or Daisy got used to him.
Edit to add: I can see why you can't sue or something because the ghost would usually be the only witness.

We have 3 cats and one just sits and stares down the hall at night. I wonder what she sees.

 

[Greyman50]

There are ghosts in Many places. I grew up in a house built in 1768 but do not recall ever seeing or hearing anything. When a senior in high school a good friend came over to spend the night as we were headed out to see my Grandmother in Asheville the next day. George Washington was rumored to have spent the night there but my Father's research proved that wrong. Anyway my buddy was going to sleep, thinking about some ghost coming out when my cat jumped on the bed! What a scream!!!
When on postol team at Ft Bragg( will always be Bragg to me) another team mate and his wife came over for dinner, lived off post. After dinner we got to talking about ghosts, his wife asked us if we had seen " The Vander Light", we said no. She called her cousin and we all met and drove a little ways East to the railroad crossing in Vander N.C. When we got there a bunch of high school kids were all over making lots of noise. The cousin said " he wont come out" with all the noise, we need to wait until they leave. About 15 minutes later they all left. Was a cool fall night, clear, with half a moon so one could see a mile South on the rails to another crossing about half way. Was a field on the left side os the tracks, woods on the other. a few minutes later we saw a faint light in the tree tops about half way to the other crossing, could see cars going across every few minutes. The light slowly came down from the tree tops to the rail line, the cousin said " there he is". We watched in awe as the light came up the track toward us disappearing once in a while. Cousin said," he's looking for his head". Anyway after maybe 15 minutes the light got so close one could clearly see the light of a kerosene lantern. Light went into the ditch and we did not see it come out. We all turned around to leave, my wife and I were last in line, she was holding my arm. Well the ole Lotts wife thing hit my wife so she turned around. Screamed and dug her finger nails into my arm. We all turned around and the light was about 50' from us, one could clearly see the flickering of a oil lamps flame, amazing. We went home. Years later we were passing by Fayetteville and stopped for the night and told our kids about the Vander light. They wanted to go see but it was still daylight so we went to show them the crossing. Once there everything had changed, a pulp wood rail siding took up the space were the field was and there were many houses on right side of the track part of a development. We had parked on the side of the road just looking. This older black couple were walking down the road toward us. The gentleman came over and asked if we neede help. I told him we were showing our kids where the Vander light was. He paused and asked if we had seen him. Told him the story. He grew up just down the road, joined the Army after high school and retired several years ago. He said as kids they would see the Vander light and throw rocks at it, he said one time he had a cheap 22 pistol and he shot all six rounds at it and then threw the pistol and ran away. Have a few other ghost stories for later….Forgot to mention the light was supposedly from a brakeman on a stalled train in the caboose when the following train did not stop and crashed into the caboose killing him.