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Spooky!
Clara Bow:
Ulla's been nice enough to share some true ghost stories from her college on another thread ("Why is everything in my house junk?" on I Need A Hug) and it got me to thinking...who else here is haunted, or knows of a good haunting in your area (be prepared for me to ask for the area or try to guess it, ghost stories are my passion). You don't have to tell where you're from if you don't want to obviously.
This is just for fun and just to share...I think that there are others on here who like me are amateur ghostphiles.
I'll start:
The house I grew up in always gave me the creeps. Sometimes at night you could hear someone walking across the living room floor, there was no one there of course. There was a constant sense of unease, like you would get when someone is watching you. Especially alone at night.
A woman died in my bedroom at that house. I can tell you exactly where, there was a cold spot in that room.
Also, the townhouse my husband and I lived in when we first got married was the site of a homicide. A patient from the hospital here came in and murdered the psychiatrist who lived there. My cat would not go anywhere near the dining room and the upstairs spare bedroom was downright scary. I would not go in there alone. The door would swing open, even when firmly shut and there was a deep sense of tragedy in that room. I had awful nightmares living there and could not stand to be there alone. The house where I am now is the first place save the dorm I lived in in college that I haven't had the heebiejeebies...thank heavens!
Shoo:
This isn't really spooky (to me) but an interesting paranormal story.
In our old house, when my dd was very little, we had a monitor in her bedroom - the kind that has a camera and a little television screen we could look at to see watch her. It had infrared, so we could see her in the dark while she was sleeping.
The orb activity in her bedroom was astounding. The infrared picked up the energy balls as they flew around in her room. Sometimes there was just one zipping around. Other times there were several. We don't know who these spirits were, but they really liked my dd's bedroom.
Clara Bow:
Sounds like something protective, doesn't it? You spirits do often attach themselves to children.
Shoo:
One night, at 12:30 a.m., the central fire alarm went off in our condo. This is the very loud, screeching alarm that goes off in every unit of the building, to alert residents to something happening *somewhere* in the building, so they can get out. If this alarm goes off in one house, it goes off in every house in the building.
When it went off, we were freaked OUT. We jumped out of bed, went into our dd's room, grabbed her, and made our way out the door into the parking lot. The alarm was so loud, we couldn't hear ourselves talking to each other. The alarm stopped just as we opened the door to go outside.
Out in the parking lot, shivvering, we stood and waited for everyone else to come running out. And we waited for the fire department to show up. We stood there alone, and NO ONE else came. It was dark in all the other houses. After about 5 minutes, we went back inside and called 911 to ask when the fire department was coming. They said they had no record of an alarm sounding at our residence. They sent the fire department anyway, who showed up a few minutes later, and checked things out and found nothing. They checked the alarm closet outside to see if the alarm had triggered. Nothing.
The next day, we contacted the property managers who contacted the alarm company. They came and inspected the alarm system and said it did not go off. We said, oh, yes, it certainly did. They said that was impossible. Did anyone else hear it? Apparently not. None of our neighbors heard it. The fire department was not notified, etc. Again, impossible for that to happen, they said. It's not wired that way. It can't go off in only one unit. They left shaking their heads saying they'd try to figure out what happened, but as far as they could tell, the alarm did not sound, and there were no defects in wiring or anything else they could detect. The entire alarm system was thoroughly inspected soon after, and was found to be in perfect working order.
I got in touch with a man I know who does psychic readings (and had done one for me a year prior). I explained to him what happened, and he explained that it was most likely an "ornery" spirit passing through who wanted to scare us. I was so angry that I spoke aloud in my home that whoever did that had better NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT AGAIN. To get out of my house and leave us alone because I was REALLY mad.
Nothing like it ever happened again. We sold our house and moved away a year or so later.
Sandi Papaya:
This post is a figment of your imagination. Nothing to see; move along.
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