July 29, 2008
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wcfq 15e: Haunted
So apparently, every house we’ve ever lived in right down to the trailer my mother brought me home to when I was first born has been haunted. Supposedly the former tenant had killed her husband and then herself, but I only have my mother’s word for that.
I can usually tell right away if a building is haunted when I enter it, though occasionally some spirit will happen along after the fact. Such is the case with a store I once worked in… it was a bookstore. Apparently there is some rule that all bookstores must be haunted. There were always books leaping off the shelves, and I have a picture (a Halloween picture) which has some pretty interesting “light effects.”
Another place we lived in wasn’t haunted until my parents renovated the attic. When my sister and I moved up there, “all Hell broke loose.” I used to keep my stereo on a ledge overlooking the stairs and the ghost used to throw it down the stairs in the middle of the night. I’d say it was a music critic, but the stereo wasn’t usually on at that time. lol By the time we moved from that place, it was held together with electrical tape. But beyond hating my music, this ghost was pretty nasty. We played hide&seek in the dark (basically you listen for people in the dark and try to find them by sound alone) and my sister snuck back into the unfinished cubby to hide. There were some boards in the middle of the room, and she said that something grabbed her foot. When she fell, she fell to the side, which was very lucky because there were scissors stuck, point up, between the boards, and obviously there was no reason for scissors to be back there at all. I hated that cubby. The door was always coming open, and I’d wake up in the morning or come home from school and the door would be hanging open. Come to think of it, the ghost didn’t start throwing my stereo down the stairs until I blocked the door with a china cabinet.
Currently we live in a house which has at least three ghosts. We know for a fact that one of the former owners died in the livingroom. When we first moved in, I would smell cigars every once in a while (and the former owner was a cigar smoke). Also… the building used to be a whorehouse back in the 50s. lol Every once in a while, I’d hear old timey music on the stairs and sometimes when I was trying to sleep I’d hear “whispering.” There’s also weird drafts in my room. Mostly annoying stuff. I think one of the “whores” stuck around. There is also something in the attic, which I’m not sure if it’s a ghost or an elemental. It mostly just makes nasty smells, but one time I was sitting in my room very late at night and heard something walk over my head. Considering the only entry to the attic is in my room, this was UBER scary. I have the impression that whatever is up there, it’s there because there’s something hidden up there. I told this to my step-grandpa, who owned the house before we bought it, and he said that when he owned the place, he found a picture of some guy in a German-type helmet… so maybe some kind of Nazi war criminal lived here at some point and he still hangs out in the attic?My mother is also Very good at getting ghost pictures, orbs and mists. I have two photo albums filled with her pictures and the start of a third. The whole area we live in is supposed to be haunted. We live on a canal in Pennsylvania and only a few yards away a “Lady in White” is supposed to walk the canal. We’ve never seen her, but my mother gets most of her orb pictures at the canal and in our back yard. Some of those pictures are so filled with orbs, it looks like a swarm.
Anyway… obviously I believe in ghosts. I’ve been surrounded by them all my life. I’ve never seen a ghost, but I can hear them, sense them, and it has also been my misfortune to Smell them. heh
July 29th
Thor, or the Anglo-Saxon Thunor, is honored.
The Piscis Austrinids meteor shower peaks on this date. It began on July ninth and will end on August seventeenth. This shower is best seen from near-equatorial or southern hemisphere sites.
The Delta Aquarids meteor shower also peaks at this time and emanates from the same region of space. It began one day earlier than the Piscis Austrinids and will end two days after.
Comments (4)
*shudders*
yeah, I’m not a huge ghost fan, I haven’t really ever run across any that feel nice. . . At least you’re able to sense them though and have the knowledge and power to do something about them if need be.
I’ve never encountered a ghost. I’m not sure how I would react if I did–if I would be scared or not. That ghost that lived in the cubby sounds annoying–definitely a candidate for exorcism there.
Do you have to tell potential home buyers that your house is haunted if you’re selling it?
i’ve never been around a malicious spirit as you write about here but i have had a few experiences myself with orbs and light streaks and that type of thing. and i hear the things in my mind…. but you can count or discount that as ghosts in my own attic (head).
@heidenkind - Technically you don’t have to since a lot of people don’t believe in ghosts. We’ve never had anyone in to play ghost detective, so if it’s not bad enough to get “fixed” then I don’t think it’s bad enough to warn people about if they want to buy the house. On the other hand, if they actually asked, I’d tell them because some people would think it was cool to have a haunted house and they’d be more likely to ask about it.