Happy New Year! January 1, 2012

May it be a good and prosperous year for all of us!

The only activity I can report at this time would be some Christmas bells ringing for no apparent reason.

My wife has Christmas bells hanging on the front and back doors. Actually, they stay there year around.

This was roughly December 26th or 27th, and I was in my office alone. I had been home alone all week because I have been on vacation!

I expected more this past week, but all I got was one of those sets of bells ringing, and I’m not even sure which one it was. They sound very similar. Both doors were closed and locked and I didn’t see anyone outside.

As usual, I’m sure it wasn’t the cat, because he was asleep on the back of the sofa. Some watch dog he is.

Saturday, Nov. 19th, 2011

I saw the child again today.

My wife and I went to a party for a nephew. After a couple hours, I’d had enough and was ready to come back home. My wife wanted to stay and said she’d catch a ride with one of her sisters.

As I pulled into the driveway I saw the child beside the garage, walking away from me. I believe the child is a male and he was darker than his surroundings. It was dark when I got home.

A friend told me that dark apparitions are not good, but I definitely don’t feel a threat from this child.

Anyone have any input?

Sunday, Nov. 13th, 2011

I sold a car today. Our driveway is only one car wide, so I had to move 2 other vehicles off the driveway and into the grass to pull the vehicle I sold out of the garage.

I had just pulled the other cars to the side and was walking back toward the garage when I saw a child, approx. 8 to 12 years old, standing in my garage. Actually, it was dark in the garage and I saw the outline of a child.

The child was standing right next to an old bassinet that we use as a haunted house prop in our neighborhood Halloween haunted house that we put on for neighborhood kids every year. We use the bassinet in the ‘Demon Baby’ scene. In the bassinet are various props that had not been stored away yet.

I’m not sure if the Halloween props are significant to the story, except for the fact that, that is where the apparition was standing.

As I walked toward the garage, I watched the child standing there for 3 to 5 seconds when it simply vanished.

Activity here is definitely picking up again.

 

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Very strange event last night, but it didn’t happen in my home.

My wife and I were visiting an extended family member. We’d had a large family gathering at this person’s home on Saturday and we were invited to come back over on Sunday, after going out to a local concert featuring another family member.

After the concert we all went back to this persons home, sat out on the deck and talked. It was absolutely uneventful until we were just about ready to leave. I had made a comment about how nice their home was. It really was very nice and very well taken care of. The man of the house offered to show me the rest of the house and as we were taking a tour of the bedrooms I got that, by now, very familiar chill.

We had first gone into the back bedroom and I was commenting on some very beautiful antique bedroom furniture. We then stepped into the second bedroom and that’s when the chill came over me. Suddenly, it was like I was flooded with thoughts, but I knew they weren’t my own. It’s very hard to explain, but I knew the flood of thoughts was foreign to me, they weren’t my thoughts.

What I was getting was that something was happening in the home, over and over again that was not being noticed by the homeowners. I asked the man of the house if weird things were happening in this second bedroom. He immediately said no. We stood there for a few seconds when I realized that it wasn’t this second bedroom we were currently in, but the back bedroom that we had previously visited.

I said, “No, wait, it isn’t this room, but this other room..”, and we walked back into the back bedroom. I asked again, “Do weird things happen in here? Something that keeps happening over and over again?” He again stated that he knew of nothing weird happening in the home.

After a few more seconds of standing there, I told him, “You’re not alone here.” He asked that I not tell his wife that and I agreed that I wouldn’t.

I just stood there, being flooded with the foreign thoughts, when he began telling me about his wife’s father. Her father had recently lived with them, up until his death last November. He died in the home, in that back bedroom.

I believe that I was receiving some sort of message from him. That he had been doing something over and over again, in an attempt to be noticed. I couldn’t tell exactly what he was doing over and over, but I just kept getting that thought that he was doing something and that they were not noticing it.

I also got that something had happened the night before he had died, at around 7:00 PM, but I didn’t know what.

The man’s wife had started to notice that something was happening as I stood in the doorway to the back bedroom being flooded with these thoughts. She asked my wife and her husband, “Is he OK?” “What’s he doing?” I heard her husband say that I was simply admiring the woodwork of the home, and I just went with that, per his earlier request which was very understandable. His wife is very religious and believes that anything like what I encountered in her home has to be ‘of the devil’, so I didn’t want her to know what was happening.

My wife and I left just seconds after that. On the drive home I asked my wife a bunch of questions about her cousin and her recently deceased father. I had no idea who her cousins father was or that he had recently died last November. Many of the things that I told her on the ride home shocked her. Actually it shocked me too.

I asked, “How did he die? Was it a stroke?” It turns out that it was a stroke. We just found that out this morning.

Saturday, April 9th, 2011

1:45 PM

I’m home alone. My wife is out walking the dogs with her sister.

I was sitting in the living room watching TV and I heard the picture frame fall over again. This time I figured it was an explainable event, since it’s a beautiful day and our windows are open. I was surprised to see the frame standing just as I set it the other night.

I have no idea what is making that sound.

Friday, April 8th, 2011

We are definitely having an increase in activity. Last night, about 20 minutes after we got in bed, I started hearing the footsteps. It sounded like they were coming from right outside our bedroom. Thankfully my wife falls asleep very quickly and didn’t hear them. All of this activity was accompanied by the same old familiar ‘electric’ feeling that I’ve become used to and almost desensitized to.

About 10 minutes after that, a picture frame on a table just outside our bedroom fell over for no reason. It fell forward, which is very strange. It’s a typical picture frame, with the leg on the rear to prop it up vertically. It’s the type that leans slightly toward the rear, which is why it’s strange that it fell forward. Our cat was in bed with us the entire time and the sound woke both my wife and I.

Also strange is the fact that the picture that fell over is a photo of my wife’s late mother and still living father. I’ve recently posted that my wife’s mother had died recently. I don’t want to jump to any conclusions about a possible identity for this ‘spirit’, because there is no way to tell, at this time anyway. There may never be a way to tell, I don’t know.

I got up to check the house after the picture frame fell over but of course there was nothing to see. The table on which the frame sits is directly in front of a window, but no windows or doors were open at the time. There is no logical explanation for the frame falling over forward. No wind comes through a closed window, at least not enough to push over a fairly large picture frame and it wasn’t even a windy night.

And if this incident wasn’t already strange enough, about 30 minutes after I heard the frame fall, I heard it fall again. It was close enough to the sound of the first fall that I recognized it immediately and jumped up from the bed and went out the bedroom door, only to find the frame sitting perfectly upright, just as I had set it after the first fall. I have no idea what caused the second sound, but it sounded close enough to the sound that the picture frame made when it did fall, to call it exact.

If this incident upset my wife, she did not show it. She went right back to sleep and did not even mention it this morning.

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I feel that I should explain something else, as best I can, when I really have no explanation at all.

For the last 3 years, the position I hold requires that I travel out of town, and most often out of state, for a majority of each week. I am home for 3 days a week at most. Many if not most of my posts are concerning activity that I experience during the times that I’m home.

While I’m traveling, my wife experiences virtually no activity. I have no explanation for that, but I’m happy for it. There have been maybe one or two strange incidents that she has experienced while I’m gone, but for the most part there is nothing. I originally figured that if activity only happens around me, maybe it’s me that is haunted and not this home. But I experience virtually no activity when I’m traveling.

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Nothing earth shattering to report. I did, last night, hear the same footsteps that I had become so accustomed to in the past few years. I searched the house but of course found nothing.

I’ve had some thoughts recently that I wanted to share; What if these are spirits of deceased family members? That really hadn’t dawned on me before recent times. This could be my father, my oldest sister, aunts, uncles, or even ancestors from further back in time.

I’ve recently done some research on my lineage and found a tremendous amount of information about my ancestors on both my fathers and my mothers side.

I’ve actually traced my mothers side all the way back to the 1500′s in what is now Germany. My fathers side, so far, goes back to just before the American Revolutionary War where I hit a dead end, or so it would seem. I have at least two family members who fought in the Revolutionary War and lived to see the founding of this nation. I have a great, great grandfather who was a Confederate soldier in the Civil War and actually was one of Morgan’s Raiders.

What if these spirits are family members? It’s certainly possible I guess. It sure would be nice to know.

Edit: Now that I think about it, this recent activity has started just since I found this information about my ancestors. Coincidence?

Saturday, March 19th, 2011 – 2nd Post

I forgot to say that my wife’s mother has passed away within the last year. My wife understandably took it very hard but has since rebounded quite well and is now dealing with it well.

Her sister called her the other day and my wife and 2 of her sisters are going to see John Edwards in November. I have no opinion on John Edwards and have not seen his TV shows but my wife wants to go so I’m OK with it.

If anything interesting comes from it, I’ll post it here.

Saturday, March 19th, 2011

About 6 months after the last incident posted below, I finally put my foot down and basically said “NO MORE – GET OUT!” Well, it worked, for awhile anyway.

I’ve had roughly a year and a half with no activity at all. But I think it might be starting up again. And just like the last time, it’s starting with noises and footsteps at night.

I keep thinking I’m hearing voices at night too but I can’t tell where they’re coming from.

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Well, true to form, I’ve just had another ‘incident’ that happened after my wife had left and I was the only one home.

About 10 minutes ago, my wife left to visit some of her family. I am alone here, except for the cat.

Our toaster is old…very old. We bought it at a second hand store, just because we liked it. It’s a chrome, 2 slice toaster that looks like it maybe came from the 50′s or 60′s. I had to replace the electrical cord because it was fraying in some spots, would get quite warm when we used the toaster and just generally didn’t look safe. I replaced it with a heavy duty appliance cord, and that new cord is relatively short. Bear with me, this info will come into play later.

I had just made some toast to have with my coffee and took the toast and coffee to my office where I was reading. Suddenly I heard a loud ‘crash’ coming from the kitchen. My first thought was that the cat had jumped up on the counter and knocked something off. But without even getting up from my chair I could see the cat on the back of the sofa, where he likes to sit and look out the window.

I got up to investigate and found my old toaster on the floor in the kitchen. Now, I had just made toast and the toaster was still a bit warm. I have toast with my coffee often in the morning and there is a routine to making it. I put a plate in front of the toaster when I make toast so I know I didn’t have the toaster close to the front edge of the countertop.

Also, the toaster was unplugged, of course, as I found it on the floor. I picked the toaster up, set it back on the counter and plugged it back in. I then pulled the toaster to the front of the countertop as far as it would go, but the cord is so short it wouldn’t even make it to the front of the countertop. This toaster had to be unplugged first, if it were to accidently fall off the counter.

I know I left the toaster back toward the back of the counter, still plugged in, after I made my toast. Something had to have pushed with pretty good force to unplug that toaster and then knock it off the counter.

I LOVE that old toaster and don’t want it broken, so my ‘houseguests’ got a pretty good scolding this morning!

So far, the toaster still works.