I apologize for the lack of entries, but nothing is happening, at least that I’ve noticed. It’s strange that we’ve now gone this long without any activity. I don’t know, I can’t explain it.
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
It’s been unusually quiet these past weeks. With all the activity of the Holidays, maybe we were just not noticing things as much, but now we’ve settled down, back into our same old routine.
You may remember the problems we were having with the TV in the bedroom. Well, we got rid of that TV and put the one from the office in the bedroom until we could get another one. Once we got that TV out of the bedroom and put the office TV in the bedroom, the activity stopped, so we assumed it was just a faulty TV.
We finally bought a new one for the bedroom and I got my office TV back.
Now last night, as my wife was watching in the bedroom, the same old activity happened again, only this time with a twist. The new TV started turning on and off by itself, and also changing channels by itself. This is a brand new TV!
Also, we have satellite TV so there are two different remote controls in the bedroom right now, until I figure out how to program the remote to the new TV. So the fact that the TV was turning on and off, multiple times by itself, is completely separate from the satellite box changing channels by itself.
Also, yesterday morning I made my pot of coffee as usual and after the first cup, somehow the coffee maker turned off. This is a Bunn machine and it does not turn itself off. You have to physically turn the thing off. I am a coffee addict, and I know I didn’t turn the machine off.
I didn’t notice until I got my second or third cup and it was just lukewarm. I was the only one home when that happened.
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
The month of December and Christmas went by uneventfully, as far as any paranormal activity. At least none that I noticed anyway. I don’t know if that’s because nothing happened or because we were maybe too busy to notice when something did happen.
It’s always in the back of my mind though, with the watching and waiting every time I can find the time to think about it. I’ve calmed down considerably from the apparition in the bathroom. It’s been a month or more and I’m still alive so I guess I really have nothing to fear.
There have been the occasional unexplained noise in another room once in awhile, but those happen so often we hardly even pay much attention to them anymore.
Well, today…actually about 20 minutes ago, I was reminded that we are not alone. My wife had just walked out the door to go to a niece’s birthday party at her sisters house. I was at the door to see her off and tell her to be careful and have fun. I closed the door and turned around to pick up a mess I had made on the kitchen counter before going back into the office.
As I was cleaning up the mess, I heard a very loud and long ’sigh’ just a few feet behind me. I spun around but of course nothing was there. My wife took the vodeo camera to the birthday party so I grabbed my camera and snapped 7 quick photos, but caught nothing on any of them.
This sigh was as loud and clear as if it had come from a living human being right there in the same room with me.
Monday, November 26th, 2007
Today, about 2:00 PM, I was getting some Christmas decorations out of the closet and we planned to start putting them out tonight. The closet has sliding doors. I had taken the boxes out and had been looking through some of the decorations. I then decided to make a sandwich before doing anything else.
As I was making the sandwich, right in front of me, I watched a roll of paper towels, which was standing up on the counter, slide about 6 inches from where it originally sat. I was about 2 feet from the roll when it happened.
About 2 minutes later, I heard the sliding closet door close by itself. I thought it might be the cat, but he was asleep…as usual.
Pretty active day so far.
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
I don’t know if I can stand this. Since last Sunday I’m afraid of my own bathroom. I can’t be in there without constantly thinking something is going to happen. The worst part is taking a shower and washing my face and hair, when I have to close my eyes.
I’ve seen objects move right in front of my eyes before, I’ve been the only person in the house when the back door opened by itself, I’ve been witness to many unexplainable things, but nothing has affected me like seeing this elderly woman in my bathroom. I’ve always been the brave one, the one who would go into the basement alone and take pictures and things like that. I’m telling you, this has scared the **** out of me.
For a few days, I thought we were going to have to move, no question about it. I’m still considering that, but have calmed down slightly since.
Sunday, November 18th, 2007
FREAKIEST INCIDENT EVER!
Just less than a half an hour ago, I had the most unnerving incident that I’ve ever had in my life, and I’ve had a few. This one really freaked me out, probably because I’ve often thought how freaky this would be if it ever really happened.
The home we live in is over 100 years old and though someone put in some updated windows, probably in the 80’s, they still aren’t very energy efficient. For this reason, every winter I cover them with that shrink plastic that you heat with a blow dryer. It takes an entire day to do it but it does help to keep the old house warmer in the winter.
In our bathroom, there is a window right behind the toilet that is covered with this plastic. The bottom pane of glass is frosted so as to block the view from outside, but the top pane is clear. You can’t see a reflection in the bottom pane but you can in the top pane. Anyway, with the plastic over the window, you can plainly see the reflection of the bathroom behind you if you’re looking at the window.
I can’t think of a way to put this delicately, maybe because of my excitement or perhaps my lack of vocabulary, but at any rate, I was standing at the toilet, ‘doing my business’ and facing the window right behind the toilet. As is customary, I was looking down, attending to ‘my business’ and when I was finished, I raised my head and caught the image of an older, gray haired woman who appeared to be wearing a pink robe, walking out of the bathroom!
At first, it was almost like I was watching a movie or something, I mean, it just didn’t register. I was zipping and snapping my pants as I saw this woman walk out of the bathroom. I think I even looked back down to flush the toilet when suddenly, it hit me like a ton of bricks! I whirled around and ran out of the bathroom trying to find this ‘woman’, but of course there was nothing there.
I went to the living room and my wife was stretched out on the couch. I asked her if she was just in the bathroom and she said no. ( I knew it wasn’t my wife that I had seen. My wife has long black hair and doesn’t wear a robe. I just wanted to cover all the bases and rule out everything, I think.) I asked if she saw anything and she hadn’t. I had to tell her about this right away, though she didn’t seem interested in investigating the incident like I was. I’ve given up on trying to keep these things from her.
I have a video camera set up in the bathroom right now to see if I can catch this woman on video. I didn’t see her face, only the back of her head, and her back, almost down to her waist. I’m pretty sure I even looked away after I saw her because it just didn’t register at first.
I’ve thought from time to time how freaky it would be to be looking into a mirror and to see an apparition behind you like I’ve seen in some movies and just the thought of that has always given me chills. Though it wasn’t a mirror I was looking into, I can tell you that it was absolutely as freaky as I always thought it would be.
I did not have that ‘feeling’ that I wasn’t alone when this happened. It’s strange to me that sometimes, I can almost tell you when something is going to happen, and other times like tonight, I had no clue. I keep seeing that woman in my mind now. The whole episode keeps running through my mind and I keep seeing her walking out of the bathroom.
THAT was freaky folks. I’ve never, ever seen an apparition before and it has absolutely chilled me to the bone.
Monday, Oct. 29th, 2007
First of all, my apologies for posting the following happenings late. It’s been an incredibly busy month and I haven’t been able to find the time until now. At this point I don’t know the exact dates of these events but they were between my last post and now.
We had some people coming over to meet at our house and we were all going out to eat. While we were waiting for the last arrivals, we were sitting in the living room talking, having coffee and watching TV. There were maybe 6 or 7 people in the living room at this time. The volume on the TV was turned low and we were just talking. I could tell at this point that ’something’ was with us, but I said nothing about it. It’s very hard to explain how I know when we’re not alone. It’s like there is an energy in the air.
I had been looking around for any ‘disturbances‘ but hadn’t seen anything.
Suddenly, we all heard what sounded like someone playing with or crinkling a stiff plastic, and all conversation stopped! Imagine the kind of stiff, thick plastic wrapping that makes a lot of noise when you grab it. I asked each person there to show me where they thought the sound came from and everyone agreed that the sound came from the center of the living room, basically in the center of our group. We we’re all seated or standing along the walls. This was not a muffled sound, it was as loud and clear as any of our voices.
Some of the people present that evening had no idea about the other strange occurances here and were a bit uh…shaken by this sound. But it gets better!
Finally the last of our group arrived and we all got up to grab our jackets and head for the door. There was talking, shuffling around, people saying “Don’t forget your purse” and just the normal noises you would hear when this many folks were moving around. There came a point when the first person was getting ready to head out the door when we all heard a voice! There were a couple people that stated that it sounded like a moan or a growl, but the majority of people said they definitely heard a voice.
I heard a clear and distinct MALE voice say, “OK, have fun”. Actually, I can’t say that I heard the ‘O’ in OK, but I did hear “K, have fun”. Some others agreed that they heard “have fun” as well! One person thought they heard the word “kitchen”. We all agreed the voice sounded male. Now here’s the kicker. We were all in the kitchen at the time and the voice came from the living room! The same room where we heard the crinkling plastic just minutes earlier. Some of us walked into the living room to check it out, but we found nothing out of the ordinary.
We then searched the entire house and there was no one there. A couple of the ladies in the kitchen wanted no part of it, and stepped outside. Some were curious but wanted to stay in the kitchen with the bulk of the group. We all heard ’something’. Some of us heard a distinct voice!
I’ve experienced some things in this house that would make most people move out, like doors opening by themselves and such, but this night, for me, was by far the most exciting. I think it was because there were others present and I knew there was no way this event could be attributed to my imagination. It certainly made for some interesting dinner conversation!
A few days later, I heard the same crinkling plastic sound, coming from the same spot in the living room, I believe, but no voices afterward. I say, ‘I believe’ because I wasn’t in the living room at the time, I was in the office, off of the living room.
Sorry I’m posting this late.
Wednesday, Oct. 17th, 2007
It has been incredibly quiet since the last happening of the apparition in the garage. Until this morning, I had nothing to report. Why has that made me feel kind of sad? Strange.
Anyway, I carved my Halloween pumpkin to enter into our families annual pumpkin carving contest. This year, my pumpkin really turned out great. I’m usually not very good at this type of thing but this year I just might win! I’ve never won before and I think I have a really good chance this year.
So, this morning we have thunderstorms moving in and I went out to make sure the cord was unplugged because my pumpkin has an electric light in it. I ended up removing the cord all together and putting it in the garage and came back in, just in time to miss the rain.
When I came back in I left the back door open for the light because it’s a kind of dark and dreary day, but the storm door was closed so the rain wouldn’t blow in. I then came back into my office and carried on as before I went out to get the cord. As I’m sitting here reading and typing I hear a familiar ‘click’. It was the back door deadbolt!
I knew immediately what it was but remembered that I had left the door open. Not 
knowing what I would find when I went in there, I grabbed my camera and rushed to the kitchen. The door was still open, just as I had left it, but the deadbolt had been extended from the door. It had been turned to the locked position.
I know I didn’t do that, and I’m the only one here. Why would I have locked the deadbolt with the door open? I wouldn’t have. I heard it when it happened and I was in the office.
Sunday, Oct. 7th, 2007
We had a garage sale a few weeks ago and since then, some of my wife’s sisters have been having a sale at our home on the weekends. They’ve had their sale here, for the last two weekends. This past Friday night, one of the sisters and her husband were here unloading and organizing some of their stuff, getting ready for Saturday.
The sister was inside and her husband was outside. She noticed a bag of clothes that she had brought for the sale, was inside the house. She grabbed the bag and took it to the back door to have her husband put it in the garage. When she got to the back door and looked out she said she saw a figure that she assumed was her husband, walk into the garage. She said the overhead door was open but the lights inside the garage were off. The sun had set and it was fairly dark at this time.
She opened the door and called her husbands name hoping he would come and get the bag, but he didn’t come. She then thought she would take the bag out and give it to him, so she did. When she got to the garage, she called her husband again but got no response. She called a few times and even said, “Don’t try to scare me.”
She stood there a few seconds then she heard a car door close towards the street end of our long driveway and turned to see her husband getting a box out of their car at the other end of the driveway and walking towards her and the garage. She dropped the bag of clothes where she stood and ran into the house.
She was really scared and told me that she saw someone walk into the garage and thought it was her husband, but it wasnt, and they were the only two outside. I ran out thinking someone had gone into the garage to steal something. I met her husband who was carrying the box to the garage and we went in to see who it was.
Our garage is two cars deep and I don’t know who thought this would be a good idea but the two light switches are halfway in. I walked in and turned the lights on and myself and my brother in law searched the garage and there was no one there. His wife swears she saw someone walk in to the garage.
On a side note, I’ve had that TV that turns on by itself in the garage sale for 3 weeks, priced at $20.00. It’s about a 32″ RCA color TV and it has worked perfectly out in the garage, until someone shows an interest in it, then suddenly you can’t turn it off or on with the power switch or the remote. I don’t think it wants to be sold. = )
Wednesday, Oct. 3rd, 2007
The last week or so has been very quiet. I haven’t heard any footsteps at night and since I switched the TV in the bedroom with the one from the office, there have been no more instances of the TV turning on by itself. I have heard a couple strange noises during the night, but nothing like it used to be.
I’ve been wondering, the last time the TV turned on by itself, I got very angry. I got so angry that I yelled out loud, “Stop turning this TV on or I will kick your ass right out of this house! This is MY house!” Since then it’s been very quiet. Can you intimidate ghosts?
There was one incident so far today that happened right when I got home. There had been no one home all day so the doors and windows were closed and locked. I usually open the windows if it’s nice when I come in but I hadn’t had a chance to do that yet, when the pages on a legal pad on my desk started flipping up and back very quickly.
I wasn’t even in the office when it happened, I was in the living room looking into the office thinking I should turn on the computer. As soon as I stopped, turned and looked into the office the pages flipped up for no reason. It had to have been at least 12 pages and they flipped up one at a time but very quickly.
Again, all the windows and doors were closed, no fans were running and neither the heat or the air conditioning was turned on and I was the only one home.
