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. = )
The only time I’ve ever seen a full aparition was in the military housing we lived in at Fort Sill, OK. It’s rather funny, because it reminds me of your sister-in-law’s experience. I was peeved at my husband for one reason or another and was walking down the main hall of our home, as I was nearing the end of the hall I glanced into my daughter’s room to make sure she was in bed and asleep. Her room had a door that opened into the hall I was in and another door that opened into the kitchen. Standing in the kitchen with it’s back to me I saw the figure of a man and assumed it was my husband. I recall thinking about how mad I was at him and that I wasn’t going to say a word to him. I made my way down the hall (this was roughly five more feet) and who should be sitting in the office directly in front me, surfing the net? Why my husband of course! There was no way he could have gotten from the kitchen to the home office in the time it took me to traverse the last five feet of the hall way. We figue it was a male ghost who had made his presence known in the house, but had never seen until that point. We called him the Col. He terrfied the elctricians that worked on our house later that spring, but that is another tale for another time. I hope you get to see your visitor from the other side and maybe he’ll tell you why he likes the TV so much.
Odd note…maybe you could sell the TV on Ebay. There are always tons of listings for things that are haunted and they can fecth some steep prices. One lady had a cane that had belonged to a male relative of hers and her son was terrified of it, he said it was haunted and it had to leave the house. She put it on Ebay with the sole caveat to the buyer that they must send her and her son a picture of the them with the cane, proving it was truly gone. It went for a couple thousand dollars.