Haunted House For Sale

June 27, 2008

I once lived, for a very short time, in a house haunted by ghosts. This house had been empty for a very long time. I don’t know for sure how long the house had been empty, but I do know that no one had lived in it for quite a few years.

It was a very beautiful three story house with a two room guest house and a big barn. It was located on the side of hill on a sparsely populated country road in south-eastern Kentucky. I had been living a few miles up the road and so I passed this house almost every day. For years there was a “For Sale” sign out front, but there never seemed to be a buyer.

I was working for a retired couple doing odd jobs. One day the old man made me an offer on the house. Until then I didn’t even know that he was the one who owned it. He said that if I would clear the weeds on the hillside behind it and keep all the grass cut, wash the windows and do some repairs that I could live in it rent free. Naturally I was excited about the idea and so within a few days my wife, my daughter, and I were moving into the house. I did think that it was a little strange that he and his wife lived in their small house next to the road instead of that nice big house on the hill, but I didn’t give it too much thought. 

We couldn’t believe our luck. The house was really nice inside and out and the property it was on was beautiful. There was a huge yard and the mountain spread out behind it with trees every where you looked. The nearest neighbors were almost half a mile away.

After only a couple of nights strange things started to happen. One night we were laying in bed in the third story bedroom when I began to hear music. It reminded me of the Big Band groups like Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller. The music sounded far off at first, but it grew louder and louder until it sounded like it was coming from downstairs. Next I could hear what sounded like a large group of people talking. I couldn’t make out what was being said, it was like a bunch of voices all mixed together. Suddenly a man and woman started yelling and arguing. I still couldn’t make out what was being said, but I knew for sure that it was a man and a woman who were fighting.

At this point I turned to my wife and asked her if she could hear anything. She looked at me and I saw that her eyes were wide and she was afraid. She told me that she did hear something downstairs. I asked her what it was that she was hearing. She described to me exactly what I myself had been hearing! She said she heard a lot of people talking and then a man and a woman arguing and some old fashioned music playing. When she told me all that it was like the hair on the back of my neck stood straight up. For some reason I had felt no fear until that moment, but suddenly I was afraid. Were there ghosts just downstairs from us?

We got up from the bed and slowly walked toward the stairs and turned on the lights. The music and the voices started getting quieter. We went down the first flight of stairs and turned on the next set of lights and the ghostly sounds stopped. Soon we were in the main living room and were looking all around for any signs of what we had heard. Suddenly the ghostly noises started up again, except this time they were upstairs! We ran upstairs and brought our daughter down to the first floor. We made pallets in the floor and spent the rest of the night listening for ghosts with most every light in the house turned on.

Several nights later the whole thing started happening again. This time I was home alone. My wife and daughter were visiting relatives for the weekend. I was bound and determined not to let the ghosts get to me and even yelled out to them to leave me alone and to go away. It seemed to work at first. The noises would stop and everything would be quiet, but as soon as I laid back down and began to get comfortable it would all start up again!

The next day I went to see a man I knew who I had rented our previous residence from. I told him about everything that had happened and asked him if he knew anything about the history of the house or had ever heard anything about it being haunted by ghosts. He told me that sometime back in the 1920’s there was a murder during a big family gathering, but didn’t know any details about what had happened or who had been murdered.

That really got me to feeling eerie! I knew without any doubt that the house was haunted because my wife and I had both heard the sounds on more than one occasion and now I had learned a little bit about the history of the house.

The very next day the owner of the house came by and told us that we had to move out right away. I asked him why, but he would give no explanation. He just said that he didn’t want anyone living in the house. I am certain that my ex-landlord had told him about what I had said about the ghosts and that was the reason he wanted us out as well as the reason why he wasn’t living there himself. So, not long afterwards we would be driving past the old house and see that “For Sale” sign and wonder if anyone would ever live there.

Written By David Slone and Copyright 2008 True Ghost Tales

Filed Under Ghosts & Hauntings 

Comments

7 Responses to “Haunted House For Sale”

  1. Jackie on June 27th, 2008 4:19 pm

    Hi David,
    you can’t question your imagination when you both heard this. That would be great to witness something with someone else experiencing it too.
    Do you think that the landlord may have had a guilty conscience, because he may have witnessed all this for himself? He might have liked you both and then felt bad about leasing the place to you.

  2. Honor on June 27th, 2008 5:05 pm

    What part of Southern Kentucky is this house located?

  3. Stephanie on June 27th, 2008 6:02 pm

    Wow, I got tingles reading that. My vibes set of, there was no evil in the house though, I’m sure they just never knew that they were dead. Most ghosts don’t.

  4. The Caretaker on June 27th, 2008 8:48 pm

    Jackie

    Yes, I think the owner of the house knew what had happened. He was in his 70s at the time and it was my understanding that the house had been in his family for a long time

    Honor

    The house was in southeastern Ky in a place called Stephens Branch which is in Floyd County

    Stephanie

    I dont think they were actually what is referred to as intelligent ghosts, I believe this was a case of a residual haunting which is more like a recording of psychic energy rather than an actual spiritual presence. Just my opinion

  5. Jackie on June 28th, 2008 1:30 pm

    I think you are right with the residual haunting, i’m no expert but i have read about this and it does sound like it could be. A bit like a video recorder playing the same terrible event over and over, so i’ve heard.

  6. Dylan on July 1st, 2008 12:03 pm

    If the owner told you to do the chores in the haunted house…Didn’t anything happen?

  7. martha on July 4th, 2008 8:13 pm

    well, I think and I do believe that I might be living in a hounting house, not too long ago, I heard someone like bouncing a basketball outside my window.
    The time was around 2:30 a.m I heard a basketball.

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