Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

Fear is something I’ve learned to control, being in the army I faced death every day, but there is no training to prepare you for something you can’t explain.

First off you have to know some things about me. I believe more in Science than religion so it was very hard for me to accept what has happened to me in the last year. Everyone knows the shape the economy is in. I do remodeling so I’ve been hit pretty hard by the frail economy. Work has been really slow to say the least. Me and my family lost our house and we had to stay in a hotel for awhile. Finally I got a brake, it seemed.

I made a deal with the property manager at the hotel to let us have a two bedroom apartment that he also managed across the street from the hotel in exchange for me keeping the hotel in good shape and doing some repairs that were needed. It was one of those I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine kind of deals.  This was great for me because with not much work coming in it really helped me out plus it also helped the owner out as well his business was also slow.

Me, my wife Rachel and my two children Adeden, five years old and Scarlett going on two, moved in. It was great to have all our stuff back out of storage. Everyone seemed happy. Of course the apartment needed some work but being in that business this was no problem. The apartment had two bathrooms, the master bath was in the hallway and the second bath was off the master bed room. The bath in the hallway needed a complete remodel the floors were falling through! So I tore it all out and started cleaning up but having small children I had to keep the door shut at all times. The floors were tore out down to the floor joist and only a walk board was laying a cross them for me to get in and work.

I started noticing that when I would get up at night to use the bath room that the door would be open so I would close it and in the morning I would fuss at the kids about opening it and they would say they hadn’t touched it. Well it kept happening and I just got more angry because I was scared that my kids were going to fall and hurt themselves. I finally put a latch on the top part of the door so they couldn’t reach it. I was sure the problem was solved now, but that night when I went to the bathroom the door was wide open again. I shut it and latched it and went back to bed. I was worried now, because unless my wife was doing this something else was. I laid in bed for awhile thinking about every possible way the door could be opening.

I had fallen back to sleep when I was awakened by what sounded like my kitchen cabinets slamming shut. I got up grabbed a baseball bat and ran into the kitchen and nothing, not a thing was out of place and no one was there. I looked around, checked every nook and cranny but nothing was there. Tired I went back to bed, I no sooner put my head on the pillow when the same thing same noise again I got up and nothing was there. I ran back to the bedroom my wife was surely playing a trick on me (she always says I’m a know it all and loves to prove me wrong and we had argued about the bathroom door earlier her saying the kids hadn’t messed with it, me saying they had). I just knew she was behind this but she was asleep I watched her waiting for her to move but then it happened again same noise I’m confused and scared at this point. (like I said before I’m ex soldier I’ve been a lot of places and seen a lot of stuff, I’m not scared easily) I knew she wasn’t behind it.

I woke her up and told her want had been happening. She again told me that the kids weren’t behind the bathroom door opening and that I must have been dreaming. I thought maybe I had after all that seemed more believable than a ghost had been doing everything, but I had been moving around, the bat was out, the lights were on. Again my wife brought up the fact that I could have been sleep walking, because for awhile at our old house I had found myself outside in the middle of the night sitting under a tree in our front yard it had started to rain and that’s what woke me up. I had opened all the doors to get out which had been locked and dead bolted, another time I had walked into the kitchen wall and fell and woke everyone up in the house, but I didn’t remember ever getting out of bed that night and I had turned the TV on and some lights. So now I guess what my wife was saying could be true maybe I had dreamed it all or could have been sleep walking!

We left the lights on and went back to bed. I slept til about nine thirty the next morning and was woke up by my wife yelling at me for leaving the hall bath door open, but I knew I had shut it and latched it. That day I put a clasp on it with a combination lock that only my wife has the combination too. If I’m sleep walking and doing it I wont be able to open it. Nothing for 3 days. I’ve worked on fixing the bathroom floor. I have gotten all the plywood back in the floor (so at least its safe to walk on now) but it really stinks in there. I do have the toilet pulled out of the floor but I have the hole covered and the smell is not like a toilet pipe its kinda like a stink bomb smell.

I swear I still hear noises like some things in the walls but for now I’m going to wait and see what happens. I bought a video camera and have been setting it up at night and I have not told anyone in the house about it, so we’ll see…

Sent in by Brian Potter, Copyright 2010