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Our House Ghost the Drunk

Posted on March 5, 2010

I am 23 years old and live in South Africa. We used to rent a house just outside Pretoria on the Old Warmbath Road. My dad at that time was working in Iraq on a 4 month on/1 month off basis building armoured vehicles, so me, my mom and younger brother was alone for long periods of time. The house we rented was kind of old, still with those old ceilings with the patterns on and wooden floors. Also, we had no nearby neighbours because it was a plot house (that is like a farm, just the size of the property is smaller). So, me and my mom and brother moved in and settled nicely. We all loved the wide open space and the big yard and everything. I had about five dogs and a potbelly pig that was housetrained, she used to sleep in the house with one of my dogs, my dachshund.

After a while, we started noticing odd things, like lights switching on or off during the night, or a fotoframe in my room that will move to a different angle, just small things like that. We didn’t think anything of it at first, thinking that maybe my potbelly bumped against the table and the fotoframe would move or someone just forgot to switch the light off etc. Then, after not paying too much attention to that stuff, we started to feel as if someone is watching you. Not the whole time, and also not just in one specific room or anything, and it was not a scary feeling or evil or anything, you were just aware of the feeling that you are being watched. My dachshund always slept in my room with me and he was very protective of me. At night when I went to bed, I would switch the light off and climb in bed and switch my radio on (it had a remote) and then just listen to soft music before falling asleep.

My dog started acting funny in my room. He would jump of the bed and start walking around and sniffing the floor. Then he would sit down in the middle of the floor and then bark towards the corner of my room. He would then stand up again and walk towards my window, jump up against the wall underneath my window and then wag his tail. After that, my radio would turn itself on in the middle of the night and it would be turned up so loud that even my mom and brother would wake up, even with my bedroom door being closed. It started happening during the day time as well.

After a month or so with this going on, I was lying in bed one night, it was kind of late, and I heard someone walking around in the house. That kind of scared me as I was thinking that it might be an intruder and my dad was not there and we had no neighbours close by. I just sat up in bed and listened for a while and the footsteps went away.

The next morning my mom asked me if me or my brother were looking for something because she heard one of us walking around in the house. It was then that we all knew for sure someone is with us in the house. After a week or two, the sound of the footsteps became more clear and distinct and we started wondering about this ghost because you can hear by the way that he is walking that it is heavy footsteps so it must have been a big heavy set person. Also, he gave two or three steps, and then it sounds as if the person is stumbling and then another two or three steps before it fades away. Then you would hear noises like water running, but all the taps are closed, or a drinking glass braking or the kitchen door opening and closing.

After that, my mom spoke to the landlord (a lady) and feeling very awkward, asked her about the house. She told us that she and her husband owned a house in the city, as well as the house that we were renting, and they were planning on turning the house that we are renting into a restaurant. However, before they could get to their plans, their marriage fell apart because the husband was an alcoholic and she told him that she wants a divorce and that he should move out of the city house and rather move in to the house that we were renting. Well, he moved into the house and being sad and alone, he probably started drinking more and more and the one day they found him, dead. He drank himself to death. Apparently his daughter and I have a resemblance, we both had long dark hair and were about the same size in length and weight.

The ghost never showed himself to us ‘in person’ and he never harmed us or scared us. He was just there. I feel kind of bad for this ghost we had. He must have been very sad and lonely just before he passed away.

Sent in by Mareli, Copyright 2010 TrueGhostTales.com




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