After helping my in-laws move to a smaller house, we sat around talking and relaxing; just glad everything was in the new place. One of the younger kids made the remark, “I hope this house isn’t haunted too”. We all looked at each other in amazement. My father in law said, “I thought I was the only one that knew that house was haunted!” We all kinda looked at each other as if to say, “it wasn’t just me who knew it?” That started a freefall of various stories we all shared. It seems everyone had their own tale to share.
For a brief time I had lived in a small bedroom in the basement of that house. One evening I distinctly heard the kitchen door open and close and then someone walking down the stairs. I waited for whomever it was to come to my door. When no-one did I just assumed it was someone doing laundry instead. After a little time, I went to see who it was and no-one was down there!
My father in laws wife said she was home alone one afternoon and all the bedroom doors upstairs slammed shut in unison. It was fall and the windows were all shut, so what could have caused that? Another night she said she and my father in law were awakened in the middle of the night by a blood curdling scream! They jumped out of their bed and raced upstairs where all the kids’ bedrooms were but all was quiet and everyone was fast asleep.
One evening my then boyfriend, now husband, was in the bathroom and heard someone banging on the downstairs back door. He looked out the window directly above the back door and saw no-one; he ran downstairs and his father was already headed outside himself, having heard it too. Sure enough no-one was there. It was dark enough for someone to have banged the door and run off.
Another of the kids said they felt someone in their bedroom and thought they saw a shadow cross the window. The covers were always pulled down off the girls after they had been tucked into bed… when some of the children were out on their own and the house was too big, they moved out of there… I wonder if we ever would have known everything that happened in that house if no-one would have initiated the conversation…
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