Insomnia – The Boy In The Radio 2
Some of you may have read the story written by Taylor Weston entitled “Insomnia – The Boy In The Radio“. You may have found it hard to believe and wondered if perhaps Taylor made it up. Trust me, he did not. How do I know? I’ve also met Jayson; I’m the “friend with the newspaper” mentioned in his post. I asked him if it was all right for me to post my own experiences and he consented. Thanks Tay!
My experiences with Jayson parallel and in some cases overlap Taylor’s. The house he grew up in is indeed an old house (I had no idea it had been a hotel but it certainly is built like one) and signs of previous owners have shown up from time to time; one day his mother unearthed what had apparently been an old garbage pit in the backyard, and recently while doing some repairs, they found pages from a 1950 newspaper …
Insomnia – the Boy in the Radio
I’m alone and it is dark. It’s incredibly late at night and I probably should be trying to sleep. Some nights I can’t even bring myself to try. You’d understand if you saw what I saw, heard what I heard, and felt what I felt. As a kid I always believed in ghosts. If you’re reading this now then chances are that you probably do too. Chances are that you don’t actually know for sure. Well, I know for sure and it keeps me up at night.
I grew up in a suburban city in Minnesota, about an hour’s drive south of the twin cities. Our house there was built in 1905, originally as a hotel. Ghosts always seemed to appear to different members of my family at different times growing up, but everyone except for my father has a story to tell.
Like most families in Minnesota we were incredibly religious, so it was not a stretch for us …