Stories That Begin with
The Letter H
Haunted
Haunted Cabin
Haunted Crossed Lines
Haunted in Oklahoma
Haunted Winnipeg Apartment
Headless Jack
Health Care Haunts
Hopkins Tomb
The House
House on Wapiti Street
The Hurting Room
Husband's Return

Haunted
Author: Kari
Email:BelleAster@(nospam)aol.com
Alright, I can't reveal much
about the location of all these occurences that will follow, due
to the nature of the site and my interest in protecting its
respected reputation.
There are two historic
buildings. The first one was built in the 1920's. Some matience
people have reported radios turning off or adjusting themselves
or doors slamming while cleaning. That's not too bad. More
convincing is the story of the office lady whose office is in the
house. On her desk she kept a cup full of foil-covered candies
(Werther's or something like that). One day when she walked in,
she saw one of them at the bottom of the stairs. She thought it
was odd but didn't think much of it. However, the cup on her desk
was empty (when it had been full the day before) but not upset,
nor was the cup holding pens and pencils. In the room adjactent
to her office, she found the rest of them piled up in a corner.
This was not the work of an animal. None of the wrappers were
opened or bitten, and there were no empty wrappers anywhere. She
asked some of the matience guys if this was their joke, but they
didn't know anything about it.
The second house was built in
the 1850's. This house has way more stories than the first. Where
do I start? Most often reported are "cold spots" which
travel around rooms and from room to room. These are not dafts.
We once mistook a draft for one, but a cold spot in the middle of
a room with only one window is not a draft when there's no cold
air flow around it. I have often felt these, particularly in two
rooms with quite a bit of "character." In the summer of
1996, my close friends and an acquaintence were closing up for
the day. In the sitting room there is usually a poetry book (I
can't recall the author right now, he is well known.) It was open
to a certain page where there is a crease since it usually lies
open on that page. They were the last two out and they locked the
house. The next morning they were the first ones in. The book in
the sitting room was open to a different page which just happened
(or maybe not) to have a poem titled "Sercum Corda".
The poem starts, "Seek not the spirit if it hide, inexorable
to thy zeal." This was not long after many of us had begun
to talk to the cold spots, or empty rooms or spirits or whatever
you want to call them, but we were just kinda fooling around and
didn't even know if anything was there. Two more occurences
happened in October of the same year. My close friend and I
picknicked on the grounds with a few other friends in a place I
adore but often get strange feelings when I'm there. For no
apparent reason, a glass filled with grapejuice tipped over and
spilled on a quilt made by my great- grandmother. This is
probably explainable. I could have even hit it over somehow but
the other witnesses said I didn't touch it. Well, my friend and I
talked about the eeriness of the spot. When we returned to the
house, I went up to the sisters' room where people often feel
cold spots. I didn't even get in the door when I felt like
whatever was in there was upset with me and I turned around and
walked right back down the stairs. Just a few weeks after that,
an older friend and teacher of ours died. We all met there after
hours to talk about our feelings of loss and such. The house was
all locked up, but we noticed the kitchen light was on. We walked
over to investigate and saw a large garbage bag by the door. We
uncovered it and found 2 rabbits in a cage-- one dead and one
alive. The live one has since found a home. The light may have
been purely coincidence but it did bring our attention to the
rabbits. Last fall, I and some of my friends were in the sisters'
room talking. Two of them sat down in front of the closet and
closed the closet door. I got a weird feel and told them
"she'll get mad if you trap her in the closet." They
looked at me funny and asked me to repeat, so again I told them
they should open the closet door so she doesn't get mad. They
did, and I felt much better. Most people who've heard these
stories are sceptical and deny their credibility or truth,
including the caretaker. But in private even he has admitted that
furniture moves when the house is locked and empty. There are
stories of lights turning on, windows being opened, and shadows.
There's lots more stories about this house, but I don't think I
know the stories well enough to retell the rest of them. These
stories would make so much more sense if I could explain the
details, but like I stated before this site is not a ghost
hunter's ground and I don't want it to become one. Thanks for
reading!

Haunted Cabin
Author: Bob Lindell
Email:bob.lindell@(nospam)medtronic.com
*Sheesh* reading the stories
on your page kept me in a contstant chill and kept me looking
over my shoulder!! I just thought I'd share a story that happened
to me personally. All other stories I tend to take with a grain
of salt, but this one happened to me and I KNOW I can't explain
what happened. The story isn't exactly chilling or amazing, but
it's true and to have it happen to me freaked me out like you
wouldn't believe.
Now, the house my family lived
in when I was growing up was basically a lake cabin that we'd
done work on and made a home out of it. I guess several families
had lived there in the past, I believe a man even died there of a
heart attack. We always had pets, cats mainly. So strange noises
in the night were always brushed off, the cats were probably just
running around. When my sister moved off to college we got rid of
the cats since she was the one who took care of them mostly.
That's when we started realizing that all of the noises in the
house were not exactly explainable.
It wasn't at all uncommon for
us to hear footsteps across the upstairs floor at night. Both my
parents and I lived in the basement and knew that nobody was
upstairs. We all just kind of ignored it.
The front door of our house
was a big heavy thing. When it opened all the rest of the doors
in the house would rattle because of the air movement (it was a
small house) *many* times I'd be in the basement watching TV with
my mom and we'd hear the front door open and assume it was my dad
home from work. It was unmistakeable because of the other doors
shaking in the frames. Time would pass and we'd forget that we
heard the door, until it would open again and this time my dad
would really come home. At first we'd ask my dad why he came in
twice and what he was doing for so long. Then it became so common
that we'd just dismiss it.
I returned from staying at a
friends house for the weekend and my mom was teasing my dad about
"Charlie". It seems that in the night, while I was
away, all kinds of stuff started happening in the house. The
dishes in the sink started making noise. The footsteps creaked
across the floor. The cupboard doors opened and shut, lights
turned on and off.. the works! It woke mom and dad up, they went
about trying to ignore it and go to sleep rather than acknowledge
it like we always did before. Finally my dad couldn't take it
anymore, got up out of bed and yelled out of the bedroom
"Charlie! Shut Up!" It all stopped and they went to bed
without discussing it. My dad won't talk about it even now. My
mom had to tell the story to me, my dad nodded to me that it was
the truth and that's all the more he'd talk about it.
I really don't know where the
name "Charlie" came from. My dad just yelled it out
that night and it stuck. Now that someone finally brought it up,
we talked all about the footsteps, the things moved around in the
house, the front door opening and closing. I wasn't scared before
we actually talked about it... but I was now. Things kept on as
usual, but never as bad as that one night. Now we'd say
"Charlie's home" when the door opened upstairs and
nobody came in. It was something we joked about quite a bit.
Now this next part is the
biggest thing that ever happened to me. The footsteps, the door,
everything else I could eek out a rational explanation. Now as
stupid as this sounds, it happened. My cousin (who lived with us
at the time) and I were in the house alone. We were in the
basement watching TV. I was about 10 and he was 16 or so. The
house was clean, nothing laying around on the floor. All of a
sudden something fell down the steps, like a small ball or
something. It went bump..bump.. and thud as it bounced down and
then hit the wall at the end of the stairway. We both got up and
looked over at the landing to the stairway. (bear with me, it's
true!!) a weeble-wobble (you know - "weeble-wobbles wobble
but they don't fall down) kids toy was sitting there. For those
of you that don't know it's an egg shaped little plastic person
that is weighted to always stand upright. There was absolutely no
explanation for what it was doing there (no kids in our house for
weeks) or how it fell down the steps. I know that nobody else was
in the hosue because of the telltale rattle the doors made when
the front door was opened. Stupid sounding, I know. but too
strange to write off.

Haunted Crossed Lines
Author:Micha
Email:(witheld by request)
I never though much of this
occurence before but i thought i would write and see what you
think... One night in summer 1993 I was up late talking to my
boyfriend on the phone it was about 2 am, and all of the sudden
this wierd sound came across the lines. It was almost like a
choir singing or some sort of chanting. It didn't sound evil or
anything but just freaked us out... we said goodbye and hung up.
we get crossed lines (where you can hear someone else's
conversation) sometimes like everyone else but why would we hear
chanting with more than three voices? Interesting.

Haunted in Oklahoma
By: Tara R Barrett
E-Mail: TRB1972@(nospam)aol.com
In 1986 my family moved into a
mobile home in Henryetta, Oklahoma. It was very nice and
comfortable. We lived on 15 acres of land and had our own lake. I
was 15 years old at the time. Although during the day the trailer
was very non threatening at night it would become very
disturbing. I slept in a room that had a bed already furnished in
it. I often felt someone watching me and had a hard time falling
asleep. Behind the wall was the heater which moaned as if human.
It would make as much noise as a train during the night but
during the day it was silent. I started believing it was haunted.
especially since it was such a nice trailer & it had been
abandoned, left empty for months before we rented it.
My mother began to start
worrying and since she and my step father were all the way at the
other end of the trailer she asked me to sleep in my sister and
brother's room (they were 2 and 3) sometimes. One night I laid
down on the bed and looked to the door. In the open door
materialized a Cherokee man dressed in a black suit, holding a
hat. He looked at me and seemed kind of sad. But I got the
overwhelming feeling he was there to protect us. He slowly
dematerialized into smoke-like fog. I felt very reassured and
when in that room slept very well.
The other room was different.
It felt evil. I never did get used to it. We only lived there two
months when my step fathers job called us back to Missouri. I
often wondered how much more might have happened if we remained.
I am glad I didn't find out.

Haunted Winnipeg Apartment
Author: Teresa from Canada
my friend larry's sister and
her boyfriend had an apartment in downtown winnipeg(canada). the
apartment building was over 100 years old and so the provincial
government had established it a historical site. anyhow, shortly
upon moving in they had noticed things missing- small objects
like cds and keys. these things would go missing for weeks and
then reappear in the fridge or cupboards- there was a cd in
particular that would go missing although i cannot recall which
one- naturally they began to suspect that their apartment was
possibly subject to paranormal activity-as they were certainly
not responsible for these strange occurrences- this went on for
several months until one evening the fellow was awoken to find a
transparent woman sitting on the edge of their bed. she had
beautiful blond hair past her waist and was cradling a baby in
her arms. she was wearing a light coloured period nighty and
rocked the baby back and forth until his girlfrined woke up to
discover the same- they were not at all frightened, just
completely awed.

Headless Jack (and other New
Jersey Haunts)
Email:Shadow2768@aol.com
Just so you all know, this is
my last day on AOL, so send me all the e-mail you want. :)
Be forewarned: this is going to
be a LONG story/letter.
I grew up in a New Jersey rural
town. I'm not even going to say which town; you all probably
haven't heard of it. Anyhoo, as you may or may not know, New
Jersey is famous for the so-called Jersey Devil: some sort of
demonic-looking critter with goat legs, bat wings, the whole
nine-yards. I've never seen the Devil, but my little town was
famous for two ghosts: Headless Jack and the Jersey Devil Dog.
Headless Jack was supposedly an
AWOL soldier from the Civil War who was caught and lynched by a
mob of his former comrades. He was strung up on the branch of a
tree near our town's oldest bridge, and as he was puled up, the
rope was pulled so tight around his neck that it cut his head
off. Well, his former friends buried his body under the bridge
and took his head back to show their commanders that they caught
the guy.
As the legend goes, Headless
Jack rises from his grave under the bridge to search for his
head. People I knew claimed they saw him, standing on the bridge,
arms outstretched. Headless Jack was sort of the town boogeyman:
"Don't be bad, children, or Headless Jack'll get ya!"
Like the Jersey Devil, I never saw him, but I admit I avoided the
bridge as much as possible.
I have the second ghost in my
town, the Jersey Devil Dog. He was seen more often than Headless
Jack. He's got a legend too, and although I don't believe it, I
kind of take it as proof that enough people have seen it to
wonder where it came from. Back in the days when the area was
first being settled, an Irish couple staked out a plot of land
for themselves and their young child. Other peopel arrived and
laid down plots. Soon, a town was being formed (not my town, but
one nearby; the houses in my town are much more recent). A nasty
man arrived after they had lived there a year and produced a
deed, saying that he owned the land, and that they were to leave.
Well, the wife and child were sick with fever, and the Irish man
said "no." The newcomer shot the wife and child dead,
turned the gun on the Irish man, and fired. As he lay dying, the
Irish man cursed the newcomer and the land. When other people
arrived, the newcomer explained everyhring, including the cure.
When told that he would be tried for the murders, the newcomer
laughed and said that "not even the hounds of hell could
drag me away." A few nights later, the townspeople heard a
scream from the old Irish man's house. When they got there, a
gigantic, hideous dog was sitting in front of the door. As the
crowd approached, the dog ran into the woods and the
newcomer-murderer was found, dead.
When I was eight, there was a
snow storm, and I was awake at 5 in the morning to listen to the
radio, hoping my school was closed for the day. I was sitting in
the kitchen, looking out our huge bay window, watching the snow
fall in the early morning light, when I jumped, like I got a
static shock. I actually felt the jolt; I don't think it was
totally psychological.
Before anyone dismisses this as
a trick of the light/dark, there was enough light from the
streetilights and the whiteness of the snow to see all of this.
Behind the chain-link fence seperating our back yard from our
neighbor's, there was this huge, black dog. And when I say huge,
I mean HUGE. It was built like a Doberman, but much more bulky,
and its head was level with the top of the fence. The fence was
five feet high! It only had one eye, a bloody-red color, right
where a normal dog would have two, and its ears were long, ragged
and droopy, kinda like a lop rabbit. I could see some teeth, but
I don't think it was snarling.
It looked at me for a good ten
seconds, then walked off, and faded away into the snow. The snow
wasn't falling so hard to obscure it... it just faded away.
From that day forward, for
three years, I couldn't sleep without a nightlight on. After
that, I told some friends, who, to my surprise, didn't call me
nuts. Some of them had seen the Devil Dog, too, and one had heard
this weird moaning coming from an abandonned lot. Hearing that
gave me the chills. I'm better now, and my friends in Jersey
still joke about the dog, asking if I've seen "Fido"
again.
So, there you have it. I think
Headless Jack is a made-up story, but I saw the Jersey Devil Dog,
and I know it's real. I can't explain it.

Health Care Haunts
Author: Karl J. Young
Several years ago I worked in
a health care facility that was directly across from a man who
had been convicted of murdering his lover. They could not prove
he had killed her two children, although they were missing, their
bodies were never found. At the time of the murders, the facility
site was an orchard. It was thought the children's bodies might
have been buried there, although they did not locate them while
building the facility. Strange things happened at the center.
Patients who expressly had requested no blankets were found with
blankets on. Patients would frequently ask the nurses to tell the
two children to stop making so much noise, but when the nurses
would look out the window, no one would be there. Once a woman in
isolation asked an aide who the little boy was who was playing in
her room. Still no one. Call lights went off in empty rooms. Once
a patient's traction had been lifted off him and found dangling.
I could always seem to find one explanation or another for these
occurrences until one day... I was working in my office, when out
of the corner of my eye, I saw someone come into my office. It
was the size and shape of our housekeeper and I thought he had
come to empty my waste basket. He walked behind me and as he did,
he brushed against the nape of my neck. I expected him, at any
second to take my waste basket, but he didn't. I looked around to
see what he was doing and there was no one there. I jumped up to
have a better look and them looked out into the outer office. No
one. I went back to work, but it wasn't until my ride home that I
realized I had had my first encounter with a ghost.

Hopkins Tomb
Author:Micheal
Email:ancient1@(nospam)rocketmail.com
or
pastlife@(nospam)hotmail.com
ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO MYSELF
AND TWO FRIENDS WENT TO HOPKINS TOMB IN PORT COLBORNE, ONTARIO,
CANADA.THE LEGEND OF THE TOMB IS ,IF YOU BREACH THE RETAINING
WALL YOU MUST CIRCLE THE TOMB 7 TIMES KNOCKING ON THE DOOR EACH
TIME YOU PASS. MANY YEARS AGO THREE YOUNG MEN BREACHED THE WALL
AND DID NOT PERFORM THE RITUAL. ONE DIED IN A CAR ACCIDENT,ONE
LOST AN ARM ,THE OTHER LOST A LEG.
IT WAS A RAINY FRIDAY NIGHT.
COLIN STAYED IN THE VAN TO VIDEOTAPE THE EVENT. BRETT CIRCLED THE
TOMB AND KNOCKED ON THE DOOR. I TOOK STILL PHOTOS. BRETT ASKED ME
TO PERFORM THE RITUAL ALSO. I DECLINED,SAYING I HAD BEEN INVOLVED
IN THE PARANORMAL FOR YEARS AND NEED NOT OBEY THESE RULES. WE
FINISHED TAKING PICTURES AND LEFT THE SITE UNHARMED.
THE NEXT NIGHT WHILE ON MY WAY
HOME FROM MY COUSINS,I WAS INVOLVED IN A CAR ACCIDENT. I REMEMBER
THE IMPACT OF THE CAR HITTING THE TREE. I WAS IN THE BACKSEAT.
THE NEXT THING I REMEMBER WAS STANDING AT THE END OF MY COUSINS
DRIVEWAY ABOUT 500 YARDS DOWN THE ROAD.I SENT MY COUSINS HUSBAND
TO HELP MY SISTER AND THE DRIVER. I WAS COVERED IN BLOOD AND
NEEDED TO TEND TO MY WOUNDS. WHEN JEREMY REACHED THE CAR, BILL
WAS PULLING MY SISTER THROUGH THE PASSENGER SIDE WINDOW. HE HAD
BROKEN THE WINDOW BECAUSE THE DOOR WAS LOCKED. IN FACT WHEN HE
CAME TO, I WAS ALREADY GONE. IT WAS A TWO DOOR CAR. THE WINDOWS
WERE ROLLED UP AND THE DOORS WERE LOCKED. THEY DONT KNOW HOW I
GOT OUT OF THE CAR.SINCE I HAD A CONCUSSION I DONT KNOW EITHER.
THE CAR ACCIDENT WAS THE BEGINNING OF A LONG STRING OF BAD LUCK
FOR ME. IT WASNT UNTIL I WENT BACK TO HOPKINS TOMB ALMOST TWO
YEARS LATER THAT THINGS BEGAN TO TURN AROUND.
WAS IT CURSE OR COINCIDENCE.YOU
DECIDE.
THE ANCIENT ONE
MICHEAL TEAL

The House
Author: Tony Nilsson
Email:
tnilsson@(nospam)sto-co.se.dhl.com
As i told you before i am
as pshycic as a brick but i do have a story to share with
you...and the other readers..its not experienced by myself but
involves a haunted house and policemen and is admitted to be
unexplainable..so maybe it will be interesting, let me know what
you think of it..it is true as far as I know.
The house who refused to
give up..
Close to where I live,
there is a house reputed to be haunted. The people living close
by never venture near it when its dark and it gives off an eerie
feeling to everyone who passes it. 7 years ago, the local police
have had enough of rumours circulating around this house and to
prove their point that nothing was out of the ordinary with this
house they decided to sleep in the house. Two policemen with two
german shepherds took their sleeping bags and went to the house
to sleep in it. They had two campbeds and did not feel anything
special when they went to sleep. In the morning, they woke up
outside the house, apparently someone had carried them out while
sleeping, beside them lay the dogs dead. After this incident
which was reported even the local police decided to burn the
house down to its foundations. The firebrigade was given the
task. They went to the house and poured gasoline on the house, it
was wooden so it would burn easily. The only thing was..the house
refused to burn, no matter how hard the brigade tried to make it
burn it refused. It was an old wooden house so it should burn
like a torch. Needless to say the firebrigade had to give up. As
far to my knowledge the house still stands, it refuses to die.
Tony from Sweden

House on Wapiti St.
Author: Kelly
E-mail:
Kelly.Williamson@(nospam)Bethesda.KellerBruner.com
My dad is in the Navy, so when
we moved to Norfolk we had to find house quickly. Well, my mom
found a cute place with lots of land on Wapiti St. The place had
belonged to an older woman whose brother had her placed in a home
-- supposedly -- when she couldn't take care of herself. The
place was a ranch style with two bedrooms and one bath.
Soon after we moved in my dad
went out to sea, so it was just my mom and I. From the beginning
I didn't like my room. No matter how I set it up I always had the
feeling of being watched. My mom got the same feeling in other
parts of the house, namely the hallway leading to the bedrooms
and the kitchen.
I also didn't like going down
into the garage. It was full of unpacked boxes and incredibly
dark. For some odd reason someone had built a bathroom in the
garage. (We never did figure that one out.) The washer/dryer was
in the garage, so I had to go down there often. I never saw
anything, but I always felt scared when I walked down there. The
hair on my neck and arms would rise, my heart would beat faster,
and I would get a feeling of apprehension like something awful
was going to happen or had happened. I never got rid of this
feeling in the year we lived there.
We had several bad things
happen to us in this house. We had a peeping tom, a break-in, a
rape (no one in our house) at the edge of the backyard, the
shooting of our nextdoor neighbor, the kidnapping of a friend of
mine with whom I used to walk home from school, and the death of
another neighbor to whom we were close.
After a year, the landlord
wanted the place back to live in with his family. He anounced
this to my parents and the next week my parents had him over to
discuss moving out. My mom got to talking with him about the
house and the odd feelings she and I had. Well, he later admitted
that his sister's husband had died of a massive heart attack in
the doorway of my room. He also told us that his nephew, her son,
had been stabbed to death down in the garage and that his sister
had witnessed(?) or had a part in the murder. He told my mom that
the murder was unsolved to this day and that his sister went a
little nutty after it. After he left, my mom packed up some stuff
for us and we moved into a hotel until my parents found a new
house. When we had to finish packing or cleaning, my mom always
made sure we went in the day and we always stayed together.
Those are all the stories I
can think of at the moment. I think they are enough though.

The Hurting Room
Author: Gabriel
Email:
ammiewoozle@(nospam)webtv.net
In the small town in Iowa
where I grew up there are many accounts of of ghosts by many
people.After all,that area of the mid -west is one of the
most(south east I.A.and M.O)superstitious in the country.Maybe
the stories I"d heard had more than a little to do with what
i saw and felt in the story I am about to tell but maybe not.I
would like to think not,it was one of the single most terifying
experiences of my life and I would like to think that I"m
not so weak of mind that my imagination could scare me this much.
Somtime in early november of 89 I was 14 years old.I met the
first girl I'd ever kissed a week earlier and i aranged to meet
her In a room that is part of the old library on north court
street in fairfield I.A .this room is above the main lobby .you
have to walk up a dark spiral stair case to get there. the room
is a small museum with stuffed dead animals ,cival war artifacts
and what not(and probably alot more but i'll never know because
I'm never going back there).We chose this place to meet because
no one ever went there,or it was rare that anyone did.I needless
to say,got there first.For the first 20 mniutes I hid and waited
thinking i would scare her when she walked in but I got tired of
that and just stood with my back to the wall that was facing the
door.Some more time went by and now it was 4:30 and the sun was
starting to set.I was about ready to give up on her when a
strange sensation came over my that i would later find was
similar to being high on PCP and Robitussin DM.I felt suddenly
unable to breath or stand.My view of the room bent sideways and
all the shapes began to elongate.my body weight became too much
for me to handle and I could only look up from the floor. The
sound of creaking and rusty pipes or somthing similar was
deafening. I felt so cold and coulldn't move just lay there on my
chest.Then I heard a sound that sounded like a a baby crying at
first but as I listened It sounded more like a baby
cackleing."EEEee iyieyieeee"That is the closest I can
come to writing what I heard,all I know is that the sound chilled
me to the bone.Then from my fixed view I saw a small figure .It
was naked accept for a pair of knee length cut off shorts and a
big straw hat.It stood about three feet tall and appeared to be
burned from head to toe.It's face was burned so badly that it had
no disearnable features and it's fingers were like long twigs
that scraped the marble floor.as it moved toward me it's
movements were like nothing I'd ever seen or imagined ,so
inorganic.And as is came closer emitted it's monotone baby
cackle.
It seemed as though this went
on forever,but then I heard a man shout and I was able to move
again.I could feel my heart, and it was racing.I got up and ran
past the man (who turned out to be a janitor)fled down the spiral
staircase,through the lobby out in to the cold grey autum
afternoon.I felt like a holocaust survivor and four years
older.The man had seen me lying on the floor and shouted,which
brought me out of that trance like state.some time later I was
talking to somone that was also from the town of fairfield and we
were reminiscing about the old place when she asked me if i knew
about the old museum above the library and she told me that she
was there once and was so overcome with irrational fear that she
had to run out.

Husband's Return
Author:Jodi
I've enjoyed visiting your
site, because I thoroughly enjoy reading and hearing a good ghost
story. However, I've always said that if I were to visit a
haunted house, the ghosts would move out because I've never seen
or felt anything out of the ordinary in houses where there are
supposed to be ghosts. I can read books like Haunted Graveyard
(true stories) until 2 in the morning, go to bed in the dark, and
sleep quite well.
I've visited a haunted
restaurant in Waxahachie, TX several times and seen nothing.
Once, about 25 years ago, a Pier 1 store in Dallas had a small
table that was supposed to be inhabited by a poltergeist.
Supposedly there were warm spots in it that could be felt. I felt
all over it and felt nothing. I grew up in an old farmhouse that
was probably built about 1840. A young friend asked me if anyone
had ever died in the house, because I might see spirits. I told
her, no, but when I asked my mother, she said, of course people
have died here, and your room is where they put the coffin for
viewing! (My room was the original front hall, which had been
blocked off on one end.) Still, I slept there until I was almost
13 and never saw or heard anything, although I did have dreams
about the closet that was created by the blocked-off entry.
Just recently, I visited a
dear friend, the mother of the boy I almost married some 30 years
ago. Her husband died a year ago. We were sitting in her kitchen,
which opens into her bedroom and she told me that one night while
watching TV and feeling lonely and blue, she heard her husband's
step in the kitchen and heard him clear his throat, which he
always did. She said she suddenly felt better and knew that he
was watching out for her still. She said that another time, she
heard him call her in the middle of the night, and again, she
felt safe and protected. She said she had never believed such
stories until it happened to her.
I was sitting there, and even
though I wasn't the least bit frightened, I got cold chills,
which is the first time a place like that has ever affected me.
I don't know if this will
qualify for your stories, and I know you'll want to edit it down,
but thanks for sharing a great site.

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