READERS TALES
A Ghost Story to Tell...
(NOTE:
This story happened in Delton, Michigan in early 2000)
I have a story to tell you about the house I live in. I
live here with my husband and two year old daughter. I've lived here for
almost four years now. My husband has lived here for 10 years. This
house was his great grandmother's house and was passed on to him.
Anyway while I have lived
here for the past few years, I have had a few odd occurrences happen to me. The
first thing I can remember is getting ready for work.
I noticed that my work keys were missing. My husband and I
looked all over for those keys. We must have been looking for about five
minutes, when all of a sudden I felt something hit my head. My keys had fallen
out of the air and hit me in the head. I just kind of laughed it off.
After that things were quiet
for a while. Then later we started noticing a shadow like form walking up from
the basement to the bathroom all in a straight line. Our bedroom has
stairs leading to the basement. There's also a huge
window on the opposite side of the room where the stairs to the basement are.
There is a HUGE pine tree right in front of the window, blocking the view of the
yard. While looking at the window, (we had really ugly yellow curtains over the
window) you could see a black circular spot go back and forth all day.
When
I became pregnant, we decided to move into one of the
empty bedrooms upstairs. The room was smaller, but it had a radiator to help
keep us warm in the winter. At the time my husband's grandmother was still
living in the house. She had Parkinson's and would often stay up all night
talking to herself. When I went to the hospital to have the baby, there were
some complications during the delivery, and they ended
up using a kind of suction to
get her out.
After
the baby was born, on the same day, my husband went
home to check on his grandmother. She had fallen down the stairs and had
suffered an aneurism. She later died on New
Years Eve three days after the baby was born.
Ever
since then, there have been things going on in the
house. While sleeping at night, the door will open and shut to our bedroom. When
we used the baby monitor, it sounded like someone was walking in front of it to
the baby's crib. We had my 7 year old stepdaughter
over for summer vacation and we put her to bed in our room. She came downstairs
a few minutes later and asked which one of us had knocked on the door. Neither
one of us had. So I told her not to worry about it and
go to bed. Recently though when my hubby was home alone and I had gone out
shopping with the baby, he claimed to have heard a baby cry. But I had the baby
with me. I know that sometimes they like to play tricks on us.
That's about it for now. If
anything else happens that's good I'll let you know.
-Cathy.