FEATURED TALES...10 - Sheridan Oregon

(SPECIAL NOTE: In a first for Guardian Tales, 2 different authors have had experiences in the SAME house, at different times. They did not know each other prior to the following events. This is how the story unfolded to me, via email...EDITED FOR SPELLING AND OTHER ERRORS AND TO PROTECT PRIVACY - The original Sheridan Oregon Tale is first - be sure to see the photos at the bottom of the page.

We have lived in several haunted houses through the years, and one of them is located on (ADDRESS) St. in Sheridan Oregon. I sometimes wonder if something may be following us from house to house, as things seem to happen in every house we move to. The house in Sheridan had many occurrences. They are too long to list, but I will tell a few. One morning, I was getting ready for work and I had just got out of the shower. My hair was up in a towel. It was very early in the morning around 6 am. I had just looked down at my clothes on top of the washer, when I seen someone come around the corner at the end of the hall. I knew it was something, and not my hair or anything, since it was in a towel. I made myself look up, and saw a gray figure, like a woman's figure, but I couldn't see the face. It looked like it was wearing a ragged, gray dress. I freaked, and woke my husband and told him.

Another time, my husband had just left to take our son to school, and it was early in the morning around 8am. He had left around 5 minutes and my 2 year old daughter and I heard a cupboard close in the kitchen. We were in the back bedroom. She said "Daddy", and I told her no, that's not daddy. I just stayed in the room until my husband got home. Another morning, my son started to choke, and cough and gag. I went to him in the kitchen, and I too, began to choke and gag and my chest felt as if it were being constricted. I knew we had to run out of there as fast as we could, and get our 2 year old daughter out too. There was no odor, but it was like pepper spray, or mace was being sprayed at us. We returned later, and all was fine again. No smell and no explanation. Strangely it did not affect my husband.

We also would hear a dog crying and whimpering in the other deserted house. Someone or something would open up my neighbor's gate at night all the time. It was a duplex, and there were only her and our apartments that adjoined each other. On both sides of this duplex, were 2 houses that were abandoned and that should be condemned, and now, one no longer stands.

On one occasion, I awoke around 11:30 pm, to the sound of what seemed like a giant piece of sheet metal being smashed against the empty house that is now no longer there. The sound would bang around 15-20 times and would stop. My husband heard and felt an earthquake like rumbling in the daytime. The TV would turn on in the middle of the night, full blast. Our Playstation memory card would erase itself. I also would have a reoccurring dream that there were about 40 people buried in the field behind the house.

If anyone knows of maybe something following a person from residence to residence, please e-mail me. (NOTE: I do not post authors' emails...if you would like to contact this author, email me here and I will forward your message and email address to her. -Manager.)

Today is Thursday April 17th. My wife Karen just talked to her brother Roger and he knows somebody who lives (but is about to move out) in the creepsville duplex in Sheridan Oregon.

Roger told Karen that his friend one day out of the blue said, 'hey do you believe in ghosts?' and then proceeded to tell him that they have been experiencing the very SAME things that we experienced. He said that he had read on the net about a woman who lived in a haunted house and he realized that it was his house she was describing in Sheridan, or on center St. He said she was named Karen A. and Roger said that's my sister!

He also said he found out that a woman had killed herself and her children in the house. (Our daughter on several occasions said she 'saw' a woman 'hanging' in the tree outside in the yard. Her words.) He also told Roger that one night he and his wife went to check on their 6 month old baby and it was choking with one hand raised out\up and was PURPLE. They also say the 6 month old stares at something all the time but the 6 year old doesn't see anything.

It sounds to us like things have gotten worse in that place since we moved. Right when we moved my wife said the very first night in our new apt while I was at work someone or something 'banged ' on the BEDROOM DOOR IN THE NEW APT very loudly. Naturally she didn't answer it. Since that time we have heard that if your hear bangings or loud knocking on your doors don't' answer it as you will let whatever's knocking in your house.

We are going to talk to this guy about that place and when we have more details we will let you know what we find out.

Later. Paul A.

EMAIL FROM RYAN:
(He moved into the house after Karen A. and her family moved out.)

Hello,

This email is for Karen A., apparently she used to live here in this duplex & also has had paranormal experiences. My name is Ryan M & I would like to tell you about how I came to find your site which is where I discovered her story about our house. It's not surprising that other people have had strange experiences here, but what is surprising is the randomness of the events that led me to this point. It's evening time, April 9th 03`,& I just got back from the store with baby food when a girl with her friends was walking by & stopped me as I was getting out of my car. She said "this may seem like a weird question, but do you know of any haunted houses around here?" I looked at her for a second and replied " Well, there is a ghost in my house", because I really do believe that there is at least one spirit with us at certain times, and told her how my girlfriend Jessica was freaked out by it one night. She said she was doing a paper on the subject & wanted to talk to her about it. We invited this young lady in and she told us a lot of history concerning this dwelling she found out on the net. That's when I decided to look for myself and inadvertently came upon you at G.Tales by searching Sheridan Oregon. She told us basically that this duplex was built on a foundation of a house that housed a family (of course). This family supposedly had a jealous wife that killed their the kids & distrusted the husband. Therefore the woman's spirit is supposedly placid around men but does not like women or children. There is a lot I didn't hear because I was putting Kali to sleep (our 6 month old daughter) when she was explaining to Jessica about it's history.

But somehow it seemed like this was the place she was talking about (between) two older buildings). I will find out the details about this house and if your interested, & I think you are, we can talk. Now let me tell you about what we've experienced in our little 5 month stay here. Jessica was asleep with Kali on the couch in the living room while I was in the bedroom, (we must have been fighting or something.... ever since we moved in we seem to get into a lot more arguments about stupid s*** than we've ever had before) when she heard terrible & heavy angry breathing (like someone was standing by her looking down with obvious exasperating anger in their breath & presence) she knew it was not me when she heard me snore and then became very frightened. Kali bent her head & looked in the direction of the breathing until Jessica ,who was too scared to look in that direction, pulled the blankets over she & my daughters head & whispered for her to be quiet. The presence was gone shortly after. Other things happen like the TV or radio turning on once in a while, house shifting around, misplaced items, very cold spots (especially in the hallway), and the most frequent of occurrences is Kali's play toy station (that activates music by kicking or pushing buttons) frequently turning on when no one is near it (one time we saw the foot switch move). There is a lot we don't know in respect to this house and to the afterlife but we will find out. When I get the rest of the info I will try to send it to you or post it here in G. Tales. Also this may not mean much, but there is something about the little stick dolls & noose hanging in the basement that catches my curiosity. Out of all the places to move into I hastily chose this place. Wow, we sure can pick the winners! ;}

Email me & let me know you care or are even curious about the history of this little yellow duplex on the end of (ADDRESS) St next to a field in Sheridan. Please contact me THIS IS THE TRUTH & NOT MEANT TO BE A JOKE!

Sincerely Ryan M.

MY EMAIL TO RYAN:

Ryan;

I'm very interested in your story, and would like to post your experiences on the Guardian Tales website. I am also going to forward your email to Karen A. for you - if the email is no longer valid, I will let you know. I will send her a copy of this email as well...

Both yours and Karen's houses sound very similar. However in her story, she states that she lived on XX XXXXXXXX not XX... I am not doubting your story; I just find that detail interesting...

I have no reason not to believe your story... I invite you to go to the Webmasters Tales section of the website, to read my own encounters with the unexplained...

I will contact you again about posting your story.

-San Perry.

MY EMAIL TO KAREN:

Karen;
Hi;

I received this interesting email from Ryan M., who believes they may be currently living in the duplex you wrote about in your story, Sheridan Oregon, posted on the Guardian Tales website. As requested, I am forwarding this email on to you.

I plan to post Ryan's tale on the website in the near future, and would like to include your responses to his story... if you would prefer I not include your replies that is fine, just let me know. I would greatly appreciate your sending me a copy of your responses to Ryan in any event, this really has my curiosity up!

I am sending a copy of the above message along to Ryan. The original email and my response is below. As per GT policy, Ryan does not have your email address - you will need to contact him directly.

Thanks,

-San Perry.

PAUL'S EMAIL TO RYAN:

Paul A. here. Wow my wife and I just read her e-mail from you about the haunted (ADDRESS) St. house. My wife is pretty freaked out. This is just more strangeness on top of strangeness. Your e-mail talked about the hanging dolls in the basement, our daughter talked about seeing the hanging woman. Whoa. Our daughter also saying "I love you too" to the empty air ewww, freaky! When we lived in this house the movie the Blair witch came out, and strangely enough that is what we started calling this house of ours. The Blair witch house. Cause it off the intersection of Blair and (ADDRESS) Hanging dolls!!.. wow too strange. We had never seen those. Maybe it's good we didn't know how right on that name really was! IT'S definitely the same place (the little yellow duplex at the end of (ADDRESS)). Also mentioned was the woman's spirit not bothering men just women and children. When my wife and children had that choking pepper spray type attack and I could not feel it or smell it or was not affected by it in any way. The earthquake I felt while alone during the day (the house shifting). We are not going to e-mail Ryan we are just going to go up to the house on (ADDRESS) where they live to talk to them. Many times we have driven by the house and wondered if anybody else had any strange stuff happen. Well now we know.

Wow. later
Paul a.

KAREN'S REPLY TO ME:

Hello, I sent Ryan an email and cc'd a copy to you. This is the same house. It's (ADDRESS) St. The same yellow duplex. We drove by it not too long ago, wondering if the people there were having any experiences. I was tempted to stop, but decided against it, because most people are so close-minded. I have never been so terrified in my whole life at that house. It aged me there. There was so much bad energy there, you could feel and hear it. I swear. I also swear that all of what I said has, and did happen to me, my husband and my 2 children. The history of the house was always a mystery to us until Ryan, happened to walk up to my brother, who he works with at the local casino, and asked him if he believed in ghosts, and said he read a story from a "Karen A", and that she lived in the same house. To my brother Roger's surprise, it was me, and our old spooky house. Roger really remembers our problems we had there, because I borrowed his gun , and I hate guns.

Please reply, this is too weird and too much of a coincidence.

Respectfully,
Karen Askins

KAREN'S EMAIL TO RYAN:

Hello Ryan, I am Karen A. I understand that you are now living in the creepy (ADDRESS) St.. house of ours. (ADDRESS) right? You would not believe the stuff that happened to us there. I used to carry my brother Roger's gun around and I hate guns. I was that terrified. We used to hear the kitchen cupboards opening and closing, our 3 year old daughter used to say there was a woman hanging in the tree, she also used to say there was a woman monster in the bathroom. One night, she told me she loved me, then turned to her dad and told him she loved him, and then turned towards the hallway, where no one was, and said I love you to the hallway. One morning, my 13 year old son and I went into the kitchen. I noticed that he was starting to cough and choke and sneeze. I asked him what was wrong, when suddenly, it was as if someone had pepper sprayed me right in the throat. I was also choking and gasping. I screamed for my husband and when he came in, the smell did not effect him at all. We then all ran out of the house.

One afternoon, we seen a shadow of a man run around our house, and no one was there or no car was around. The TV would come in the living room all by itself in the middle of the night full blast. The banging on the bedroom door at night, and something erased my sons memory cards while he was in the middle of a game. Our front door would be unlocked all the time even though we would lock it. One morning I got ready for work and I seen a woman wearing an old, raggedy grey dress. She had no face or head or feet. She was floating from down the hall, coming from the kitchen towards the bathroom, where I was standing in front of the washing machine. I ran into the bedroom and woke my husband up crying. I was afraid to leave him and our daughter and son in that house when I went to work that day.

Please contact us immediately and I am so glad to hear you are moving ! I highly recommend it ! That is one active house. I used to have repeated nightmares that there were about 40 people buried in that big field in the back of the house. Call me XXX-XXX-XXXX anytime.

Karen A.

KAREN'S EMAIL TO ME

Well, I tried my best to get a hold of Ryan, and no such luck. I have even left him a voice mail message. I had the address wrong on purpose, most places wont print the real address. It's the same, creepy yellow duplex on the left. They tore down the abandoned house that was on the right side, and re-rented the other one that I heard the moaning dog from on the left side. I don't think I could ever step foot inside (ADDRESS) again. Whatever is there, doesn't like me at all. I sure would've liked to seen the stick dolls Ryan talked about. Creepy. You could feel, hear and smell the bad energy in that place. I swear it, and man did I dread the night time coming. Because it meant I would be home all alone, and my husband was working the late swing shift. Thanks for letting me share my experiences.

Respectfully,
Karen A.

MY REPLY TO KAREN

Karen;

I'm sorry to hear that Ryan hasn't gotten back to you. Do you think he could have moved out already? I think you've more than proven your interest - if he wants to continue, he'll contact you. I do think it's very interesting that he hasn't gotten back to you though, when he is the one who initiated the contact... hopefully there's nothing wrong. I wonder - perhaps his wife didn't want him to, or perhaps he simply changed his mind, or something. It's hard to tell.

I have to tell you that I think you're very courageous to even try - if it were me, I don't think I would be brave enough to even make the offer! It's been many, many years since I lived in the 'Guardian' house, and I still would not willingly go back there...

Please keep me updated if anything further happens...

-San Perry.

KARENS EMAIL TO ME:

Hello again, I just wanted to tell you that I spoke with my brother Roger, who works with Ryan, and he told me that he hadn't seen Ryan at work for awhile. Well Ryan took some time off to move. He's paying rent on two places right now just to get out of the (ADDRESS) house. I know that feeling exactly. That house is truly evil.

Ryan also told my brother that his computer was messing up and he hadn't been getting any messages. I'm so glad they're out. No children or adults for that matter, should live in that place. It could hurt someone someday. It used to bang on my bedroom door when I was alone in there with my 2 year old when my hubby was at work nights. I would push my TV and stand against the door I was so scared. My daughter was asleep most of the time, thank god, so she never witnessed my fear either. I would just tremble.

The only other house that made me feel like that was my mom's old trailer. I have posted stories all over the net about that one too. It was bad. A different type of energy altogether than the (ADDRESS) house. I am going to try and email Ryan again, now that he is out. He also told my bro that each time they go back to get their belongings, the (ADDRESS) house feels worse. I remember that too, it is as if the house spirits didn't want us to move because then they couldn't terrorize anyone anymore I think. Hope to hear from you soon. My dig cam gave out, but I got a 35 mm with flash and I went to the house at midnight by myself and took pics of the house and the land around it and the abandoned land where the banging sounds used to come from. I will be developing these next week.

I have filled it up with haunted sites all around that we have been finding. We drove on a back road (gravel), from Salem and we drove by this old abandoned building next to an abandoned mill, and there was a blue glowing light in there. My 15 year old son seen it with us. I want to go there after midnight soon and take some pics with this camera. I wont go alone there. It's pretty remote. The farmhouses are few and far between.

Peace, Karen

MY EMAIL TO KAREN

Karen; I have to say that I for one am GLAD that neither Ryan or you live in that house any longer... but I am wondering about the NEXT family that moves in there...do you know if the landlord has any idea about what's going on there, or do they just not care? To my mind, if something is strong enough to pound on the door, it's then strong enough to injure people, or affect things like computers and phones... I really wonder about the history of that house, and the buildings around it... didn't you say it's a duplex? Do people live in the other half? If so, what are THEY experiencing? It makes sense to me that Ryan would develop computer problems... and also, what you were saying about 'it' not wanting you to move out, because then it wouldn't have anyone to terrorize made sense too. In my own experience with an entity, (in the Guardian Tales) the only roommate to say, "Yeah, there's something here, but it's okay IT CAN STAY." was the only one to get 'punished' by the entity when we decided to move out... Maybe after Ryan gets settled in his new place, and feels a bit safer, you will be able to meet and talk with him about that damn house... I greatly appreciate your keeping me updated on this - I plan to post this story on the website when it's over, (with yours and Ryans' okay) but I'm also 'glued to the screen' to see what happens next...

-San Perry.

KAREN'S EMAIL TO ME

Hello and yes I too, and glad no one lives there at the time. I think the landlords have changed since we lived there. They were pretty narrow minded people if you know what I mean. When they were showing us the duplex, Mrs. XX mentioned a story about one of their residences they owned having a woman that died there, and I asked her: "It's not this one is it?" and she laughed and said no. Hmmmmm Now I'm beginning to wonder if that was her way of telling me a hint.

Ryan and his wife spoke with a girl that told them about the history of the land the duplex is built on. A woman killed her 3 children, and then herself. My 2 year old daughter used to say "Woman, hanging in the tree". Now Ryan told my brother he found nooses in the basement under the house. Also, he told my brother that his wife had a dream about the woman there and the woman told her that you can love too much, and that her husband loved her children too much and she was jealous of them, so she killed them and herself.

She liked men. My husband was not affected at all when my 12 year old son and I were choking like we were pepper sprayed in our throats and eyes. My husband literally was sniffing and smelling all around where my son and I were choking in the kitchen and he was not affected at all. Ryan also told my bro he found voodoo like stick dolls, also where the nooses were.

I'll update you often. Thank you for letting us share this experience. I thought I was losing my mind there or imagining it all. I could not believe what I was seeing, hearing and smelling. Ryan's baby was purple, and choking they said. No one should live there. It's full of rage still. The woman that I seen floated from around the kitchen which is where I would hear the cupboards opening when no one was in there. Our answering machine, Playstation, TV, computer would all malfunction.

You can post any part of this you want, thank you for sharing our experiences with us, as someone who understands, I feel comfortable, and actually relieved, that I can share with someone that believes me and Ryan too, because he was there and it's real. It doesn't look haunted at all. My husband told me he didn't think the house would let me contact Ryan. Yet, my brother Roger is freaked out too by all this, because Ryan comes up to him at work, Why him? , and asks if he believes in ghosts, and begins telling the story about this haunted, yellow duplex on a hill in Sheridan that someone named Karen A. lived in too that he read on your website. Roger knew it was our old place, because I borrowed his gun when we lived there, and he knows I hate guns. That is just how freaked I was alone there at night.

Later, Karen

KAREN'S EMAIL TO ME

Hello, I wanted to let you know I e-mailed Ryan one more time. My brother told me he was having problems with his computer. The neighbor that lived next door in the duplex, (there are only the two places to the place), said that she never heard anything. She was kind of naware. One of the type of people that doesn't believe in ghosts until she has an experience some day of course.

She did used to tell us that her door would be unlocked when she would get home and nothing would be taken or out of order, also that her side of the gate would be open, and she always kept it closed. She thought my husband was opening it at night when he got home, because we told her that sometimes I had him check around the house when he got home because at first I thought it was teenagers, or burglars or something explainable. I'll keep you posted.

Thanks, Karen

KAREN'S EMAIL TO ME

Hello once again San, I still havent heard from Ryan, but my brother just told me that he's back at work, out of that house, and still wants to talk to me. I will continue to keep you posted, and you can post all my experiences and everything like I said except those names of the landlords. I appreciate that.

I also think that the reasons why no one feels anything over on that side are because A: they aren't perceptive to the spirit world. There are people who can and people who just don't have a clue even though they are like you said right there. B: All of the people that I noticed that live there are religious, church going people, they may have crosses, and any types of holy items, bibles, holy water, I have heard that entities or bad spirits don't like those things.

These are just my theories, I have no clue why no one feels anything on that side, unless the house that the woman killed her children in had burned down, and the duplex on that side wasn't part of the old house? I have not a clue. I will be developing the pictures on my disposable 35mm camera tomorrow. I will let you know if anything shows up. I went there alone, right at midnight and took flash photos of the place and the land behind it. I'll keep in touch,

Karen

KAREN'S EMAIL TO ME

Hello, Just a quick note to let you know I met Ryan. I haven't met his girlfriend yet. We plan on all 4 getting together soon. He has more interesting stuff to share about their experiences. I thought ours were bad. I told him also that you wanted to do our story and he seemed eager to too. He was busy moving out in a hurry , like we did.

I'll keep you posted. Ryan is also repairing his computer. When we lived in that duplex, our hard drive
got mysteriously erased. Ryan hasn't been able to get any emails.

Later, Karen