SPECIAL MENTION 12
My Horrid House of
Fear
At last a webpage where I feel I
can tell of my experiences in one of my childhood homes, thank you!
I don't know what really happened
in a house, as in whether we had one ghost, presence, poltergeist or what, I
lived in for about 8 years from the age of 8 up to 16. We live in Devon in
the UK and this is all I will say about the house's location as I know the
place is up for sale at the moment and would not want anything to disrupt
that!
All I know is that the house was
Bad from the minute my parents took myself and my two sisters to look at it, I
had an eerie wobbly feeling about it! All I can describe is the minute I was
looking around the house it was cold, and felt oppressive, even at 8 years old
I could feel this, so I knew it was not right.
All we knew of the previous owners
was that the husband had been abusive and he had finally left his wife, and
she was so desperate for money she had to sell the house, so my parents got it
for quite a good price.
Well the first few years there
were ok, I still sometimes felt a bit spooked out when in the garden, I always
felt like something was watching me from the huge bay window in my sisters
room, but again put it down to an over active child's imagination.
Then about 3 years after being
there, strange stuff started to happen! It started when my dad accidentally
broke a huge granite "bridge" stepping stone we had over a small moat fishpond
that coincidently had a weeping willow over the pond too. We have since been
told that this granite block was almost protecting the property from the
weeping willow (folklore says that these trees have a malicious streak) and
also that the house was right slap bang in the middle of a clutch lay lines
(these are meant to be magnetic lines that run all over land and it is not
meant to be good if you or a house or anything is situated in the gaggle of
one of these!!) Then to add even more fuel to the fire I was just entering
adolescence and my older sister was 15!
So what started to happen, well
firstly my parents started to argue a hell of a lot, and my sisters and I
bickered quite a bit too, but it started more subtly than that . My dogs (I
had 2 at the time, but sadly they are both dead now) used to wake up from
sound asleep to wide awake alert in like 2 seconds, my spaniel used to sit at
the bottom of the stairs and follow something with his head but we could not
see anything. and other times they would just wine which used to freak us out
big time.
Also we had a huge mirror in the
hallway and I just could not look into when climbing the stairs to bed as I
always felt something would be there or I would see something.
Since my dad was a builder as his
trade, he was always looking for new projects to do, and when he studied the
houses history he found the rooms we a lot bigger than he first thought and he
built storage cupboards and playrooms by knocking through walls and finding
spaces behind. My room suddenly became two as he knocked through a wall into a
spare room. One of the weird things about these room was in the beams a ladies
name was written in red and it was written in about 5 different places in each
room, the name ANNA written everywhere looking like it had been stamped on the
wood, even to this day we have no idea of it's meaning.
Now you would think being a
teenage girl and having a room bigger than any of my friends I would be well
impressed, but it just scared me more. The first night I stayed in my new
room I swear to god that I saw a bat flying around my room and I screamed the
house down as I was so scared, and my dad came into see me and we turned all
the lights on but could see a thing!
So I settled in my room,
reluctantly, then weird stuff started happening to my younger sis. She had a
playroom built in her room, and even though my dad measured and fixed the door
perfectly, she said that every single night her playroom door would fly open
for no reason, she got so scared that she used to make my dad put a huge heavy
mattress against the door every night, and even then, it would fall down
sometimes in the night, she got so freaked sometimes she used to come and
sleep with me.
My mum also says that when my
sister was at home, she used to talk to a little girl called Emily and it was
found out that she had died in a car accident on the road outside of the house
many years previously, and she could not find her way top the other side. My
mum can do channeling, so she helped Emily get to heaven and her parents, so
we know it was not her that was causing all the weird stuff.
Then when I got to the age 14 even
more sinister things started to happen, I had my teenage idols plastered all
over my wall and for no reason the posters would just fall down, or else I
would hear a kind of tapping on the posters, this got so bad I actually took
the posters down, unheard for a teenage girl doing that, but it scared me so
much it was all I could do for a restful nights sleep.
Also in my room my electric under
blanket caught fire after it had only been on for like 40 minutes, and before
anyone says it must have been folded etc, it hadn't as the fire report from
the blanket company came back and they said they could find no reason for it
catching fire, luckily it did nothing more than scorch my blankets and
mattress so I needed new bedding but it could have been a lot lot worse! Then
for no reason, me a healthy fun loving girl got really poorly, it ended up
with me having scarlet fever and I was sick for a bout 3 maybe 4 weeks! During
this time I was obviously up a lot of the time at night and several times I
saw my room get "darker" ,I would be looking at my window and suddenly it was
as if the dark got more intense and sometimes it felt like it was coming
towards my bed, when this happened I used to either turn my light on if I
could, but sometimes I was too frozen to do so, and when that happened I used
to just hide under my quilt and pray until I fell asleep again!
Then the following years things
started to happen to my family, 3 of our cats got run over in a short space of
time, my pet rabbit got petrified to death, my older sisters rabbit ran away
and joined a wild rabbit colony next door and for some reason his "babies"
were always found in the pond drowned (we knew they were his a he was a fluffy
blue angora rabbit as were his offspring!). My parents temporarily split up
and then my dad lost his business, so due to this we had to put the house up
for sale, but it would not sell and eventually we were evicted from it and the
bank took it back.
We moved away from that horrible
house and things felt better almost instantly, my folks got back together and
my sisters and I had a better relationship and the feeling of desolation, and
the horrid weighty feeling left us.
It was only a few weeks ago that I
realize even weirder things were happening to my sisters the same times the
things were happening to me, but because we were scared of peer pressure we
never told each other! My younger sister says she woke up once and looked out
of her window and the surrounding countryside had changed and she was in the
middle of a battle from the Napoleon/American Civil war times as she says they
all had canons and horses and the tri-pointed hats of those era's etc. and my
older sister said she woke up one night and stood to attention by the side of
her bed and was taking drill instructions from an unseen drill inspector! Also
my older sister said that when she was there on her own if we had gone on
vacation, and she chose to stay behind, she felt unsafe in the house, and had
to spend one night up in the lounge watching TV cos she was so scared, and for
the rest of the time we were away she called her friends over to stay with
her. She also had a dream or experience, where she was in hospital, the very
same time her best friends father passed away, she knew the time, the
circumstance and everything, and it really freaked her friend out when my sis
re-accounted this for her .
The worse thing was about 5 years
ago we moved about 2 miles away from this house and for the first 3 months
myself and my younger sister had dreams that we were back at that house and it
did seriously scare us and we had not been in that house for about 9 maybe 10
years, and even now that I am married and have moved many miles away, for some
reasons I still have dreams about that house and wake up with a feeling of
dread. I hated that house , and I think it hated us and the happiness we had,
and I hope to god no one else ever suffered like we did , with feeling of
oppression, sadness and all the other spooky goings on.
Sorry this is so long, but it
helps to write it down, and now maybe I can let go of this burden !! I still
don't know what it was in that house or what it wanted but I am glad we did
not stay there any longer than we did as who knows what might have happened.
-Tallie.