SPECIAL MENTION
The Year was 1990
The year was 1990, and the
place was a beautiful house outside a small town in the state of Ohio. I had
lived in this area all my life, and never heard any rumors about this house.
I must give you more information on our ‘find’, so you understand how
excited and lucky we considered ourselves.
The three bedroom custom-built house, sat
on four beautiful landscaped acres. Three bathrooms, three fireplaces, with built-in
lighting I couldn’t believe. This house was something out of Home Beautiful, which is
why I didn’t question why the price was so reasonable, why a place like this had sat
empty for three years, or why the owners just up and left. I now realize, they had
abandoned the house they put so much care into building. In two months I would understand
why.
I, my husband and our 20 year old daughter
starting working getting ready to move in. this was a major undertaking as the entire
place was filthy and neglected.
I couldn’t believe these people didn’t at least
have someone do some light cleaning and upkeep.
Off the back patio was a 32x40-foot
swimming pool, with bathhouse. This pool hadn’t been touched for three years. It was
filthy and the bottom of the deep end still had four feet of water, which we had to pump
out finding furniture, logs, and carcasses of animals among other things. That is after we
had an exterminator out to kill an infestation of bees in the ground under the cement
apron around the pool. The exterminator had never seen this species of bees this far north
Within a week we were moving in. I should
have realized immediately something was not right when my cats didn’t want to leave
the den, which was attached to the garage. This room and the garage were added at a later
date, AFTER the basement had been dug. This was the only room in the house my family and I
were truly comfortable. I still wasn’t putting two and two together.
My daughter was the first to start feeling
things weren’t right. She would hear what she thought was I or my husband wandering
around the house in the middle of the night turning lights on and off. She would turn her
bedroom light on, leave the room for a while and when she returned, the light was off. The
same with the closet door. She would open the door and return to find it closed. You must understand these things were being done to all
three of us at different times, which made us think one or the other was coming behind
turning lights off and closing doors.
The feeling of unrest was getting stronger
as the days passed. My husband and I started having disagreements, which were turning into
all out fights. I was fighting with my daughter about everything. Her boyfriends, her
clothes, she could do nothing right The problem with our lights was getting worse. I
discussed with my family that there was a chance we were having paranormal occurrences, my
husband was skeptical at first, on the 60th day of living in the house, he
changed his mind.
We had been living there for 58 days when
on the evening of that day, my daughter and my husband got in to a terrible fight. I was
scared for both of us, because my husband was ranting, throwing things, cursing at me
because I was defending my daughter. He finally packed a bag and stormed out into the
dark. I waited and chain smoked for hours. My daughter and I finally fell asleep, and
sometime during the early morning hours, my husband returned. This was Saturday. Sunday
was the 59th day living here, which was spent apart from each other, not
speaking, not even in the same room together. The feeling in the house I can only describe
as sinister. Whatever was here was beginning to show its’ evil face in earnest.
Monday the 60th day started with
the dark feeling still creeping around the house. My husband left for work at 6:30, my
daughter at 8:30.At 10:00 I went into my daughters’ bedroom gathering dirty clothes,
when I felt a brush against my legs, a glimpse
of white, and the feeling of warmth. The image of my dog Ashley rushed through my mind. I
loved Ashley so much, and was heartbroken three months earlier when she was killed in an
auto accident. This was the first time I had been visited by her. There was no doubt in my
mind that Ashley was trying to warn me of what was waiting in the kitchen.
I went to the basement and started the
laundry, went upstairs to the kitchen to do the dishes when I realized I wasn’t
alone. I cannot to this day describe the entity I saw,
but I will try.
The room started darkening, like the sun
was behind clouds and all the blinds in the room were closed, which they weren’t. I
saw a black shape out of the corner of my eye at the point were the wall meets the
ceiling. Then the entity was moving around the walls, following me. I couldn’t
breathe, I gasped for air, my heart was trying to get out of my chest I felt such terror.
I knew I would die if I didn’t get out.
The thing was getting larger by the second, it was all around me, like it wanted to
smother me. As I ran from the kitchen, I knew we had to leave this evil place as
fast as possible.
The only safe place in the house, as I
mentioned earlier, was the den and garage. I wandered around outside and in the den the
rest of the day. When my husband and daughter arrived home, I told them about my
experience, and we all agreed to leave. From then on no one was to stay in the house
alone. Within three days I found us a mobile to rent, we took a few clothes, the bare
necessities in food and hygiene, hauled the mattresses out, not even taking time to tear
down the beds.
I now live in Tennessee, and don’t get
to Ohio often. The last time I saw that house was 1995. The house was occupied, so I was
told. It was impossible to tell from the road. The grass was at least four feet high, junk
cars were sitting around the back yard, all the drapes were drawn, the place looked
deserted and evil. Maybe the house finally found the right people.
I have since found out when the ground was
being excavated for the basement, a burial ground was unearthed. Many bones including
skulls were discovered. I have never heard what type of cemetery this was. As for the
original occupants of the house, they always had problems while living there. They moved
out of the state also.
I know there are good and evil forces here
on earth. I can only tell you my greatest salvation was my faith and the love of my
family. My husband now realizes this also.
-Unsigned.