Post by ghostseer169 on Nov 14, 2009 13:36:50 GMT -6
All my life I've had some kind of 6th sense when it comes to the paranormal. It runs in my family. My biggest experiences came when I was around 6 years old. Despite my young age, I remember it vividly, because it is so hard to forget.
October 31, 1996, my parents and I moved into our new house on Oak St. in West Salem. I still remember that night, my dad and grandma painting the house, and my mom taking me out trick or treating. Nothing really happened that night, but I still find it weird we moved in on Halloween. The next three years were full of weird occurrences.
The first thing we noticed was a moaning sound at night that came from downstairs. My parents always told me it was our brand new refrigerator. Even as a 6 year old I didn't buy that. My mom worked second shift and would get home around midnight and take a bath (this house is so old, it didn't have a shower!). When the bathroom door was ajar, it would slam shut really hard. I also always had a strange feeling in the basement. I rarely went down there. It always seemed so cold and sad. The thing that I remember most was what happened almost every night in my room. Green hazy figures on the wall. I've done the math, and it can't be shadows from outside coming through the window. These figure(s) would appear as one, or up to five. They were about 5'10" tall, but heights varied by a few inches at most. They would move around the wall, huddling in groups, or standing alone. I would watch this go on for hours.
Finally two weeks before we moved out, we were talking to the town guru, who knew everything about West Salem. He told us there had been a murder in the house many many years ago. They never caught the suspect, leaving the mystery to this day, unsolved.
I did some research recently and found that in early 1917, Cora Lansebourogh Miller was brutally murdered. Someone smashed her skull in with a hammer, and buried her 5 feet down in the south east corner of the basement. They didn't find her body until August of that year. The suspect was Edwin Hauges, who apparently rented the house from Miller. Authorities believed there was a dispute about paying rent, which led to her murder. The town guru told us that people claimed they could smell her perfume when you turn the furnace on, but we never experienced this.
Unfortunately people are still living in this house so you can't go on a ghost hunt. But it is currently for sale if you would like to purchase it!
October 31, 1996, my parents and I moved into our new house on Oak St. in West Salem. I still remember that night, my dad and grandma painting the house, and my mom taking me out trick or treating. Nothing really happened that night, but I still find it weird we moved in on Halloween. The next three years were full of weird occurrences.
The first thing we noticed was a moaning sound at night that came from downstairs. My parents always told me it was our brand new refrigerator. Even as a 6 year old I didn't buy that. My mom worked second shift and would get home around midnight and take a bath (this house is so old, it didn't have a shower!). When the bathroom door was ajar, it would slam shut really hard. I also always had a strange feeling in the basement. I rarely went down there. It always seemed so cold and sad. The thing that I remember most was what happened almost every night in my room. Green hazy figures on the wall. I've done the math, and it can't be shadows from outside coming through the window. These figure(s) would appear as one, or up to five. They were about 5'10" tall, but heights varied by a few inches at most. They would move around the wall, huddling in groups, or standing alone. I would watch this go on for hours.
Finally two weeks before we moved out, we were talking to the town guru, who knew everything about West Salem. He told us there had been a murder in the house many many years ago. They never caught the suspect, leaving the mystery to this day, unsolved.
I did some research recently and found that in early 1917, Cora Lansebourogh Miller was brutally murdered. Someone smashed her skull in with a hammer, and buried her 5 feet down in the south east corner of the basement. They didn't find her body until August of that year. The suspect was Edwin Hauges, who apparently rented the house from Miller. Authorities believed there was a dispute about paying rent, which led to her murder. The town guru told us that people claimed they could smell her perfume when you turn the furnace on, but we never experienced this.
Unfortunately people are still living in this house so you can't go on a ghost hunt. But it is currently for sale if you would like to purchase it!
maybe i'll go to an open house or something, that would be sweet.