ghostly smells

[meineymoe]

Feb., 2003 -- Appleton area. I tagged along as my wife, Judy Meinen, was doing a weekend of Healing Touch, Angel therapy and psychic healings. She was scheduled to do a house clearing, but ended up behind schedule as more people came to her; but our 13 year old son, Aaron, who often accompanies her on hauntings, was available, so they wanted him to go.

Now, I'm a fairly open minded guy -- I don't tell people what to believe, since I don't really believe in anything anyway; however, I decided to go along with Aaron in a parental role, just to keep an eye out for him. This was my first "haunting".

We drove to an old farm house where the owners were remodeling the upstairs to rent out. When the four of us (Aaron, I, and the owning couple) walked into the upstairs apt., Aaron, who had been quiet up until now, began to tell us what he sensed.

He saw a little girl running up some stairs that weren't there, and she was carrying flowers. He told of more events and people as we moved through the bare rooms with new woodwork and drywall.

Ever the skeptic, I didn't become alarmed until we returned to the first room we had been in, and it smelled of flowers. Everything else until now had smelled of sawdust. I looked around for a cleaner or air freshner or some other possible source of the smell -- even the lady's perfume -- but to no avail. We couldn't find anything. And remember, this was February, so it wasn't wafting in from outside.

Finally, we went downstairs, where the people lived. Aaron told stories of more children, running around in the kitchen, etc. I spent time looking down here for a possible way that a flowery smell might have drifted upstairs. Nothing.

What I did see, however, was a stairway that went up along the wall where Aaron had seen the girl running up the steps. The top of the stairway, of course, was gone, turned into a floor up above.

The owners (who had intentionally kept us in the dark up until now) then told us some of the history of the house and their experiences, which corroborated with what Aaron had seen -- and we all had smelled.

-oo-

[seeker]

I have heard of this kind of thing before from people I know. Like cigerette smoke smell,cigar smoke, perfume smell,etc..when no one was wearing perfume or smoking or even been in the building for quite sometime. I personally never had it happen to me yet but Im sure it will as iI keep investigating.

[Scully]

My mother had an incident similar to this. When I was about 4 or 5, my father, mother and I were coming home from out to eat or something, and my mother was the first to enter the house. She said she smelled something like flowers and noticed that a family heirloom rocking chair (from my father's side) was rocking very slightly.

My mother never told me this until I was older and the weird thing about it is that it happened shortly after my father's mother pasted away. My mother suspected that her entity stopped by for a check.

[tiggerpal]

We have times when you can smell dill.
I found out from some of the relatives of the previous owner, that the lady that lived here did a lot of canning and did use dill.
You never know when or where you will smell it, but, it does happen. My mother was here once and smelled. Now she doesn't think I'm crazy any more.