Post by nate on Feb 11, 2007 20:19:11 GMT -6
I said in a previous post that I had lived in two haunted houses both within blocks of each other. The second place I lived that I am convinced is haunted is on Birch St. I lived in this duplex with my now exwife. This was more of an annoyance haunting than anything and was directed mostly at my wife. My wife was a local radio personality and had to be on air early in the morning so she would get up about a half hour before me. Chad has been on her show. One morning she came into the bedroom and asked me why I would come into the bathroom while she was in the shower an leave the water on in the sink. I had not been in the bathroom any of the many times this happened. Many nights during the two years we lived there we would be in bed upstairs and hear the door downstairs being opened. I would go downstairs wielding a metal bat to find nothing. A door would open on its own. The one time in my whole life I actually witnessed with my own eyes a paranormal activity was in this house . It was close to Christmas and my wife had some brass reindeer on the tv. The kids were watching tv and I was kinda just hangin out in the chair with a side view of the tv. One of the brass reindeer lifted up about three inches floated out away from the tv about a foot and dropped to the floor. I couldn't even believe what I saw. I didn't want to startle the kids so I just asked them if they saw that. They said yeah the deer fell off the tv. They didn't really see what I saw but knew the deer fell. I just got up walked into the kitchen and told my wife what I saw. Soon after this I actually walked next door to the landlords side of the house to ask him if anyone else had complained about weird stuff. Now I am a bigger guy, construction worker type. This is not something I want to talk about with my landlord that I barely talk to. So I ask him and I was shocked by his answer. He said that he experienced one of his toddler sons toys acting up also hears "things". He said that soon after he purchased the house he had a visit from an elderly lady that used to babysit in that house as a young lady. It turn out that this house and the sister house across the street belonged to a lumber baron or someone wealthy that was involved with the lumber industry at the time. The house we lived in had some sisters living there one of which was quarantined on the three season porch with tuberculosis. The door that opens on its own is the one to the three season porch. I don't think that the elderly lady was babysitting in the house during this time as she would probably be over 100 if it was during the cities lumber boom. My landlord told me that this lady told him that the house is haunted. This apartment recently came up for rent and I called on it because I was looking at the time but the new owner wanted way to much and had put up a wall and is using two of the bedrooms for his kids that were previously for the other apartment. I'm not smart enough to make this stuff up. I hope you have enjoyed both of my experiences. Not much but its all I got.