Ghosts

Hubby and I lived with his parents for 4 years after we got married. They were easy to get along with, which is why we stayed for so long. I had lived in a few other places where I would get the creepy crawlies, but as far as haunting my in-laws house takes the cake.

First a bit of personal experience/history. The home of part of my youth I personally never saw a ghost but I would get the creeps at night. My little brother later told me that there was a little boy who would walk up and down the hall and torment him. My first apartment I had a roommate who had a history of a ghost following her around. The water faucet in the kitchen would turn itself on, and there was an unexplainable banging noise in the bathrooms at odd hours. Hubby would sometimes stay over and wake up in the middle of the night because someone was staring at him. We eventually had my roommate’s priest come over and bless the apartment, give it a good dousing of holy water, and exorcise the creepies out of it. We left the holy water in the banging bathroom and had no other issues after that.

As for my in-laws, I think it would take a flood of holy water to wash it out. My hubby’s grandmother is one of the sensitive sort, she sees dead people. When they first bought the house they had her come over and check it out. She told them there were no “bad” spirits there. I was not around during this time, they had lived in that house a good 10 years before I even met hubby so in my minds eye I picture the little old lady on Poltergeist walking in and saying “This house is clean.” Just last week (mind you this is 20 years later) Grandma admitted that she was lying. She felt bad b/c she knew they had spent a lot of money and she didn’t want to mess it up for them. She went on to talk about the red haired man that inhabited it along with some other ghoulies. My sister-in-law who is also of the sensitive sort felt validated as she too has seen/experienced the red haired man. This is all second hand info; we opted not to go to Grandma’s last week so we heard about the conversation after the fact.

A little history of the house, again this is 2nd hand information, it is one of two that was built by two brothers. Both of whom were 7th day Adventist. (The church is down the street) When my hubby and his family moved in they found an empty, walled off room, which they tore down the walls and turned into my hubby’s bedroom. (Explains so much!) The house next door is said to have passageways under the house and through the house. I know very little about 7th day Adventist, guess I should do some research.

Now my personal experiences in that house were enough to last me a lifetime. I was always interested in ghosts and such but after living with them; I honestly could really live without them and not miss ‘em! There were times I would be on the computer, far away from any open doors, windows, or air conditioning vents and a cold breeze that smelled like outside would blow through the tiny cubicle where the computer was located. One night after a marathon chat with hubby and my MIL I went to the bathroom, as I came out I saw a male with shorts and a red shirt sitting on the kitchen island; thinking it was my husband I walked back to our bedroom and was shocked to find him there. I walked back to the kitchen to find out who was sitting on the island, there was no one and the island was covered with a ton of stuff, candles, papers, bowls, etc.

My brother-in-law was reportedly disturbed a LOT in his bedroom but he was not open to talking about it. I didn’t tell a friend of mine that it was haunted and she spent the night in his room, the next day she told me that the room was creepy and there was a dark figure standing over her while she slept. After my BIL moved out we took his room (it was twice as big as ours) while I was painting it I got blasted with cold air, I told the ghost where to shove it and it never bothered me in there again. Baskets in the kitchen would fall off the walls; towels hanging on the racks in the bathroom would fly off while you were in there having private time. Right before we moved out Hubby was lying in bed and something right above his head started making a loud growling breathing sound. He was freaked out to say the least. My Sister-In-Law complained of waking up b/c someone was staring at her and being able to see his face for a split second. It would walk up and down the hallway at night, you could hear it’s footsteps on the carpet and thumping up and down the hallway stairs- no live person was in the hallway at the time, it pretty much terrorizes everyone pretty equally.

After we moved out we really have not had any ghostly issues or problems until we moved to our latest house. My little brother took care of that problem so outside of a residual creepy every now and then our current house is nice and clean. My in-laws still live in the creepy house; we have yet to spend the night there since we moved out 5 years ago.