Posted on 10/31/2006 7:35:47 PM PST by Swordmaker
I also believe. My husband and I built our house when we were early 20's and then had our first child. When she was 14 months old she died in her sleep of SIDS. immediately after we both started hearing things. Neither of us said anything to the other for fear of being thought crazy but eventually we couldn't keep it to ourselves and told each other what we had each heard.
finally we left the house late one night after something grabbed my foot while we were in bed.
we still live there today. I don't hear anything anymore but my husband has had strange things happen when he is home alone, such as the windows being closed after he opened them, etc.
I don't know what it was but I know it scares you STIFF!! It is not cool or interesting, it is terror.
I was thinking the same thing. I wrote this last year when I posted it then... and now reading it a year later (unfortunately, after I posted it) I was jarred by both. Thanks for the editorial validation.
Great story! Thanks for taking the time to write it up.
As for what I think ... I think ghosts are real, though I don't know what they are, whether they are actual souls, or just "impressions" left on a location by events, or evil, or what. I never thought ghosts were real, though, until I lived in a haunted apartment one summer -- and it was NOT fun or cool. I ended up sleeping on the couch all summer because the bedrooms were uninhabitable, because of the incredibly angry presence of whatever it was that was haunting the place. Only the living room and kitchen were unaffected. It made such an impression on me that when we went to buy our first place, I embarrassed my husband by quizzing the real estate agent at length as to whether anyone had ever died there. I was taking no chances! LOL!
Yeah, that's right.
The angels might protect you from actually getting killed by something nasty like that, but you can't just dispel them by praying real hard. Whatever they are, they're THERE, and they're NOT GOING AWAY just because you want them to.
Dead democrats. Don't worry, they're only here to vote.
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LOL! That must be why God/Jesus scared them off aye :-)?! I am gettin a visual on the ghosts voting, standing of course right next to the voting booth with the illegal slamming out those holes for the Dems and their Propositions.
That is such a sad story annelizly. I am so sorry for your loss. I will pray for you, your husband and also for both of your protection.
I couldn't agree more. Whatever that angry presence was, I'm sure it would have hurt me if it had the power to do so. All it managed to actually do was ruin my sleep and make me a nervous wreck.
I used to know a woman who said that she once managed to successfully *threaten* a ghost, though she didn't make it go away. She told me she had moved into an old house for one summer, and shortly after moving in she started to hear the sound of a crying child up in the attic at night. She also separately got glimpses of a very angry-looking old man, glaring at her. Curious who the old man was, she did some snooping around in the neighborhood, and found out that the neighborhood scuttlebutt was that an old man who had lived and died there some years before was rumored to be a pedophile (but that was back in the days when people just lived with that, instead of doing something about it). She said that when she came home from finding that out, she stormed up to the attic, screamed out this old man's name, and yelled that if he EVER did ANYTHING to make that poor child cry in the night again, she was going to drag a priest in there and get him exorcised so fast it would make his head spin! She said she never heard the child crying again.
True story? I have no idea. Thought it was great, though.
Thanks, Archer, I appreciate it.
By the way, and I apologize for getting off the subject, but do you by any chance have any photos of Irene and/or her house? If you do, and you’d be willing to share them, my wife and I would be beyond thrilled. Stories, misc. tidbits of info, etc. would be awesome as well.
Hey Swordmaker! I’m still interested in showing you the house your parents used to live in, and visiting Irene’s 1921 home. Let me know if you are up for it. I dropped out of sight for a while after contracting some miscellaneous neuro-muscular thing, but I’m picking myself up by the bootstraps and going out and doing stuff again. Does a lot for the ol’ morale.
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