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In 1975 our son was 3 1/2 and I was pregnant with our daughter. My aunt was moving from Baton Rouge to Jackson, MS and I was helping to prepare the house before she arrived.

Our son found a small toy and was entertaining himself in a small, long, add-on room where the washer & dryer were located. I was busy wallpapering in the kitchen when our son kept calling me to "come see the people". It was about time for school to be out so I figured he saw kids as they walked home and played in yards. He finally became very insistent, came into the kitchen, took my hand and guided me into toward the room. As I stepped down into the room he ran ahead of me, gazed into the closet area containing the washer & dryer, looked up toward the ceiling and asked "Where did the lady go?" "Where did she go Mommie?" I asked what he meant and he continued to ask the same question, "Where did the lady go?"

The house suddenly became very oppressive...hard to explain. It was like the air was thick and very heavy. I finished wallpapering, grabbed my son and left. When I asked my mother about the house she hesitantly told me that the house had been foreclosed after the former owner died. It seems she was a young, single mother who was murdered in another town. The small toy that my son found belonged to her son.

We never told my aunt the story of the former owner nor my experience in the house. However, until the day she died, my aunt insisted that she was not the only occupant of the house, that she had an unseen "roommate".

Our black lab mix, Maggie, will occasionally and suddenly start sniffing the air and staring into "blank" space as if she's seeing somebody that isn't there. I know dogs have a very, very strong sense of smell but it's not like she's picking up a new scent. When she's doing this, she'll look over at us as if to say, "Don't you see them, too?" It really freaks my wife out. I'll then whisper, "I see dead puppies." She's done this in both houses since we've had here.