"We're on the case..."
Posted on 01/07/2005 9:14:48 PM PST by CurlyBill
Occupants believe their West Inverness house is spooked
by Joseph M. Giordano
When members of the Meyers family saw a figure in the window of the Jasmine Road house they wanted to buy, they should have known something was up.
But they didn't, and now they may be living with something paranormal.
"His name is Dexter," said 8-year-old Ozzie Meyers V. "And he kept asking me to read to him."
Ozzie's parents, Jennifer, an apparently down-to-Earth woman who works for Johns Hopkins University, and Ozzie IV, a stay-at-home dad, thought it might have been an imaginary friend. Then something happened that sent a chill through their West Inverness household.
"Ozzie [V] came to us about two years ago and told us that the little boy in the attic wanted him to play with his train tracks," said Jennifer Meyers, who bought the house in 1998. "My husband went to the attic to check it out. He found old toy train tracks under the insulation. We were convinced after that."
The house, in the 2000 block of Jasmine Road, was built in 1957 on a plot of land that used to be part of the Lynch family farm, according to Baltimore County land records.
The Meyers family moved in after a series of renters had lived in the home, Jennifer Meyers said.
Though the renters had no problems with anything out of the ordinary, they had an interesting occurrence at a party they hosted at the house, according to a neighbor.
"Just before the Meyerses moved in, there was a party at the house," said the neighbor, who asked that her name not be used. "And they had invited a psychic. During the party, the psychic was at the [dining room] table and told [the guests] that someone had brought a spirit into the house."
The neighbor has lived in her home for 30 years and believes that something is not quite right about the Meyerses' house.
"I believe them," the neighbor said. "I hear something running up and down the stairs when no one is at home. There are thumps on the wall and other noises when the house is empty."
In December, Jennifer and her husband appeared on The Montel Williams Show when celebrity psychic Sylvia Brown was the guest and the topic was "the unknown." The opening to the attic where the family hears strange sounds.
"We weren't too happy with [Brown's] answer," Jennifer Meyers said. "She was contradictory and didn't make any sense."
Part of the show was filmed at the Meyerses' home and featured a clip - recorded by one of the show's cameramen- of the lights above the dining room table rapidly going on and off.
"That seems to happen when we're at dinner and arguing about something," Jennifer Meyers said.
Everyone in the house has had strange experiences they can't explain.
"I hate doing laundry in the basement alone," Jennifer Meyers said. "I have seen the figure of a man downstairs."
Ozzie IV., who was always skeptical, has seen a shadow that moved up the steps from the first floor.
"That's what made a believer out of me," he said. "I also woke up and there was a man in front of our bed. My wife saw it too."
Beside the banging sounds against the wall and noises in the basement, the family has several questionable photographs that include a dark anomily around the children, especially their 17-month-old daughter, Genevieve.
"This black shape appears in a number of pictures of our daughter," Jennifer Meyers said. "We have one of an orb above her head at the christening."
Orbs are photographic anomalies that some believe indicate the presence of a ghost and like any other "proof" of the unknown are highly debatable.
One type of evidence that's harder to explain away is electronic voice phenomena (EVP).
EVP are picked up on video and audio tape but are unheard and unseen while the original recorded interview is taking place, according to the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena's Web site.
Strange sounds were picked up on an audio tape even though they weren't heard while the family's interview with The Eagle was taking place at the house. The sounds crop up over both Jennifer Meyers' and her son's voices throughout the recording.
Though not especially religious, the Meyerses have had everyone from a Catholic priest to a practitioner of Wicca come through and bless the house.
"Nothing seems to work," Jennifer Meyers said. "We've even yelled 'In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, go back where you came from,' but it didn't work."
"I try to keep a sense of humor about it all," she said. "But I want whatever it is to stop scaring my children."
Yes. There are lots of motels though in the nearest town. I distinctly remember some places to stay that were made to look like teepees. Great place, isn't it? We took the bus tour and had a Blackfoot Indian guide
The scariest thing about your story is that your parents left a sick 10yr old boy home alone at night!
There's an Art Bell ping? Please put me on it. Thanks!
thanks for the ping. what are your thoughts on EVP?
It doesn't. The zombie phenomenon is thought to be pharmacological, not spiritual -- voodooists poison a person with a substance that makes him look dead, for a time, then can be revived into semiconsciousness (like sleepwalking, almost) and used as a slave. So goes the theory.
Pray the government schools never get hold of that substance.
That's questionable. In one of the gospels the Jewish leaders told Jesus that the Roman officer deserved a favor because he loved the Israelis and had built a synagogue for them. Sounds like the beginnings of faith to me.
"We're on the case..."
"Feared" No. Become "another race"? No.
Man (in the persons of Adam and Eve) simply surrendered their free will to Satan's lie that they might become "as Gods" (Genesis 3:5).
Trying to "ascend" as his own "god" has been man's problem ever since.
Exhibit "A": Barbara Boxer.
That is a pretty good ghost story.
I worked ICU for many years. I once had a patient that died from a massive cerebral injury. She was already intubated and ventilated. We kept her body alive for organ donation.
There is a definite difference in the feel of a body that is flaccid in a coma and flaccid when the spirit has departed.
That's easily solved. Tell the man to do the laundry.
lol
*sweeeps foot along floor*
MMm.. yes?
Moi?
I no bother anyone.. just ask BQ.
I'm not all that haunting or fear inducing.
Neat story about the light bulbs and your granny.
Here's mine about my grandmother that I've told here not long ago. I was given her briefcase after she'd died. I knew what was in it wasn't important so when I finally got around to opening it, I wasn't expecting anything earth shattering. When I reached for one envelope that was facing down, I began to laugh so loud Mr. M heard from the other room and asked what the problem was. I somehow knew what was in the letter before I had even opened the envelope, turned it over to see the address, or even read it. Somehow, I knew my granny wanted send me a giggle. The letter was addressed to her sister and was dated about 30 years before. How the letter, with the cancelled postmark, came to be back in her possession and why she'd kept it and it found it's way to me is another good question. Anyway, she had written about an incident where my grandfather was playing a joke with me and it backfired with me getting into trouble - ooops. Of course it wasn't funny at the time and the family hadn't ever discussed the incident but somehow it came flooding back just from the back of an envelope.
Guilty Darks.
I'm not particularly frightening.
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