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."
Amen
'Not if those memories involved a little something with a hot girlfriend. haha"
hmm, you've got a point lol.
"I think the battlefields would more likely be time related or evil entities attracted to suffering."
Yeah but on this one ghost program this guy (hunting ghosts, what else?) was standing on what was the battlefield of Gettysburg at night with a tape recorder and he said something like "have you heard of General Robert E. Lee?" and there was a very distinct reply of yes, though it sounded more like "yuush". It was slightly fast like those clips.
Ahem, That's a sure way to make things better,
Greater is He that is within you than he that is in the world
bttt
the Zuzims
I never mention hot girlfriends, that was someone else, lol
That must be "Ghosthunters" They always manage to find something,lol
the Zuzims??
Yes. You'll have to find a Jewish folklorist to validate. I only read about it in their commentary
Two months prior to my wedding, my younger brother, then 20, was killed in a car accident. It happened on a Sunday morning and we buried him the following Wednesday. It was over Labor Day weekend in the midwest. The following weekend, probably about the same time as my brother's death but one week later, I was at my fiance's watching tv. We had no air conditioning and the windows were open. I don't know if you know the midwest but September can be hotter than August and there was literally no movement of air, no breeze happening. It was hot! I was about to fall asleep when all of a sudden it got freezing in the room. I was really scared. I said to my future husband, "Do you feel that? What is it?" He said, "I think it's your brother." I was so scared (I have never been as scared in my life as I was then nor since), I held his hand tightly and shut my eyes. He looked at the end of the room and said, "You can move on now. I'll take care of your sister from now on." Suddenly, the cold ended as suddenly as it had begun. Strangely, the room was just as hot as it had been and there was no residual breeze or temperature change from the cold that had entered the room. It was like stepping into a meat locker and then coming back into a normal room.
Although other family members have since died, I have had no other "visits" like this and consider myself a fairly rational person. The concept of my brother coming to me as a ghost isn't really part of my Christian education regarding death. I am not a ghost hunter and would freak out if something like this happened again.
can you sleep now? lol
My grandfather was in the hospital -- he was suffering from Alzheimers and had also broken his hip. My grandmother often stayed with us. A female friend of hers took her out to hear the symphony one night. At a precise time during the concert she turned to her friend and cried, "He is gone!" Sure enough, exactly at that time her husband of so many years had passed.
Haha, I may be sleeping with the tv on, even if I have to watch that crappy Dharma and Greg show.
lol. The Zuzims were related to the Rephaim, must be where the otherworldliness came in
cant they do a history of the hose an find out if something happened in the house long ago or is that not possible? I mean, when you buy a car you can get a list of all the previous owner, can you not do that when buying a house>
they do have laws now relating to full disclosure
Interesting scripture quotations you provided! I've had Christians tell me that the Bible says that there are no (spooky-type) ghosts. I don't know what passages they may be using to say this. Have any ideas?
I would't think anybody wouldn't know of Sparrows Point.
It was home to Maryland's largest employer at one time.
It was a company town that grew up around steel.
Regularly in the national news. I worked there at one time.
Secularists do not understand the why of the prayer that the dead may "rest in peace". The veil is quite thin which separates we the living from other dimensions. Nor, do they understand the importance of forgiveness and fighting and withstanding evil in our personal lives. Author Frank Peretti does a good job of portraying the veil, and the storylines on either side of the veil, IMHO.
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