September 25, 2011

EVPs BELOW!!!

Sunday, September 25, 2011, I left the recorder running in the laundry room (just off of the kitchen).  I went to bed, but Jon and Anndi stayed up for a while.  I did not tell them about the recording, so they went about usual business - laundry, dishes, conversation.  Jon had the little TV on occasionally in the kitchen and a few EVPs I had to discount due to possible audio matrixing (brain creating words and sounds that weren't there or were).  The ones below I have NO DOUBT are REAL voices from our ghosts.


The first on the TV is going in the other room, and you can hear the distance between the recorder and the TV.  But up close to the recorder, the man says, "Cassidy," my daughter's best friend.
Cassidy


The next one is a little busy...You can hear the washer in the background and my husband and daughter having a conversation.  I went to bed a WHILE ago, and my son is also in bed.  They are the only two awake.  I left some extra room so you can get used to their voices.  While they are talking, the woman laughs.  Quite a bit.  WHILE THEY ARE TALKING.  Check it out.  Kinda creepy.
Woman laughing

The next voice is the man with a very loud, "Why?"  that you can hear even over the washer and my husband and daughter.
Why?


This next voice sounds like the man.  Again, the washer is running and my husband has the TV on in the other room.  The TV is in the distance, while the voice is right next to the recorder.  It sounds like, "Pass her...TWO." Or is it Prancer, too? (Our dog is named Prancer...) Let me know what you think!
Pass her TWO


I was tempted NOT to post the next one, as there is so much background noise; however, it is the first mention of a name that we are unfamiliar with.  It sounds like he says, "Maren."  Is that his wife or the other spirit here?  Let me know what YOU think...
Maren

September 24, 2011

EVPS BELOW!!!

I am actually pretty bummed. I had an eight hour recording with awesome captures, but I can't find it.  Moving on...Later that Saturday afternoon, everyone had left except me.  I decided to take a nap in the family room and leave the recorder going while I did.  NO televisions, music - nothing else was playing and Prancer was the only other living being in the house.  Here are a few of the captures from that day...

You can hear one of them say "Hey, April."
Hey, April

A soft, female voice says April.
April

The next one (again, while I am SLEEPING), you hear a soft April, then a louder one.  One sounds like it is spoken by a child and a much softer one by the man.
april APRIL

I typically don't play count sounds as evidence; however, this is CLEARLY someone snapping twice and I am sleeping soundly in the background...
Two snaps

The last one I thought was the rolling sound that my husband had heard upstairs before, but he thinks it sounds like a growl.  What do you think?
Growling or Rolling?

September 1 - 23, 2011

EVP'S BELOW!!!!

The month began quiet enough.  So quiet that when I told my dad about the priest coming in to do a house blessing, he had me question it.  Not because I wanted these souls to remain here, but because he felt that I had to share all of our evidence with him.  Our priest is wonderful - but fresh out of seminary school and I don't think he would take too kindly to talk of ghosts.  My faith recognizes the paranormal - in fact, they are the ones EVERYONE calls when they have demons.  It is not something, that they openly discuss or publicly accept.  So I began to wonder if lying by omisission was just the as lying.  I was NOT about to tell Father about the activity and have the church pray for my mental health.  Yes, we have voices on tape, but what if he refused to listen?  I postponed the blessing until I could figure out what I could do.  All was quiet for a while.  I actually wondered if maybe we had imagined it.  That is, until September 11.

9/11/11  Maybe the general mourning felt by the entire country 10 years to the day stirred up the activity again.  At 3:55 pm, Prancer (our dog) and I were in the family room.  He stood up facing the laundry room, barking uncontrollably. I looked over and saw a shadow cross through the laundry room.  Jon investigated - no one was there.  Prancer would not cross the threshold into the laundry room, much less the kitchen.  In the early evening, I was in the pantry and I could her voices whispering, but I could not make them out.

9/12/11  I woke up at 2:45 am for work and went downstairs to find every light.  I mean EVERY light.  When I got home from work, the receiver to the kitchen TV was flipped around.  My husband and each child denied doing any of these.  When I was making dinner, I went to the pantry and again, I could hear whispers.

9/13/11  While on the computer in the living room, I heard a thud above me.  I thought it was a fan falling over.  I went up to investigate, but I couldn't find anything knocked over (becoming the norm).  While I was napping in the early afternoon, the front (side) door flew open so hard it bounced of the wall and sent poor Prancer off the deep end.  It wasn't even windy that day.  At 2:30 pm I heard what sounded like a a chair being dragged across the upstairs floor.

9/14/11  While I was napping (I get up EARLY) I was awakened to a door slamming open.  This time there was no open door, and as usual, no one was there so I closed it tight.  Later that day I was watching Ghost Adventures (I find it humorous), when they said, "Let's open the doors to the other side" immediately the kitchen door blew open.  It was breezy, but the timing made it questionable.  Before everyone arrived home, I heard footsteps upstairs, but  I didn't bother to check this time - Prancer was glued to my legs and let's face it, no one will be there.  Acceptance has set in.

9/15/11  Jon came home to an empty house around eleven for a quick lunch. He called me immediately when he, too, heard the door slam that I always do.  When I got home that afternoon around 3 pm, Prancer who normally runs up to greet me jumping like a crazy dog, stood at the threshold to the kitchen, shaking.

9/16/11  At about 2 pm, I was upstairs painting when I heard a huge BANG and a creaky door open downstairs.  I went down to explore and found nothing, so I sat on the couch for a rest.  At about 2:35 I heard the ZIPPER sound from back in June.  Then I remembered, the door opening and the zipper sound happened close together on my sister's recording.  Wouldn't that make these sounds residual?  And what made that sound "back in the day" if it was residual?

9/19/11  The night before, my daughter was the last one to bed.  She turned off all the lights and closed the door to her room.  My husband got up at 12:30 am to use the bathroom and when he got downstairs, ALL OF THE LIGHTS WERE ON.  He dug deep and turned every single light off.  When I woke up at 2:55 am for work, ALL THE LIGHTS WERE ON DOWNSTAIRS.  EVERY TV TOO!!  I turned them off and hurried off to work.  Later that day, as I was relaxing on the couch I again heard a door kicked in and someone walk across the kitchen floor.  No one was there.

9/20/11  My husband and I were discussing the events in our house, when he began the sentence, "When you get out of the shower, do you..." I finished, "see letters on the mirror?  Every time."  He does, too.  We never noticed specific words, but he swore this morning he could make out the word MARY (or something ending in Y, with an M or V before it).  This phenomenon happens after every shower.  I have scrubbed it, cleaned it with Windex, vinegar, a scouring pad - they still appear.

9/22/11  While doing dishes in the kitchen, I was deep in thought and without any music or TV on.  All of a sudden a man loudly whispered, "DAMMIT" in my right ear.  A chill shuddered through me and then was gone.  It wasn't scary - but I did make a point of telling the man that I don't appreciate swearing.  After talking with my husband and sister, we wondered if the frustration that he seemed to exhibit is because we weren't listening or noticing.  We decide to purchase our own digital voice recorder to see if this would calm the activity and frustration.   He headed back into work for a late meeting.  When he returned home at 11:30 pm, he was in the kitchen and saw movement in the laundry so he went straight to bed.

9/23/11  I got up at 2:45 am and the headed into the bathroom to get ready.  Prancer came along.  I heard "Jon" come down the stairs and when he reached the bottom I called out, "I'm in here" so not to scare him.  I waited.  Waited.  Then looked - no one was there and there were no footsteps that walked away.  After work that morning, I purchased the DVR.  We sent the kids to friends and did did 3 seperate EVP sessions - basically asking a few questions and taping responses.  The very first one we did in our daughter's room wasn't very long and 27 seconds into it, we caught our first EVP.  I was talking about not appreciating the swearing and I say, "I'm afraid it's my house."  Following that, the man whispers and then says our daughter's name (who's room we were in).  I did amplify his voice but I did NOT alter it in any way...
Mackenzie

The next one, it sounds like he is saying, "The Basement."  We weren't in the basement, nor did we have plans to go there - did he want us to go?
The Basement

IN this one you can hear my husband say,"This is...your time I guess."  In his pause the man whispers or breathes, then IMMEDIATELY responds to my husband with, "Oh, is it?"  Anyone who follows paranormal investigations knows this is RARE because voices typically do not respond directly to questions, and certainly not this fast.
Oh is it?

My husband says, "You asked for help.  What kind of help do you want?"  While he is talking you hear the man whispering and breathing heavily.  What do you think it says?
You asked for help...

The next EVP session took place in our family room.  It was about 9 pm, and the first half is just my husband and I.  About 45 seconds into the recording, I say something like, "Talk near the orange light, we can hear you then."  After about 2 seconds, the man whispers MY name for the first time.
April

He also says my daughter's name.  You won't have to listen hard to hear him say, "Anndi."
Anndi

Okay...then my husband and I leave the room.  There is about 10 minutes of questionable EVP's, then THE BEST EVER.  We are in the other room so I had to amplify the sound a lot so that you can hear our conversation, as it is directly relevant.  I talk about how I love the house and so does my husband.  There is a pause where you can hear two of them (not us) whispering.  Planning?  See if you can figure it out.  Then, he talks about the bones of the house and I say "We WILL bring a priest in" and a woman NOT ME says, "J.C. there it is" and the man whispers "Sensitive."  Then I continue with my thought while they seem to whisper.  I have NEVER taken the Lord's name in vain.  She sounds similar to me, but it is NOT.   And they are in the MIDDLE of our conversation.  And why is she so upset about a priest?
Our love of the house... 

Listen again.  SERIOUSLY the BEST EVP EVER caught.
JC there it is...

A few minutes later, my husband and I are talking and in the background you can hear someone struggling to breathe.  AGAIN, we are the only two people in the house and you can hear us - the choking is THEM.  This is the third or fourth EVP we have captured with choking.  When we moved in there were "oxygen in use" signs all over.  Is this choking, struggling person the previous owner who had oxygen or does it go further back to a possible fire in the house history?  Okay, I'll let you hear it.
Gasping or choking

The last one is right before the children return home.  There is a ch sound followed by a "Kay" ?
Last one from 9 23 11

August, 2011

When we returned home from vacation, is was quiet for a few days.  Now, granted, we do actively look for signs or events, but we don't ignore ones that are blatantly obvious.  The month held a few quiet days here and there (which was so nice), but other days mad up for it.

8/2/11  My daughter, Anndi, had a sleepover with her best friend.  Her friend is leary of the paranormal so my daughter made a point of not telling her any details.  The next morning, I did mention that the house MAY be a little haunted and that she had nothing to be afraid of, but to let me know if anything odd happened.  She had a shocked look on her face and said, :That explains it."  She said that about 11:30 pm, she was laying in my stepdaughter's room when she saw a shadow walk through the kitchen.  She called out, but no one was there.  What she didn't know was this SAME event happened to my sister in the same room, and at the same time.  She also said that during the night something pulled the blankets slowly down her body.  She said she checked and there was NO reason - no dog, no person.  After she went home, my daughter said that room was active last night. She said that she was awakened by a woman yelling, "Anndi!" in her ear.

8/10/11  I was out in the garage and was moving a newer shower door.  While I was holding it in my hands, it shattered into hundreds of pieces.  My mom saw it and said, how in the world did that happen?  I had no explanation.  I hadn't bumped anything; in fact, I was just standing there with trying to decide where it should go.

8/13/11  While I was laying on the couch in the family room, I saw a blonde, heavyset woman walking up to the front porch.  I regretfully got up, opened the door and said Hello.  Only, no one was there.  I quickly walked off the porch to check all the ways she could have went - NOTHING.  There was no paper or any proof on the porch that someone had even been there.  When I finally went to bed at 10:30, I went upstairs alone (everyone else was still up downstairs - reading & watching TV).  I fell asleep quickly only to be awakened by girls giggling in my room.  My "empty" room.

8/16/11   While walking from the table to the fridge, I clearly saw the silhouette of a tall man in my laundry room.  I searched and my husband searched, but no one.  Later that night, he yelled, "What?" to me from the kitchen as I sat on the couch in the family room.  I asked him what was that about.  He explained that he just heard me call out "Hey!".  Wasn't me.  Someone who sounds like me. (Oh and we were the only ones in the house.)

8/26/11  At 10 pm, my son, husband and myself were watching television in the living room.My husband stood up to leave and the TV went bonkers!  It began scanning random channels, choosing shows from the DVR, ERASING shows, flipping channels - all faster than we even knew was possible.  Everyone got up and started looking under couch cushions, everything for a remote someone might have stepped on.  We did not find one, and it did not stop until I yelled, "Knock it off!"  Then it was over.  It was a tough one to explain away to my son...
Later that evening around 2 am, we were all sleeping when I woke up with a SPLITTING headache.  The WORST I had ever had!  As I sat up holding my head, when I heard a door slam and our dog barking like crazy!  I checked to make sure my teenage daughter hadn't snuck out (or in), but she was sleeping in her bedroom next to ours.  I stumbled downstairs  and checked all of the rooms and doors.  Empty and locked, respectively.

8/27/11  The next day I had to have my mother drive me to the doctor, as my headache was unrelenting.  After an ocular migraine diagnosis and two powerful shots in the hiney, it let up enough so I wasn't crying.  I speed dialed my church and made an appointment for a house blessing.  The night before had pushed me over the edge.  After I made the call, the activity ceased until September 

July - Gathering Evidence

EVP's BELOW!!!

During July, my sister was here for a few more days.  She actively gathered EVPs, began research into the home's history and then left us.  I honestly was creeped out by the voices.  It's one thing to think your house might be haunted, but to hear the actual voices of the people on a recording was a little unsettling.  It was like I always had it in the back of my mind - what if we didn't see or hear what we thought we did?  Maybe it was just our imaginations?  But hearing the PROOF from your own home when you know there was no tampering or faking - unsettling.

Before I tell you of the events in July, let me share a little on the research.  We began with the historical society here in town.  We didn't come right out and say we have ghosts - that would have been too risky.  We just showed interest in the history, which ultimately was the truth.  We were able to purchase a map from 1871 showing our house sitting in the same spot.  We also read through old phone books.  BORING.  But we were able to get a few names - at least those dating back to 1920.  We also found out that according to the records at the society, there was no cemetery here; although, many families in the 1800's would bury family members right on the property.  Their records were not very detailed and didn't date back to when our house was built.  They did direct to to the County Clerk.  It was a start.  A weak one, but a start.

7/1/11  I woke up at 3 am for work.  I heard urgent knocking at this time.  I couldn't find the source, but it made the dog crazy.  I yelled for it to stop and it did.

My sister left the DVR going that night.  She caught a girl/child saying, "Can you help me?" "Come play with me." "Come play again."  In the morning, the dog who was sleeping in the girls' room with our dog was outside of the room with the door still closed.  Neither girl let the dog out.
Get up
Come here (April) (Tigger)
LOUD - COME GET ME
whisper "Can you help me?"
Clear "Can you help me?"
Heather can you help me?

7/3/11 My sister caught more EVP's asking "Can you help me?" while we were all sound asleep upstairs and this recorded downstairs in our locked family room.  She also caught children giggling and playing at 12:30 am.  The child also sang her nickname, "Tigger."  Also caught was the first of many coughs that we pick up over the months.  And, no, we do NOT have a cat.  OUR children were sleeping and aren't nearly young enough to make these sounds...
Tig-ger
Child laughing/playing
More of the child
Child coughing
Child yelling or maybe calling out Momma?
Child
Child again
Loud child...does it begin with a whisper for mommy?
Child pleading, singing or soothing?

7/4/11  I was sitting in the family room and saw a black shadow pass between the living room.  We looked for an explanation or a bat, but came up empty handed.

7/7/11 It had been quiet for a few days after my sister left, so we chose to believe they had left.  We did find it odd the fruit on the table tumbled over and rolled off.

7/8/11  Our 16 year old daughter ran away.  Emotions were high...Cupboards doors kept randomly opening - some even forcefully until my husband commanded it to stop.  It did. (and she did return)

7/10/11  My daughters were sleeping in the downstairs bedroom and awoke at 2 am to the sound of a door slamming.  They slept upstairs the rest of the night.

7/11/11  My husband put in a rough night.  He awoke to the sound of a ball slowly rolling down our stairs.  He got up to check - no ball any where.  He went back to bed until about 2 am when he heard a door kicked open.  He got up to check, but all were closed.

7/14/11  While painting in the laundry room I heard a SIGH in my ear (it actually moved the little follicles).  I kept painting and later heard a little girl say, "Mommy."  I was immediately suprised that I wasn't afraid.  My children were not even home - I was alone yet the voice came from inside the room.  In my final hour of painting, I had to stand on the dryer and position myself in a pretty unsteady position when I left something poking my back. At first, I thought it was a broom handle that had slid towards me.  Nope.  Nothing around.  One of them hand their hand on my back, as if to steady me.  At that point, I lost all of the creepy feelings I once had and began to see them as simply people.  Possibly people who were looking out for us.  Oh, and did I mention it was unbelievably CHILLY in that room?  That day was hot and humid (which typically makes me physically ill), but not in that room.  A whole new outlook on what was going on in my house was beginning to grow.

7/19/11  We were leaving to have my son's birthday party at a nearby hotel.  I triple checked all of the lights in the house - they were off.  The last room I checked before going out was the bathroom, I even looked back at the dark open bathroom door as I locked up.  We had forgotten a few things for the party, So I ran home later to find the bathroom doors shut (there are two entrances) and the light was shinning out from underneath.  I stopped in shock only to be able to hear a man and a woman conversing in there!  I swung open the door (to scare our intruders) only to have the conversation cease.  All the windows were shut tight, all the family were at the hotel, and it was 105 that day - NO ONE was outside for blocks.

7/23/11 - 7/30/11 We left for vacation.  Needless to say we finally got some sleep!  Although, my husband did have a few crazy dreams involving the woman he saw and having her call out to him.

June - A Month Full of Activity

EVP's BELOW!!!

Well, once we became aware of the possibility of paranormal activity, it seemed to intensify.  I had always been a fan of scary movies and ghost hunting shows.  I had NEVER actually had any TRUE experiences.  I tried to be scientific and skeptical.  My husband, on the other hand, was NEVER a fan of anything paranormal and found this paranormal realization terrifying.  He left it up to me to "deal" with them.  I spent the month being observant and working with my sister who was an avid ghost researcher.  She lives in Montana, though, so I felt it was really up to me to determine if this was a danger to my family and to deal with it (not to mention calming my husband down). I kept my son in the dark on all of it and my teenage daughters on a need-to-know basis.  Towards the end of the month, my sister came out to help me when I felt I couldn't do it all on my own.  She was determined to help us get to the bottom of this, but ended up being surprised herself by the amount of activity.

6/1/11 My husband awake in the night when he felt someone move his hands from his chest to his sides.  Not just once - twice.  He hasn't slept well since...

6/6/11  Upon entering the kitchen, all of the cabinet doors were open again.  My husband had to straighten our Last Supper picture four times.  He has never had to do that before.  During the night, we both awoke to the sound of marbles rolling across our floor (there were none).

6/8/11  My husband said that the cross outside had been knocked over about 14 times since we moved in. He straightened it again today.

6/9/11  One cabinet door by my knee opened 7X in a row - growing more intense each time.  The seventh one hurt so I yelled, "Knock it off!" and it did.  Door stayed shut the rest of the day.

6/13/11  I was awakened in the night to footsteps coming up the stairs.  Prancer, our dog, was sleeping by me and began growling protectively.  We waited...no one came up.  I checked the downstairs - no one was there.  This happened multiple times throughout the night; needless to say Prancer and I did not get much sleep.

6/15/11  My husband was standing in the kitchen watching the mini TV and eating a snack when he noticed the DRY sink drain plug move about three inches.  The counter was also dry.

6/21/11  My daughter and I were watching TV in the family room during the afternoon.  The garage door slammed and footsteps came into the kitchen.  She grabbed me and asked what that is (she could see into the kitchen and there was no one there).  I explained this has happened before and to ignore it.  It happened two more times that afternoon.

6/22/11  I get up at 2:25 am during the week.  At 3 am,  I came out of the bathroom and saw a SOLID woman's face in the kitchen windows.  She was young, blond and looking through the far left pane of the second rom from the bottom.  I NEVER saw her body (she would have to have been pretty short to look in that window).  I walked back and forth but could not reproduce ANY reflection (the hallway is too far from the bathroom).

6/24/11 My sister had decided to come out and help us.  In preparation, I was searching for tools I had seen and read about to assist in investigating and cleansing.  My sister already have a digital voice recorder, so I focused on finding and EMF detector (preferably one with a temperature gauge.  I went to seven stores in Appleton and the surrounding area.  They are impossible to find!  A few stores could have ordered me one and in 1-2 weeks I would have had one and a hefty delivery fee attached to the $170 price tag.  Oh, and if you ever go looking, you are better off on-line.  Every single store clerk wanted to know why I wanted one and pushed me towards a multi-meter until I finally fessed up and got the crazy looks.  I was suprised, however, at how easy it was to find a "smudge stick."  It is basically dried sage that you burn in cleanse every last corner of the house with.  It was the last one - she said she couldn't keep them in stock - great business idea!  I stopped at the biggest religious store and purchased four St. Michael medals to protect the home.  On my way home, I dropped them off at our church to be blessed by our priest.

My sister arrived late that night.  At 11:30 pm, she was lying on my stepdaughter's bed, looking into the kitchen and saw a shadow walk past the window.  She tried to recreate it, but could not.  We took a plethora of pictures - but didn't see anything out of the normal.  My husband could see a face in one of them, but it was probably visual matrixing, so we didn't count it.  She also set up her digital voice recorder in my stepdaughter's bedroom, then slept in there with me to see if we would catch anything.  She woke me up around 3:00 in the morning and told me she just heard a door slam.  I told her that happens all the time.  She caught the sound on her DVR, as well as a strange zipper sound in the room during the night.  We tried to figure out that sound the next day, but could not.  The two DVRs are linked below.
Door Kicked Open at 3 am
Strange Zipper in a Zipperless Room Middle of Night

6/25/11  My sister caught an EVP when she left the DVR in the laundry room.  The first one was loud, a man who says "For" (which I prefer) or "Whore" followed by two knocks.  The next one is the same man calling out for "Audrey."  The SUPER creepy thing is, my SON named his blanket, "Audrey" when he was two and he still sleeps with "her" every night.  We had never met nor heard of an Audrey and found it funny.  Was my son foretelling of events to come?  Is Audrey this man's love or daughter?  Or is this man trying to make a connection with us?
P.S.Only my sister, my daughter and myself were home.  No man was in the house.   Linked below.
Four or Whore
Audrey


6/26/11  My sister caught another EVP from the same man that asks, "Can you hear me?" Linked below.


6/27/11  My sister woke up in the morning and heard footsteps come down the stairs.  Thinking it was one of the children, she went to greet them to find no one there.  When she returned to the kitchen she saw a bowl in the kitchen move.

6/28/11  My husband saw an older girl/woman come out of the bathroom and walk towards the kitchen.

May 2011

We were getting more and more settled in. As we did, we noticed more and more oddities around the house. We knew it was an old house and we tried dismissing most things as the house "settling." Nothing really smacked us in the face and said "GHOST," well, at least until the last days in May...

5/19/11 Our 8-year old son refuses to go upstairs by himself. He said he feels like someone is "watching him." We told him it was nothing and he had nothing to worry about - but he refuses to be alone on ANY floor to this day. We did not mention anything about paranormal to him, and we still shelter him from it as much as possible.

5/23/11 Came home to find a glass vase shattered across the kitchen floor

5/26/11 I was yelling at my dog in the kitchen because he wouldn't stop barking when we both were silenced by a large CRASH in the living room. I went in to find all of the bills knocked over across the floor.

5/27/11 My son was on the computer in the living room when he shouted out for help. We ran in to find the very solid light by the desk tipped over onto him.

5/28/11 We came home to find the globe on the ceiling fan in the living room had fallen and shattered across the room. I had changed the bulbs earlier in the week and had personally tightened, checked and rechecked the screws.

5/30/11 My husband saw a "teenage girl" walk from the kitchen into his daughter's room. He said hello and followed along to see which teenage daughter of ours it was. The room was empty. He was pretty shaken up, and stopped dismissing events as anything other than paranormal.

5/31/11 I was resting in the family room after lunch. I heard the garage door slam and footsteps come through the kitchen. The dog went nuts barking - but refused to go to the kitchen with me. No one was there. He spent the next hour hiding under my legs, shaking.

It was at this point that I realized we had something going on here. I tried to find out more about our house - our Realtor had no idea when the house was built, all he knew is it was over 100 years old. I inquired at the title company as well - they had simply said "see other title" when in came to research and history. I spoke with a friend who was a Realtor and had shown it numerous times. She told me that this house was built on top of a cemetery and two other homes next to ours had always experienced paranormal activity as well. I took all hearsay with a grain of salt, but committed myself to finding out the history of this home.

The First Month

The first month was a busy one. Although we fixed a few things before we signed, we spent the next few weeks unpacking, fixing and painting. I never got a bad vibe from the house - I loved it! My mentally stable, 39 year-old husband, on the other hand, did not like to stay alone in the house. I told him he was imaging things; but he said this was unlike any other home he had lived in. "Unsettling" was what he kept mentioning. Then I began to notice a few odd happenings...

4/20/11 I was in and out of the kitchen. On one trip into the kitchen, ALL of the cupboards were open - even on the kitchen cart that had come with us from the other house. I just said, huh, and closed them. About a half hour later - same thing. I didn't think ghosts, I thought it was probably just an uneven old house with faulty latches. I did, however, start making a few notes in my daily planner.

4/23/11 We were all sleeping in our respective bedrooms when we heard a loud CRASH in the middle of the night. All four of us (my step-daughter isn't always with us) woke up and stumbled downstairs. We couldn't find out what it was.

That was it. Nothing that screamed haunted. Just some odd things that we could (and did) brush off.

The Very Beginning

My husband and I purchased our first starter home in 2004.  It was small for our family of five, but we were sick of renting and it wasn't meant to be for long.  Then the bottom fell out of the market and our house lost 1/3 of its value, so we had made up our minds to just stick it out for another 10-15 years or so.  Then, my husband noticed a house for sale for dirt cheap.  I mean dirt.  I laughed, and said no way.  He brought it up every once in a while, but I brushed him off.  A few weeks later, he said it had dropped in price AGAIN.  A beautiful, 2 story home on a huge lot in a resort town.  I told him to go ahead and schedule a walk-through.  He didn't.  A few MONTHS later, I drove by and noticed it was still for sale, so I called.  We walked through and the inside needed help.  ABSOLUTELY.  But all I saw was the hardwood floors (in need of re-finishing), twice the square footage of our current home, a fenced in yard for our dog and two car garage...I HAD to have it.  It was home.  Funny, the realtor did mention 22 people looked at it and passed. The appraiser didn't like it either.  We had to fix it up BEFORE we could get the second loan.  We took a $5,000 gamble - fixing floors, replacing windows, painting graffiti (see images for a few before pictures), but it paid off.  On April 15, 2011, we bought our dream home...