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A Real Ghost Story: The Haunted House
Psychic Investigation
(Referenced from: About.com: Paranormal Phenomena: The Addison Haunting)
Paranormal.about.com/od/trueghoststories/a/aa101308
How do you picture a haunted house? An old, time-worn structure with storm-battered shutters, weathered roof, and rooms darkened with dust, cobwebs, and feelings of dread. Just the kind of place a ghost is likely to set up residence. But what if the house is brand new? Fresh paint, sparkling floors, and not one door that creaks with age. It’s not an atmosphere that would seem to attract a ghost. In truth, however, ghosts are reported in new structures all the time. Just ask Sherry P., whose new home has been plagued with haunting disturbances that rival anything seen in 150-year-old gothic Victorian mansions. This is Sherry’s story.... Real Ghost Story ... The Haunted House.
AFTER 18 YEARS of working more than 70-hour weeks and saving every dime we could get our hands on, we finally had it – our dream house! We built our sprawling, modern colonial on our 120-acre farm, located in the small town of Addison, Alabama. Addison lies in historic Winston County, famous for being the "free state of Winston" during the Civil War, in which citizens decided they would withdraw from the Union and become an independent state with no ties to the Confederate or Union armies – with the exception of being a major supplier of moonshine! Many dead soldiers and dead slaves had died on or around the property. I guess in some ways, we are all connected.
We made our big move on December 7, 1995. Things were absolutely perfect, that is until our 13-year-old daughter, Brooke, started complaining about feeling like someone was in her room watching her at night. Her bedroom is upstairs, far from our downstairs master bedroom, a choice she had made due to the fact that we also had a new baby daughter who wasn't fond of sleeping at night.
POLTERGEIST ACTIVITY
At first, I felt that it was just her fear of being alone upstairs. Then strange things started to happen, but only when my daughters and I were in the house. Doors would open or slam shut on their own, lights and televisions would switch on or off by themselves. These things usually occurred when we were sitting in the downstairs breakfast room. Sometimes you could hear muffled whispers or muffled screams.
My husband, who never seemed to be present for any of these activities, would always have a logical explanation for the occurrences. They were caused by drafts from the heating and cooling units, he told us, or power surges. The sound of the wind blowing through the house. Those logical explanations eased my mind and life went on... although odd things continued to happen. Sometimes, I just felt cold, like icy pins pricking my skin.
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ACTIVITY TURNS GHOST-LIKE
One night, a few years after we had moved in, after my husband and I had gone out with friends, we returned home for after-dinner coffee. While we were all sitting around the table chatting, we heard a noise from Brooke's room upstairs that sounded strangely like a muffled scream. All conversation stopped immediately. Every one of us had heard the noise. I called out to Brooke, but was reminded by the rest of the group that her car was gone from the driveway and she wasn't home. We ended up joking that it was just "our ghost" and continued our visit. The house was just settling into it's foundation? Right?
After our guests had gone for the evening, my husband insisted that I go upstairs and find out who was there. (Thanks, honey!) He even encouraged me to take a weapon. But I knew something he had not been able to accept for years: there was something not human living in our home. I just sensed the presence of something in our home. My search, as I expected, turned up nothing, but at least now my husband had experienced some of what we girls had been experiencing for some time!
My infant daughter would not sleep in her room, period! It wasn't that she wanted to be in our bed, she just didn't want to be in her room. Even if I got her to sleep in another part of the house and then put her back in her baby bed, she would wake soon after with terrifying screams. I tried every approach to solve this problem, from white noise machines, night lights, soft music, even leaving the TV on, but nothing soothed her fears. It seemed like something kept waking her and would not let her sleep through the night. I sometimes woke up when I felt something icy and cold touching me too.
When I purchased a queen-size bed for her room, so I could at least manage a few hours sleep, I discovered the reason for her anxiety. Noises from upstairs, sounding like footsteps, icy cold drafts, dragging sounds, even voices would continue all during the night. I was so freaked out that I would move us to the living room sofa most nights just to escape the sounds from above and in that room.
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APPARITIONS OF “THE MAN”
Several years later, when Brooke returned home from college with her two-year-old daughter, Taylor, the activity really intensified. Toys would turn on by themselves and start moving across the floor of her upstairs room, radios would start blaring.... When Taylor started seeing "the man", however, we became totally convinced there was something that was definitely not normal in our dream house.
Her first experience was seeing this “man” on the stairs. Taylor had stayed up with me late one night while I was working on books, and when I had quit for the night, I carried her up to put her in the bed with her mom. Within minutes after lying down myself, I heard her heart-stopping screams! I ran upstairs to find her in the bed with her mom, both visibly shaken. After the reassurance from Brooke that they were all right, I went back to bed.
The next morning, after arriving on my job site for the day, Brooke came flying up in her car (a 40-minute drive) in terror. She explained to me that Taylor had seen a man on the stairs the night before who had talked to her. This entity had even kissed her on the cheek and told her that he loved her. But the two-year-old had been so distraught that she had trembled and talked about the man the entire night. Even though she kept repeating, "The man won't hurt you, mama. The man loves you," the poor baby was scared to death.
THE CLEANSING
The man appeared to Taylor on several more occasions. The last time she saw him, he offered her a toy truck. At that point I knew I needed help. I asked a local minister and his wife to come to my house. As soon as they entered, they said they could feel the spirit of something that was not friendly. They spent the entire morning going through my house with holy water, blessing each entryway and window, and placing prayer cloths under each bed.
Upon re-entering the house that afternoon, I could immediately feel a calmer atmosphere. Unfortunately, it was short-lived and I've had the minister back again to repeat the process.
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ACTIVITY CONTINUES
The haunting has changed, though, in the past four years. One night at three in the morning, my husband and I both sat up straight in bed when something hit a key on our piano. It was as if just one key had been touched and held because the note vibrated through the house. My husband got out of bed, retrieved his pistol, and went to the parlor to investigate. Of course, no one was there, and at that point I feel that he was finally starting to believe that there was someone or something in our house that was not human. How do you get rid of a ghost? Was it haunting the house or haunting us? I've heard some people say when they moved from a haunted house, the ghost followed them.
The piano plays – just one key only – frequently, and I often hear what sounds like someone breathing heavily upstairs. There are also loud crashing sounds that are heard throughout the house, but no explanation can be found. I'm going to continue to reach out to those in the paranormal field, hoping they might be able to cleanse the house once and for all.
Strangely, most of these occurrences are in the daytime now instead of at night, which seems odd to me. Possibly the ghosts have gotten braver? At least the daylight helps take the edge off of the fear factor. You just sort of stop for a second and wonder ... what was that?
We love our home and don't want to leave. So, we try to make peace with the ghosts and pray that the angels will keep us safe from every ghostly encounter and every unexplained bump in the night. What would you do ... live in your dream home or escape the ghost and pray your next home was not haunted? We've decided to try to stay, pray and hope that one day ... our home will be free of the ghostly presence. We've put all our money into this house ... we don't have anywhere else we can go.
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