Ghost Stories

Now it's time for ghost stories! These two are from my better half.

One of my wife's co-workers lives in an old house that it allegedly haunted. But it's only haunted in the upstairs bedroom. The rest of the house, I assume, is OK.

I went to a party at this "haunted" house. It didn't look like a haunted house and there was no reason that anyone would think it was haunted.

Later, though, one of the other invitees showed up to the party with a child, maybe about 10 or 11 years old. The child, so they say, had never been told the house was haunted.

Prior to walking into the house, the child stopped and said "I'm not going in there, that place is haunted."

Yeah right, I thought, I'm sure this child has heard his parents talking about the haunted house. So I'm a bit of a skeptic.

Next story, also from one of my wife's co-workers... A woman lived in this big old house somewhere. The house once belonged to a church or housed several people from a church, to include the head church guy and a few old spinster ladies/nuns.

Everything was fine with the woman in the house until she had her boyfriend move in with her. She and her boyfriend slept in the room that once belonged to the head church guy, pastor, priest, or whatever. Once the boyfriend showed up, they started feeling a strange presence in the room and seeing shadows at the end of the bed at night.

The thought was, that the priest didn't agree with the whole living out of wedlock thing. I'm not buying it at this point. I'm sure it's just some manifestation of the woman's guilt.

But then the couple has a family come to visit.

In this family was a young girl. After spending the night, the family, comprised of the young girl and her parents, was packing up and leaving. The girl, on the way out, said she's glad she's leaving because she didn't like the place. She didn't get any sleep because she stayed up all night playing tea party with an old lady...

And as I write this, the hair on the back of my neck is standing up and I'm sure there's someone behind me, looking over my shoulder.