When we first moved into our house ten years ago, we were so busy fixing it up, we didn’t notice anything unusual. Or, maybe it wasn’t here then. Sometime in the middle of all those years, a presence arrived. It’s unpredictable, and we’ve all had brushes with it.
The first thing I noticed was that our dog, Daisy, would sometimes look intently at the stairs, her eyes wide and ears laid back, like there was somebody there. Then, I started seeing things at the edge of my vision, mostly when I was in the kitchen.
My husband was home sick one day, taking a warm bath. He heard somebody come up the stairs, and walk down the hall, past the bathroom. When he called out, thinking it was me, nobody answered. He got out of the tub, and searched the house for an intruder. There wasn’t one. He called me at work to make sure that’s where I was.
One night, when I was alone in the bed, I woke up to somebody stroking my back.
We’ve had other strange things happen, too many to mention. So, the question is: who’s haunting our house? The presence seems benign, other than the stroking, which hasn’t been repeated.
Two things we know: the house was a parsonage for a local Methodist church for a while. It was also a rental house.
My husband and I think it may be the ghost of the man who originally owned the house. He died a few years after we bought it. Maybe part of him came back here. We know he fell down the stairs a time or two after he lost one of his legs to diabetes. Could that be why most of the activity seems to be centered on the staircase?
Have you ever had anything unexplainable happen in your house?
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