Ghost Next Door - Thread

[Jim Watkins]

I wrote this reply to post in the "Ghost Next Door" thread but decided to post it in a new thread so it wouldn't hi-jack the authors thread...

Originally posted by "ofgift":

She said she's seen a ghost in the house next to the one I am interested in, and knows other people who have, too.

So, do ghosts go visiting?

ofgift

Now THIS is an interesting thread!

In all seriousness, I believe in supernatural and paranormal activities but, honestly never gave it a thought... Until last year.
(I am ducking now as I expect to get ripped for this. lol)

A house I had bought and rehabbed had "something" in it.
The house was built in 1994. Not old at all and not a house I would think would have something, not of this world, in it.
There were countless times I had been working at the house alone when I swore that I heard muffled male voices in the hallway. I never could make out any words but it sounded like talking in low voices. Every time I went into the hall to look, there was never anything there.

I also heard foot steps on a regular basis on the stairs. The house was 3200 square feet and the carpet had been removed the first day of the rehab. My point to that is there were always differing sounds and echos because there was nothing to absorb sound. I had determined that I was either stupid or nuts (maybe both) for thinking anything was in the house.... Until...

I had several people who had been working on the house during the rehab all tell me they heard the same things I did. Only, I never mentioned any of it to anyone. In other words, they all approached me with the information and none of them had spoken to the others about what they thought they heard.

The thing that made my hair stand up on end was the day I had a bathroom tiled. The contractor was there with 2 others (same company/crew) and I had not met any of them previously.
At the end of the day one of the guys was very quiet as the other two were talking as usual and when the two went out to their truck, the quiet one turned to me and said, "What the hell is in this house!?"

I asked him, "Are you a psychic?" He said that he wasn't a psychic but he was more in touch with the world around him than most people.I asked him what it was that made him wonder if there was something in the house. This was his reply...

"I was doing the grout and was on my hands and knees. Something felt eerie all of a sudden, like there was someone watching me. I began to turn my head to look behind me when I felt something move across and through me. It felt like a pocket of cold air moved right through me."What creeped me out about it more than anything was the contractor was working in a room that was directly next to the big gameroom. The gameroom was where all of the others had been working when they thought they had heard something before.
Want really creepy?
The game room was on the 2nd floor, above the garage, had a big vaulted ceiling and faced South-Southwest. In other words, the gameroom should have been the warmest room in the house. Everyone who spent time working at the house had commented at different times that the gameroom was always cold.

To this day, I don't know if there was something in that house or not.
All I can say about it is, I checked with the state and confirmed that you do not have to disclose that a house may be haunted