January 22, 2007
The Man on the Ceiling
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Michelle, Elgin, Illinois, 1989-1990
In 1989, my son, Jason, was 4 years old. Jason and I had just moved
into a home on Commonwealth Street in Elgin, Illinois. From the beginning, I
was very uncomfortable in the house. The only bathroom was upstairs and
every time I started up the stairs, the hair on my arms would stand straight
up. A few months after we moved in, Jason and I were in bed -- he was always
coming into my room at night. This one evening he looked up on the ceiling
and said to me, "Who is that guy?" I explained to him there was no one
there. He kept telling me there was a man looking down on him. It scared me
so much that I grabbed him and we both slept downstairs. He never saw that
man again. However, a year later the kitchen sink faucet turned on by
itself. We also experienced some strange noises in the three years we lived
there.
Before we moved, the previous owner came by and wanted to see what I
had done with the house. I asked him if anyone had ever died in the home and
he did say that the original owner had died in the upstairs bedroom in the
front of the house. That was the room that my son saw the man in. Since I
have been 7 I have always lived in homes that have a presence. The home I am
in now has something here. I was looking out onto my front porch a few
months ago when something flew through my hair and hit the glass on the door
in front of me. I looked down and there lying on the floor was a quarter.
