July 2, 2010
The Crying Baby
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Janie - Tampa, Florida - 1995
We lived in a house in a tiny town outside of Tampa called Fort Lonesome. It
consisted of one highway and our house and the house across the street. Our
house was surrounded by an orange grove and a lake in the back of it --
perfect place, so we thought. One night I heard a baby cry and woke my
husband and he heard it too. We thought someone had abandoned a baby so we
searched and searched -- even under the house -- nothing.
We heard it again the next several nights, and each night we searched the
grove. One weekend we had company come in from out of town, she woke me up
and said she heard the baby cry. We had told them nothing about our
experience. She also searched the grove and all around the house but found
nothing. They left the next day.
So we talked to the neighbor across the street. He said, "I can't believe
y'all moved in there." We ask why, he told us about the ones that lived
there before us and he said the mother had drowned her baby in that house.
There was a back bedroom that stayed ice cold even in the dead of summer, we
found out it was the baby's room. We left after that.
