February 16, 2005
The Old Aunt's House
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Jessie, Indiana, 1991-2002,
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When I was nine years old my family moved into an old two-story
farm house in the country. When we moved into this house it was at least
a hundred years old. This house was in need of repairs, but my mother
could see this place was going to make a perfect, happy home. It ended
up being a haunted home as well.
My mom was at the house one night painting and cleaning so we could move in.
She heard foot steps on the stairs, and then it sounded as if someone
was running upstairs. She got scared and went and got a neighbor to
check it out, but they found nothing. Then, my mom had opened cans of
paint on the kitchen table and was working in the other room. She heard
something fall in the kitchen, and when she went into the kitchen all of
the paint was knocked off the table. She never told us what happened to
her until years later. We finished painting and cleaning the house and
moved in.
My sister was just over a year old when we moved into this haunted
house. She would sit in her crib in her room upstairs, look up, and just
talk away. Yet there was never anyone there. This also happen downstairs
in the living room. I was always hearing footsteps and would tell my
parents about them. I was very afraid of my bedroom, which was also
located upstairs. I felt as if I was being watched, and my mom always
had to sit in my room at night until I fell asleep because I was so
scared of my bedroom. My parents told me after we moved out they heard
footsteps on the stairs too, but didn't want us kids to be scared so
they never said anything. I can remember having my friends stay the
night one weekend. We were at the top of the stairs in the reading room
where my parents had an old record player. We decided to dance to the
old records my mother had. We were just dancing away when the music
stopped. The record player was no longer plugged in. We plugged it back
in, but it wouldn't work. My father ended up moving the record player to
a different room and it worked in there. Come to find out later on,
where we had the record player plugged in the outlet had never been
wired up. So, how did it work? I can also recall many times going to
sleep and waking up to the feeling of being watched. Also, waking up to
what felt like someone else laying in your bed with you. There was
several occasions where you felt as if someone had brushed past you. We
have many family photos with strange circles and rings in them. I guess
sometime after we had moved out my mother found out that our house was
haunted by an old aunt who had once been brought there to die. She had
died in my bedroom, and that was the reason I felt as if someone was
always watching me. Several couples have moved into and back out of our
old house. They all claim it is haunted, and they feel as if they are
being watched. The house is on the market for sale right now. Several
people have looked at it, but no one has wanted to buy it. Before the
house went on the market for sale, the couple living there moved out in
a hurry. They said, "I feel as if I am being watched even when I take a
bath or shower, and I feel like someone is sleeping in my bed with me,
but I am alone."
