January 5, 2007
Noises In the Attic
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Toni Moritz, Chicago, Illinois, 1974-2000
My name is Toni Moritz and my mother had sent an encounter to you
that happened in my Grandmothers house which you have published [
read
Sharon Moritz's account here]. I would like to tell you what I have
experienced in that same house.
First, I could never be in that house alone -- the feeling of not
actually being alone was too much -- it just felt wrong. My Grandfather was
a fireman so he would not be home on some nights and I would stay with my
Gramma. I would sleep in her room and something would wake me up and I would
hear footsteps like someone walking in their slippers and dragging their
feet. It would come toward the bedroom and then just stop. I would hold the
crucifix on my necklace and pray that it would go away and the feeling of
someone there would go away. My brother had a room in the attack bedroom and
I don't know how he slept up there. One day we were listening to records and
we heard running across the attic and then pounding on the wall, but we
already knew nobody was there. I asked him how he could stand it and he said
he was just used to it. He said at night his bed "bumped" like someone
bumping it on the end of it when he slept.
When I was about 12, my friend and I went upstairs to the attic with
a Ouija board (dumb kids). The first question we asked was "Is there someone
here?" The piece that moves went flying off the board and hit the bedroom
door and made a chip in it. Needless to say we went flying as fast as we
could out of there. Another time again in the attic bedroom with a friend I
was telling her stories about the house and she kept telling me I was lying,
then out of nowhere the whole room and all its contents started to shake. We
flew to the door and were clawing at each other to get out. I don't know
what was in that house, but I do remember my great Aunt who also lived at
the house, used to "conjure" spirits through automatic writing. She used to
tell me of the vision of an Indian she saw standing over her bed some
nights. I have never seen anything in the house, only heard and felt.
Six years ago I moved into the house with my family to help with my
ailing Gramma so she would not have to go to a nursing home. My
sister-in-law was helping us move in and she felt sick in the basement and
told me it was "dirty" down there. I was scared to death of moving in, but I
loved my Gramma and did not want her to have to leave her home. The whole
upstairs attic area was remodeled as was the kitchen and some other stuff.
We lived there for about a year until my Gramma passed. In the year that I
moved in, I never experienced any feelings of something there or any noises,
bangs or footsteps, although I was always waiting for it. Whatever it was
must have just left.
