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Lynn Varney, Columbus, Ohio, July 2000
Purchasing Harrison House a year ago was a dream come true for me. 10 years
of planning finally became reality. I jumped right in, getting to know my
house and the business. During the first two weeks my life was a whirlwind
of new experiences. I got used to the new routine and then began to really
experience the house and pay attention to its energy.
While cleaning one of the rooms, I found a plastic soldier in a hanging
light fixture. I couldn't figure out why it was in the light so I threw it
away... big mistake! I soon thought that the stress of the move was
making me delirious... but pens, paper clips, binder clips, and papers were
really missing and then turning up later in unexpected places. I also
noticed that one of the beds consistently had a butt print on the bedspread.
I would smooth out the comforter only to later find another butt print on
the edge. No one was in the house but me, so who was sitting on my bed?!
This continued at random for several weeks until I finally got used to it
and realized that the house had a "spirit."
A couple, who had visited the year before, booked the "special" room that
used to harbor the toy soldier. At breakfast, they inquired as to what had
happened to the soldier. When I told them I threw it away, they reacted in
astonishment. Explaining that the soldier was left by someone years ago and
was a guardian of the room and should have remained. They added their own
guardian but it did not have the same effect as the soldier. Over the
summer, a family stayed with me -- mom and dad in one room and two teen boys
in the now unguarded room. One of the boys asked me if the room was haunted.
I explained that I had a female spirit who watched over the rooms and played
harmless tricks. To my surprise, the young man told me that I also had a
young boy and a silent man staying in the room because they appeared to him
the night before.
Early this fall, an internationally known metaphysics clairvoyant was
staying at the house. She told me in the morning that 1 of my spirits was
jumping on her bed and she yelled at her to go away so she could sleep.
Well... this set off a series of disruptive energies in the house. My
daughter and I could actually feel the presence of other beings in the
house. She was staying in an upstairs room for the summer and on two
occasions had to come down to our apartment to sleep. She said that the
atmosphere in her room was full of spirits and there were people walking up
and down the hallway outside her room and on the floor above. It was too
creepy for her to sleep. A week later, a heavy picture fell off the wall,
hit the floor and fell over... there was no damage to the frame or glass.
Last week a guest, who is proficient in past life regression therapy, was
finally able to give me more information on the spirits residing in the
house. Without knowing anything about the history of our spiritual events
she spent some time "talking" to them. There is a young boy aged about 13
who plays with a set of lead toy soldiers in the room where I, regrettably,
removed a toy soldier. He had been a resident of the home in the early 1900s
and died in an accident. He is watched over by a woman and an unrelated man.
The woman pops into the room to check on the boy and the man travels from
home to home in the area. The man is clumsy and possibly suffers from a
mental illness and when he gets agitated he runs into things and knocks
objects off walls and tables. A second man is here and he lived in the house
when it was a boarding house. He suffered from a lung disease and spent the
last years of his life here. When our guest asked him why he had not passed
on, his response was, "You can't smoke in Heaven!" He likes to hang out with
guests when they are outside smoking and he enjoys the lively conversations.
The fourth spirit is a woman who was possibly the matron of the home or a
housekeeper. She watches over the entire house and makes sure that I take
care of the house correctly. She is fond of me and very happy that I have
taken ownership of the house but she also makes small adjustments to
arrangements of knickknacks and furniture. She has a strong presence because
we have seen her energy field in many of the rooms.
Finally, the house is a safe-house and a portal for many spirits passing
through. We continually have new visitors who stop by on their way to other
locations. The house is safe, quiet and restful and all of our guests enjoy
a good night's sleep.
