MY HOUSE IS HAUNTED

Another door locking

2008-09-24T12:34:00.000-07:00

Yesterday while at work, another bedroom door ended up locked while no one was inside and my family was all downstairs.

Not sure where the door locking is heading.

A little more than a month to go until D-Day. Hopefully nothing major occurs.

A new visit

2008-09-23T09:15:00.000-07:00

Last night we got a new visit from our ghost. After a few months of relative peace, (the bed vibrating has never ceased), our ghost is back. My wife and I were just laying down to go to sleep when we heard what sounded like the squeak of our door opening.

At this point, our light was still on, and we could clearly see that the door had not budged. We assumed that it was one of our children's bedroom doors that we had heard.

I got up to investigate in case one of our children needed something or need help. I had just checked on them about 15 minutes earlier. They were all fast asleep, but who knows, maybe my visit had awakened them.

I entered the one bedroom to find the occupants fast asleep. I proceeded to the second bedroom to find the door locked. This very door which was unlocked 15 minutes previous. I unlocked the door only to find the occupants dead asleep as they had been 15 minutes ago when I had checked on them.

No other signs of anything abnormal, and no other experiences the rest of the night.

Welcome back!

2008-07-01T06:54:00.000-07:00

To me that is! After some needed time off, I am back. No new activity on the large scale. If I am awake late at night laying in bed I still feel my bed vibrate. I am quite accustomed to this now. Other than that, nothing else has occured.

Behind Door Number One

2008-05-15T11:37:00.000-07:00

Last evening was a daylight visit. While we were all at our dinner table eating dinner, in rapid succession, we heard a door open and close three times. One door blowing shut in our house is not an uncommon experience, but this was the first time one had reopened and reshut.

I grabbed a baseball bat our of our utility closet and proceeded up the stairs to investigate the source of the noise. Honestly, I was not expecting to find anything.

When I got to the top of the steps, two bedroom doors were open and one was shut. Clenching the bat tightly I approached the shut door. With one hand I reached out and turned the doorknob. At first the door would not open as if someone or something was holding it shut. After about fifteen seconds of intense pushing, the door finally flew open as if nothing was on the other side.

Needless to say, nothing and no one was visible inside the room.

Earlier every year.

2008-05-13T10:43:00.000-07:00

Not sure why, but it seems that with each passing year, our visits get earlier and earlier. Obviously, with prior posts, this year is no exception.

Two nights ago, it we got another visit. I was sleeping soundly and was awakened by the sound of footsteps in my bedroom. At first I thought they were my wife, but I reached over and she was in bed, all the while, the footsteps continued.

I immediately sat up and turned on my light. OF course the footsteps stopped right away, and noone was there.

We still get random bed vibrations a few times a week. Always around 10:00 PM give or take an hour.

The Return

2008-04-30T06:14:00.000-07:00

Not sure why, but our ghost decided to make himself/herself known again this week.

First a little back story. I need to have a fan on in my room all night long all year round for the white noise which helps me to sleep. Well for some reason, in the middle of the night, I was awakened by silence. At first I thought the power had gone out or a breaker had tripped. I looked at my clock to find out that I was not that lucky. It was still brightly displaying the time of 3:30 am. So, tired and grumpy I sat up in bed to get up and check the fan. As soon as I did the fan turned back on. I still got up to make sure it was tightly plugged in, and yes it was.

Now the ghost also seems to be trying to get me fired from my job. I hate when my alarm goes off in the morning, like anyone else. It usually takes about 3 minutes of my alarm at full blast to wake me. A few weeks ago, I never woke up and ended up being 30 minutes late for work. I tested my alarm that evening and it was functioning without issue. Well yesterday morning I was awakened by my wife getting out of bed. I lay in bed knowing my alarm would be going off shortly. Well it did for 5 seconds and then shut off. Fortunately I was already awake so this did not effect me, but the ghost must not have realized I was awake.

Before I close, I just want to give another shoutout to my best bud Kurt Yordy who runs Feed Your Family Feed The World. Their food is great, and you get to help a great cause at the same time.

Another Visit

2008-02-25T06:02:00.000-08:00

I had hoped to keep you all more informed lately, but I have been very busy trying to launch Buzzcolony.com. There have been more of what I would call 'mild irritants'. These include the bed vibrating and the nighttime random child. There was one 'major irritant' as well.

This happened a week ago. My family was coming home from visiting friends. It was nighttime, around 8. I went inside the house first and was turning on the lights when I heard a faint screeching/whistling sound. It sounded similar to a teapot that had come to a boil, but was just about out of water and steam.

With my heart beating in my throat, I walked from my foyer, through my dining room at as I was approaching the hallway where the noise seemed to be eminating from, I flicked on the light. Immediately, the sound stopped. I walked into the hallway, and nothing, I looked through the rooms attached to the hallway, and all were empty other than furniture.

Just another random visit from our house ghost.

Are we starting this early?

2008-01-25T11:25:00.000-08:00

I thought our break would be longer, but I guess not. This morning when I came down to go to work a found 3 of my Bibles laying on the floor opened. All three were opened to different passages. Not sure what this means. Nothing else to report. I have had a few other incidents over the past month, but I have been busy. I am going to try to update this on a weekly basis now so I do not miss passing anything over.

holidays

2007-12-26T18:35:00.001-08:00

the holidays are always busy. I did not need a visit, though in context with other visits this was quite mild. I went out to my car on Friday 12/21. The car was parked in the garage as usual. It had be a fairly cold week. When I got out to my car, all my windows, both front and back were halfway down. They aligned exactly. Why would the ghost do this? What was gained? Who knows? Like I said, this was a mild one, so I am not too concerned. I am becomig somewhat callussed.

The Ghosts of Christmas?

2007-12-10T15:43:00.001-08:00

Tonight while eating dinner in our dining room, we noticed a new phenomon. We could hear our drawers in our kitchen openin and closing. Of course when we ran to the kitchen noone was there. This is a Christmas first for us.

We are still alive!

2007-11-26T09:58:00.000-08:00

11-26-07 I thought it would be funny to let you all think the ghost had gotten us and did away with us. But no, after the child crying incident, the ghost left us alone. No more visits this year. I wish I could say no more never again, but I doubt. Thankfully my child has not shown any adverse side affects from the visit.

Never insult a ghost!

2007-10-30T08:55:00.000-07:00

10/30/07- Ok yesterday I commented on the lack of activity my ghost was exhibiting, so last night, the ghost decided to put me in my place with two 'special' events.

1. We were reading a bedtime story to our children when all of a sudden the pedastel fan just turned on. Noone was within five feet of this fan when it happened.

2. In the middle of the night, things went from bad to worse. My wife and I were awakened to the sound of our child crying. We went into their room and found our 2.5 year old child lying in the middle of their room on the floor, curled in the fetal position, intermittently crying and babbleing incoherently. We finally got them calmed down and back in bed, but they were quite disturbed, and so were we.

So much for daily updates

2007-10-29T10:40:00.000-07:00

10/29/07-Don't you just hate a ghost that does not cooperate. I was hoping to have a daily update for you, and then my ghost went to sleep. Until last night that is. 2:30 am, one of our kids toys gets turned on in the middle of the night. Toy was located on the top shelf in their play room. No earthly reason it should have gone off, but then again, we are not dealing with an earthly entity.

I new trick

2007-10-18T10:07:00.000-07:00

Last night I was in the shower and my wife was in the bathroom talking with me. We had the door closed. Out of nowhere we heard a very loud noise like someone was rolling bowling balls down our steps. Needless to say this was a bit disturbing. The follow up search of the house revealed nothing. Maybe our ghost has taken up bowling.

2007-10-17T09:47:00.000-07:00

10/17/07 nothing new to report from last night. I was dead tired from the visit the night before, so maybe things happened and I was unaware, either way sleep kept me from noticing anything.

15 days to H day

2007-10-16T08:28:00.000-07:00

10/16/07- I will try to give a daily update since we are closing in on Halloween. Last night or actually this morning around 1:30 am, my wife was up changing the sheets of one of my children's beds due to a bedwetting. She woke me when the power went off and had been off for about 5 minutes. Nothing out of the ordinary you say? Well explain why none of the neighbors power was off. All the porch lights on the houses surrounding ours were on. Shortly after my wife woke me the lights came back on. I think the ghost may be targeting her.

A new awakening has begun!

2007-10-15T09:11:00.000-07:00

10/15/07- Due to internet issues I have not had a chance to update this when things started happening. About a week ago, we started hearing the strange crying child at night again. The past few nights the kids have been waking from sound sleep. They always are frightened when they awake. I know what you are thinking. You think the kids crying are my own. Trust me, if you are a parent you know, you know the sound of your own kids cry. If you are in a room of 10 kids, you know if your kid is crying. Trust me I have expereinced this. Also, the random noises have begun at night again.

So far nothing major, but it looks like the ghost is preparing for the end of the month.

Lack of updates.

2007-09-13T04:56:00.000-07:00

Things seemed to have simmered down since my last post. I still get random child crys throughout the night, and the bed vibrating has become normal to me now. No other major contacts. Maybe it is resting up for something big. We shall see.

Vibrating again

2007-08-03T09:22:00.000-07:00

8/2/07- last night the bed started vibrating again at exactly 11:15pm. Only lasted about 15 minutes before stopping. Still cannot make head nor tales of its intentions, all I can do is wait I guess.

Another oddity

2007-08-01T11:30:00.000-07:00

7/31/07 Came downstairs this morning and found a framed picture of one of my children laying on the floor. The picture was previously on the shelf over the couch I mentioned the other day. Not sure what the ghost is looking for. My wife's engagement ring went missing the other week. Not sure if this is related. Maybe the ghost is trying to help her find it, or maybe it is tring to hide it. Who knows, at least these past two events did not cause me to lose any sleep.

The Couch?

2007-07-25T12:42:00.001-07:00

7-25-07 Last night, right after we turned the light out we heard two bizarre yelps. Almost like a puppy that had fallen down a well. This morning when I came downstairs to leave for work, all the couch cushions were disheveled and nearly falling off the couch. It looked as if someone or something had been searching under the cushions for something, and then was disturbed so they hastily put them back in whatever manner the felt. Not sure what this means, though it only solidifies the need to get my family out of this house as soon as possible.

More contacts

2007-07-21T13:03:00.000-07:00

7-20-07 Two firsts occured today. 1. The ghost made itself known to someone outside of the family, and 2. The ghost made itself known during daylight.

A good friend of ours was watching one of our children while my wife took the other two on some errands. She was reading a few books to this child before laying it down for its nap. All of a sudden she heard a load noise coming from upstairs. (our upstairs hallway is exposed to the living room). Both our friend and our child looked upstairs at the noise, and it appeared to our friend like our child was focusing on something in particular, but she could see nothing. After she had laid our child down for a nap, she was leaving the room and heard what sounded like 2 glasses clinking together in a toast. Bear in mind they were the only ones home.

This level of activity this early in the year is quite disturbing. I fear the intesity we will experience come October.

Another Visit

2007-07-19T10:37:00.000-07:00

7/18/07- Last night the strange child cried again. No corresponding bed vibration. The cry was longer this time. It sounded like a scared child.

It has awakened!

2007-07-16T10:49:00.000-07:00

7/16/07- Over the past two months, about two or three nights a week, between 11 pm and 12 pm our bed would start vibrating. It felt like someone was in my bed silently sobbing to themselves. The first time I thought it was my wife doing just that. I actually woke her up, but it continued once she was awake, and it was clear that she had not been crying. About two weeks ago, it vibrating was associated with the cry of a child in our baby monitor. No children were awake and crying in the house at that time. A week ago, we had a repeat of the same. It looks like the ghost is getting ready to awaken again. I will keep you posted.

2006-10-23T09:19:00.001-07:00

10/17/06- A Few Incidents in 24 Hours
The last few days I have noticed the smell of a sweaty man in our basement. Today my wife called me at work to tell me that while she was at the grocery store, our laundry detergent had fallen off our dryer and spilled. In the picture, the ALL on the left is the one we had just finished and had been sitting at the exact same spot on dryer from full to empty. Just a week ago, I had put the new full on up on the dryer. As you can see by the size these are not light grandma size detergent bottles, we have 4 kids 3 and under, we get the mega size. Logic would say that maybe it wobbled off, but that is not truly logical. The near empty old one is much more likely to wobble off than the new heavy one. Plus the dryer was not running at that time, the washing machine was. The washing machine is not touching the dryer, and I reran it in the spin mode just to test, and the load was even and no wobbling occurred.

My wife told me that when she was putting the dirty laundry in the washing machine she noticed the smell of cigarette smoke, neither of us smoke. I still thought this was just a coincidence until I noticed the pictures. I posted them in order taken. You see the scene in picture one, with 3 orbs. The next photo is white washed out. I was trying to take the same photo as I took in photo 3. If you notice in photo 3, next to the detergent, is an orange dot. If you zoom in you can actually see a face in the dot. It looks like a face on fire.

After I took those pictures, I went back upstairs. We had just cooked supper on our griddle (quesadillas if you must know, and served with Amish Family Recipes Corn Salsa) and my wife was finishing the last bit when we noticed one of the burners on our stove was on. Neither of us turned it on; I was in the basement, and my wife was at the griddle (this is one of those countertop varieties). My kids are far too small to reach these burners, (the oldest being three) plus they were at the table waiting for their food.

We unplugged the griddle by pulling the plug from the griddle but for some reason we left it plugged into the wall. Because of the earlier incident, before we went to bed that night I checked to make sure it was turned off. It was. When I got up the next morning, it was turned on.

2006-10-23T09:19:00.000-07:00

10/9/06- Increased Activity
We had just lay down, and heard something fall downstairs. I went down and saw that it was a diaper bag have fallen off the counter. Though I did pull on clothing for modesty, I neglected to grab the trusty putter. This was a diaper bag that had been on said counter since Saturday night. All of a sudden it just decides to fall? But wait, it gets worse. After seeing it was just a harmless falling diaper bag, I went back up, and was using the facilities before retiring once again. While in the bathroom, I heard a closet door shut downstairs. Obviously spooked, I went down again; yet I still forgot to grab the putter for some reason. There are 2 closets with bi-fold doors downstairs, both were open. I searched the whole house, and no one was present. The only door someone could have left by would have been the front, this was shut and locked, and we would have heard it because it is very loud. This is really starting to get annoying.

The two evenings before this my wife had commented on smelling an old lady in our kitchen, we had not had any guests in our house for weeks. Not many people stopping by to watch football on my state of the art entertainment system which has not seen one component upgrade from two years ago.

2006-10-23T09:18:00.001-07:00

10/4/06- New Activity
There have been a few incidents over the past 2 years which I completely disregarded. I was in complete denial during these 2 years, after all I do not believe in ghosts. I had begun to believe it was all in my head and nothing was going on. So that being said, I do not remember exact dates for the following incidents, but in light of what has happened following 10/4/06, I now believe these to be relevant.

My workshop area of our basement has one light bulb. As you can see in the picture, it is controlled by a pull string and in the other picture is the switch on the opposite side of the basement where you enter the workshop area.. Twice in the past 6 months, the last being last week, I flip the switch, and think my bulb is burned out, only to discover someone pulled the string to shut it off. My wife does not go in this area, so it was not her, and I know it was not me. It makes no sense, you would be plunged into darkness and have many tripping hazards, where as using the switch keeps you bathed in light until you enter the light from the other half of the basement. Clearly my ghost does not like this light for some reason.

About a week ago, I got up in the morning to get ready for work, I am walking to the bathroom and I hear barefoot footsteps down in the kitchen. This freaked me out quite a bit. I went down and checked things out, nothing. I looked everywhere and found no one.

About one month ago I was laying bed. We had the lights out and sleep was only moments away. Out of the blue, there is a double knock on the door. I looked over, and our door is open about 2 inches. We always keep our door shut at night. Always. At least my ghost is polite enough to knock before entering, but this is starting to get annoying.

2006-10-23T09:18:00.000-07:00

11/6/04- The Second Visit
About a week after our DVD attack, my wife and I again were peacefully sleeping. This time we both heard the crash. Once again I slipped on some clothing for modesty and grabbed my trusty putter. And once again I threw open the door and switched on the light. And once again no one was there. Upon further investigation I found a gallon of water that I had set on the wall the night before. You can see by the pictures that there is plenty of room on this wall for a gallon of water, and I frequently set water on this wall. When the water fell it pulled the rabbit ears (once again you get some insight into my technological advancements) off my TV, and both crashed behind it. Logic immediately wonders whether or not I had set this gallon, in a chain of hundreds of gallons, off center thus causing it to fall. However, would this happen 3-4 hours after I set there. I think not. It is awfully interesting to me that this was in the same region of the house where the last incident took place.

2006-10-20T13:22:00.000-07:00

10/30/04- The First Visit
This night was the first time our ghost visited us. My wife and I had watched the movie Enemy of the State starring Will Smith and had gone to bed around 11:00 PM (not a bad movie, and thankfully the sound track does not star Will Smith). Around 1:30 AM, my wife awakened me. “Wake up, there is someone downstairs.” I listened, and heard loud crashing and screeching noises. With my spidey senses on super alert, I slipped on some clothing so our intruder would not be too distracted by the sight of my hideous body, and grabbed the closest weapon I could find, which turned out to be a golf putter. Having my courage boosted not at all by my excellent weapon selection, I prepared to open the door. I threw the door open, and switched on the lights in the hallway which bathed our living room in light. I saw no one. At this point I still thought we were dealing with a human intruder, and just to reiterate, I WAS ARMED WITH A GOLF PUTTER.

I walked downstairs and realized that the noise was coming from our entertainment system. By entertainment system I mean a six year old 19 inch television, a six year old VCR, an eight year old hand me down surround sound system, and a one year old DVD player. As you can see on the picture, this system is less than advanced. The sound from the DVD player is wired straight into the sound system and bypasses the TV. So, here is what I discovered. The movie from the night before was playing in the DVD player. Keep in mind this is not like a VCR which rewinds a tape and starts playing them again once rewound. This is a DVD player. Every electronics experts I have consulted with have told me that even if there was a power surge, the player beginning to play a movie, though technically not impossible, it is unheard of. However, beginning to play a movie in the middle of the movie is impossible. Plus, no other electronics in the house indicated a power surge had taken place.

I have tried to rationalize this, thinking that maybe it had started playing at the beginning of the movie. This is not possible for two reasons. First, my wife is a very light sleeper, and the movie sound was even more amplified due to the baby monitor right next to my wife’s side of the bed. Secondly, we had the volume quite loud on the surround sound, so no matter what, if the movie had begun from the beginning, my wife would have heard it.

I spent about an hour on the couch with my golf club with my skin literally tingling. I slept very little that night.