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haunted.clock

Well, this is my second post to this newsgroup, but the first was just a
reply to someone else's post. Anyways, here is my story. This, btw, is a
true story; it happened to me and some family and friends... Read on!
 
In 1981 or 82 (I cannot remember the exact year) my grandmother died. She 
and my grandfather had lived in a townhouse in Chicago previous to this.
We then brought my paralayzed grandfather down to San Antonio to live with
us. We purchased the house behind us and fixed it up so that my grandfather 
would have a house of his own while making it easily accesible to us so we 
could take care of him. A couple months before his death in 1983, we moved
my grandfather into our house, because it was getting too hard to provide 
him with the necessary care unless one of us was with him almost 24 hours 
a day. We rented his house out to some friends of the family. While Grandpa 
was alive, they claimed to hear his cat meowing in his old room, even though 
we had moved the cat into our house with him. Later, after my grandfather
had died, every once in a while you could hear footsteps in that
room and also up and down the hallway of the house. It was really freaky. 


Another thing that happened had to do with a clock. When we moved my
grandfather to San Antonio, we brought a lot of his furniture and things
with him. We put most of this in his house, including a table clock from 
the late1800's/early 1900's. This clock usually sat on a coffee table in 
the living room of his house. When we moved my grandfather to our house, 
we left the furniture there for the family we rented the house to. The 
clock stayed also. The clock had never run correctly, so we never wound 
it up, we always left it off. After we had Grandpa moved out, in
the other house every once in a while you could hear the clock chiming. 
BUT WE NEVER TURNED IT ON. This happened more often once my grandfather died, 
but the clock was heard most often in his old room in the other house. 
Thankfully, my house does not seem to be haunted, and finally, 11 years 
after his death, things are quiet in the other house too.
 
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