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From: vervaine@aol.com (Vervaine)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Haunting in DE?
Date: 7 Nov 1994 00:06:01 -0500
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In article <383eoo$6fe@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, ritu@wam.umd.edu
(Maverick) writes:
I need to get as many opinions as possible about something that happened
two years ago at my grandmother's house...
I have stayed there for most of my life and rarely lived with my
parents, One summer, while housesitting there while my gandmother was in
Italy, I decided to have my friend Beth spend a few weeks there with me.
I have always had horrible nightmares while staying in the house, and my
gandmother often screams in her sleep. Beth and I are both very sensitive
to unusual occurrences, she sees hazy or ripply outlines of things, and I
just tend to know if something is there ( don't ask me how, because I
don't know, all I have to say is that it freaks my mother out that I can
start and finish her sentences for her.)
Anyway, I had always had dreams about someone screaming and throwing
things in the library, which can be seen from my bedroom door. I was
always frightened, but I had dealt with it for about 18 years, and I was
pretty used to it. Beth, however, wasn't. Around three in the morning,
Beth screamed and jumped into bed with me. Somehow, I knew she had seen
something or was being affected in the same way. I had never told her
about my dreams, but when she told me that she had had a horrible
nightmare about someone screaming and throwing books around in the
library, it was far too familiar.
We walked through the house hand in hand, and there were places in the
house where it felt like we were walking though pools of warm water or
oil. Whenever we passed them, it felt like someone had slid a stick of
margarine down our spines. Beth started seeing "ripples" all over the
house. I had never really believed her, until we were sitting on the bed,
and I watched her eyes follow something that wasn't there across the floor
and them stop. She screamed her head off and started shaking. She told me
she had seen a kitten walk across the floor, sit down, and dissappear.
This sounded really strange to me until I found out that my father had had
a kitten that matched its description when he was a child, and that it
always sat on that spot on the floor. I hadn't thought about the kitten (
Who had died in the basement by drinking turpentine ) since I was about 10
years old. Beth had no way of knowing about it.
So after I realized that, it seemed like it was possible that whatever
else she saw could be real as well.
She saw things in the same places I seemed to sense them, so who knows.
Finally we took a cross down off the wall ---another long story --- and
held it between us. We let it lead us through the house and found on old
photo album and a portrait of my grandfather. We looked through the photo
album to try and find some sort of info, but found nothing.
Whatever it was seemed to feed off of fear or strong emotion, like
anything we felt charged it up like a battery. We thought that the whole
thing could be some sort of " place memory " but we weren't sure.
Anyway, when we asked my father if he knew anything about it, after
laughing at us for a good five minutes, he told me that before my
grandfather had died, he completely lost his mind to senility. He would
get lost in the house, most often in the library, and scream and cry and
throw things because he didn't know where he was.
Since we found the portrait, Beth and I are almost sure that it's just a
really strong place memory, but we can't be sure. Any input would be
helpful, as we've been trying to figure this thing out for three years
now.
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