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From: tracy@usa.net (Tracy Turner/Bargain Banner Inc)
Subject: The closet               
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I've been reading this newsgroup for almost a month now and have really
enjoyed some of the stories here.
In my childhood I had many experiences with the supernatural, one of
which stands out in my memory the most.
When I was only 8 or 9 years old my family (Mom, Dad & my younger
brother and I) moved to a new house just down from where we had lived
for several years. Upon entering the house for the first time, I can
recall a great fear and anxiety about a certain walk-in closet that
separated the two bedrooms in the house. After moving in, I would have
nightmares of an old gray haired woman (ugly) with very long fingernails
coming out of the closet at me. There were times when I wasn't sure if
they were nightmares or actual occurrences. I told my brother about them
and he said he wasn't scared of the closet and had not had any such
dreams. When I told my mom, I can recall the she took the news with an
uneasy air about her. She told me not to think about it and it would go
away..but it never did. It was several years later, when I was in high
school, and we had long moved from that house, that mom told us of an
incident that had happened several times in the old house. Monday was
"wash" day at our house and mom said that she dreaded it with a passion.
Not just because of the physical work involved, but because of another
reason. The way mom had the bathroom set up for wash day was to have the
wringer type washing machine poised next to a bath tub full of cold
water. When she would run the clothes through the wringer the would fall
into the tub and mom would then bend over and pull them out to take out
to dry. Mom said on several different occasions she would be bent over
the tub and get a strange feeling that someone was watching her. She
would look up and see this old gray haired woman with long fingernails
standing in the doorway to the bathroom and she would start moving
towards mom with a eerie grimace on her face.
I was determined to find out if anyone else had experienced these
sightings before we moved into the house. I talked with the elderly
gentleman who had lived next door to us when we lived in the spooky
house. I asked him if he knew who lived in the house before us. I
noticed a change in his usual happy go-lucky attitude.
He told me with a rather sad tone of voice that his mother-in-law, an
elderly lady with gray hair had lived there. He said she had been
afflicted with mental problems for some time before her death. When I
asked how she had died, he replied "She hung herself in the walk-in
closet between the two bedrooms."


                                                                                                        
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Tracy M. Turner
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