10-30-2002, 08:29 AM
Wow. That freaked me out even more than I expected since I'm sitting here alone at work in the middle of some forlorn industrial park. Good link.
We grew up absolutely convinced that our house was haunted by the ghost of a previous owner (Mrs. Buck). Thinking back on it I'm amazed at how much influence it had over me. I was so terrified of the third floor of our house that I refused to go up there. Even in my teen years when I moved my bedroom up there I felt kind of uneasy at first.
I think everyone in our family has a story of an "encounter" with Mrs. Buck. No one ever claimed to see her--it was always something subtle. My mother swears she heard a woman crying one night around the time they were building an addition onto the house (it's a 100+ year-old house). My only experience was hearing the doorknob rattle on my bedroom door as I was walking towards it (they're all heavy brass things and kinda loose) and then the door closed a foot or so. I quickly found somewhere else to go.
I'm a grown-up skeptic now so I really don't believe in that stuff. I'm sure everything that happened was fully explainable or just a result of overactive imaginations. Otherwise, why wouldn't these strange things still be happening?
We grew up absolutely convinced that our house was haunted by the ghost of a previous owner (Mrs. Buck). Thinking back on it I'm amazed at how much influence it had over me. I was so terrified of the third floor of our house that I refused to go up there. Even in my teen years when I moved my bedroom up there I felt kind of uneasy at first.
I think everyone in our family has a story of an "encounter" with Mrs. Buck. No one ever claimed to see her--it was always something subtle. My mother swears she heard a woman crying one night around the time they were building an addition onto the house (it's a 100+ year-old house). My only experience was hearing the doorknob rattle on my bedroom door as I was walking towards it (they're all heavy brass things and kinda loose) and then the door closed a foot or so. I quickly found somewhere else to go.
I'm a grown-up skeptic now so I really don't believe in that stuff. I'm sure everything that happened was fully explainable or just a result of overactive imaginations. Otherwise, why wouldn't these strange things still be happening?