Spooky stuff

[Richland]

I have a vacation cabin in the mountains of New Hampshire. We rent it out preiodically through a realtor. We keep a guest book for folks to write us about the fun they had. Every once in a while guests will write about strange happenings and noises etc. I usually remove the pages from the book as to not alarm future guests. But they continue.
I have never had anything unusual happen to me, and truly am a skeptic. but: all though i have traveled solo through some remote places in the world and have slept alone in the middle of know-where quite comfortably to include combat zones etc. I have never felt comfortable sleeping alone in that house. I just get the willies! cant explain it. I prob should have a paranormal investigator look in to it, but im afraid of what i may learn.

[KiltedKnight]

My ex and I purchased a beautiful home when our family started growing and while the kids were still very young, so young that my daughter who will be 28 this year, was an infant and still in a crib. I would wake very early then as I still do now and while sitting alone in the quiet family room with my coffee I would see things out of the corner of my eye that at first I thought was just my sleepy eyes playing tricks on me but other times when I was fully awake these things still happened. I once turned to see a shadow standing in the dining room that just faded away as I watched it. That was the only time that I saw anything with form.

Most every night after going to bed my wife and I heard the very distinct sound of bare feet on nylon carpeting walking the full length of the hallway and always the walking sound would stop just before it reached the line of sight of my bedroom door. I had a perfect view from my bed through the hallway to the bathroom since we left the bathroom light on for our young sons in case they had to get up during the night. I jumped up many times only to find nothing there and of course my tiny daughter couldn't even walk so it couldn't have been her. My children never seemed to experience anything out of the ordinary, only my ex and I.

We had a storm door on the back of the house that I never trusted for security and I would tie the door closed at night so it could not be opened without first untying it from the inside yet one saturday night while in bed my wife and I heard the storm door open and those of you who know what a storm door is know that it makes a very distinctive sound when it opens and closes because of the glass and safety chain. I have never seen another storm door in California. I don't have to tell you that I jumped out of bed and locked and loaded and checked every foot of the way between my room and the back of the house and when I pulled aside the drapery that covered the door it was still tied as tight as I had left it earlier. We had the only storm door in the area so there isn't a chance that I heard another.

Many other small things occured that could have been normal or could have been abnormal but the very idea that the house wasn't completely normal sent me to the previous owner to inquire about what he knew about these happenings. Had someone died in the house? Had he experienced anything out of the ordinary? He told me two things, first, that on the record he didn't have any idea what I was talking about and second, off the record, that I had better not mention any of these things if I hoped to sell the house without any complications which told me volumes.

In any case we never had anything bad happen while we lived in the house because of this and we got used to living with all the strange happenings and when it was time to sell the house and move out of state we did, without a word about the strange things that we had learned to live with.

Chris.

[Piper]

My paternal grandfather passed away a couple of years before I married my wife. She had never met the man, although she may have seen a picture of him. One day, shortly after we were married, we were at my parent's house for dinner. My grandparents lived two doors down from my parents. Some of my younger siblings were playing over in my grandmother's backyard. At the time, my grandmother was out in California, visiting my aunt. My wife went over the call the kids in for dinner. When she came back, she asked, "Who's house-sitting at Nana's?". She said she saw, through the window, a grey haired man, sitting on the couch reading a newspaper. She said the dog was beside him looking out the window, and the man was petting the dog as he read. She didn't see a face, as the man had his back to the window. What she had described was my grandfather's afternoon routine. He would sit on the couch and read the paper, with the news on the tv. The dog would stand beside him on the couch, and watch out the window. I went over and searched through the house, but found nobody but the dog. I had to unlock the house to get in to look, so it's unlikely that anyone had stopped in without our knowing it. Even less likely due to the fact that the dog tended to view folks outside of the family and close friends as a food source. Never saw anything myself, but my bride has always been level-headed. I don't have an explanation, and the incident was never repeated.