1 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,799 Speaker 1: The sound started at went into the couch and worked 2 00:00:05,839 --> 00:00:07,639 down in the couch and you know if you're dragging 3 00:00:07,639 --> 00:00:09,400 your hand down the top of the couch, and stopped 4 00:00:09,439 --> 00:00:12,880 right behind her, and then she said she heard the 5 00:00:12,919 --> 00:00:14,880 sound of two little children giggling. 6 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 2: It was supposed to be a quiet renovation project, but 7 00:00:19,199 --> 00:00:22,800 then it turned into an experience where mirrors defied gravity 8 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:28,280 and visitors from the past still make themselves known. My 9 00:00:28,359 --> 00:00:33,640 name is Edwin and here is Eric's true scary story. 10 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,719 Speaker 1: Back in the early nineties, I had just gotten out 11 00:00:44,719 --> 00:00:47,920 of college. My girlfriend at the time of my life now, 12 00:00:48,039 --> 00:00:52,840 we're from the same little town in Illinois. Her dad, 13 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:54,799 my future father in law. Well, I was kind of 14 00:00:54,799 --> 00:00:56,560 his handy man. He used to hire me to do 15 00:00:57,039 --> 00:00:59,280 various work for him. I put a fence in this 16 00:00:59,399 --> 00:01:03,359 house or rooped his house one time. This particular time, 17 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,359 he had hired me to go down and do some 18 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,120 work in a house that he was taken care of. 19 00:01:14,239 --> 00:01:18,319 There was a lady in town, missus Jones. He had 20 00:01:18,359 --> 00:01:20,280 taken care of her for years. She was a widow 21 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,920 who lived just down the street from him. I think 22 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:26,319 she had fallen at the time and had gone into 23 00:01:26,359 --> 00:01:30,599 a nursing home in town, and the house was empty 24 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:33,799 when she went into the nursing home. He knew she 25 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,439 probably wasn't going to come back out and needed to 26 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:39,480 take care of the house. He didn't want it sitting empty. 27 00:01:41,239 --> 00:01:43,920 My wife had a childhood friend I had lived next 28 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:46,239 door to her. She and her husband had just been 29 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,879 married and were moving back to town, so my father 30 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:52,400 in law was going to rent this house to them 31 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,040 needed some work done in it. I'd been in this 32 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,239 place a couple times before, actually visiting the lady that 33 00:01:59,319 --> 00:02:02,079 lived there, back when she was still in the house 34 00:02:02,319 --> 00:02:11,240 with my future in law. I had gone over that day. 35 00:02:11,479 --> 00:02:14,400 I think I was patching some drywall in the bathroom. 36 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,840 And it was a really small house a front of 37 00:02:17,879 --> 00:02:20,919 a living room and then a really short haul away 38 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:23,879 with a bedroom money side and a bathroom in the middle. 39 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,080 I went in this house by myself, took my ladder, 40 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,680 my tools, you know, went in through the garage and 41 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:38,639 started working in the bathroom. So I had a ladder 42 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,479 set up in the bathtub so I could reach the ceiling. 43 00:02:41,479 --> 00:02:43,280 And it wasn't a big deal. It was a relatively 44 00:02:43,319 --> 00:02:46,919 small job. I'm working away and I hadn't been there 45 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:52,560 ten minutes or so, I got this really strong sensation 46 00:02:53,080 --> 00:03:01,080 that somebody was there. I thought maybe somebody had come 47 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,919 in through the garage or something while I was working, 48 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,280 or maybe my father in law was there checking on things. 49 00:03:08,439 --> 00:03:12,000 Got down off the ladder and went back out and 50 00:03:12,159 --> 00:03:16,039 walked around the house. Nobody was there, you know, went 51 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,039 out to check in the garage. Nobody was there, no 52 00:03:18,159 --> 00:03:22,000 vehicles outside. So I went back to work, got back 53 00:03:22,039 --> 00:03:27,039 on my ladder and working on the ceiling. Within like 54 00:03:27,159 --> 00:03:30,479 two or three minutes, I had that same really strong 55 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:37,039 sensation that somebody was there watching me. This time, it 56 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:42,280 felt like somebody was right there. The way that that 57 00:03:42,479 --> 00:03:44,759 bathroom in the tub was set up, you would walk 58 00:03:44,759 --> 00:03:46,840 in the door, the houb was kind of around the corner, 59 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,280 so where I was standing on that ladder, I couldn't 60 00:03:49,319 --> 00:03:53,960 see out the door. You know. Again, I got down, 61 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,120 kind of poked my head around the door, looked around, 62 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,879 didn't see anybody, didn't hear anybody. And this time I 63 00:04:00,879 --> 00:04:04,199 didn't walk all through the house, got back up on 64 00:04:04,199 --> 00:04:09,080 the ladder and went to work. This happened one more time, 65 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,520 and every time that sensation got stronger and stronger that 66 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,600 I was being watched. So after that last time, I 67 00:04:16,639 --> 00:04:19,360 was creeping me out a little bit, and I got 68 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:22,800 back up on that ladder and I'm working away. All 69 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,360 of a sudden, from right outside the bathroom door, I 70 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:32,079 hear this really loud crash. Startled me to the planet, 71 00:04:32,079 --> 00:04:36,199 almost saw off my ladder. I got down. I couldn't 72 00:04:36,199 --> 00:04:40,680 figure out what could possibly have happened. I walked outside 73 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,959 the bathroom door. Right outside that door, on the wall, 74 00:04:46,199 --> 00:04:51,720 there had been hanging this really worn heavy mirror. I 75 00:04:51,759 --> 00:04:58,319 think probably weighed ten or fifteen pounds. It was laying 76 00:04:58,399 --> 00:05:02,959 on the ground, leaning up against the wall and not broke, 77 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,680 all of which was really on. I'm almost impossible physically 78 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:08,560 to have happened, as heavy as that mirror was, for 79 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,240 it to fall like that and not break, I don't 80 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:15,240 know how to possibly have happened. And then the fact 81 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,040 that the fellon was leaning against the wall, I thought 82 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,120 it was really weird. But I thought, all right, maybe 83 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:22,360 the hook pull out of the wall or something like that. 84 00:05:22,639 --> 00:05:26,240 So I bent down to pick this mirror up to 85 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,439 make sure it wasn't broken, flipped it around to the back, 86 00:05:29,519 --> 00:05:31,759 thinking maybe the wire broke. It was one of those 87 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:33,959 like a painting you know the wire on the back, 88 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,720 and the wire was fully intact on both sides. It 89 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,319 wasn't broken, there was nothing wrong with it. In fact, 90 00:05:41,319 --> 00:05:43,040 I was holding it by the wire, you know, the 91 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:44,879 full weight of this mirror by the wire, just to 92 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,519 test it, and it was fine. Then I thought, okay, 93 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:51,439 so the hook must pull out of the wall. So 94 00:05:51,519 --> 00:05:54,160 I looked up on the wall and the hook was 95 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:58,600 still in the wall. I wiggled it, tested it. It 96 00:05:58,639 --> 00:06:03,079 was solid. It didn't move at all. So then I 97 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:07,759 was really creeped out because there's no way physically that 98 00:06:07,879 --> 00:06:10,600 mirror jumped up off of that hook, fell to the floor, 99 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:15,560 didn't break, and wound up leaning against that wall. I 100 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,199 at that point put the mirror back on the wall, 101 00:06:18,439 --> 00:06:21,079 went back in very quickly, finished what I was doing, 102 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:24,879 and got out of that house. I never said anything 103 00:06:24,959 --> 00:06:27,120 to my father in law, In fact, I never said 104 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,879 anything to anybody. I didn't want him to think his 105 00:06:30,959 --> 00:06:34,720 future son in law was losing it, you know, just 106 00:06:34,759 --> 00:06:37,399 went on about my day and didn't think too much 107 00:06:37,439 --> 00:06:44,639 more about it. After that, our friends moved in, lived 108 00:06:44,639 --> 00:06:47,360 there for a couple of years, and eventually bought a 109 00:06:47,399 --> 00:06:50,639 house on the same talent. Just across town was this 110 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,360 kind of like a late eighteen hundreds, turning the century 111 00:06:54,439 --> 00:06:58,240 kind of house, just really beautiful old house. They were 112 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,600 going to renovate it, you know, kind of take it 113 00:07:00,639 --> 00:07:05,360 back to that period when it had been built. My 114 00:07:05,439 --> 00:07:07,800 wife and I were married at this point, lived just 115 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:09,959 on the other side of town and our friends. When 116 00:07:09,959 --> 00:07:11,680 I found out they were doing that work, I liked 117 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,680 doing that kind of stuff, so I offered to help 118 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:17,399 them and would go over on weekends. You know, this 119 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,680 happened for several weeks in Ao like go over. We've 120 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:23,480 worked together, the husband and I. We were doing things like, 121 00:07:23,519 --> 00:07:25,920 you know, stripping wallpaper off the wall. You know, there 122 00:07:25,959 --> 00:07:30,000 were several layers of a little wallpaper, you know, doing 123 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,360 that in all the rooms, patching the plaster, stripping woodwork, 124 00:07:33,439 --> 00:07:35,319 and anything that needed to be done to renovate this 125 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:39,759 house from top to bottom. Florida ceiling. So I remember 126 00:07:39,879 --> 00:07:42,639 we worked on the stairwell in the hallway one day 127 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,560 stripping wallpaper, and you know, we got to the base 128 00:07:45,639 --> 00:07:48,199 layer of the plaster and you know, saw some writing 129 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,720 on the wall from presumably back when the house was built. 130 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:55,399 And I'm just finding really cool stuff that point had 131 00:07:55,439 --> 00:07:59,959 never really noticed anything, never had any really weird feelings. 132 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,879 But I was usually there with other people. We were 133 00:08:02,879 --> 00:08:04,959 all there working together and talking, and you know, it 134 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:12,279 was no big deal. So one weekend I went over 135 00:08:12,519 --> 00:08:17,319 to help work and I got there and my friend said, hey, 136 00:08:17,879 --> 00:08:20,680 we had to go over to this other town and 137 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:22,439 pick up this tough There was a big cloth with 138 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,399 tub they had had refinished, and he said, do you 139 00:08:25,639 --> 00:08:27,199 do you want to go with us or do you 140 00:08:27,199 --> 00:08:28,959 want to just stay here? And I said, no, I'll 141 00:08:28,959 --> 00:08:32,480 just stay here and keep working. They took off and 142 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:35,000 I was the only one in the house at that point. 143 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:36,440 I was up at the top of the stair well 144 00:08:36,519 --> 00:08:38,679 the second floor, in the bedroom. At the top of 145 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,519 the stairs. I think I was working in a closet. 146 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:43,559 Actually I don't know if I was what I was doing, 147 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:47,440 stripping wallpaper. Maybe there was in this closet going about 148 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:51,240 my business. And for probably the second time in my life, 149 00:08:51,279 --> 00:08:55,919 I got that same really cleepy dealing like somebody was there, 150 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,559 somebody was in the house, kind of like in a 151 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:03,120 repeat from what had happened at the other house. I 152 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,240 you know, stopped pro I was doing, came out of 153 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:09,200 this big closet into the bedroom, looked around, didn't see anybody, 154 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:13,080 so I thought, Okay, it's just my imagination. Go back 155 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:19,519 in this closet and go back to work once again. 156 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:21,919 I'm not in there for you know, two or three minutes, 157 00:09:22,159 --> 00:09:26,360 and I get that really same strong sensation that somebody 158 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:31,440 is there watching it. Again. I leave this closet. This time, 159 00:09:31,519 --> 00:09:34,480 I kind of walk all through the upstairs. I go downstairs. 160 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:36,840 I look around, thinking somebody came in, you know, through 161 00:09:36,879 --> 00:09:42,399 the lock door while I was working. Nobody's there. Now 162 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:44,240 I'm kind of starting in the back of my mind 163 00:09:44,279 --> 00:09:48,559 to remember this other incident. I go back upstairs once again, 164 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,440 go back in this closet, and start working. I have 165 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,919 that same feeling this time. I come out in the room. 166 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:01,279 My eyes are kind of immediately drawing to one particular 167 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:06,360 corner of the room. I don't know why. I don't 168 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:08,559 know anything about the history of this house. I just 169 00:10:08,879 --> 00:10:12,279 get kind of drawn to that spot, and I couldn't 170 00:10:12,279 --> 00:10:19,159 shake the feeling like somebody was there. My friends were 171 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,919 probably gone at least two or three hours, so I'm 172 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,039 just there working by myself all this time, with this 173 00:10:24,159 --> 00:10:29,320 feeling of the sensation. It never left that and the 174 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,799 feeling never never left the whole time. I was there 175 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:38,279 working that day by myself. So they finally came back 176 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:43,039 and you know, brought the top in. I said to 177 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:45,879 him right away, I said, don't ever leave me here 178 00:10:46,039 --> 00:10:49,320 by myself in this house again. And my friend kind 179 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,759 of laughed. He said why. So I told him and 180 00:10:52,919 --> 00:10:56,320 he said, oh, that's missus so and So I said, 181 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,360 what do you mean. He said, well, the house had 182 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,919 belonged to I think was a grandmother of another guy 183 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:06,039 in town that we knew, a man in town, and 184 00:11:06,159 --> 00:11:08,159 my friend had apparently done some research in the house 185 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:11,960 and found out that this was this guy's grandmother's home, 186 00:11:12,279 --> 00:11:14,480 you know, back at that time, probably her childhood home. 187 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,399 He said, yeah, I researched this was their house. He'd 188 00:11:19,399 --> 00:11:21,240 even talk to this man and you know, kind of 189 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,799 got his memories of living there or going there rather 190 00:11:23,879 --> 00:11:28,240 as a child. And he said, I believe that you 191 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,679 know this so and so, this lady who had apparently 192 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,279 lived in this house her entire life. He says, yeah, 193 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,639 we've had that same sensation, you know, We've had things 194 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:41,440 happen in this house too. He even told me at 195 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,480 one point that he had talked to the man whose 196 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:47,120 whose grandmother lived there, and then that at one point 197 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,080 was her room, and she used to sit in her 198 00:11:49,159 --> 00:11:51,519 rocky chair in this room, and it was in that 199 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,600 particular corner that I had been looking at that I 200 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:58,720 had kind of been drawn to. He kind of laughed, 201 00:11:58,759 --> 00:12:01,679 and I never did work there by myself again, although 202 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:18,000 I continue to work there a lot with them. They 203 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:21,960 renovated that house over a period of years. I'd go 204 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,080 over there, even after the house was finished. I'd go 205 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:26,200 over there, you know, for we'd hang out with them 206 00:12:26,279 --> 00:12:28,720 or whatever, and we bring it up. I talked to 207 00:12:28,799 --> 00:12:30,320 them about it, you know, some of the stuff that 208 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,799 we'd seen when we were working on the house, and 209 00:12:32,879 --> 00:12:37,000 him and his wife said to me, has definitely hasn't 210 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:41,360 stopped it. You know, stuff has continued since then. His 211 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:43,679 wife told me anything. She and I had never really 212 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:45,799 talked about this, but she said, oh yeah. Not long 213 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,759 after we finished the house, we were asleeping in bed 214 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,840 one night. It was a bedroom right across the hallway 215 00:12:51,879 --> 00:12:54,480 from that room I'd been working in all those years ago. 216 00:12:55,759 --> 00:12:58,039 She said, I was sleeping and kind of had my 217 00:12:58,399 --> 00:13:01,600 butt sticking out the side of the bed uncovered, and 218 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,200 she said, in the middle of the night, she felt 219 00:13:05,879 --> 00:13:11,960 a slap on her butt hard startled her obviously, startled 220 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,759 her awake, and she immediately rolled over and looked around, 221 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,960 and nobody was there. Her husband was fast asleep beside her, 222 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:21,080 and they didn't even have kids yet at that point 223 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:28,320 in time. Freaked out a little bit, obviously, she said. 224 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,720 Another time, she had been in the downstairs in this house, 225 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,519 sleeping on the college late at night. I think her 226 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:37,919 husband was gone. She was home by herself, so just 227 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,519 I had been watching TV, fell asleep on the couch, 228 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:49,320 and she woke up to a noise, and she said, 229 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:51,679 as she was laying there, she heard what sounded like 230 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,919 somebody running their hand across the top of the couch. 231 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:58,759 You know, this was right behind her head. Basically, the 232 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,519 sound started went into the couch and worked down on 233 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:03,480 the couch, you know if you were dragging your hand 234 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:05,080 down on the top of the couch, and stopped right 235 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:07,960 behind her. And then she said she heard the sound 236 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:13,639 of two little children giggling. She finally kind of worked 237 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,320 up the nerve to sit up and look around, and 238 00:14:16,399 --> 00:14:19,080 of course there was nobody there, nobody behind her. The 239 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:25,200 house was empty. She was all by herself. They had 240 00:14:25,519 --> 00:14:28,519 various experiences like that in the house over the years, 241 00:14:28,519 --> 00:14:30,200 and I, you know, I was coming to hear about 242 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,679 a lot of these, you know, years later after the fact. 243 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:36,919 They had a son and two daughters, and they kind 244 00:14:36,919 --> 00:14:40,080 of learned over time, this lady that they believed was 245 00:14:40,279 --> 00:14:44,320 haunting this house didn't like guys, because when the sun 246 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:46,879 was in that room, or when when my friend was 247 00:14:46,879 --> 00:14:48,799 in that room, you know, things would happen. If it 248 00:14:48,879 --> 00:14:51,720 was just the wife of the daughters, things didn't tend 249 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,360 to happen so much. So that ended up being the 250 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,200 daughter's room, and things, you know, kind of calmed down 251 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:02,279 over time. They're no longer together, but the life and 252 00:15:02,679 --> 00:15:05,480 the children still live in that house. I'd been there 253 00:15:05,679 --> 00:15:08,440 periodically over the years. I haven't asked her recently if 254 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,440 anything new has happened, but I think it just got 255 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:14,879 to be so commonplace for them. It was just part 256 00:15:14,879 --> 00:15:20,000 of living there that they got used to it. To 257 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:22,679 fast forward and kind of tied back into the story 258 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:27,200 about the original house, the one that started all this story. 259 00:15:28,879 --> 00:15:32,039 Years later, and we're talking, you know, probably twenty years 260 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:36,120 later or more, we were having a party at my house, 261 00:15:36,159 --> 00:15:37,840 So I think it was a graduation party for one 262 00:15:37,879 --> 00:15:42,519 of my kids. Our friends came up to it. We 263 00:15:42,519 --> 00:15:44,759 were sitting outside. It was late at night, there was 264 00:15:44,799 --> 00:15:46,960 just a few people left to the party, and somehow 265 00:15:47,039 --> 00:15:49,240 we got on this topic and we're talking about, you know, 266 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:54,360 these sort of experiences I had never all that time, 267 00:15:54,399 --> 00:15:57,120 even after what happened at the new house my friends 268 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,919 were renovating, you know, my experience there. I had never 269 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,879 said anything to them about what had happened in that 270 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:05,639 first house that they had rented right after they married. 271 00:16:07,039 --> 00:16:09,159 We were sitting there talking and got on the top 272 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:11,080 because some of the stuff that had happened in their house, 273 00:16:11,159 --> 00:16:13,279 and we were talking with all our friends about that, 274 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:16,480 and I said, hey, you know, you guys remember when 275 00:16:16,519 --> 00:16:20,399 you lived in Missus Jones's house And he said yeah, 276 00:16:20,759 --> 00:16:22,720 And I said, you know, I had something happened there. 277 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:24,480 I don't know if you guys ever had anything happen, 278 00:16:24,559 --> 00:16:26,799 but I had this situation happen there. So I told 279 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,000 him all about it, and he was just kind of 280 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:33,039 smiling the whole time and wasn't saying anything. So I 281 00:16:33,039 --> 00:16:36,159 got done telling him that story and he said, you know, 282 00:16:36,279 --> 00:16:38,799 he said, that's really funny that he told me that 283 00:16:40,799 --> 00:16:43,240 Not long after I had been working there in the house, 284 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:48,080 he and his wife had moved in and had taken 285 00:16:48,159 --> 00:16:51,320 up residence in one of the two bedrooms on either 286 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,039 side of the bathroom. So they had pretty much the 287 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:56,000 run of the house and they had that one bedroom, 288 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,919 but the second bedroom. At this point, the lady was 289 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,440 old life. She was still in the nursing home, so 290 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:06,160 some of her stuff was still stored in there. There's 291 00:17:06,279 --> 00:17:09,079 all kinds of things of hers. So they just didn't 292 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:12,000 use it, but it was it was not locked. The 293 00:17:12,079 --> 00:17:15,079 room was open. It was accessible for anybody that wanted 294 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:18,559 to go in it. My friend said, yeah, not long 295 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:21,960 after we moved into that house, I woke up the 296 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:23,359 middle of the night one night I had to go 297 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,960 to the bathroom. So he said, you got up and 298 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:29,519 came to the door of the room, and when you 299 00:17:29,519 --> 00:17:32,000 would walk to the door of that room, you would 300 00:17:32,039 --> 00:17:35,200 be looking straight down the hallway into the other bedroom 301 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:37,720 with the bathroom just right outside the door on the right. 302 00:17:38,799 --> 00:17:40,839 He said, as he got up and walked to the door, 303 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,759 you can't help but look straight into the room ahead 304 00:17:43,759 --> 00:17:47,960 of you. He said. In that room, straight inside the door, 305 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,960 there was a chair against the wall. There was a 306 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,200 little old man and bib overall sitting in the chair 307 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,000 just looking at him, and he kind of shook his 308 00:17:58,039 --> 00:18:00,519 head and thought he was dreaming or imagining or something. 309 00:18:00,559 --> 00:18:02,839 So he just went on into the bathroom, you know, 310 00:18:03,079 --> 00:18:06,680 did his business, and came out and nobody was there. 311 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,519 Whatever it was was gone. He kind of brushed it 312 00:18:10,519 --> 00:18:13,119 aside for the moment and went back to bed. The 313 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:15,599 next day, he was thinking about it and went into 314 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:20,279 that room and was kind of looking around in the 315 00:18:20,319 --> 00:18:22,839 closet or maybe on a night stand or something. He 316 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,279 said there were some old photos, so he picked him 317 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:28,480 up and was kind of looking through them, and he 318 00:18:28,599 --> 00:18:31,599 came across one that was a picture of the lady 319 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:34,559 whose house it was, and a man he presumed it 320 00:18:34,599 --> 00:18:40,640 was her husband. It was the same exact band he 321 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:44,000 had seen sitting in the chair the night before, dressed 322 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,240 the same everything, and this lady's husband had been a 323 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:49,720 farmer for years and he had died many years before. 324 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:53,960 But you know, that kind of explains the outfit. And 325 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,160 his friend had no knowledge to these people. He didn't 326 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,400 know that, he didn't know anything about them at all. 327 00:18:59,519 --> 00:19:02,400 He wasn't from the area. He had married his wife 328 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:06,799 who was from the town. He saw the picture of 329 00:19:06,839 --> 00:19:10,319 this man and realized that was the man he had 330 00:19:10,319 --> 00:19:13,119 seen the night before, and that he wasn't just imagining things. 331 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:20,759 You know. That was the first time I heard that 332 00:19:20,799 --> 00:19:23,559 story from him ever, the first time we'd exchanged stories 333 00:19:23,559 --> 00:19:27,079 about that house. So what we kind of like to 334 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:31,319 think is that this lady's husband was kind of there 335 00:19:32,079 --> 00:19:35,000 watching out for her, protecting her, you know, during her lifetime, 336 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:37,480 and you know, and she was no longer in the house, 337 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,920 and maybe that stirred things up, and that's why he 338 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,200 saw that. And I you know, to this day, I 339 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:46,160 know the house is so occupied. I see it all 340 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,279 the time. I don't know who lives there. I've never 341 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:51,720 you know, found out, never stopped to ask. I'm always 342 00:19:51,759 --> 00:19:54,519 curious whether they'd had any experiences, you know, since she 343 00:19:54,559 --> 00:19:57,880 has long since passed away, if he went on and 344 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:01,559 that all things like that stopped or what happened. But 345 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,599 it was just I thought kind of a really cool 346 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:08,240 end that story and kind of wraps back around to 347 00:20:08,319 --> 00:20:15,720 that scenario. I think it's naive to think that there's 348 00:20:15,839 --> 00:20:21,079 not something else out there that you know, maybe it's 349 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:24,279 not visible to us, you know, whether that's a different 350 00:20:24,519 --> 00:20:27,799 plane or dimension or you know, whether that's a spirit 351 00:20:27,839 --> 00:20:30,480 world or whatever. I think it's just really naive to 352 00:20:30,559 --> 00:20:32,839 not believe that there's something else out there, you know, 353 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:36,400 just because we can't necessarily see it or directly experience that. 354 00:20:36,839 --> 00:20:39,119 There are just too many things that have happened to 355 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:40,759 too many people. And you know when I listen to 356 00:20:40,799 --> 00:20:44,279 podcasts like this or I read about this kind of stuff, 357 00:20:44,319 --> 00:20:46,960 and there's just too many things that can't be explained 358 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,200 away by science and by any other methods. So yeah, 359 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,359 I think I have a healthy belief in supernatural. I 360 00:20:54,359 --> 00:21:01,240 suppose with the other hose us the house they've renovated 361 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:03,799 to move into. You read about the stuff, you hear 362 00:21:03,799 --> 00:21:06,000 about it on on go shows on TV and stuff 363 00:21:06,039 --> 00:21:09,559 that we kind of think that renovating that house is maybe, 364 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:11,839 you know, kind of what stirred things up, because when 365 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,880 we first started working on it, nothing had really been happening. 366 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:16,519 It was only after we've been working on it for 367 00:21:16,519 --> 00:21:19,119 a while and it really got into some heavy dater 368 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:23,079 renovations that things like that had started to happen. In hindsight, 369 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:25,160 and having talked to him and kind of put that together, 370 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:29,039 so we think that's maybe what happened, but you know 371 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,880 the happy ending. I guess there's the sill live in 372 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,599 the house with the kids and they come to live 373 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,640 with the other occupants. I guess you could say. 374 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 2: Thank you, Eric for sharing your story with our community, 375 00:21:46,559 --> 00:21:48,680 and you can tell me about your story over on 376 00:21:48,799 --> 00:21:51,359 True scarystory dot com for the rest of us to 377 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,880 hear right here on the podcast. To support our show 378 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:56,960 and the rest of the shows here on scary Fm, 379 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,839 try out Scary Plus. You'll get to listen at free 380 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:04,400 right here. 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