My Haunted House! - Writers Forum

Blood · 10-05-2008, 04:26 AM

Now that it’s October and Halloween's coming up, I figure this forum is due for some spooky-ooky...

I live in an old home, perhaps not so old but European standards but certainly old for around here, a 100+ years; and there have been wee bit of unexplained happenings going on in my old house over the years, but nothing that quite compares to the story my brother told me about his haunted home…where he no longer lives. So I’ll go with that.

The house he and his wife were renting had originally been a train depot before there were other houses in the neighborhood, and after that it was bar before eventually being converted in home. The layout was differnt but typical for way back when; no halls or open floor plan, just rooms connecting to one another. Shut the doors and each room could be heated separately. A large room at the front of the house connected to bed bedroom that led to another and another. Three in a row down one side, the kitchen on the other side, also off the main living area, and then two more rooms behind it with the bathroom in the middle. Now square it up to get the general picture.

So one night my brother was sitting on a sofa – in first room behind the kitchen – talking to our mom on the phone, and, he could see his dog lying on the floor in the living room – which would be on the other side of the kitchen. The dog stands up and starts walking toward my bother. Bear in mind this was your typical young, playful, clumsy, wag the whole hind end, jumping around and knocking things over kind of mutt, however, my bother noticed something a little peculiar about him right away. The dog appeared to be in some trance, sleep walking in a sense and didn’t respond to his name as my bother called out to him. He, the dog, walked past him and headed straight for a closet. The closet door opened up, the dog walked in, the door slammed shut and dog went ballistic. My bother told my mom to hold on, dropped the phone, jumped up, grabbed the door threw it open, the dog ran out and my bother said he felt a rush of cold air come out of the closet.

It was mid winter and fairly cold out, and though the house was heated, it not uncommon to find pockets of cold air in these older homes, but he described it as ‘freezer cold’ – as when you open the door to a freezer. I know he said he got chills and not from the cold either, but from the unpleasant evil vibe he felt at that moment. He also got brave, cursed the closet and slammed the door.

That same dog latter vanished mysteriously from the property. My brother theorizes that something was after his dog and would often lure it into places to trap it; and that the mutt would disappear for a time then suddenly show up. They once found him under the house after he had been missing for three day and thinks that’s where he may have eventually came to rest. Or maybe he just ran off…

Now, imagine waking up at night to the sensation of something tugging at your covers, or to find them completely thrown off. That was another problem he and his wife had. And to think he wanted to buy the place. What a nut! I didn’t even like to go over there.

KangTheMad · 10-05-2008, 07:09 PM

My mom saw a guy in a suit with a briefcase in his hand standing over my crib...then he vanished. And that is the same house she found the chest in the attic with a note saying "I will be gone for three days. There is enough food in this chest for three. Do not come down."

Creepy.

Farror · 10-06-2008, 11:19 AM

I recently moved in to an apartment in Montreal, I'm not entirely sure how old it is.

When I moved in, I noticed that around the door handle, there were a series of lines in a strange sort of pattern. It looked like there were six or seven dots around the handle, and somebody had connected all of them together with a black marker or something.

Anyways, too or three days after I moved in, I started having nightmares. Not at night mind you, This always happened in the morning. I'd dream that I (or somebody, not necessarily me) was in a house with those markings around the door handle. Nothing would be wrong, I'd just feel vaguely uneasy. Then I'd suddenly feel intense fear and anxiety, and I'd be in my apartment, and jumping out the window (third story) to get the heck out of there.

At that point, I'd wake up, it'd be light outside, but I'd still be feeling very unsafe, and I always felt the urge to get up and make sure all my doors were locked. This happened every night/morning for about a week, and then I scrubbed off the marks on the door, and I haven't had them since.

KangTheMad · 10-06-2008, 12:50 PM

Put them back. And see what happens.

Envy's Ultimate Fan · 10-06-2008, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by KangTheMad

My mom saw a guy in a suit with a briefcase in his hand standing over my crib...then he vanished. And that is the same house she found the chest in the attic with a note saying "I will be gone for three days. There is enough food in this chest for three. Do not come down."

Creepy.

That's pretty cool, I wish I could experiance something like that for myself

KangTheMad · 10-06-2008, 12:54 PM

The guy or being locked in the attic?

Envy's Ultimate Fan · 10-06-2008, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by KangTheMad

The guy or being locked in the attic?

Oh, I thought they went with the same thing; you were locked in the attic 0_o

KangTheMad · 10-06-2008, 12:58 PM

No...My mom found the note in an old chest in the attic when she was cleaning it out.

If you would like to experience getting locked in the attic for three days be my guest.

seigfried007 · 10-06-2008, 01:10 PM

Harry G had a thread like this awhile back if you want more scary stories. I wrote a few good ones about our house in Monterey, a dead kitten, and curtains that would move without a breeze.

terrib · 10-06-2008, 01:32 PM

oooohhhh....I love scary stories....some one tell another one....

seigfried007 · 10-06-2008, 02:36 PM

Well, I just pulled a great feat of thread necromancy in Debate, Terrib

terrib · 10-06-2008, 02:45 PM

English please?

SacredCircle · 10-06-2008, 02:52 PM

When my family first moved back to Ohio from California, we left with what we could fit in a Toyota Camery and drove for 4 days. We slept in sleeping bags and sat on the floor using boxes for tables. My dad was going to be bringing the bulk of our things once our place in California sold.

For four weeks we lived like this in an old empty house. Of course this house had a wicked scary basement. How could it not, right? The previous owners had tried to make it into a family room, with a kitchen and bathroom. There were two rooms past this little living area which had not been touched, and two rooms on the other side that facilitated the laundry room and a shop area.

Attached to the untouched rooms was a bomb shelter. A three foot high door made of old wood slates held a foggy window in the center. I never did go inside the tiny underground room. However, I frequently had nightmares of people being stuck and begging for my help.

My first nightmare took place in my soon to be bedroom. I had laid down in hopes to avoid my mom. I sprawled out on the wood floor and pretended to be asleep as I felt her footsteps approach my room. I heard my door open, and felt her walk past me and into my closet. I continued to "sleep" hoping she would just go away. Before I knew it I was waking up recalling my dream of these dangerously thin people clawing at the window in the bomb shelter.

When I later asked my mom what she had been doing in my closet, she responded with telling me she hadn't been home for hours. She had gone to pick my sister up from work.

seigfried007 · 10-06-2008, 03:36 PM

Terrib-- In other words, I found that thread Harry G started about ghosts in which a bunch of people posted scary stories and bumped it into visibility for you.

http://www.writingforums.com/debate/...ve-ghosts.html

terrib · 10-06-2008, 03:38 PM

thanks seig, was that so hard? lol... I'll check it out...