Your Ghost Stories: What is it about?

as far as how to use it, there is no "right" way. Personally, I light some white candle, and say a prayer, (depending on your religion, you should change this). Personally I use the lords prayer, back when I was young, (like 14), I used a Wiccan prayer, but I don't remember it. I could dig through my old stuff and find it if you like. As far as my past life, I don't know too much, my mother has told me all I know, about my past life. The only thing I vividly remember TODAY about back then is my best friend was a girl about 5'4" with red hair, I don't remember her name, but I have a vivid image of a picture we took. It's hard to explain. I don't know what I would do if I ever come across this woman now, if she's still alive. And I appreciate every one's comments...

Seeing is believing, and most people won't believe what they haven't seen... YET! Take my fiance... He was SHOVED down the steps one day, and he thought his brother did it, (they were like 8 & 11 (age)). Only to find out he was the ONLY one home... And he still doesn't believe!

I would like to thank everyone for thier positive suggestions and feedback. It will be almost a year ago this month that we have moved out of that apartment just because it was time to move out and get a house.
The apartment complex has gone under new manangement so finding out the history of that apartment will be probably hard.

Now her visitions with her grandma IMO have to do with my wife's rocky relationship with her grandma when they were all living together. My wife, mother, and grandma all live in the same house and at the end of her life her grandma was battling a severe bout of dementia. My wife and her grandma were not on great terms prior to the dementia so it got strained even more afterwards so I think that's where the visitation are coming from.
Since we have move to our new home the vistions have been less frequent.

I am very sorry for your loss. Those who say time heals all wounds, well... I disagree. Time may make it easier to get through the pain, but it does not heal.

I believe Jim knew this as well. He knew the courage it took for you to sing at his memorial mass and he knew how it hurt when you visited his grave site. The song coming on the radio was his way of letting you know he is around and although is unable to tell you that out right, he found a way.

Thank you for sharing this beautiful story with us!

God Bless!

Beautiful story Lesley. I'm happy you were given the chance to say goodbye to your grandpa and help your granny finish all her business on this earth. I'm sure they're both at ease in a more perfect world which allows those who have passed to watch over their loved ones and prepare their way.

Thanks for sharing.

Whoa, that was scary. This is definatley one of my favorite stories! I think that the girl must have accidentley come into the old man's house and the old man must have thought she must be trespassing or something. And he must have hid her in the shed as she was banging on it as if she wants to get out. When your brother told you that her face was beaten up, the old man must have beaten her up. This might be it but I am only guessing. Anyways, best of luck for the rest of your life and hope nothing more happenes to you!
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LOL, I have had medium abilities my whole life, and it's more unusual for me to not see a spirit... Rather than see one. I wasn't frightened because she has passed on, and they don't scare anymore. I was freaked out and kind of shocked about what had happened though!

As far as the little girl, it may have been a residual haunting or she may have finally been able to cross over to peace with our Lord. I hope so, I hate the thought of children trapped and/or alone and frightened on this plane.

The ball of light, well... I am not sure what to think about that, I am not a firm believer in orbs and lights such as that. I have found that if you look and concentrate or investigate, generally there is a logical explaination for these things.

God Bless!

Great story faerielike although quite frightening.

It seems that more than one or two tormented souls are still around apart from the nasty one who pushed you down the steps. You've got a lot of portals open there considering the history of the land.

Like Kecoughtan suggested try to see if you find anything at all about the house through the fire insurance maps. Learning a bit more about the place will give you a good start before seeking the deeper history behind it.

I'm sorry for the ordeal you and your mum went through and I'm glad it has now ended.

I'm sure your father, whatever his course in life had been, realised his mistakes which explains his torment after death.

Your mum must be a very generous soul to offer her forgiveness to the man who hurt her so much.

I hope she's at ease now and that your dad's soul is also at rest.

Libertybelle has provided you with a great description of how to do deed research. If your county records survive, I hope you have an opportunity to follow up on her advice. You might also consider looking at fire insurance maps. In the nineteenth century companies that insured homes and businesses against fire made detailed maps of most towns in order to assess fire liabilitiy. The maps depict the size and arrangement of buildings and detailed structural information such as the location of windows, doors, heating sources, outbuildings, porches, and construction materials. Depending on the efficiency of the local agent they were usually updated every few years. So, by starting at the most recent and working backwards chronologically you can see changes to the shape and use of your house as well as other features on the your lot. They provide a glimpse at how the neighborhood has physically changed and what buildings predated your house (if the maps go back far enough). One of the most common fire insurance companies was Sanborn. Most public libraries (and some historical socities) have these on file either in book form, microfilm, or digitized. If you ask, the reference librarians should be able to help you locate them. Of course, this only helps to determine when your house was constructed and how previous owners altered it--not why or who lingers within its walls.

Interesting story bette31 for sure.

There must have been something there but unfortunately, I can't tell who/what it was and what it might have wanted athough it seems that you were dealing with a mischievious spirit at times.

The events you describe can be a number of things but, not having lived in that house for long, it would be tough to say.

I have a question though... Do you experience anything paranormal in your present house?

That makes sense sort of in a weird way. Maybe the light was the little girls spirit sapping energy from the tree maybe? Thats the hypothesis I came up with after reading your comment. Heh I remember walking around the sides of the houses as a kid looking for her, I named her Serri, I still don't know why I chose that name.

I remember my little brother and I would play a reverse form of hide and seek with the neighbor kids, we called it the chase. 2 people would go hide, and everyone would look for them, if they found you, you got a chance to run for the designated base (safe area) and if you got to it without getting tagged, you won. Gosh I miss that game! Anyway wed only play it late in the evening when there was better cover from darkness. I was on the seeking team, I ran back into my fairly large back yard, (along the back fence line are some weird trees that grow in tight groups out of the same root system, not sure what the name is) anyway it was really dark in the far end of my backyard and it always gave me the jitters going to the back corner. There was a gap between the fences (we had 2, a chain link with a wooden fence behind it) we called it the secret passage because we could sneak between peoples back yards to certain houses ie my friends who lived 2 homes down.

OK so I'm looking for Marcus and my little brother who were hiding. I decided to go to my backyard and check the back corner. I heard the other kids yelling and running around so I assumed they had found matt my little bro. When I got to the back corner I saw someone run and jump over the fence into our little secret passage area, it looked like marcus, same height and everything, so I naturally went after him but he got over the fence pretty fast. Once he jumped I turned around and marcus' older brother was there telling me to come back and count so the next people could hide, both my brother and marcus had already made it back to base.

Ok so who the freak was just randomly hiding in my backyard?!

Haha it coulda just been some crazy person from the building behind my house but it kind of makes me wonder exactly what was going on.

Anyway your theory about trying to get energy makes sense. I can see something like that working, a spirit draws upon the energy of living creatures so it can make its journey to wherever its going. Human tend to disturb spirits so maybe the tree was its preferrence? I'm stumped I have no clue about that kind of stuff

Poor little thing. How sad to be trapped and afraid and alone.

I will say some prayers for her to cross over to peace, to be with our Lord where fear and lonliness will never have to be a factor again.

Thank you for sharing your story with us.
God Bless!

Hello Ohiowatha,
Let's see...
The game night experience, and your bedroom experience occurred in separate places and floors. Did I get that right?
The windows were shut, no central air. How about ceiling fans? Are the french doors flush with the ceiling and the floor? Have you ever noticed movement of the french doors when a separate door within the apartment or on that floor open or close?
How close together are your desk and the cork board? I am more than positive that you checked this out, but, what are the chances that something (due to gravity) fell from the cork board to the desk creating the disturbance that ruffled the papers?
I have no doubts that you have thoroughly checked this out. Especially after receiving a deliberate tap on the door. I am just curious as to the "suction" of the apartment building as I had a barracks room that offered strange sounds when someone would do something in their room (a variety of actions would create the most eerie sounds), or when the wind came through the "port holes" in the stairwell.
Thank you for taxing our brains.