A Ghost In A Hurry

I have been meaning to write about the following incidents for several years, but for one reason or another, kept putting it off. This took place in (I believe) 2018. As part of my job in pet care, I regularly spend long periods of time at customer's houses when they are out of town. This particular house was built in the 1940s and in the 90s had an extension added. Several paranormal incidents happened there over the years. Once, while my wife and I were sitting in the den, which is part of the newer extension, discussing the possibility of the house being haunted, several of the ceiling lights in the vaulted ceiling began dimming and then getting very bright (they had individual brightness control knobs) while a chandelier and three lamps began flicking on and off. Meanwhile the lights in the kitchen remained on without disturbance. This weird light show went on for twenty or so seconds before returning to normal. The fact that it was multiple lights, seemingly acting independently, suggests it was paranormal. I have stayed in this house many times since and nothing unusual with the lights has ever happened again.

On another occasion when my wife was staying alone in the house overnight, she awoke to hear what sounded like two male voices in conversation coming from the space between the bedroom and bathroom door. As often seems to be the case with paranormal voices, although distinct, what was being said was unclear. Suffice it to say, there was nobody visible there. Within two months of this incident, my brother (who was working for me at the time) was heading toward the mud room at the rear of the house to leave, when he saw two figures standing and facing each other in front of the door. He described them as appearing like a photographic negative. They were there and within a couple of seconds were gone.

The most dramatic incident was when I happened to be alone one morning. I was getting dressed in the master bedroom on the main floor (it's a two-story house) when a loud rainstorm caught my attention. The rain was lashing loudly against the windows, and I glanced at the half open door to see a woman quickly walking from the entry foyer to the left and turning left to head down a short hallway to the kitchen. I knew what I was witnessing was an apparition as the woman, who was wearing what appeared to be light, shin length dress and had hair falling past her shoulders, was monochromatic. She seemed comprised of a washed out white and was clearly focused on some objective as she hurried past. I immediately followed this figure into the kitchen and, not surprisingly, found it empty. I remember feeling quite elated at seeing the apparition and immediately called my wife to tell her what I'd seen. I sensed that what I was seeing was just a replay of something that happened long ago. Her dress struck me as something that could've been from anytime between the 1940s to the 1960s.

I find it interesting that the apparition appeared immediately after the rainstorm started. The often-reported connection between paranormal occurrences and water possibly at play. Several months after seeing this apparition, the house had extensive renovations done. I remember talking with one of the workers and he told me he had pulled out a huge amount of outdated clothing from the walls of the attic that had apparently been used as insulation. Maybe some of the paranormal activity was connected to these clothes because since the renovations I have never sensed or experienced anything else at the house that could be considered paranormal.