Our Own Haunted House

We’ve been living in this house for three years now and still don’t know what’s going on. But we are beginning to learn that our house is haunted. This is our second residence that is not in the city. Country life is the best going but it can also be mysterious and thought-provoking!

Our landlord’s mother once lived in this two story house we live in and she died here, too. The house stood empty for quite a while until we moved into it. From the start, the house has creaked and popped. I attributed that to the house settling. What I didn’t know was that the sounds we had been hearing were only the beginning.

There is a door at the bottom of the steps and we keep it closed to save energy. One night we were watching television and we both heard, very clearly, the sound of someone walking down those stairs! My other half is a skeptic so he went to the hall, thinking that someone had gotten into our house. When he turned the corner he saw an elderly woman walk through the door and into the hallway! She turned and looked at him and then disappeared. He has never been a skeptic since that day.

I have also seen our “visitor” quite a few times. One evening I was making a sandwich to eat as an evening snack. My large dog was laying on the floor behind me and to my left. He snorted twice and I thought nothing of it but what I saw next made me pause. Through the door in front and to the right of me appeared a woman who made her way slowly through the hall. When she got to the closed door of the stairway she just walked through it.

I am convinced that we have the spirit of the elderly landlord’s mother wandering around this house. I am not afraid but more comforted by her presence. I know just by her spirit that she was a very good woman.