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Getty ImagesIn my mid-20s, I was looking to rent a house and came across a listing that sounded perfect. I met the owner, who led me to the back of the property where the house was located. It was charming, with a spiral staircase leading to the bedrooms on the second floor, exposed brick walls and hardwood floors. I fell in love -- hard -- and like other times when I've fallen in love, I became blind to everything else around me.
For a brief moment, I thought I felt something supernatural inside the house. But in my excitement, I quickly dismissed it. I signed a contract and the deal was done.
As I unpacked, I chatted on the phone, inviting friends to come over to see my new place. The days passed by peacefully, until I woke up one night with the feeling that someone was inside. Terrified, I walked around, baseball bat in hand, ready to club anyone I saw. I found nothing undisturbed and chalked it up to getting used to being in a new house.
On Friday evening, my friends arrived to celebrate my digs. We were downstairs enjoying a glass of wine when the noise began. We heard music from what sounded like an old scratchy record begin to play and the sound of heavy boots and someone in high heels clicking as they danced on the hardwood floor from my upstairs bedroom.
My friends and I crept up the stairs to see who was up in my room, but no one was there. We searched several times, thinking someone was playing a joke on us. Once we would calm down and go back downstairs, the music would start again.
This became a regular occurrence every Friday night. At first, it was almost endearing -- two sweethearts, locked in an embrace from the past, dancing together. I thought the ghosts were a time loop, like a tape that played over and over. Soon after, my theory was proven wrong, as the energy in the house began to change.
I discovered that while I was welcome here, men were not, and there was a definite 'other-worldly presence' in the house that was growing more and more active. My boyfriend and I began to quarrel. I got blamed for things I hadn't done. He'd accuse me of moving his things or hiding them.
One day, he yelled and said that I had pushed him hard while he was in the shower washing his hair. I was downstairs at the time in the kitchen cooking, and while he realized there was no way I could have pushed him, he couldn't live with the rationalization that something else might be in the house that he had no control over.
I began to notice that even when male friends came over to visit, they quickly grew agitated and angry.
Chatting with the neighbors, I learned that no one had lived in the house for years before me. It had been empty for so long that the spirit had grown weak and dormant. Once I moved in and had people over, it began to pull energy from all of us.
Having seen what the spirit world can do, I knew not to stay and hope that things would change. I could clearly feel the energy of this spirit, and it was not interested in crossing over to the other side or finding peace.
I called the owner and said, "I want to break my lease and move." When he asked why, I told him about the angry spirit. I didn't expect him to believe me, but to my surprise, he let me out of the lease.
He explained that shortly after moving in, he and his wife began to fight. Before six months had passed, they were engaged in a bitter divorce. They had learned that the main house had stood in the front of the property, which had mysteriously burned down. The home they owned where I was now living was the original servant's quarters.
The present owner had never understood why he was so angry when he and his wife lived there. He later rented the house out to his niece, and six months later, she and her husband also divorced. The house had stood empty until I moved in, and within six months, the relationship I had been in dissolved too.
My ability to explain the presence in the house allowed him to finally understand what was going on. We parted ways with him wondering if he would ever rent the place out again.
For my part, I learned a valuable lesson: Always check the energy in a house before you live in it, no matter how much you love the décor.
Filed Under: MyDaily Originals, It Happened to Me
Tags: ghosts, haunted houses, HauntedHouses, i lived in a haunted house, ILivedInAHauntedHouse
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I am a believer. I'm not a schizophrenic or on any medications. I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and yet I was tormented for many years by dark spirits in a home where we raised our family in Tulsa, OK. While everyone had experienced something there that made them uneasy, I actually saw dark shadows that would appear for brief moments where I could see them sneering at me. Our pets would react too. I know my cat saw the same things I did as she would stand still with her back raised and hair on end staring where I saw the spirit. One day I was sitting reading a book, not thinking about anything supernatural, I looked up and there was a dark form sitting in the chair across from me with a sarcastic expression. It had eyes, yet didn't really look human. I just walked away into another room. I get more scared thinking about how I stayed there all that time, and fear that they will come back to our new house. I prayed everyday and knew in my heart that God protected me and not to be afraid. I would tell them to just get out. I think Satan wants to take away our peace and happiness. My home was never really my sanctuary. I guess I stuck it out there as I didn't want them to be the winner. We are at war with evil. You have to be strong.
May 16 2011 at 11:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyA priest should come in with Holy Water, and remove the spirit. It sounds more like a demon to me than a ghost.
May 13 2011 at 9:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySatan uses his supernatural "lying wonders and signs" to trap men into following him, while the Lord uses His miracles to lead men in a righteous path to follow Him. We can be deceived by Satan and evil demons into believing a lie. Along with the true miracles of God there are also false gifts of power, signs and lying wonders, that are not of God. Satan uses these, and he uses good people with good intentions that don't really know the Truth. If you read the Word of God you find that it says that evil cannot exist in the presence of God. Nor will God tolerate evil's presence. God is purely good. When you accept Jesus the Christ as Savior and Lord of your life the only way to reside with evil is by choice. If you invite evil in, it will come. But if you have Christ in you, and you claim His word, there can be no room for anything but Him. Going to church isn't your answer. Many preachers are more lost than you are. Your only answer is to read and trust the Word of God. Believe in Him, invite Him in and there can be no ghosts or demons or evil powers that you don't have control or power over. You will have the power of God. (There are many good preaching men of God, but we all will find the answers in God's Word. A good place to start is the gospel of John.) I truly believe that no ghost or evil can bother me when I claim the name and blood of Jesus Christ.
May 13 2011 at 5:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyi dont believe in ghost, spirits or whatever other name you call them. if they were real then everybody would see them, not just a chosen few. i think some of y'all believe in them so much that your brain play tricks on you. if ghost do exist then im waiting for a visit. i have alot of family and friends that died. cant wait to hear from them, or any so called spirits or ghost.
May 13 2011 at 5:45 PM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down ReplyIf you believe in God and your soul then so should you believe in spirits. Or ghosts by a different name. I've had several spirits in my home. From a pet that died in an accident to friends and relatives to evil spirits brought to my home by a horrific traffic accident near by. The evil male spirit choked my husband in his sleep several times. We finally called a priest to come bless our home. The evil male spirit never returned and our home was spirit free for a long time. About 3 years later a friend died unexpectantly and she came to me the night she died. I didn't know she had died but I was in bed and I felt like a cat walking on my bed. It was her saying good bye. Our priest friend said that when someone dies they travel among their friends and family for three days. After that they go into a sort of holding in pergatory for 40 days. Then they assend into heaven. Some souls aren't complete in their physical life and cannot assend or dissend if that be their fate. Souls of those that died unexpectedly or commited sucide. Those souls lie between spirit and physical until something completes them or someone sends them away.
Another time many years ago a friend was visiting and she had laid down for a rest in that same room and she felt something like a powder puff carress her cheek. She never told me about it until one day I told her we had a priest come in because of the spirits. She then told me about the time years ago that she had stayed with us. You can't use the phone in that bed room. All cordless and cell phones break signal there. In another bed room I was lying in bed with my husband just about ready to turn off the lights for the night. Our dog had died a couple of days earlier and we were just quietly talking. No tv or radio was on and no one else was in the home but us two. I saw a black shape flash accross the foot of the bed. Black smokey retangular shape with points extending on the leading top and bottom back end. I asked my husband if he had seen it and he said no but he heard it. The daily paper was on the floor beside the bed where he had tossed it after reading, and the paper rattled when the shape flashed across our bed.
I have heard spirits, seen spirits, and physically felt spirits. If you don't believe in spirits then you haven't been paying attention in church!
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May 13 2011 at 6:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBig deal. Millions of people have lived in haunted houses. I could tell you true stories that would raise the hair on the back of your neck. The truth is--there is no death. Life goes on, just in a different way.
May 13 2011 at 4:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI've been psychic, more of a "sensitive," for just about all my life (I'm now 65) and often wonder why I never pursued fame and fortune because of my "gift." Maybe it's because I'm short and have an inferiority complex. The spirits I have come across have never been hostile, but then I've never lived in a haunted house (wish I had!), although the attic apt. I now live in does have the former (deceased) tenant around -- she, unseen, actually once placed something in my hand, a wrapped gift. My latest encounter was when I woke up in the middle of the night; my left hand was handing over the side of the bed, and "someone" unseen blew very closely and directly on the back of my hand. Whatever!
May 13 2011 at 2:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI just don't think it's fair to spin a yarn like this and not say what you were drinkin' so I could order me a case of it.
May 13 2011 at 1:54 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply1) I have NEVER understood WHY if someone (especially someone psychic or sensitive) is aware that the spirit energy is negative or potentially malevolent in a house why they do absolutely NOTHING to fix the problem! There are a MYRIAD of ways to "cleanse" a house from unhappy, negative, etc. whether they want to move on or not spirits! Why would you leave a house for the next person to suffer through; someone who may not possess ANY knowledge of the spirit world that this woman possesses? VERY irresponsible in my opinion!
2) Whenever I hear people say they don't believe in spirits/ghosts it just makes me laugh! Someday, somehow, somewhere, they are going to receive the most terrifying scare of their lives because of their inability to be open-minded about what they don't understand or can see! But these are, of course, the same folks who believe in "God", you know, the deity you can't see but are sure exists!
Well of course there are spirits orr ghosts or whatever you want to call them... I have had a few in my home over the years.. so have 2 of my brothers and its not just me who has experienced them in their homes...several others have. I have seen some but mostly felt some. Because I am sensative to their energy they seem to like to connect with me. It's real... I dont usually like it but I accept it. When we die we don't just disappear. When my husband passed away in my arms I actually saw his soul leave him... it was amazing... I see and feel him alot so do my children. I can go to very very old grave yeard and usually feel nothing, but I cant go to modern ones... they all want to talk to me all at once. I dont know why I have this in me to connect with them but I have always been able to even as a child... but back then I just thought it was God and angels. If you have an evil one in your life or your home tell them to get out in no uncertain terms... once they are found out and know you arent leaving they will eventually go.
May 13 2011 at 1:38 PM Report abuse Permalink +3 rate up rate down Replytrust me, sometimes they just don't go. i've been sesitive since i was a child also, and i've had one in particular that just wouldn't leave. it also physically harmed me to the point where my employers thought I was being abused by my boyfriend! in that case, i just moved out, and prayed it didn't follow me (which has also happened to me before)
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