I have been having some delightful emails with the woman who owns the house my family lived in when I was 8-10. She has some of the history going back to when it was built in 1886. Too cool!
I should preface this by saying that neither my family nor the current owners of the house had any particularly weird experiences. The couple that lived there after us claimed that the house was haunted, and that there was the shadow of a figure going up a wall with a knife. The gay couple that lived there before the current owners said something about a carpet by the front door being rolled up by a ghost. Actually, there was a girl who lived next door who I think was murdered many years later by her boyfriend.
The closest thing I had to a spiritual encounter (and we are REALLY stretching things here) was when I saw the Jack Palance TV movie version of Dracula when we were living there. I would not sleep with my neck uncovered for what seemed like years after that. Even if it was summer and I didn't have a blanket, I had to sleep with something covering my neck. Gad, what a pathetic wuss!
Mom recalled that Dad liked the wallpaper in the stairwell because it reminded him of marijuana plants. (This would be my dad that I had to pay back out of my paper route money for throwing out his pot stash in a fit on moral pique when I was 12/13.) I told the woman who owns the house now that Dad died in 1995. If the gay couple had removed the wallpaper then, maybe Dad was returning to haunt them over the marijuana wallpaper!
I still would like to visit the place with my Mom.
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Wow, I thought I was the only one who would do the covered neck thing. I had to sleep like that for YEARS! I don't even remember the vampire movie that I saw that made me sleep like that either. Too funny.
OMG! Maybe we should form a support group. (Although I am fine now.)
Actually, when the woman asked me if I had any "spirit" stories when we lived there, I said that the only ones would have involved my dad and "spirits" of the distilled variety. :)