Wow - za - wow wow - The response was outrageous. It really is so remarkable as to how many people have so many points of view. I wanted to post this yesterday, but I wanted to be sure that I answered all the questions that were sent to me, in regards to the story " A Light from Beyond?" I posted on Fact or Fiction Friday. So, lets not put this off any longer. Drum roll..............
The original story was submitted to me, from Carrie who lives in New Hampshire, and that she and I graduated from Laconia High School in 1986.
Below is her TRUE story. Yes, this story is True. Got ya! Strange how removing and changing a few words here and there, can change what a person believes or doesn't believe.
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Hey Stacey-
So here is my TRUE life Ghost story:
July 2013 - I was cleaning a house that was about 10,000 sf.
It is in Laconia in a very elite, expensive neighborhood. The house had 3
floors, 4 bathrooms, 14 rooms (not including the bathrooms or 3 other rooms
that were in the basement used for storage). The house was huge. Anyway, I was
in the family room in the basement vacuuming and about 1 1/2 hours into my 3
hour shift when all of a sudden I heard a HUGE LOUD BANG! And almost
immediately I could actually "feel" someone watching me. It’s so hard
to explain, but I could actually feel it. I was all alone in this huge house
and absolutely terrified. I shut the vacuum off and just stood there shaking
and my heart racing. I was terrified. I was almost frozen. A few minutes went
by of me just standing there waiting to see if I could hear anything else the
whole time having this very creepy feeling. I slowly walked over to the hallway
and looked up through the railings on the stairway. The way the stairs were set
up, you could see all the way up to the 3rd floor from the basement. (Kind of
like how we use to be able to look down from an upper floor at the high school
when on the stairs). I just stood there listening and looking. I was 100% sure
someone was in the house watching me. I VERY slowly walked up stairs, super
terrified. I stood on the landing right before I got to the main floor and
looked down the long hallway. Not seeing anyone, but still feeling a presence.
I went down the hall, looked in the rooms, saw nothing, I then proceeded to one
of the bedrooms on that floor and when I walked in, there was a bed side light
on. I thought that was strange because I had just left that room about 20 or 30
minutes earlier and the light was definitely NOT on. I thought maybe I hit the
switch on the wall accidentally...I tried it and it was not the switch for that
light. Then I thought that maybe it was a touch lamp and that I had bumped it
accidentally...NOPE! When I got over to the light it was a lamp with a switch
on it just below the bulb that you actually had to TURN it to turn it on. NOW I
am completely freaked out!! All this time, I could still feel the presence. I
continued to check the rest of the house and found no one. I finished vacuuming
the house and got the hell out of there as soon as I could. That feeling of
"being watched" never left me the entire time I was there. Just
thinking about it right now, I am literally shaking. It was so scary.
I came home and called the owner of the home. It is not their
primary residence. They live out of State, but have the home as a vacation
home. I left her a message to please call me. She called me back a couple of
hours later and she could tell that something was wrong with me. I asked her
"Ummm...is your house haunted?" She said "Well, we've been wondering
the same thing." I was like "WHAT?!" She said that her dog would
sometimes stand at the end of the hallway and just start barking down the hall.
She said that nobody was there that they could see. The dog would act strange a
lot and sometimes she would hear noises that the rest of the family couldn't.
She said sometimes both her and her daughter would awake suddenly in the middle
of night with the sensation that someone was pulling at their feet. She
consulted with a medium and was told that the woman who lived there previously
had died and would come back and forth to the house to "play". She
said the woman wouldn't hurt me and there was nothing for me to worry about. I
didn't care...I was done right then!
I consulted with my friend Lesley who is a medium and asked
her to do a reading on the house. In the meantime, I did some research on the
house myself and the previous owner and had also gotten information about her
from the present owner. Since the owners were never hardly there she would do
the reading from the outside of the house. Lesley and I went down one night.
She did not know which house it was, only the street. She did a reading, which
was quite interesting. Lesley knew the woman's name, her husband’s name, what
she looked like, told me particulars about her marriage problems, where the
woman worked, what she did there, where she killed herself (It was not at the
house), and how she died, which was by suicide. It was a very sad case. Lesley
also told me that the woman was sorry that she scared me, but yet she found my
reaction a bit amusing. (i.e.: looking around, walking slowly and cautiously,
etc...) Lesley started imitating EXACTLY what I had done because the woman was
showing her my reaction. Lesley also told me that this lady was not going to
hurt me. But at that point I had already quit and I just knew that I could not
go back Lesley felt that because the lady found it amusing, even though she was
sorry, that she would probably play some games with me in the future. She also
confirmed that the lady did not stay at the house all the time, but that she
comes and goes. She wasn't sure "where" she went when she wasn't at
the house, but that she was somewhere "out there."
It was all quite scary for me. I always thought it would be
cool to have an encounter with a spirit, but after having one, I never want
another one again! Lol
SO...THAT is my Ghost Story. What do you think?
Carrie
