Lucinda's Ghost
In 1981, a friendwas house sitting for a doctor and his wife who were vacationingin Europe. Their two young girls did not go with them and stayedat home with my friend. We were both performing in a dinnertheatre show, so she had to leave them alone each evening. Shegave them strict instructions not to answer the door or letanyone in.
After the show this one night, she called the house to see if thekids were OK, and received no answer. We quickly left for thehouse since they should have answered. I was very uneasy aboutthis the whole time with my vivid imagination conjuring up imagesof blood and gore.
We arrived at the house and she asked me to come in with her (whichI was not too keen on). The house was the main part of a formerSouthern plantation that had been divided up into a smallsubdivision. In fact, the main entrance to the house was in therear. As you step through the double doors, you see a largedouble wide staircase going up to the second floor. Thisstaircase is about 8-10 feet wide and 15-20 feet high. Iaccompanied my friend to the top of the staircase and then said Iwould wait there as she continued on to the girls' bedroom.
As I stood there with my back to the stairs, I felt a hand touchmy shoulder! The touch was very light and withdrew almost asquickly as I felt it. I turned around and saw nothing. There wasno one on the stairs behind me, and no one could have moved awaythat quickly. About this time, my friend returned, obviouslyrelieved because the girls had simply gone to bed and did nothear the phone. She did notice, however, that I looked verystrange and asked if I was OK. I said, "yeah, now let'sleave."
Afterwards I told her what had happened and she passed it alongto the owners. Their reply was, "Oh, that was Lucinda."The history of Lucinda is that she was engaged to the owner ofthe plantation in the mid 1800's. He broke off the engagement andmarried someone else. Supposedly, Lucinda broke into the houseand hung herself in one of the large rooms which is now the pianoroom. Since then she has haunted the house and appears to belittle more than playful.
The owners told how they have woken up at night with the bedcovers not only off the bed, but folded and stacked neatly in acorner!. Lucinda also enjoys rearranging the location of items inthe kitchen. She apparently has her preference of where thingsshould be, and continually moves them around. Also, the fourlarge French doors in the piano room will not stay shut. They canbe closed and latched, but if you leave the room and return, youwill find them all open.
Their comments on my incident was that Lucinda was aware of astranger in *her* house and physically touched me to determine myintentions. Anyway, I never went back there. Too spooky.