Half Dog
I was ten at thetime,along with my younger brother and sister,when my mother andfather bought the one hundred and some odd years old house for ascant 9,000. The owner however,obviously threw in a few extras.The first of which I experienced a year or so after we were inthe house. I first saw what We came to call "halfdog"in the front hall going into the living room. I'd see the tailend of a small black dog running into the room. I did not sayanything to my family thinking they would say I was joking.Little did I know,that my mother,brother and sister had seen thevery same ghost I had countless times.
A few years later,we had moved the living room into where thedining room had been. One night as I sat on the sofa playing myguitar,I saw something out of the corner of my eye,seemingsuspended near the ceiling,of what appeared to be a black doorclosing, surrounded by some kind of "bubbles". I lookedin shock closer,and watched it close completely,until it vanished.Again,! ! I kept it to myself,and while talking to mysister,found out that she too,had seen the same thing in the sameplace as I. My mother one night,awoke at around 2 or 3 am,andwhile going from her room,was held in by some unkown force. Shedescribed it as "Someone standing there in front of me".She could not get out of the room.
My sister had the most terrifying of all the experiences in herroom. She had just turned out her light after doing somehomework,when she heard a whispering voice calling her name.Thinking it was Me or my brother playing a joke on her,she said"Iknow it's you,so stop it". It kept up until she sat up andnoticed a white figure,on her floor crouching down beside her bed.She jumped over the figure and went screaming down the stairswhere me,my brother and mother sat watching television. she neverslept in the room afterwards. Among the many things we heard andsaw,(footsteps in the attic while we slept,shadows)no harm otherthan a good fright,ever became us. Years l! ! ater,I gotmarried,had children and ended up renting the house off my motherafter her divorce from my father. My wife became the nextbeliever in the house and it's ghosts,after seeing a shadow peerat her from a hallway in the same room as the "black door"mysister and I saw. We moved out shortly after,and the house wassold. I've wondered many times since then,if the new ownersinherited "our"old ghosts,and if they too,seen andheard things. One thing is for sure,the new owners also becamelandlords to some "unearthly"tenants.