Ghost Stories

Chair Spirits

When I was in 5thgrade we rented an old house from this elderly gentleman. Hischildren were all adults and his wife was dead and the house wastoo big for him. He told my parents to feel free to paint anddecorate anything that they wanted to but not to cover up themural that he had painted for his wife in the basement.

It was a hedious representation of his wife's hometown in Italy,but we of course made no attempt to cover it up in any way. Mymother taught ceramics classes in the basement and it was myfavorite place to rollerskate,so we both were down there alot ofthe time. Until the weird stuff started to happen anyway.

At first we noticed that one of the chairs from around the tablealways seemed to move in front of the mural, but we alwaysassumed that it was one of us that had put it there. Then therewas the perfume. Just suddenly the entire room would fill withthis rose scented perfume,it was gagging at times. It onlyhappened when I was alone down there there though and I reallydidn't want to tell my mom because I figured that she'd justblame it on my imagination.

I got the creeps and wouldn't go domn alone but I felt safe withmy mom. Then one day when we were together the water went on fullblast and the chair swung out from the table and scooted acrossthe floor to the mural and the room filled with the perfume. Mymother looked at me and I looked at her and we both ran up thestairs as fast as we could.

When we calmed down we shared our stories. She had experiencedthe same things as I.

Unfortunately for my mom she taught her class down there and itwas unavoidable. One evening after everyone had left and my momwas cleaning up (I was there, she wouldn't be alone in thebasement) the episode repeated itself and in the midst of it Iwas touched on the shoulder and the ghost said "Don't movemy chair"

Believe me that chair was never moved again.

Oh, just as a note, when we were moving out we mentioned it tothe landlord and his reply was "Yeah, she started that abouta week after she died"

Greaat,thanks for telling us! At least it shut up my disbelivingfather.

That's really just one of my stories,I've got a whole truckloadthat I'll share in due time.

Best to all-- Erica