True Ghost Experiences

The Door

Let me first startoff by saying this is a very well done and informative site. Itoo have my doubts on the Borley Rectory and I have found yoursite to be a great help.

I have a story to tell and last time I checked, it was still true.I really don't believe much in the paranormal, so somethingreally tangible have to jump out at me and bite me before I wouldbelieve. But this was very convincing, and I believe it to betrue, if an explanation was given, I would accept it, but therewas none. BTW, I live in Calgary, Alberta. Canada.

It happen just recently, at a Halloween party. I was invited tomy friends party at his house, and some of the guys decided tocrash at his place because we've never seen fog so thick before,and it seemed to have rolled in from nowhere. My friend hadalways told me that his house was haunted, and that he would onlystay at that house on weekends (since Halloween was on a friday,he decided to have a party there.

Usually, he would be staying at his grandma's while his parentsstayed at that house. Located near Scotchmen's hill (I may havespelled that wrong), the house seemed very normal and was quitehomey. That night we decided to stay up a bit and hear thestories about this house. Well, this is what I know about thehouse's past history - This house has gone through 4 owners,previous 3 owners had tragic ends. First owner committed suicideand later his wife and children died from a car accident. Secondowner committed suicide and girlfriend died in a car accident.Third owner? Well, he died in a crash and his wife commitedsuicide. I know, coincidences can happen. That's what I thoughttoo, but then he goes on to tell us that doors open by themselves(wind was the first thought), he's garage door opens by itself (mulfunctionmaybe?), and other weird things (I thought he was on drugs).

Well, the first incident happened at around 1:05am. While we weretalking, we heard someone knocking on the main door (ok, hisparents weren't home, I'm with him and 2 other guys, and theothers decided to brave it home despite the fog). At first Ithought some of the people had returned because the fog was toomuch. My friend started to shake. He goes on to tell me that it'sthe ghost. I thought that was a very stupid thing to say, itcould be trick or treaters, or people from the party returning,but he insisted it was the ghost. He says that's how it alwaysstarts. I decided to open the door, as soon as I opened the door,the knocking stopped. I thought it was strange, and some of thethings my friend said started to bother me, but I shook if offthe best that I can. While I was walking away from the door, theknocking started again (now I was sure it was trick or treaterspranking us). I opened the door, this time, the door knockcontinued. I'm standing there looking at the door while I canhear knocking noises coming from it and no one there. Thatfreaked me out good. I slammed the door, and ran back to where myfriends were. I told them what happened, and we decided maybe weall should leave. Second incident happen right after the first ataround 1:11am. As we were getting ready to leave, I noticed afigure walk into the room and walk past me. I started talking tothe figure thinking it was one of my friends. When I turnedaround, no one was there. It was a one door room, you come in,you go out the same way. That really frighted me. My other friendwas in the room (he was there previously), just stood there andasked me "Did you see it...?", while shakinguncontrollably. I just walked out of the room, thinking this isunreal. My friend had previously told me every visitor had seenor experienced something in this house, and he was sure we'd seesomething. The door started knocking again, I had left it openpreviously, this time the door wasn't secure on it's hinges, itwas not even there. As we were walking towards the door way wherethe door was suppose to be, the door came sliding down the stairswith a loud crash. We turned around and saw the door on the floor."How the heck...?" was my response, and when we turnedaround, the door was back on it's place - on the doorway. Weturned around again and saw no door on the ground, just a markleft by the door when it came crashing down from the stairs. Aswe left, everything in the house went crazy. We could hearfurniture tossing back and forth, light's all over the housegoing haywire. Even neighbors came to inquire what was going on.All we could see was things being thrown, and lights coming onand off while neighbors and my friends looked on. About 15minutes later, it went quite. The police came to the house (someonemust have called them) and asked what was the problem. Theneighbors and I told him what happened and he decided toinvestigate. He told us to stay outside while he check it out, 10minutes later, he came back and reported there was nothing wrong.I thought, "didn't you see all the furniture wreck on theground?". The neighbors and my friends decided we have acloser look, and we found everything to be in order. After givinga police report, a news crew came and my friends and I wereinterviewed. We made it to the 6 O'clock news the next day - TheMason House (that's my friends last name) the most haunted housein Calgary.

What was different about this was it was witness by more then 20people, it was in the police report, it was on the news on CFCN,and it's been investigated by several so-called "ghosthunters". I know it's strange, but after the door was takenout of the house (just 4 days ago) everything stopped. The houseis quite, according to my friend. And the door? It's at somegarage, I really don't care. As far as I'm concern, that door itgone for good. Oh yeah, I really don't know the history behindthat door, nor does my friends, but it has been there ever sincethe first owner.

That's my story.