Weird House
Finally I amposting a ghost story!! My aunt seems to be very sensitive to thesupernatural things. She has had some wierd things happen to her.This is one of the first things she ever told me. As far as Iknow this is a true story.
After my aunt had her first child, she and her husband stayed inLouisiana in some small country town that I can't remember thename of. Anyway, there was a lady who attended their church whosehusband had just died. The woman invited my aunt to stay in thehouse while she stayed with some relatives. My aunt assumed thelady wanted her to stay there because the memories of herdeceased husband were too painful and she didn't want the houseto be unlived in. The lady told my aunt that they didn't need tobring anything with them except their clothes because she wasleaving the house fully furnished. So my aunt and her husbandagreed to stay in the house. My aunt had known little of thedeceased man except that he was supposedly very mean to his wifeand strict on his daughters. When they moved in my aunt noticedthat the woman had left all her husband's medications still inthe medicine cabinet. The medicine cabinet was stocked full ofmedicine, mostly prescription. All the lady's and her husband'sclothes were also still in the closet.
Soon after they moved in, the first weird thing occurred. Theywere out in the yard burning trash (hey this is the country) andthe baby was inside asleep in his crib. My aunt said that thetrash was well-contained in the middle of the yard with herhusband standing next to it attending it. All of a sudden, a lineof fire shot out from the trash making a path around the house asif it was following a gasoline trail. They both ran behind tryingto stamp it out. As soon as they got one line stamped out anotherwould take off and do the same thing. Finally after putting outabout five lines, it stopped and my uncle put the burning trashheap out. He then said to my aunt,"that was the damndestthing! I don't understand it!". Needless to say they didn'tburn trash in the yard anymore!
Two days later the next weird thing happened. My aunt was washingdishes in the kitchen which had a window that looked out into theyard. She heard a strange sound so she looked out the window.There was this old metal washtub (hey this is the country!) thatwas rolling completely around the house. She said the wind wasn'tblowing and even if it was how could it lift the washtub up on itside and a make a circle around the house? She said the washtubrolled around the house twice and then stopped. She told my uncleabout it and they just looked at each other in disbelief (I wouldhave been out of there!!)
The third weird thing. One night, my aunt and uncle were in thebedroom and they heard the sounds of pots and pans being thrownaround in the kitchen. They both rushed in there to see what wasgoing on. When they got in the kitchen, There was a raccoonsitting upright in the middle of the kitchen with the kitchencabinets close to the floor openlooking right at them! The racoondidn't run away or act like it was afraid, and my aunt said thething had red eyes. Her husband said that he was not touching thething. They went back into the bedroom and it went away. At thispoint my aunt was ready to get the out of there. My uncle said hewas not going to let a racoon run him out of the house (despitethe fact that the thing had red eyes!!).
The next weird thing. My uncle worked at night and didn't gethome until the early hours of the morning. So a lot of the time,my aunt was at home at night with just her and the baby. Myaunt's oldest child is completely deaf and he was around 10months at the time. Well my aunt was in the bedroom with the babywatching tv. When she heard some creaking noises over her head.She looked up and she saw depressions in the ceiling as ifsomeone was walking above her. Even though he couldn't here thecreaking, my cousin saw it too and looked up at the ceiling. Wellmy aunt was so scared, she took the baby and went and sat in thefront room until my uncle came home. She told my uncle whathappened and they decided to leave that night. There was a longdirt road that led up to the main street. Since they didn't havea car they were going to have to walk to my aunt's father's house.As they were walking down the dirt road, they could hear whateverit was following on the side of the road. When they stopped itstopped, and when they walked it walked. When they got to themain road, it stopped following them. When they got to my aunt'sfather's house, he told them when they got their clothes the nextmorning to be sure not to take anything that wasn't theirs, incase the thing came after them in search of the item.
When they told the lady that owned the house what happened tothem, she made no comment just shook her head knowingly. My auntsaid that she probably wanted proof that she wasn't going crazy,and wanted to see if anybody else experienced anything weird.
Well my aunt's mom and some of her friends went and sat in thehouse one afternoon to see if anything else strange would happen.They said that the front door flew open and they felt someone runpassed them. Then they all ran out of the house.
tasha
ps sorry it was so long!!