History Lesson

Before I go into the storries of my house growing up, I think that a "history lesson" about the place is very important...

The house that I grew up in had a history. It was rumored that the people who built it, (my mom's childhood best friend) was rumored that the older brother Frankie killed himself in the house. He never actually lived in the house, but i've heard from people who knew the family that he killed himself in the smaller kid's bedroom. Our mom always told us that it wasn't true, but we dont know what the truth is because we heard from one of my sisters friends who was new to the area, that her aunt knew the people who lived there before and that he in fact did kill himself in that house. Whether he did or not, who knows?.... I guess the family knows. Anyhooo.... A few years after Frankie killed himself, his father killed himself. I dont think they were living in the house at the time. He definatly didn't "off" himself in the house, though. We'd hear about it if he did. So, for as long as I remember, strange things happened in that house. I will go into detail, later.

My mom and I met up with her friend a couple years ago at the pomegranite festival and when we told her about the house being haunted she seemed to think it was her dad. I have'nt heard anything about him, but the way she was talking, he wasn't a very nice guy. I dont know if it's true, but that was the impression I got. My sisters and I also talked to the lady who lives in it now a few years ago to see if she had weird things happen and she said "yes, but I drink alot, so I just think it's because i'm drunk". We then started telling her storries and she told us to stop because she lived there alone and didn't want to be scared. So, I guess welcome to my nightmares :) Living in that house was like one big nightmare!

Local Haunting

Down at the Logandale cemetery, there is a rumor of a lady who walks around in the cemetery and on the road in front of the cemetery. It is said that she walks around looking for her loved ones and is often seen in the middle of the street. There has been a few instances where somebody has been driving down that street late at night and see her standing there and they stop to see if everything is ok, just to see that nobody is there. One lady was driving really late and saw this so said lady. She stopped to see if everything was ok, but when she stopped the "ghost lady" was gone. So this lady actually thought that she had run over this "person" stanging in the road and got out of her car to investigate, and there was nobody there to be seen.

Beatles Rock Band

When The Beatles Rock Band video game came out for the wii, my mom, sister and I spent alot of time playing it. Every time we'd start playing weird stuff would start happening. We'd start hearing things, seeing shaddows that seemed to be produced by nothing. One time I was at my sister Nadja's house. Cam was a baby, so he was asleep in her bedroom and Alex and Mattingly were playing. She left the room, so it was just Alex, Mattingly and myself in the living room. Out of no where I hear an adult hum. At first I was kind of like, that's weird.. Nadja doesn't sing and especially DOESN'T hum. So when she got back into the room I asked her if she was humming and she said "no, why?".... I then answered with, "oh, I just heard somebody, a woman, hum." It wasn't her so we started playing. In the middle of a song I saw a shaddow move across the ceiling of the room, so I turned around waiting to see somebody walk by , or knock on the door. She then asked, "did you see that too?" I said "yes.". Then as soon as the song ended we decided to experiment. We did a little "debunking", but was unadble to find an explination as to how there was a shoaddow. Then Cam was woken up. He's screaming bloody murder. Every time something weird happened it always would wake Cam up. He'd scream It was always pretty weird....

Things I'm Unsure Of...

This is also something that happened to me pretty recently. It happened with in weeks from my last post. Since then nothing strange has happened in this house..

Late one night Danny and I had just finished watching an episode of "Fringe" and an episode of "Ghost Hunters". It was close to 11:00 so I decided it was time to get ready for bed. I turned on the hall light (the only way to turn on our bedroom light is by a remote) so I could see my way to my bedside table which is on the other side of the room, away from the door. When I got to my bedroom door, i could sense that something was off... The light from the hallway seemed to stop at the door and my bedroom, which is usually completly illuminated with light from the hall, was pitch black! I thought it was just my imagination. "Fringe" was freaky that night and "Ghost Hunters" was, well, "Ghost Hunters".. So, I proceeded into my bedroom. As I walked in I got this overwhelming feeling of GET OUT!!!! There was NO WAY I was running out of there! The crap Danny would give me for being a wuss, and it had to have been my imagination. I kept walking. It was so dark that I couldn't even see the furniture around me. As I got further and further into the room, the stronger the feeling got! GET OUT!!!!!!!! There is something very, very bad in here! Still, there was no way I was running out of there! So. as I was feeling my way to my table (I couldn't see a thing!) The stronger the feeling got, GET OUT!!!!!!!!!! I finally made it to my table, scared to DEATH! The feeling in my room that night was so dark and evil! I reached for my lamp,which I couldn't see, and I half expected something to grab my hand, or growl, or something horrible. I got the light on, said a little prayer, quickly walked to the bathroom to turn on the light in there, then quickly left the room. I've only felt that way one other time in my life, which is a story soon to come :)

Who's That Little Boy?

Something happened to me pretty recently. I've never felt like this house (we are living in now) is haunted. Every once in a while something will happen and it'll leave me scratching my head, but other than that our house is pretty comfortable. One night, about a year and a half ago, Danny and I were sitting on the couch watching t.v.. Alex and Cam were in bed asleep, both their doors closed, the house was quiet. I was sitting on the end of the couch and could see

down the hallway. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a little boy run out of Alex's room. He looked EXACTLY like alex only about a foot taller. I turned my head to look directly at him and he made eye contact with me, gave me a huge grin, turned to run down the hall then dissappeared. I was in disbeliefe! There was no way I just saw what I did.. I was trying to rationalize, thinking maybe it was Alex (even though his bedroom door never opened,and he was older than Alex.). I was just trying to think of what it could be. There was no way it could've been a ghost! Then I kind of got scared. What if something was wrong with Alex and this "person" was trying to let me know. I had to check on him! I went into his room quickly to check on him and he was fine! Sound asleep.... I have'nt seen this person since, but my mom has.

The Girl In Our Appartment

After I graduated from high school I moved up to Provo, Utah. I lived in a town house with my best friend Ciara and our two roomates Kim and the Leslie (i think was her name...). One day I was home alone, I often was, Ciara was at work and the others were at school. To make the time pass by, I slept alot. I was unable to find a job, I didn't have a car, I was always alone, bored and somewhat depressed. Well, on that day Ciara came home from work and I was still asleep. She was over at her bathroom area looking in the mirror and saw the reflection of a girl standing behind her. Her first thought was, oh good Andrea's up. Then she thought, wait, Andrea isn't that short, her hair isn't red (at the time, lol) and she wasn't wearing that outfit today. She freaked and ran down the stairs. I woke up about a half an hour later and went down stairs. I could see that Ciara was pretty freaked out by the look on her face. I asked her what was wrong and all she said was "i'm never going up stairs again! There's a ghost up there!". I was just kind of like," a ghost?" She said "yes, a ghost! It was a girl. At first I thought she was you, but she was shorter than you, was wearing a pink shirt, cut off shorts and had red hair.". I then knew who she'd seen. I showed her this picture of my cousin Dana that had died when I was a little girl. My family and her were really, really close! She scrame "THAT'S HER!!!!". I then told her that it was just my cousin checking in on me which she often did. It was pretty funny, lol!

Halloween!

So, i've decided that this year, everyday for the month of October i'm going to post a scary story. It can be either a personal experience of mine, or just something that I've heard. Or even something that's happened to somebody close to me. Starting either tomorrow or Monday I will be posting! So, get ready for some scary stories and posting overload! (you dont have to read my blog if you dont want to....)