Our story was sent into the show by Ray Owens who lives in the great state of Pennsylvania. Home of the Steelworker and appearly ghosts. Here is the story Ray has titled My Haunted House.
My wife and I live in an old Victorian style house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I’m not really sure when it was built but it was at least in the late 1800s. When we first moved in everything was peachy. We get up in the morning, have our coffee, get to work on restoring the house, then call it a day, and move on. We bought the house originally because we fell in love with the design and we knew that it just had to be restored to its original glory. We were newly retired and we had the time and the gumption to get’er done.
It was after the third year that things started to go strange. One morning I got up and I was standing in my bathroom. I felt a hand on my shoulder. I thought for sure it was my wife and I turned to find nothing. At the same time my wife was down in the kitchen preparing breakfast. She said that she was sure that I walked into the kitchen, went to the refrigerator, opened it up, took something out, and vanished. Of course as I already stated I was upstairs in the bathroom being touched on the shoulder.
One of the more strange events we had was when one night we woke up to a “Yelp”, no other way to describe it, and a voice telling us that we had left the on heat downstairs. Well, the house has central heating and so therefore it doesn’t matter where you leave the heat on it just maintains temperature so the comment made no sense. The next morning we got up, went downstairs, and found a burn spot on the floor. It was a perfect circle and the first thing my wife said was that it must be an indoor crop circle. It is still there today for anyone that cares to see it.
One afternoon we were taking care of our granddaughter when I heard some giggling coming from the living room. Thinking that my wife was playing with our granddaughter I went to see what was going on. As I came into the room my wife also came in from the side door. We found our granddaughter rolling on the floor laughing and giggling away. When we asked her who she was playing with she responded with the nice old lady with the white hair.
Benjamin, Benji for short, is our Labrador. We often find him in the living room staring at an old rocker that came with the house. Sometimes the chair rocks all by itself. Benji just stares at that old rocker for hours at a time. He will curl up at the foot of it and sleep. My wife said that one afternoon she came into the room and saw Benji’s fur moving like someone was petting him. She grabbed her phone to capture it, but it stopped before she could get set up.
All of the hunting’s with this house seem pretty benign and we have never ever felt any kind of malevolent behavior. I have done a lot of research on the house and I can’t find anything that would indicate that someone had even died in this place. My guess is that a former owner just doesn’t want to leave. – Ray Owens
I love ghost stories like this one. They are what I think ghost stories should be all about. Ghosts get so much bad publicity that it is nice to hear about one that is just strange. Thank you Ray!
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