1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,220 You have been led to believe that everything you have experienced isn't real, that there's 2 00:00:10,220 --> 00:00:11,220 an explanation. 3 00:00:11,220 --> 00:00:14,220 But what if they're wrong? 4 00:00:14,220 --> 00:00:18,920 What if something reached out to you from beyond? 5 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,560 Let me tell your true stories. 6 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:31,480 Let me tell them until they all believe. 7 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:32,920 Hi everyone. 8 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:37,240 Welcome to Paranormal, Supernatural, True Stories. 9 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,200 This is our first podcast and it is called The Haunted Spirit. 10 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:45,600 This story is my own and we experienced this in the late 90s. 11 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:50,840 But before we get into the story, since this is the first podcast, I'd like to explain 12 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:55,200 13 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:01,080 14 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,320 15 00:01:05,320 --> 00:01:10,720 16 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:14,600 So send those stories no matter the length. 17 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:18,480 Also for Patreons, there will be random bonus episodes. 18 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:24,080 These episodes will have listener questions and answers, listener ideas, and I'll throw 19 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,840 a couple short stories in there as well. 20 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:29,320 I invite you to sign up on Patreon. 21 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:34,760 Let's build a community for ourselves where we can discuss our thoughts and even our fears. 22 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:40,200 Don't forget, if you have an experience you would like to share, send it to My True Story 23 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,400 at myyahoo.com. 24 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,920 I want to thank you for spending your time with me today and hope you enjoy your visit. 25 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:55,080 Okay, well let's get moving with Season 1, Episode 1, The Haunted Spirit. 26 00:01:55,080 --> 00:02:00,520 There's a darkness in this story and I really feel like it belongs to a little girl named 27 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,440 Alice, more than it ever belonged to me. 28 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:10,880 She was the target of malevolence and I truly feel like her story needs to be told, at least 29 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,620 a little bit about it that I know. 30 00:02:13,620 --> 00:02:21,000 The year was 1997, I at 29 and my husband at 43 lived with my daughter who was around 31 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:22,000 4 years old. 32 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,280 We bought a house together in December of 1997. 33 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:30,880 It was an older house built in the 30s but in beautiful condition and it sat in the middle 34 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:32,600 of 7 acres. 35 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:38,040 It was located in the rural area of Bullskin Township outside of Connellville, Pennsylvania. 36 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:43,200 It was perfect for my horses, dogs, and my family to enjoy. 37 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,240 The house was about 90 feet by about 30 feet wide. 38 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:51,360 It had no basement but it did have two separate attic spaces at each end of the house, each 39 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:53,560 with a pull down ladder for access. 40 00:02:53,560 --> 00:03:00,520 There were 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, laundry room, living area, 8 foot fireplace, kitchen, 41 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:02,440 office, and dining room. 42 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,600 I was in love with this house. 43 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:10,920 It needed a little painting and basic upkeep as it had sat empty for many years. 44 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:14,560 I would go there in the evenings alone to paint. 45 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,880 It would be dark when I got there to paint as it was winter here in Pennsylvania. 46 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:23,160 But I was so excited it didn't bother me in the least to be there alone at night. 47 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,440 At least not at first. 48 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:31,160 After a while I started hearing noises, screeches, and light taps. 49 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:37,660 I figured it being winter and an unfamiliar house but I had no worries and I refused to 50 00:03:37,660 --> 00:03:40,240 let my imagination run wild. 51 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,520 I would turn up the music, continue my work. 52 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:49,080 After all, I never got a bad or weird vibe from this house and I couldn't wait to move 53 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:50,080 in. 54 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:55,480 Plus, if there were spirits then surely we could share the space in peace, right? 55 00:03:55,480 --> 00:04:00,080 I was in the third bedroom painting when I noticed something on the wall across the room. 56 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:06,720 From my position it resembled mold as I approached the spot on the wall it took shape. 57 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:13,560 It looked very much like a woman's head portrait, long curls coming from under a fancy hat, 58 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,760 like Victorian era style. 59 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:21,720 I stood back and stared at it and was just in awe at how very cool this was and could 60 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,640 not believe that I had not noticed this before. 61 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:30,180 It wasn't a very detailed type of thing but the shape I described was there and everyone 62 00:04:30,180 --> 00:04:32,760 I showed the picture to agreed with me. 63 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:35,080 They all definitely saw the fancy lady. 64 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:42,400 I actually hesitated to paint over it but I eventually did. 65 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:48,400 After about a week of painting for the few hours a day I could, I began to feel very 66 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,080 uneasy being there alone. 67 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:58,120 I felt as though I was being watched, very closely watched. 68 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:03,740 That crawling feeling on the back of your neck warning you of danger and turning up 69 00:05:03,740 --> 00:05:06,080 the music was not helping. 70 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:10,760 I thought putting up curtains would ease that feeling but it did not. 71 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:16,940 Kept telling myself stop watching scary movies or it's just your imagination and those things 72 00:05:16,940 --> 00:05:19,960 would comfort me, temporarily. 73 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:25,640 Sometimes I would drop everything I was doing and leave for no reason other than the intense 74 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,440 feeling that I needed to leave. 75 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:37,200 From then until about four years later when I left I never felt alone in that house. 76 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:42,520 I guess I got used to the feeling and the events to follow didn't bother me near as 77 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,640 much as they should have. 78 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,720 Eventually I finished all the painting and we all moved in. 79 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:54,000 Happy to have a beautiful home, forgetting the silly feelings of being watched now that 80 00:05:54,000 --> 00:06:00,440 we had furniture and daily chores and our lives to live in our beautiful home. 81 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:05,200 Then items began to go missing, mostly salt shakers. 82 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:09,360 I would buy new ones and away they would go, gone. 83 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:15,360 I questioned my daughter a few times but she said no, she was sure she didn't take them 84 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:20,360 or misplace them and swore she had no idea where they were. 85 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:24,600 Years later I found all of them hidden behind my dresser. 86 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:32,040 I suppose we could blame my daughter but I honestly believed her when I questioned her. 87 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:36,960 I was making my daughter a treat to take to her Bible school for all of the kids and I 88 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:43,480 turned around and the spatula I was just using was gone, nowhere to be seen. 89 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:48,360 I opened the dishwasher to see if I had placed it in there and when I leaned back up to the 90 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:54,280 sink there it was, right where I knew I'd put it a minute ago. 91 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:58,840 Cupboards and closets would be opened in the mornings, lights throughout the house would 92 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:05,560 be randomly turned on or off to the point we thought we might have electrical issues 93 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,640 but we had the electrical inspection and nothing was wrong. 94 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:11,640 There were strange noises in the hallway. 95 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:18,600 It was like you could almost hear whispering in the closet and the more you listened the 96 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:24,280 fainter it would get but if you just walked past it you would swear someone was talking 97 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,280 in there. 98 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:31,520 Doors throughout the house were open, were closed, on their own. 99 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:36,320 My husband would blame me for shutting the laundry door but I never did. 100 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:41,880 I knew it should remain open because of the dampness and it needed air circulation. 101 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:46,920 I'm positive my daughter did not open this door either and she avoided that area of the 102 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,280 house for the most part. 103 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:56,200 All very innocuous, random things that could be explained away at a sensible person's whim. 104 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,380 I know. 105 00:07:58,380 --> 00:08:02,080 Things eventually progressed past the point of explanation. 106 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:09,000 I would say that within a year I was to the point of actually witnessing events both visually 107 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,600 and audibly. 108 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:17,000 And not just me and my daughter but sometime later, around two years into it, my husband, 109 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:22,440 my science-minded husband who had no time for this type of thing. 110 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,680 My husband had a very top-secret government job. 111 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,740 To this day I could not tell you what he did. 112 00:08:28,740 --> 00:08:33,160 He would tell me that he did quality control but never details. 113 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:38,840 His security level required me to actually pass a certain level of clearance and I would 114 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,240 fill out a yearly questionnaire. 115 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:46,640 I'm just trying to establish that my husband was a no-nonsense type of guy and he couldn't 116 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:51,200 believe some of the things he would end up witnessing. 117 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:56,400 My daughter attended all-day kindergarten at the local elementary school and I preferred 118 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,920 to shower right before she got home. 119 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:03,080 I always turned the shower on before I would get into it so that it was nice and steamy 120 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,080 when I finally stepped in. 121 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,080 This day is no different. 122 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:13,800 I steamed up the bathroom, showered, and when I stepped out I instantly noticed a smiley 123 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:18,360 face drawn on the steam in my bathroom mirror. 124 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:24,240 This was not here when I got in the shower and I was home alone. 125 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:29,240 It even had the drip marks running down the mirror that a finger would have left as if 126 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:32,720 it had happened a second before I saw it. 127 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:40,280 There I stood in my bathroom naked and staring at a smiley face all alone. 128 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:46,920 I don't know how long I stood there just trying to reason it in my head but finally I just 129 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:51,520 said, well, I guess it could be a lot worse than a smiley face. 130 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:56,320 I told my husband about it and he laughed, he said shortly someone drew it there before 131 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,320 you saw it. 132 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:04,080 Keep in mind that there were always strange noises and light tappings in the house. 133 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:08,480 We all got so used to it we never could figure out exactly where these sounds were coming 134 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:09,480 from. 135 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,200 My husband always said it was the house settling. 136 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:16,960 Okay, I thought, that's likely. 137 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:22,160 Our bathroom had a his and hers sink along with matching mirrors above the sink and directly 138 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:26,640 behind you, you would find his and her towel racks. 139 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:31,200 My husband liked his racks to be hung perfectly and not crooked or balled up and he would 140 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,160 tease me about this. 141 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:38,520 So one night after washing my face, I straightened my towels behind me and turned to the mirror 142 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:43,600 and behind me I could see the towels I had just straightened were all askew. 143 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:50,920 It had happened so fast and chilled me so much that I ran to my bed and covered my head 144 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,320 like a child. 145 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:59,400 I lay there trying to calm myself when I could feel something near my head outside of the 146 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:05,760 blindsuit and it whispered rather loudly, help me. 147 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:08,520 I was instantly paralyzed with fear. 148 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:10,400 I could not speak or move. 149 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:15,700 I think if it would have said something else, I might have died from fright. 150 00:11:15,700 --> 00:11:21,160 My husband lay about two feet away from me and yet I was helpless to cry out. 151 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:26,900 I don't know how long I lay there, but eventually I fell asleep. 152 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:32,360 My daughter's bedroom was a little girl's dream, brand new white pine furniture, tons 153 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:36,500 of stuffed animals and of course a closet full of toys. 154 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:42,920 She always had an interest in music and so she had a lot of musical toys and instruments. 155 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:47,720 Sometimes she would tell me that she heard her toys playing in her closet at night. 156 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:49,880 I had heard them too. 157 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:55,840 I told her that electronic toys did that sometimes and to just go ahead and ignore that. 158 00:11:55,840 --> 00:12:00,240 Eventually she complained about it enough that I removed the batteries so that she wouldn't 159 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,720 be so afraid and could get some sleep. 160 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:08,800 But of course they would continue even without batteries. 161 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,480 I just wasn't sure what to do. 162 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:17,240 I tried to reassure her, best I could, that she was always afraid at night and would cover 163 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,600 her little head to go to sleep. 164 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:26,940 I would often feel much relief for her when she would go to her dad's house for the weekend. 165 00:12:26,940 --> 00:12:32,400 The back field area behind our house was like kind of a mowed maze. 166 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:38,240 I was clearing it out bit by bit for my horses, but at that time it was like a winding mowed 167 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:39,780 pathway. 168 00:12:39,780 --> 00:12:43,680 My daughter was out there playing one day when she said she saw a little girl in a white 169 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:46,360 dress walking through the maze. 170 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:53,960 My head was spinning, but I said, oh, oh well, it's likely a neighbor or someone else will 171 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:54,960 walk. 172 00:12:54,960 --> 00:13:02,120 Now come the events that weren't so explainable, or even funny anymore, even to my husband. 173 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:05,280 This is about two and a half years into our lives there. 174 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:07,960 My daughter is now around six. 175 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:13,600 Our laundry room was nearly directly below the rear attic access. 176 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:15,560 I had been up there a few times. 177 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:19,920 There was so much stuff up there and I loved going through it. 178 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:25,480 These were things that were left there from many years ago by people I had never met. 179 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:26,680 Antiques. 180 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:28,680 Letters from World War II. 181 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:32,560 Beautiful old dishes, pictures, newspaper clippings. 182 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:36,960 It was like a little treasure trove and I had fun looking through it. 183 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:40,160 I did not have fun being up there though. 184 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,560 It was somehow oppressive up there. 185 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:46,920 Like I always felt like I shouldn't be there. 186 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:49,760 I felt rushed to leave every time. 187 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:51,280 I would start sweating. 188 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,760 I would get thirsty and even lightheaded. 189 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:58,760 Eventually I quit going up there and I left everything up there when I moved. 190 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:04,280 One day I was standing directly below the access to this attic contemplating going up 191 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:11,640 there once more when suddenly there was a deafening pounding above me and I mean to 192 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:19,560 say that this seemed amplified somehow as the intensity of this knocked me to the floor. 193 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:23,120 I covered my head and I lay there curled in a ball. 194 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:29,720 It was silent now and any thoughts of going up there were gone forever. 195 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:35,640 My husband usually called me on his lunch break to check in, say hello. 196 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:40,680 On this day he was sounding weird and hesitant and finally said, I have something to tell 197 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:41,680 you. 198 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:47,160 I was instantly worried that something had happened to a family member but he said that 199 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:53,040 when his alarm went off that morning he turned to go to the bathroom and there was a 200 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:55,680 man in our room. 201 00:14:55,680 --> 00:15:01,960 The man as he described him was dressed in an old time looking sea captain's uniform 202 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:07,280 like the captain from the movie Titanic with the golden buttons. 203 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:11,040 He said he was older with a white beard and large hands. 204 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:16,520 He said the man was looking at him and talking, motioning expressively with his hands as people 205 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,320 do when they're excited about something. 206 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:24,560 My husband said for all the talking he was doing he could hear no sound from his mouth, 207 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:29,960 just lips and jaw moving, hands motioning and eyes excited. 208 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:35,520 My husband took a step towards this man and the man moved opposingly. 209 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:42,160 He said that every action that he could make the man would make an opposite action. 210 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:46,760 Finally my husband made it to the other side of the room near the bathroom door and the 211 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:53,280 captain was now on the opposite side of the room near his side of the bed still talking 212 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:55,400 and still no sound. 213 00:15:55,400 --> 00:16:00,660 My husband said he sensed like an urgency from this man but he could never figure out 214 00:16:00,660 --> 00:16:06,360 what it was about and then the man faded away. 215 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:12,780 When my husband finished his story my first thought was you left me home alone with some 216 00:16:12,780 --> 00:16:15,580 random captain ghost. 217 00:16:15,580 --> 00:16:21,060 He said he felt no intended harm just a sense of urgency. 218 00:16:21,060 --> 00:16:27,420 We never saw this man again but we did find out more about him and that will come later. 219 00:16:27,420 --> 00:16:34,320 After my husband's experience with the man he started seeing other things in our house. 220 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:39,000 One night he looked over at me and said you didn't see that. 221 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,480 I was confused and said see what? 222 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:49,040 He said I just saw a parade of shadows on the wall like a group of people walking through 223 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:50,920 the living room. 224 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:54,200 I had not seen this but I did believe him. 225 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:59,120 I did not laugh at him or think it was his imagination. 226 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:06,000 He regularly saw shadow figures all through the house but I never did. 227 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:11,240 The final straw for me came one night as I sat in our living room late at night alone 228 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:12,800 watching TV. 229 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:16,240 My husband and daughter were sleeping in their rooms down the hall. 230 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:21,000 The carpet in our house was fairly new and when you walked on it it would make a distinctive 231 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,240 sound especially in a quiet house. 232 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:28,480 The back area of the dining room was about 40 feet from where I was sitting and I could 233 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:32,400 hear running footsteps coming toward me. 234 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:39,280 It got louder and closer and then went past me and down the hall, saw me loudly into our 235 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:44,040 bedroom door and someone screamed my husband's name. 236 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:50,160 Directly after this I heard louder, stronger footsteps as if something large was chasing 237 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:51,760 something small. 238 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:57,880 The force that hit our bedroom door seemed so powerful I totally expected our door to 239 00:17:57,880 --> 00:17:59,920 be smashed and broken. 240 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:05,280 I sat there waiting for my husband and daughter to come and see what was happening. 241 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:06,560 Nothing. 242 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:10,760 I was just so confused as to what was going on. 243 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:16,240 I sat there for barely a minute or two and then hurried to bed, opening the door that 244 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:19,800 was perfectly fine, not even a dent. 245 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,880 This event disturbed me because I felt there was danger involved. 246 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:30,440 I wasn't sure if it was me in danger but I knew something dark, something bad, had passed 247 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:32,400 by me that night. 248 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,560 Was it the thing in the attic? 249 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:40,080 I had not mentioned much of this to my sister previously but the next day I called her in 250 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,160 tears and I told her about the night before. 251 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:48,920 I did not go into detail about everything else but I told her I was afraid and I thought 252 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:52,160 seriously about calling a church for help. 253 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:55,800 She agreed that I should feel safe in my home and that she would look into getting me help 254 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,380 as well. 255 00:18:57,380 --> 00:19:02,280 She called later that week and said Saturday she would be over with a lady that says she 256 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:04,720 can clean your house of spirits. 257 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,360 That sounded good to me. 258 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:12,080 What I didn't know then is how incredible of an experience this woman would be. 259 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:17,360 I was in a constant state of awe during her nearly seven hour visit with us. 260 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:21,440 My skeptic husband would never be the same after her visit. 261 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,760 She changed our lives. 262 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:25,160 Forever. 263 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:29,920 She introduced herself as a native spiritualist when she came through the door and immediately 264 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,160 asked us to be silent and have a seat. 265 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:34,520 And we did. 266 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:39,780 She had her eyes closed and would turn her head occasionally as if listening to something. 267 00:19:39,780 --> 00:19:43,360 It was an uncomfortably long time before she explained what was happening. 268 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:48,320 She says they are having a meeting about me and they do not want me here. 269 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:53,440 I remember kind of laughing when she said they were having a meeting but she didn't 270 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:58,520 laugh with me and she gave me a look to let me know that this was serious and this was 271 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:00,560 no laughing matter. 272 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:08,020 She said that gathering their forces or energies is not an uncommon thing among the unseen. 273 00:20:08,020 --> 00:20:10,280 She had seen this before. 274 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:15,760 She walked about her house, spending a lot of time in each room, sometimes speaking words 275 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,640 in a language I was not familiar with. 276 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:24,360 I asked my sister where did you find this lady and she said a friend of a friend. 277 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:29,640 My sister had never spoken of this lady before but took the word of her friend that this 278 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,640 was the real deal. 279 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:36,080 Okay, well we all sat there for over two hours while she walked about here and there and 280 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:43,560 revisiting areas, saying whatever her words were, making motions with her arms and hands. 281 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:48,880 We were getting very restless when finally she came to us and explained a few things. 282 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:53,480 She began with, you have a spirit of a man who used to live here. 283 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:58,520 He doesn't want to believe he has passed and he doesn't like you living here, so he steals 284 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:02,640 things, opens cupboards, turns the lights off and on. 285 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:06,120 He tries to be an annoyance thinking you might leave. 286 00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:11,360 She went on, next you have a woman, don't know where she came from but she stays in 287 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:16,040 your hallway closet, humming and doing crochet and lace work. 288 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:21,200 She does not want bothered nor does she even acknowledge you living here. 289 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,560 I interjected at this point and I said, I knew something was in that closet. 290 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:30,920 I could hear things and the lady nodded her head and said, shh, please, let me finish. 291 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:35,080 The rest of what I have to say may not be so easy. 292 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:38,200 You may ask questions and add to it when I finish. 293 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,320 The man in your bedroom is attached to your husband. 294 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,000 This man has made himself guardian of him. 295 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,480 He has been trying to warn your husband about the others. 296 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:52,480 His spirit energy is simply not strong enough to make words aloud but he tells me he has 297 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:56,280 tried and he is glad I am here. 298 00:21:56,280 --> 00:22:01,920 Next there is a little girl here, her name is Alice and she says she lived here over 299 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:05,480 a hundred years ago with her grandfather. 300 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,700 She loves playing with your daughter's toys. 301 00:22:08,700 --> 00:22:13,880 She is having a hard time communicating with me right now but I do understand that her 302 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,320 grandfather killed her. 303 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:22,160 She is in the process of abusing her. 304 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,260 She has been here ever since. 305 00:22:25,260 --> 00:22:30,740 When her grandfather finally died, he came for her but she finds ways to hide. 306 00:22:30,740 --> 00:22:36,340 She said something about becoming dim and then he cannot see her but sometimes he catches 307 00:22:36,340 --> 00:22:42,780 her unaware and chases her and when he catches her he steals what she calls her light. 308 00:22:42,780 --> 00:22:48,440 I am not positive what that means but she exists here being forever terrorized by the 309 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,960 man that murdered her. 310 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:57,600 And lastly you have a very dark, negative energy in the attic area. 311 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,400 It is best to avoid that area. 312 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,000 Alone I am not powerful enough for such a dark force. 313 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,520 It is not a demon but equally as evil. 314 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:13,080 To banish this negative energy would take a special ceremony with many people and could 315 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,040 possibly take days. 316 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,000 It's likely he will not bother you. 317 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,880 It has no interest in you. 318 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:27,980 It is content being in the attic and it does not want you up there. 319 00:23:27,980 --> 00:23:35,840 We all sat there silent, staring, just trying to process everything she said. 320 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:41,160 I mean everything she said made sense and corroborated perfectly with the events in 321 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:42,400 our home. 322 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:47,560 I asked what could be done to help Alice and she explained that Alice was more terrified 323 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,120 to leave than to stay. 324 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:53,380 And she had become attached to myself and my husband. 325 00:23:53,380 --> 00:23:58,560 She said we would have to help Alice understand that it was okay to leave. 326 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:03,720 She gave me a little prayer of sorts to say aloud every day, a few times a day at least, 327 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:09,920 and she said that eventually Alice would make her way to where she needed to be. 328 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,680 As for the horrible grandfather, she said that she put her protection on our property 329 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:20,920 from him, but it would only hold for a while, so we needed to get Alice on her way as soon 330 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:21,920 as possible. 331 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:27,240 She claimed that the old man and lady had agreed to move on and were gone forever. 332 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:32,840 The captain, she said, would never leave my husband as long as he was alive. 333 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:37,720 She said it's not uncommon for a spirit to attach itself to a human. 334 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:43,040 She said that once Alice left, then the grandfather would move on as well, leaving us with the 335 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,080 thing in the attic. 336 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:52,480 I was astounded, yet strangely still, on believing of all this, but it was just too much. 337 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:59,840 Honestly, after all the activity in our house, I found it anti-climactic almost that just 338 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:05,240 a lady came and spent the day saying words and ending all of it. 339 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:09,240 There was no drama, no books flying about or screaming. 340 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:13,240 It was a very peaceful cleansing. 341 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:18,640 This woman said a final blessing in her language, and I handed her some money, but she refused 342 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:25,320 it and said, this isn't the kind of thing that is done for money. 343 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:30,320 The next few weeks I read the little prayer aloud, being sure to say Alice's name before 344 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,040 and after. 345 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:37,240 We lived there another year or so, and it was really quiet, no more events. 346 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:42,520 I am sure that Alice finally found peace, and as for the thing in the attic, well, it 347 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:46,880 could stay there for all I cared, as long as it left us alone. 348 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:48,280 And it did. 349 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:54,920 I feel bad that Alice did not get earthly justice for the crime against her, but I do 350 00:25:54,920 --> 00:26:02,040 feel honored to have been a part of something so beautiful as helping her to move on. 351 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:08,920 The house has since been torn down, and I still wonder, what of the thing in the attic? 352 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:16,320 Is it out there somewhere, looking for a quiet place to exist? 353 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:17,600 Thanks for being here today. 354 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:23,600 I hope to see you next time on Paranormal and Supernatural True Stories. 355 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,840 Will your experience be the next one I tell? 356 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:33,520 Send all communications and stories to My True Story at MyYahu.com. 357 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:54,400 In the meantime, leave the lights on.