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<blockquote data-quote="Darth Shoju" data-source="post: 1012870" data-attributes="member: 11397"><p>Hmm...I'm afraid I don't really have much to contribute on par with the black-eyed kids or dave-o's stuff, but I guess I'll toss it in. I grew up on a farm that was established at the turn of the century (the barn eventually went up in 1921) and before that there had been trappers and stuff living in the woods seasonally. The people who established the farm, before the built the main house, lived in a cabin in a bush-that I used to play in a lot <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> -about 100' from where the main house is now. The father of the family had a brother who lived with them and "wasn't quite right" by legend (what this means I have no idea as no one around there can or will say much more than that). Apparently he used to have some sort of fits during which they'd lock him in a side room until they were done. Well, one night he ended up dying from one of those fits somehow.</p><p></p><p>Now, all throughout my life at the main farmhouse (the cabin was nothing more than a vague depression and some old wood out in the bush) things allways had a tendency to go missing. Usually if you put some little thing down (tv remote, keys, wallet, etc) it wouldn't be where you left it, so you'd search high and low only to find it again, often not far from where you'd leave it. My parents always jokingly said that "Geordie, the ghost in the attic" was doing it (Geordie was the man who established the homestead) I never really believed them, always just chalking it up to forgetfullness. That, and they never actually told me the part about Geordie's wacko brother who died until I was like 20 ( I moved out when I was 17), so I had no reason to suspect a ghost of anyone. Well, when I finally did hear the story I viewed those disappearances quite differntly. I also started recalling other strange stuff that happened in that house that I had shrugged off.</p><p></p><p>One of the creepiest was when I was a kid, I shared a bedroom with my little sister (we had bunk beds). Our room was on the main floor, and had a window that faced the woods that contained the aforementioned cabin across the yard (although we didn't know that at the time). In front of those woods was my dad's machine shed, and he had a tendancy to leave a radio on in there all day and night at times (he'd just forget to turn it off). I remember often I'd be lying in my bed trying to sleep and hear very faint voices that seemed to be coming from outside. My sister could hear them too. We ignored them for several nights, until finally one night we called our mom in to listen. She heard the noise, but said it was just dad's radio. Well, next morning I ask if my dad left the radio on and he said no. I'm not certain on this, but I think one night before we headed in to the house I made sure that radio was off, but heard the sounds again. I dunno how I got to sleep but I guess I wrote it off somehow. A couple years later when I was older I moved into my own room and my sister stayed in that room. I remember her being terrified to sleep in there, as she kept saying she was afraid someone was going to come in from outside to get her. </p><p></p><p>That house was also bad to be in alone. Regardless of the time of day, if you were in the basement you could occasionally hear someone walking upstairs. Now, we had cats in the house, but the floors weren't <em>that</em> creeky. Also, you'd occasionally get the most paranoid, nervous feeling you were being watched. </p><p></p><p>Heh, I know, not the most terrifying experiences, but that's one of the main ones. This post is getting pretty long so I'm gonna write the rest up in a new one. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Darth Shoju, post: 1012870, member: 11397"] Hmm...I'm afraid I don't really have much to contribute on par with the black-eyed kids or dave-o's stuff, but I guess I'll toss it in. I grew up on a farm that was established at the turn of the century (the barn eventually went up in 1921) and before that there had been trappers and stuff living in the woods seasonally. The people who established the farm, before the built the main house, lived in a cabin in a bush-that I used to play in a lot :( -about 100' from where the main house is now. The father of the family had a brother who lived with them and "wasn't quite right" by legend (what this means I have no idea as no one around there can or will say much more than that). Apparently he used to have some sort of fits during which they'd lock him in a side room until they were done. Well, one night he ended up dying from one of those fits somehow. Now, all throughout my life at the main farmhouse (the cabin was nothing more than a vague depression and some old wood out in the bush) things allways had a tendency to go missing. Usually if you put some little thing down (tv remote, keys, wallet, etc) it wouldn't be where you left it, so you'd search high and low only to find it again, often not far from where you'd leave it. My parents always jokingly said that "Geordie, the ghost in the attic" was doing it (Geordie was the man who established the homestead) I never really believed them, always just chalking it up to forgetfullness. That, and they never actually told me the part about Geordie's wacko brother who died until I was like 20 ( I moved out when I was 17), so I had no reason to suspect a ghost of anyone. Well, when I finally did hear the story I viewed those disappearances quite differntly. I also started recalling other strange stuff that happened in that house that I had shrugged off. One of the creepiest was when I was a kid, I shared a bedroom with my little sister (we had bunk beds). Our room was on the main floor, and had a window that faced the woods that contained the aforementioned cabin across the yard (although we didn't know that at the time). In front of those woods was my dad's machine shed, and he had a tendancy to leave a radio on in there all day and night at times (he'd just forget to turn it off). I remember often I'd be lying in my bed trying to sleep and hear very faint voices that seemed to be coming from outside. My sister could hear them too. We ignored them for several nights, until finally one night we called our mom in to listen. She heard the noise, but said it was just dad's radio. Well, next morning I ask if my dad left the radio on and he said no. I'm not certain on this, but I think one night before we headed in to the house I made sure that radio was off, but heard the sounds again. I dunno how I got to sleep but I guess I wrote it off somehow. A couple years later when I was older I moved into my own room and my sister stayed in that room. I remember her being terrified to sleep in there, as she kept saying she was afraid someone was going to come in from outside to get her. That house was also bad to be in alone. Regardless of the time of day, if you were in the basement you could occasionally hear someone walking upstairs. Now, we had cats in the house, but the floors weren't [I]that[/I] creeky. Also, you'd occasionally get the most paranoid, nervous feeling you were being watched. Heh, I know, not the most terrifying experiences, but that's one of the main ones. This post is getting pretty long so I'm gonna write the rest up in a new one. :) [/QUOTE]
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