IS THIS HOUSE HAUNTED???
by Robyn Ryan
  I've given a lot of thought wondering if  this house could be haunted by the spirits of those that lived here long ago, and the only answer I can think of is that it most likely is, or at least at one time was haunted.  When my family moved in to the house, I was only two years old.  It is really the first home I can remember, and so many strange things happened there that even at my young age, I knew what the word "Ghost" meant.
  My mother says that she was uncomfortable in some areas of the house, the sewing room and the front stair way in particular.  I too was eerie on the stairway some times late at night.  My parents had some friends over a few nights that I remember and were using a ouija board.  I was told to go upstairs to my room and leave the adults be, but I sat on the stairs listening out of sight as much as I could.  There were many unexplained feelings that went with the house, and the occasional strange sound that just didn't seem to have any logical explanation.
  The door to my sisters room that lead into the back stairs would come open by itself at night, strange cold spots would be noticed, and I swear I saw something walking up the stairs one night that wasn't one of my family members.  My mom stated that when we moved in the house was basically stripped of anything of value by the previous owners.  It was a shambles.  She said that once they started restoring the house to an "1800's" appearance, the unexplained activities settled down quite a bit.  I think that the spirits were happy to have the home looking more like it should, and that they just wanted it to be "Home" again.
   I was a very rebellious child in my younger years, doing things that I shouldn't do like putting postage stamps on the stove, trying to make french fries by myself (my mom found a bag of potatoes that had been partially cut up with salt poured in it and the knife still in the bag. Amazingly, I didn't get cut at all doing this, and I think I was only 3 or 4 years old at the time.)  and "Painting" the bathroom fixtures with brown shoe polish.  Whenever I got caught, I would blame "The Invisable Ghost"  but honestly, I don't remember doing these things, or why I did them.... maybe the "Invisable Ghost" really did make me do it.
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