Strange Happenings
by Victoria Rife
My husband’s grandparents live in a house they believe is haunted. Everyone in the family has experienced one thing or another and they have plenty of stories to share. I will tell a few of their personal stories in order to share my own.
My grandma-in-law was woken up in the morning by my grandpa-in-law. Her back was to him but she felt him roll out of bed, get up, and heard him walk into the bathroom. She tried unsuccessfully to go back to sleep and eventually got up to go into the bathroom herself, wondering what was taking her husband so long. But when she got in there he was nowhere to be seen. Confused, she called him and he proceeded to tell her that he had left very, very early that morning and hadn’t been in the house for a few hours. No one else was in the home.
My aunt-in-law was in her closet sorting clothes with her back to the doorway and her front facing the back of the closet. She saw the shadow of someone standing in the closet doorway so she turned around to see who it was but there was no one around.
My uncle-in-law was in the living room watching tv when a picture flew off the wall and crashed to the floor. I tried to ask him if it simply fell but he was very adamant that it flew off the wall.
My mother-in-law and father-in-law were spending the night in the house when my husband was a baby – they were the only ones in the house that night. My mother-in-law decided to go to bed with the baby but she kept waking up to the sound of my father-in-law pacing the hallway. Worried that he would wake the baby, she got up and told him to stop but found him in the living room watching tv. He said he had been sitting there the whole time and never went into the hallway.
My husband and I stopped by to see his grandparents but they weren’t home. We didn’t want to stop by unannounced so we went inside to leave them a note. When we got in the dogs greeted us at the door and they were friendly. As we started to write the note though one of them became seriously agitated. Their dog, Hank, began to bark savagely and it wasn’t a “hey, get out of my house” or “there’s a squirrel!” bark, it was more of a threatening “I’m going to kill you” bark. This dog knows us very well so it’s not like we were strangers coming into his house threatening his domain. My husband tried to calm him down but he continued to bark and growl as if he were plain mad. But I noticed he wasn’t even looking at us – he was looking behind and beyond us. I told my husband, “look at Hank. He’s not barking at us. He’s barking at something else.”
It was extremely eerie and it made my hair stand up because this dog saw something we did not. At that moment the tv switched on and we got the hell out of there.
Whoa! Awesome story, thanks Victoria! Any interesting history to the house or it’s previous owners?
KGhost Internet Radio showed me your site off of it’s web page. Pretty interesting stuff you have there…but I would do away with the WTF designation as it violates FCC Regulations on the use of profanity in printed media (I think?). Besides, we are all intelligent adults and we do not want to discount any of the information presented by utilizing letters that denote use of profanity; kind of illustrates the ignorance of those who seem to think this falls under Free Speech provisions. Fact is, it actually shows the public just how ignorant and senseless the writer is in needing to use the letters WTF to derive a point that could otherwise be said by some other verbiage. Know what I mean? Besides the age of some readers are under 18 years of age and causes them to ask what those letters mean..not intended for minors to be educated on. Correct? Let’s be professional in your dealings — what do you think?
Great story Victoria. I look forward to reading whatever else you have!
Mr. Johansen…
I’m almost without speech. Almost. I’ve responded to your emails and comments. Lets no longer spam up Victorias stories with this negativity.
http://thebeyond.info/articles/2009/05/28/questions-feedback-wtf/
I didn’t say “what the fuck” or “wtf”. Never once did I say “wtf” in my story because I find the letters “wtf” absolutely aggravating and whenever I hear a 14 year-old girl say it around me it makes me cringe. It was FILED under “wtf?”. One thing I do find hilarious though is the simple fact that YOU said it twice on this page! LOL!
I find murders, rapes, abduction, pedophiles, starvation, and poverty ignorant, offensive and senseless – not a WORD. We’re all adults here, like you said, and should be mature enough to not be idiots. We should comment on the validity and content rather than the grammar, how it is filed, or if it contains a swear word. If you want to find something idiotic and senseless then look at how many people are starving throughout the world while we throw out food, look at how many young girls are sold as sex slaves in other countries while we do nothing, look at how many rapes go unreported simply because the woman is too afraid to admit it, look at how many murders go unsolved because we won’t fund the hiring of more detectives and police officers, look at how many pedophiles live near you. But a swear word? No, we have more important battles to fight and any adult is mature enough to see that.
To Red: I honestly don’t remember. Next time I see my husband’s grandparents I will make it a point to ask them. But I do know that some of the houses on their road have paranormal activity too – one quite a bit. I have also heard that the county they live in is one of the most active counties in our area (although I heard that from a friend of a friend and not a reliable source). It would be my personal recommendation that you guys do some research in the area because there seems to be a lot going on.
Check ‘Science of Ghost’ or ‘2009 Your True Tales’ websites – there are some interesting stories.