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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 21:55:32 -0500
From: blt (blt@kdi.com)
To: Obiwan@netcom.com
Subject: ghost story 101
Sounds like you have a plethora of these but type is cheap and I got a minute..
I moved in to a little house in San Marcos Texas with a friend of mine. The landlord was a nice older man and was very helpfull about getting us moved in..We had more stuff than the space would allow and saw that there was a locked storage area beneth the house. (basements are rare in Texas due to the bedrock but this house had one) We asked if we could put some things in there but were told to stay out of the basement with no explanation. A few weeks after getting setteled in we began to hear noises from beneth the house and thinking we had a critter ie. squirls, a racoon, whathaveyou.. We called a pest control place and they said we were remarkably clear of any pests and that we didn't have any tracks or droppings from even an insect population, which is unheard of in Texas..I mean the guy said we didn't even have so much as an ant on the premises.. Well we thought this was due to an exelent cleaning crew or meticulous housekeeping but it didn't explain the noises we kept hearing.
Well on several occasions I would wake up in the middle of the night feeling like I'd had a bad dream.. but hadn't had one. And would find my roommate up as well saying he couldn't sleep.
On one occasion I woke in a half slumber and felt like there was someone in the room, standing next to the bed and I heard my name...thinking it was my roommate telling me I had a phonecall, I answered and got out of bed.. no one was there and my roommate was not even home. I mentioned it to him and he reported the same occurence but thought I was playing a joke on him.
I began locking my door at night, just to feel safe, but it backfired. I was laying in bed and again heard my name. I could hear the air-conditioner running, and it blows directly on to my bed. Only I wasn't getting the breeze. The breeze stopped as if someone were standing between the unit and my bed.
Well... I was tired of being played with, so I sat up in bed, fist raised and was prepared to give my roommate a punch in the arm.. but when I got up, the breeze hit me and no one was there.. and when I went to the door thinking my roommate had dashed off... it was locked. from the inside.
I opened it and went into the living room and my roomate wasn't even home. I called him at work and asked if he was expecting any friends over to which he replied "no".
Unable to sleep I called a friend and spent the night at her house. A few weeks passed with out incident then late one night I was awoken by someone pounding on the foot of my bed. I have a waterbed and I could feel the ripples in the mattress and hear the slap from the impact but when I sat up no one was there, and again my door was locked from inside the room.
Unable to sleep secure in my own home, I opted to move out.. and I never did get a look in the basement nor an explination for why the entire premises were bug free..
some things remain unexplained..and perhaps unrelated.. but I can sleep with the buzz of the houseflys.