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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:01:33 -0800 (PST)
To: guestbook@ghosts.org
yourname Jennifer
email ImpGoddess@aol.com
Note: all names in my post have been changed to preserve privacy.
I have a friend Lana who has two daughters (ages 15 and 16). Shortly after she had her first child she moved into an apartment. As soon as she moved in she noticed a not-so-nice presence in the apartment. She would hear voices and sense things in the room with her. On a few occasions she thought she heard a woman scream in the middle of the night and a mans voice. The presences in the building began to feel more dangerous, the experiences more violent. At times her kitten would be flown across the floor after trying to run away when there appeared to be nothing there. One night she had her two friends over to watch a movie. In a time space of only a few seconds a lighter flew of the table hitting her friend across the room, the kitten was flown across the floor, her daughter throughup projectile like vomit and someone saw a shadow cross from the kitchen door across the living room and to the bedroom.
That night was finally enough for her to find out what or who the ghosts were and she asked her land lady. The land lady told her that some 70 years ago the original apartment building had burnt down killing a young couple. The husband had been an abusive drunk and constantly beat his wife.
Not long after that Lana was changing after her bath and heard the man speak into her ear, she could feel the chill of his presence against her neck. It frightened her so badly she ran downstairs with her daughter in her underwear to her friends apartment. After hearing what happened and giving Lana and her daughter blankets her friend left the room. She went into the kitchen ( I beleive she went to make tea). Lana was sitting on the couch infront of a glass mirrored table and looked down to the table. Usually a persons blurred reflection could be seen on the screen but the reflection on the tv was clearly not hers. As she stared at it two hands came up on the screen and flung themselves back and forth as if trying to keep her attention and then disapeared.
She moved out three days later.
Since then she has moved from one place to another. Her next place was a house where she and her daughters would hear footsteps every night and her own mother saw an old lady standing atop the stairs. That ghost was never violent.
They moved to several different houses before moving to the one they are in now which is actually an apartment. They are located in Downtown Annapolis. You can actually see Hell's Point from her apartment. Once again there are ghosts occupying her home. She has seen a young girl kneeling on her floor in the middle of the night who vanished into no where. Her daughter has heard screams coming from upstairs. Thier cats and dog will simultaneously watch something walk across the room when nothing is there. Often they hear footsteps and children laughing in the hall way.
i wonder if it is just coincidence that ghosts seem to flock to Lana......