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From: Greeney, Susan (SGREENEY@gmgw.com)
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Haunted Flat
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 12:39PM
I have had many "ghostly" experiences through the years and I can honestly say that none of them were malevolent. The scariest thing about them was knowing someone else was there that you couldn't see.
Years ago my husband and I moved into an upper flat on Lucille Avenue in Elgin, Illinois. From the moment we moved in we felt like we were being watched by someone sitting in the gold chair in the livingroom (it came with the apartment). I would move the chair around the room and we still felt someone watching us from that chair!!! It was nerve wracking to say the least. I was pregnant at the time and was home during the day when my husband was working. One day I heard what sounded like an elderly woman's voice calling my name from the back bedroom in the apartment...I turned the TV up louder so I couldn't hear it. On another occasion I was talking to a friend on the phone when we heard a click, I told her someone was on her other phone listening to us...she said "I do not have another phone"...I put the phone down and walked down the hall (we had 3 phones) and checked the extra bedroom phone, it was on the hook...then I checked the phone in the master bedroom..the phone handset was laying on the bed!!!! I told my husband that the apartment was haunted and he told me I was imagining things. Two nights later he woke me up in the middle of the night and yelled for me to turn on the lights..he said someone was sitting on his side of the bed. I turned the lights on and looked, no one was there but there was an indentation on the bed. We lived on the 2nd floor and the bed was pushed up against the wall so no one could fit in that space to sit down. We started having marriage problems shortly after that, and our wedding picture would not stand upright on the TV, everytime I walked out of the room and came back in, our picture was laying face down on the TV. I checked the frame and hinge that held the stand, and it was fine. The picture would stand up til I left the room then be lying down when I returned.
On another occasion, I had gone to bed waiting for my husband to return home from work, when I heard the front door open and close, footsteps coming up the stairs, the closet opening and someone pulling on a hanger, then walking into the livingroom and plopping down on a bean bag chair (unmistakable sound!) I wondered why he hadn't come in the bedroom and I went to the livingroom to find everything dark...no car in the driveway, no coat in the closet, no one sitting in the beanbag chair..I was there alone!!!! We moved out shortly later. A little footnote: I found out later on, the same time the wedding picture started falling on the TV, my husband had started having an affair with a woman he was working with. I feel somehow that my invisible guests were trying to let me know.
I have many more experiences to share....later on!!!!