Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 19:27:41 -0700 (PDT)
To: stories@ghosts.org
yourname Tiffany
email Tiffanybe20@aol.com
Location: Mustang Ridge, Texas, USA
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Well, I'm not sure exactly where to start...I guess I should start by telling you my age. I am 19 years old...all of this began about the time I was 12. My family (mom, dad, and I) were living in Austin, Texas. We decided to move to Mustang Ridge, Texas (a little bitty town between Austin & Lockhart). We moved into a house on 5 acres of property. We were only living there about a month when strange occurences began. On a regular basis, for 3 years nonstop, every night, I would wake up around 2am, feeling like someone was standing in my room watching me. I could feel where this person was standing. It seemed to be the aura of a very tall husky man. It always seemed that he was standing at the foot of my bed. About 2 weeks after this first happened, other things began to occur, such as the blinds would open on their own...the tv would flip on and off...there would be knocking noises on the walls...loud popping noises on the walls...the lights in the house would flip on and off.
I can remember 2 times in particular that really scared me. I was laying in bed one night sleeping for school the next morning. I woke up around 2am hearing a loud knife sharpening noise coming from the kitchen. It sounded as if someone was sharpening a knife on a sharpening block. It continued for about 2 hours, and then stopped all of a sudden. I was too afraid to go look to see what it was. The following night, around the same time, it began again. This time, I went to the kitchen to look to see what it was. I got into teh kitchen and the noise stopped entirely. I looked around for a few minutes, but couldn't figure out where the noise had been coming from. So I went back into my room and the noise began again. This time I tried to ignore it, instead of going back into the kitchen. This went on every night for the following 2 weeks, then abruptly stopped and never occured again.
Not long following that incident, I was having a friend of mine over to stay the night. She was sleeping while I was writing a report for school. I had the light on in my room where we were at, but all the rest of the lights were off in the house. For some reason, the door of my room caught my eye, and I looked up at it...I saw light coming from under the crack in my door...it looked almost like the bathroom light was on. There was a shadow of a boot, like someone was standing outside of my door with the bathroom light on. I woke my friend up, and she walked to my door and flung it open, to find that the bathroom light was off and nobody was standing there...as a matter of fact, everyone was asleep and all the lights in the house except in my room were off.
There was one other thing that did happen on a regular basis the entire time I lived there. Every day, when I would get home from school, I would sit at my desk to do my homework. The stereo was right by my desk, so I would turn on the radio to listen to a pop station. I would sit back down at my desk, and the radio would change to some oldies station. It would do this about 5 or 6 times until it would finally stay on the station I wanted to listen to. I dealt with all of this for 3 years, from the time I was 12, until I moved out when I turned 16. My mom and stepdad still live in that house though.
I have been out there a couple of times since I moved, but have only stayed the night out there 2 times. On the first occasion, myself and my ex boyfriend stayed out there. My parents went to sleep and my boyfriend was in the shower. I was in the kitchen cutting a Tylenol in half when it felt really strong like someone had walked into the kitchen with me. I automatically turned around assuming my mom had woken up, and that it was her. But when I turned around, no one was there. The second night I stayed there, nothing happened while I was there, but the following night, my mother told me that something very strange occured. It was Christmas night, of 1999 (just a few months ago). She said that the dog started barking at howling at about 3am. So, she thought it had to go to the bathroom, and she walked into the living room to open the door and let it outside. My mom has a Miss Santa Claus that was sitting in the living room on a shelf. When you turn it on, it starts clanging the symbols together, making a sharp noise (I had to tell that detail, because it is relevant to what happened). She said that when she walked into the living room, the dog stopped about halfway between her bedroom and the Miss Claus doll, and sat down and started howling. At that moment, Miss Claus started clanging the symbols together. My mom said that she turned the doll off, and it kept on clanging. She said it would nto turn off, even though she tried to turn it off at least 3 times. So, she finally unplugged it, and that turned it off. Also, her dog, (mentioned earlier), won't go in either of the rooms taht used to be mine while I was living there. The dog will go to the doors of the rooms and just stand there and howl, and then run back across teh house into my mother's bedroom. I am not sure what is going on in this house, what it is, or isn't. If anybody knows anything about this area where my mom's house is, I'm sure it would help at least a little.
Obiwan notes: Some mildly bizarre stuff going on in this house. If it's a ghost, it's a coy one. The behavior of the dog perhaps indicates some sort of geologically-generated energy field. In this case it sounds more likely that anything else.