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From: WEERRYT@webtv.net (R S)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: TRUE STORY
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 00:17:58 -0500 (EST)
Back in 1985 my family moved to a small town in Ohio( !was 10 at the time) and baught a large 5,000square foot Split-level house that was built in in the late 50's. The house had everything my parents could have imagined, 7bedrooms, 51/2baths, gameroom, tons of closets, and even an indoor swimming pool. Even before they bought the house they were wondering why the house was so cheap, it was in perfect condition and only on the market for 1/3 of its apprasial value. But the ispections all came back with flying colors, not an ant or rotton board in the house. So with out a second thought they bought the house.
Things were great for about the first year and a half, but then things started to happen. It was little things at first, like doors slamming lights some how turning on, tv sets going blank for a few seconds, ect. Its also about this time that my mom started to have a frightful re-acuring dream about a man watching her.
Well it was a second year in the house and the strange happens were about to take a frightful turn. It was July 4th, and my mom was alone in the Bar room located on the lower level. She was cleaning the mirros that covered the entire room, when all of the sudden my mother let out a scream that I will never forget, I ca still hear it to this day. My sister and I were at the dining room table when we hear the scream. Being 12 and 8 at the time we were horrified and took off to her. I came to the locked Bar room doors and could hear my mother crying on the other side. My heart was pounding and I was crying as I screamed for her to let me in. She quickly opened the door feel to the floor and hugged us, we were all crying, and I didnt even know why. My mother still very shaken took us outside to gazabo and telling us everything would be ok. At this point I was concsed and wondering what had happend, for she would not say. A few hours later my Father and my three brothers came home from a july 4th ball game at the park. Without seeing she (my mother) was quite shaken, he said "So are we ready to go see some fire works!". Then Mom ran up to him and started crying just like she had earlier. Then i finaly got to here what happened. She said " Iris, I seen it, I seen it, OH MY GOD I SEEN IT!". My Dad asked her "What?, seem what?", (mom) " Something /someone, it is evil I know it is". Later I would learn that while she was cleaning the mirrors she had seen soeone looking back at her, and then it sarted to smile and it just kept smiling until an evil almost laughing devilish face apeared in the mirror looking RIGHT AT HER.
Three weeks would pass before my Mom would go back into the house( she and my younger sister had been staying at my Grandparents house). I felt safe in the house because I sleeped on floor of oldest brothers room, David was 19 and out of school, and he looked out for me and made me feel very secure. I did feel alot better though when my Mom and sister came home again.
(There is SO MUCH (including some very frightful things) that happens between the time above and the time below, but inorder to fit this in a reasonable amount of room I will move ahead a few years)
Over the next two years there would be my more horrible and frightning experiences for the whole family. By this time my Grandparents had moved in with us and things finally started to calm down when the biggest traggidy of my life occured, my Brother David R. Worth drowned in our swimming pool at the age of 22. The whole family would be devistaded. This death would be followed by the death of ALL the family pets over the next 3months. Then all this would be followed by the death of my Grandmother who died late one October night. She had been ill for a long time and Doctors didn't give much hope, so we were expecting it. But as she lie there dieing with the whole family around her, she said "David is here for me" she went on it was so moving yet I cant remember everything she said, all I know is the house was PURE that day no evil could distroy our LOVE!
After Gandmas death the disturbance once again picked up, and finally after years of just letting it happen my Mother and Father started to research the house. They questioned the neighbors, but being so far from them they knew little or nothing about its history except that the house had had 12owners before my parents, this they found both strange and alarming. They went to library and got all the information and documents they could but they had nothing on them. Then onday by accident (literaly) she ran into a women who used to live in the house across the street back in the 50s. She told my mother a story about the the original owner/builder. She said the he (the 1stowner) was looking for an inexpessive way to built a grand and large house. The cheapest method he could come up with to employ cheap labor, in this case illeagle imigrants. Well construction was going fine until local athourities got word of this from building inspectors. Getting word of this in a panic he rushed to get rid of them and in the procces one of the men were somehow killed. The body believed buried somewere on the property. My partents somewhat skeptical of the story went to the library and looked through papers and sure enough the first owner of the house had been arrested ( I have forgotten what the charge was), but there was no mention of a worker who had died there.
Then finaly in 1997 my parents sold that house to a company who was going to build a mini-mall on the site. Not more than two months after it was sold they started to raze the house when a horrible discovery was made( this made national news) the body of a man was found within a small hidden area of the basement (infact the orignal plans show the space as a closet, we just never caught on to this). Now for something really scary that is the location were the bar room was! But thats not all that was found, near the garage they found two more bodies that were later identifed as men in there mid to late 30s each with a silver cross worn around the neck. This case is still under investigation with little to go on since little is known about the orignal owner who if still alive would be 95years old.
I didnt give any real detail to names or places, I was very general because my parents are currently working on a book deal, maybe even a movie. There is so much more to this story than I could possibly write here. When the book deal is set I will post again and let you all know so that you can find out the WHOLE story.
any questions just post here or e-mail me.
P.S. Please don't think to much of my spelling I don't have time to go back over it. Sorry if it causes you any problems.