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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:40:32 -0700 (PDT)
To: guestbook@ghosts.org
email Rgarcia@pbnec.com
story My girlfriend and I live in downtown Sacramento..The house is an old Victorian duplex.Our home is the only occupied residence on our whole block. Although there are 2 more houses next door,they have remained vacant since we have been residing here. As a matter of fact, 2 yrs ago our landlords had beautifully renovated the Victorian house nextdoor but never moved in. On the other side of our landlords empty house is a cute Swedish style duplex that seems as though the renovation process was suddenly halted.The exterior was completed but the interior has cabinets, plumbing, and windows yet to be installed. It too has been vacant for years.The owners/renovators seem to have left one day and never returned. Directly behind our home and the other 2 structures is another empty lot.
Other than the many upstairs neighbors that have come and gone, my girlfriend and I are the only 2 people on our block.
The ghostly incidents began with the disappearances of our silverware, namely the forks. One by one our forks were disappearing until one day we realized that we only had 2 forks left. For a while we were pretty much content with only 2 forks until one day, while I searching for something that may have fallen behind one of our kitchen drawers, we came found a neat pile of about 2 dozen forks, all of a different pattern. It was obvious that some of the forks were antique and the others contemporary, yet we found that none of our own personal set of forks amongst them. And each fork was shiney as new. I dropped them in the sink, thinking that I would examine them more closely later. Later on when I went to get them, they were gone. I ask my girlfriend where she had put the pile of forks and to my surprise, she stated that she hadn't touched them. We never saw the forks again, they just simply disappeared. Soon after purchasing a new set of silverware, our forks and spoons began disappearing again. However more recently we have been acquiring silverware that is not part of our set we have no explanation as to how we acquired them.
Another incident began occuring soon after my girlfriend began her graveyard shift at work. I am accustomed to sleeping with the room completely dark. I find it very difficult to sleep comfortably unless my room is blacked-out. So one night while getting ready to go bed, I was so extremely tired that it wasn't until I had laid down that I realized that I forgotten to turn off the light from the adjoining bathroom. I began to drag myself out to turn off the light, suddenly the light turned off on its own. I thought maybe the bulb blew out and I was grateful for not having to get up afterall. But as soon I laid back down I felt a heavy pressure at the foot of the bed. Being that my room was completely dark I didn't bother visually checking what it was. I used my foot to feel around. The moment I felt something solid (or someone) sitting there, I jumped out of bed and switched on the light closest to me, which would be that same bathroom light.
I saw nothing. It wasn't until I recounting my story to my girlfriend that I realized that I had turned on the same light in the bathroom that I had initially thought had burnt out! This presence began appearing nightly, sometimes the presence would sit at the foot of my bed, sometimes it would lay right along side of me. Each time it came on to the bed really slowly, and would actually add enough pressure on the bed to make it creak. Sometimes this presence would stroke my hair. This usually occurred when I was at my most exhausted and the hair strokes were more soothing than frightening. At one particular incident I was awakened by a womans voice. I don't know what was said, only that it was said in a husky-voiced whisper and that it was spoken into my ear and not at a distance. On another occasion while I was waiting around to pick up my girlfriend from work, I heard what sounded like an "oooh" sound coming from another room. I went into the room that I thought I heard it come from and as I entered the room I heard the same "oooh" coming from the room I had just exited. Curiosity got to me and I began following this "oooh" sound from room to room. At this point even my cats became aware of it.It seemed the "oooh" sound was having me chase it around the house until it finally just stopped. I stood there wondering what it could of been when all of the sudden the "oooh" sound was spoken directly into my ear.
I grabbed my keys, ran out of the house without bothering to look back at what it was. I was so spooked that I tears running down my cheeks when I arrived at my girlfriends work site. I don't even remember getting in the car or even driving. But upon arriving back at the house I had no problem going back in.
We also have many times seen dark person-shaped thing peeking in doorways throughout the house.This dark thing seems to be leaning over to look into the room we are in and suddenly disappears. Almost as though its playing Hide and Seek.
One evening I woke up in the middle of the night found that the door frame to our closet was dripping with water. We asked the neighbor upstairs to check to see if something in his apartment was overflooded .He checked and found nothing. This happened on more than one occasion and it seemed that only the inner doorframe of that particular closet would leak.
One day we decided to rip out the carpet in the family room and refinish the wooden floor underneath. About two days later after the lacquer was completely dry, my girlfriend noticed a hand print and a barefoot print in the wood, not the lacquer but embedded in the solid wood itself. The prints are too small for them to be either one of ours.
Our entryway leading to the front family room has at times both disturbed and entertained our cats and dogs. The cats can sit at footboard for long periods looking up the wall. Their heads will sway back and forth as if they are intensely watching something. At times we have even noticed them pawing at the wall.
Our dog on the other hand have become upset for no apparent reason while she is sitting near the same area. She will bark,whimper and scratch continously at the wall.
Recently we brought home a 6 week old puppy. We decided to let him have the run of the house for awhile so as to let him get used to his new home.
He was perfectly fine running around and exploring various areas of the house until he happened upon the same area that disturbs the other dog. He immediately began barking and sratching essently.
After visiting a local museum here were inspired to start digging around our own yard, assuming that our old Victorian home must have some good worthy history buried in its lot. What turned up was what looked like a human hip bone. We were in the midst of deciding who to call in this situation and decided to dwell on it a couple of days until we made a final decision. We have not been able to locate the hip bone since.
We have tried looking in the local registry, so that we may be able to find some kind of history to this house, but according to the registry, this house, the other two houses and and this entire block DO NOT EXIST. The registry boundries and addresses stop at the neighborhood behind us. Although we have experienced many strange and unusual occurances we have not yet become totally frightened enough to leave. Whatever is in the house doesn't seem to want to hurt us. We are interested to hear from others that have had similiar encounters. We have many many questions. We are also curious as to whether the ghosts ever showed themselves or if the encounters ever became harmful and/or violent. We do plan to move back home to our home city in a month, because of family obligations not because of the spooks.
We are wondering if this will pose a problem, because I'm sure our ghosts are as used to us as we are as used to them. Will they give us problems before leaving? Can and will they follow us? Thanks in advance.