THE MASON AND HIS WIFE - A USA HAUNTING
I come from the USA where I would like to tell you about a haunting.
The house where I grew up was built by my grandparents in the late 1940’s. The area was surrounded by big stately homes built in the early 1800’s. They all had private family cemeteries behind them. Just down the road was, or still is, a civil war cemetery. The whole area is creepy, complete with a mental institution, which has now been turned into a prison at the end of the road.
I remember, when you entered my house there was always a heavy feeling in the air...hard to describe, but almost like a pressure. A lot of my friends would come to spend the night only to leave and later say they were sick, then they never returned again.
Ever since I can remember, the house always gave me an ill-feeling. Our family dog would sit under the table and just move his eyes all around as though something was there. I knew there was something strange, it was hard not to feel there was some sort of presence.
When I was growing up, my Mom would let my brother and me stay home from school a lot. It wasn’t until years later I found out why. When she was alone in the house “they” would change the TV channel and move furniture around upstairs (my bedroom at the time)!
One year my father decided to paint the exterior of the house, so we took a picture of the front of the house. There were two picture windows in the front and when the film was developed there were four white figures in a portrait like fashion (almost like they were waiting to pose) standing in the window of my parent’s bedroom. This is around the time we started to ask why there was a statue of the virgin Mary hidden in the rafters of the basement. To protect the house was the only answer we got.
Strange things happened all the time. When going downstairs, a black shadow would slide along the wall and follow me down. I told my Mom who said that the same thing happens to her, that’s why she just puts our laundry folded on the stairs and never goes up until someone was home.
My father claims he got up to get a drink of water one night and bumped into something, but nothing was there. We already knew something was there because of the picture.
My parents ended up divorcing when I was 20. I had already married by this time and was living in the same town. My father stayed in the house and remarried. The woman he married was from Florida. They decided to fix the house and sell it to move to Florida. She was still in Florida so I went over to the house one night and my dad was there. He said he was getting ready to go out and that I should remember to turn out all the lights and lock the door before leaving. He then left so I went upstairs to my “old” bedroom. I was sitting at a vanity putting on makeup when I suddenly got this strange sensation causing every hair on the back of my neck to stand up. I looked over and there was this white figure of a man standing with his arms folded looking at me. I ran out of that house so fast that you could have seen a smoke trail.
Now this is the interesting part, not long before my grandmother had told my brother that when the house was being built by a mason, his wife had died in the basement. (This was the mason’s last job before he retired and he wanted to take a picture of him and his wife on his last job). The stairs in the basement weren’t built yet and his wife had to descend using a ladder. She was a heavy set woman and while climbing down had a heart attack and died in the basement. This doesn’t explain the two others in the photo though.
My father’s wife came back from Florida to help sell the house and this is what she said: “I was standing at the foot of the stairs with your father and he asked me what I thought about the way the house looked”. She said just right then and there you could hear something running down the stairs and a cold blast of air passed their faces and what’s more you could hear the front door slamming.
They did go on to sell the house and I've been back a few times to see the owners who say there is nothing strange in the house. Even myself had felt a clearing in the air like a lifting of the pressure the house once felt… well empty now.
There are a lot more things which happened in that house, but I think it would take too long to tell at the moment. I’m not the only one who saw things there. If you know where the old Rome state school is...then you’ll know what area i'm talking about.
Strange But True
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