Hello Brian, you asked for
ghost stories and I happen to have had a very strange, unexplainable thing
happen at my house years ago. It was about 9:00 in the evening, and my wife
and I were sitting in the living room of our 'just bought house'. We had only
just moved in a few months previously. Our house was built in 1903 and was the
first house built in our neighborhood, back when it was mostly farmland and
orchards. We had just finished dinner and were sitting watching TV and
relaxing after a hard days work at our respective jobs. All of a sudden we
heard a loud scraping noise coming from our basement area, and our cat came
flying up the staircase all puffed up and looking completely insane and
terrified at what he was seeing. He was staring bug-eyed at the basement
stairs, and from where I and my wife were sitting, we couldn't see the area
that the cat could.
I jumped from my chair and ran
into the kitchen where "Hugo" the cat was now spitting and growling madly at
the top steps. I was in the process of trying to calm the cat down, when out
of the corner of my eye I saw a movement, and as I turned to see what it was,
I saw the back of the figure of a man wearing a longish tweed coat and a flat
old-styled tweed cap moving through what was our open bathroom door into our
bathroom. I stood speechless watching this 'person' disappear across the
bathroom and into our toilet area, with no apparent legs, it was just drifting
over the floor. I yelled to my wife what I had seen, and after finally calming
down a bit, I felt I should phone my father and see if everything was alright
with my parents. For some reason I thought I was seeing some kind of
premonition of someone's demise, but everyone was fine at my parents house. I
told my Dad what I'd seen and we talked about it for a bit, and he suggested I
make a search downstairs in the basement, and check the floor joist patterns
and see what was once built in the area directly above and into what is now
our bathroom.
I did and found out that
before the renovations and the added on back part of our house, the back
stairs had once been located directly where the bathroom door now was
situated, and whoever it was I saw that night, was walking out on to a long
gone staircase, and out into our back yard. We've lived here now for 24 years
and have had a couple of other 'supernatural things' happen, but never another
sighting of the old guy in the tweed coat and hat.
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