Is your house haunted?

BillBrasky4Cy

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I had a few buddies who lived in Hillcrest at the U of I and said that place was spooky AF.
 

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You mean like an old Micmac burial ground where people might bury their pets?
I used to be a Steven King fan - I knew he would spend an entire book making you like characters just so he could kill them, but this took it to an all new level - last of his books I was ever to read, and I'm still mad about it twenty years later!!! :)
 

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Our current home was occupied by the same widow for about 50 years. She was an English teacher; her husband passed away in the early 70s. When we first moved in, some of our wall decorations would be knocked off the wall while we were away. I'm guessing she didn't like my wife's style.

Nothing happened for a long time until our daughter was born two years ago. While I was sleeping, I heard my name whispered in my ear and a hand on my arm. There was no one there when I woke up and my wife was still sleeping. I noticed it was cold in the house; our furnace was malfunctioning. I think the widow woke me up to protect the baby. That was nice of her.
"CYCLNST8, your baby is cold. Check the furnace....








and your wife is basic."
 
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I used to be a Steven King fan - I knew he would spend an entire book making you like characters just so he could kill them, but this took it to an all new level - last of his books I was ever to read, and I'm still mad about it twenty years later!!! :)
Yep. There's really no hero in Pet Sematary. You keep waiting and hoping someone will step up and do the right thing, but in the end everyone succumbs to the temptation.

It is a powerful theme though: If you could bring back your loved ones who died tragically before their time, would you do so knowing they might not be "quite the same".
 
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Fisher Theater at ISU was supposedly haunted. The old theater, Shattuck Theater was supposedly haunted by Fredericka Shattuck who founded ISU Theater and the clown statue that was in the Fisher lobby was moved from Shattuck to Fisher and the story goes that is how the haunt moved from Shattuck to Fisher. Clown didn't bother me unless the theater was dark and mostly empty and then that clown sucked. Never saw anything that couldn't be attributed to imagination, but it could be pretty creepy at times.
 
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My sister in law heard a noise in the middle of the night not sure what it was that woke her up. She went to check on her son and saw an old woman in 1800's black dress white frilly collar bending over looking at the bed. When she approached the woman turned, walked away and disappeared. She then found a live bat laying on her son's pillow with him.
She was protecting the child. Showed herself so your sister in law would check the child’s bed before the bat could potentially harm him. That’s what I would tell myself anyway.
 

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My wife was spending a lot of time at hospice with her brother who was dying of MS. She came home around 9 something PM to shower and let me know it wouldn’t be long. I was laying on the bed talking with her as she was doing her hair. She told me she asked her brother to see her after his passing to let her know he was okay. Our Daschaund came running into our bedroom barking and growling running past us into our walk in closet. We followed him in there and he was going crazy looking up. Then we smelled an odor of someone passing gas. Immediately after we received a call from her mother that her brother had just passed. Her older brother would always pass gas around her because my wife didn’t like it. Coincidence or not.
 

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The house we lived in when I graduated high school many thought was haunted. I do know a couple of infants died in the old Victorian house in the early 1900s. Definitely had some strange things happen. Hard knocking on front door (which at the time no one used and had no sidewalk or steps leading to it) only to open it as knocking was happening and no one was there. A globe I kept on my desk in my bedroom was moved to the other corner of the room on the floor and I was the only one home during that weekend. Many say you could see our attic lights on and off while our family was out of town. @Angie did you ever hear anything about our house?

I did! I know for sure I heard about the random attic lights going off and on, sometimes rapidly. I hope your parents were able to sell it to someone great when they moved out - I was over across the street for a birthday party for our eldest's friend a few years back, it must have been after your family moved out, and it still looked good then!
 
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When I was younger, a baseball teammate of mine had a team get together. His mom said the house was haunted, but I figured she was just trying to get the young guys riled up. I was the vocal one of the group saying I didn’t believe in spirits. I went to go #2 and as I’m sitting there, the toilet paper roll began to unravel itself. Probably scariest moment of my life.

My 5th grade class visited the Jordan House in Des Moines and were told it was haunted by a young girl. Her bedroom had a rocking horse rocking while we walked by - I assumed a window was open. But then there was a loud bang and some decoration in the room had fallen. The guide told us the little girl would sometimes do that for attention if she wasn’t getting enough attention on the tour.
 

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When I was younger, a baseball teammate of mine had a team get together. His mom said the house was haunted, but I figured she was just trying to get the young guys riled up. I was the vocal one of the group saying I didn’t believe in spirits. I went to go #2 and as I’m sitting there, the toilet paper roll began to unravel itself. Probably scariest moment of my life.

My 5th grade class visited the Jordan House in Des Moines and were told it was haunted by a young girl. Her bedroom had a rocking horse rocking while we walked by - I assumed a window was open. But then there was a loud bang and some decoration in the room had fallen. The guide told us the little girl would sometimes do that for attention if she wasn’t getting enough attention on the tour.
The question everyone is dying to ask: Did it scare the **** out of you?
 

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Woke up one morning and let the dog out. The back door was a sliding door with a door stick. Took the stick out, unlocked the door, and went outside. When we came back, I couldn't open the door. I looked down and the stick was back in place. Walked around to the front of the house and entered via the garage key pad.
Upon entering the house, I found my son and wife still sound asleep. No idea how the stick went back into the slot