A Personal Account
I am sharing a story told to me by a client that wanted me to track down the history of a building. I am not sure what to make of it, however something happened to this family and it is still having an impact all these years later.
"When my parents first moved into it, my dad was on third shift and someone tried to break into the house with Michelle and me there at night. Funny thing is, mom was watching the 700 club and she started to pray for god to protect us and then it all stopped. That is just the beginning of what happened around that house. When we were little, Michelle and I were picking raspberries because they grew wild along the fence it was abandoned because the old woman died, so nobody was there at that time. She was 6 years old and I was only four, so we knew better. We had picked all the berries on our side and ate them, so Michelle climbed over the fence because we saw more - remember that I said nobody lived there and mom never told us what happened to the old woman they kept that secret.
Michelle told me to stay on that side and be the look out because we knew we would get into trouble for crossing the fence. I stayed in our back yard and I kept watch for mom, but then the next thing I know was Michelle was running back to where I was and screaming. She climbed over that fence so fast and was screaming for god to protect us. I didn’t understand because I just wanted the berries. She yanked my arm so hard and so fast telling me to run and get in the house.
She pulled and ran so fast and I still didn’t understand why she was praying for god to protect us, but I had no choice because she had a death grip on my hand. I tried to look back, but she just kept yanking me. I thought some freak was trying to kidnap us or something. We got into the house and she slammed the door shut and locked it. I still had no idea what it was until I asked her who was out there and where were the berries. She just kept praying and finally mom asked what was going on, so she told the story about us sneaking into the neighbor’s yard.
At this time, she is crying and mom asked what happened that had her so scared. She told her that when she hopped the fence and started picking berries she got a bad feeling and looked up towards the house. She said that she saw two red eyes staring at her and then started to come towards her, not small animal like, but like a man or a very big animal on two legs. She said everything in her body told her danger and to run and pray, so she did.
She said it was like an angel that protected us that day while we were running back to the house because the house wasn’t behind us it was beside us, so we had to run almost next to it. We never played near that side of the house ever again and we always held our breath when we walked near the driveway. Moreover, when a family with a young girl about our age moved in, they played on the Ouija board regularly.
She invited us one time to go in the house, we did, and she told us a strange story about the house. She didn’t know anything about what we experienced because we always kept it in the family. She got the Ouija board out and wanted us to play with it, we told her no because it was a gateway to bad things. Michelle and I left after that and never entered that house again. The only problem is the girl had told us that at night they hear growls and things move by themselves. What I didn’t tell you was how I got sick after that. I always felt like something was making me sick.
You see this girl use to come into our house without permission and always messed with me while I was sleeping; my mom finally had to start locking the door because she was a very strange girl. I was an innocent and I believe that I had a war going inside of me because the doctors could never pin point what made me ill, and that is on record. I didn’t stop getting sick until I had been baptized. I was 12 when that happened and in all honesty, I changed after that. I had no more bad dreams, no more thoughts of killing myself or other things. I believe whatever happened tried to attach itself to me because I was young.
She and her family finally moved out and an older woman moved in. The older woman came to our house after a week or two to ask questions about the house. She said that she heard things and things moved by themselves. She wanted to know what happened in that house if you know what I mean.
She also had a male German shepherd that she kept in the back yard. Strange thing is the dog would only allow Michelle and me near it. His name was Fella and he always broke his chain and came to our house almost as if he was protecting us. After we told her what happened she stayed for a little longer, but after what happened with Michelle and the sickness, we moved shortly after. She moved later too, so I don’t know what happened after the talk, but mom told her what happened with the old lady and of the family right before her. After we moved, the old woman came to our house a year later and asked us if we would take Fella. She said that he was never right after we moved away and were she was moving, she couldn’t take him. I think he was a guardian because as soon as he saw Michelle and me he came straight to us and remained with us until he died. Strange though because Fella would try to attack everyone but us. I will never go back to that house; Michelle is still haunted almost 30 years later by what she saw.
I think the gate is still open there and every time I drive by, I get a sick feeling of that house."
