Reflections: Living in a haunted house – Part 3

Yes, I live in a haunted house. And it isn’t the only house that has been haunted on this property. The house that was here when I met my present husband was an older house, occupied by his mother. At the time, he lived in another house nearby, on the same property.

Soon after we began seeing each other, he told me about Maw calling him on the phone late one night and waking him out of a sound sleep. When he answered the phone, she told him he needed to turn his music down, because it woke her up. He asked her to repeat what she had said, and then told her he didn’t have his radio on. She didn’t believe him at first, because the music was still playing, but then it stopped. She thought he had been playing a joke on her but had turned the radio off, so she hung up and went back to bed.

But the music started again, so she called him again. He had already gone back to sleep, but got up and walked over to her house. When he came in the front door, he couldn’t hear anything, but when he went toward the middle room, where she quilted, he began to hear the music. It was coming from that room!

I never heard the music, but several other members of the family have told about hearing it. However, since we moved into this house a little over five years ago, I have also heard sounds that are unexplainable. The house is built right over where the old house sat; it burned to the ground after she moved out of it. My computer room is near where her quilting room was. I sometimes hear unexplainable noises here, such as doors opening and closing or footsteps coming about two to three feet into the house and stopping.

However, most of the time, when I hear noises, I am in the kitchen, further back in the house. Many times I have heard the front door open and close and heard footsteps walking several steps into the house. But when I go to see who came in, no one is there. Occasionally, too, I have heard the rocking chair rocking, and gone to see who is in the living room; no one is even in the house except me. In the past year, though, I have also begun hearing those same noises while I am in the computer room. When I check, no one is in the house except me. And my husband isn’t anywhere near the house!

I am glad that our ghost seems to be friendly. Of course, there may be more than one of them, but we haven’t had any problems with them/it. Some people get scared if we mention our ghost, but we have no problem with it. At least, it hasn’t wakened us up playing its music too loud – yet!