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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 77724" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Tinamarie - The "Haunted History" series has been on the History Channel, but they've had the same shows on other channels and called them something else. They've done lots of different cities - Charleston (where my daughter lives), New Orleans, the Fla. Keys - there's probably a couple of dozen all together.</p><p></p><p>About my little house (and I'll probably go on and on here) ... there's nothing that I have ever seen or heard - but my dogs have! The house was built sometime between 1847/1849 and is one of the oldest still standing around here, although it's been redone several times. In 1850 a family moved in and their 18-year old son later went on to become the local Civil War hero, so it's all very well documented. It stayed in the family until four years ago when the last one, an elderly lady, sold the house to my landlord when she went in to a nursing home and died a few months later. So I'm the only non-family member to ever live here! It has a weird U-shaped floor plan with two front rooms, both with doors opening to the front porch. One is the living room and the other a big bedroom, both with fireplaces. There's a connecting door but it's blocked off with a sofa in the living room and a big bed in the bedroom. I just pretend the door isn't there. The house is rumored to have once been part of the Underground Railroad - and there is a large cellar of sorts dug out under the house - supposedly connected to other houses by tunnels. You can still see where some of them were.</p><p></p><p>But anyway ... When I moved in four years ago, I had my two Boston Terriers, Rudy and Ragan. Rudy was 12 years old and Ragan was just a year. Rudy, who never left my side, absolutely refused to go in that big front bedroom! If I went in, she would sit right in the doorway, looking around anxiously, but never set foot in there! Ragan though, LOVED that room. She'd run right in and sit in the fireplace. But what was so weird though - one night I was working in there and both dogs were sitting in the door way. And they were <em>watching</em> something! There was absolutely nothing there, not even a bug! But they were both very intently watching "something" like an invisible animal going around the edges of the room! Both sets of big googly eyes looking at exactly the same spot, both of their little heads moving in perfect unison as they watched whatever it was go around the room! And they did the same thing a few days later in the living room! They were sitting side by side on the sofa, both of them following the progress of some invisible "something" going from one corner of the ceiling to the other! I made them stop because they were creeping me out!</p><p> :future:</p><p>But (if you're still with me here!) the strangest thing was just a few weeks ago. My little Rudy died three years ago - Ragan is five now and I have another Boston, Katy, who is three. Katy has an old chewed up pink ball that she's obsessed with! I throw this ball to her a thousand times a day. She sleeps with it like a kid with a teddy bear. She always has it with her. If she loses it, she always knows where it went, she just can't get at it, and she'll show me right where it is so I can get it for her! So this one morning she was playing with it on the back of the sofa and it apparently fell down behind there. She was hysterical, crying and whining and I had to go to work and didn't have time to try to get it out. When I came home from work, I let her out of her crate and went to get the broom to see if I could dislodge her ball from under the sofa. Its a sleeper sofa and too heavy to move by myself and the mechanism hangs down almost to the floor underneath it. So, if you can picture this (the dog lovers will understand!) Im sprawled on my stomach on the floor, trying to see under the sofa and jabbing a broomstick around under there. And Katy is sprawled on HER stomach, right next to me, trying to see under there she knew I was looking for her ball. And suddenly I hear the very distinct loud sound of Katys ball bouncing on the floor! She heard it too and looked at me like Did you hear that too? She KNEW it was her ball but it wasnt under there! I was ready to give up and Katy was heartbroken! So a while later I was getting ready for bed and unlatched the door to the back bedroom to get something and there was Katys pink ball on the floor, a foot away from the door! It was NOT there before! That door stays latched all the time to keep the dogs from playing in there. I had opened it that morning to get clothes out of the closet but Katy was in her crate with the ball the whole time the door was open and it was securely latched the whole time she was out. And she didnt lose track of her ball until I was ready to leave for work! Does this make any sense at all?? The connecting door between the two rooms is closed and can't open because of the furniture up against it and it couldnt have gone through the wall! Its almost like some mischievous something HID IT from her but I definitely heard it hit the floor (in a closed room!) and she heard it too! </p><p></p><p>(insert Twilight Zone theme song here )</p><p></p><p>... and when I get my second wind I'll tell you what my former boss used to see in HIS old house every morning!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 77724, member: 1883"] Tinamarie - The "Haunted History" series has been on the History Channel, but they've had the same shows on other channels and called them something else. They've done lots of different cities - Charleston (where my daughter lives), New Orleans, the Fla. Keys - there's probably a couple of dozen all together. About my little house (and I'll probably go on and on here) ... there's nothing that I have ever seen or heard - but my dogs have! The house was built sometime between 1847/1849 and is one of the oldest still standing around here, although it's been redone several times. In 1850 a family moved in and their 18-year old son later went on to become the local Civil War hero, so it's all very well documented. It stayed in the family until four years ago when the last one, an elderly lady, sold the house to my landlord when she went in to a nursing home and died a few months later. So I'm the only non-family member to ever live here! It has a weird U-shaped floor plan with two front rooms, both with doors opening to the front porch. One is the living room and the other a big bedroom, both with fireplaces. There's a connecting door but it's blocked off with a sofa in the living room and a big bed in the bedroom. I just pretend the door isn't there. The house is rumored to have once been part of the Underground Railroad - and there is a large cellar of sorts dug out under the house - supposedly connected to other houses by tunnels. You can still see where some of them were. But anyway ... When I moved in four years ago, I had my two Boston Terriers, Rudy and Ragan. Rudy was 12 years old and Ragan was just a year. Rudy, who never left my side, absolutely refused to go in that big front bedroom! If I went in, she would sit right in the doorway, looking around anxiously, but never set foot in there! Ragan though, LOVED that room. She'd run right in and sit in the fireplace. But what was so weird though - one night I was working in there and both dogs were sitting in the door way. And they were [i]watching[/i] something! There was absolutely nothing there, not even a bug! But they were both very intently watching "something" like an invisible animal going around the edges of the room! Both sets of big googly eyes looking at exactly the same spot, both of their little heads moving in perfect unison as they watched whatever it was go around the room! And they did the same thing a few days later in the living room! They were sitting side by side on the sofa, both of them following the progress of some invisible "something" going from one corner of the ceiling to the other! I made them stop because they were creeping me out! [img]:future:[/img] But (if you're still with me here!) the strangest thing was just a few weeks ago. My little Rudy died three years ago - Ragan is five now and I have another Boston, Katy, who is three. Katy has an old chewed up pink ball that she's obsessed with! I throw this ball to her a thousand times a day. She sleeps with it like a kid with a teddy bear. She always has it with her. If she loses it, she always knows where it went, she just can't get at it, and she'll show me right where it is so I can get it for her! So this one morning she was playing with it on the back of the sofa and it apparently fell down behind there. She was hysterical, crying and whining and I had to go to work and didn't have time to try to get it out. When I came home from work, I let her out of her crate and went to get the broom to see if I could dislodge her ball from under the sofa. Its a sleeper sofa and too heavy to move by myself and the mechanism hangs down almost to the floor underneath it. So, if you can picture this (the dog lovers will understand!) Im sprawled on my stomach on the floor, trying to see under the sofa and jabbing a broomstick around under there. And Katy is sprawled on HER stomach, right next to me, trying to see under there she knew I was looking for her ball. And suddenly I hear the very distinct loud sound of Katys ball bouncing on the floor! She heard it too and looked at me like Did you hear that too? She KNEW it was her ball but it wasnt under there! I was ready to give up and Katy was heartbroken! So a while later I was getting ready for bed and unlatched the door to the back bedroom to get something and there was Katys pink ball on the floor, a foot away from the door! It was NOT there before! That door stays latched all the time to keep the dogs from playing in there. I had opened it that morning to get clothes out of the closet but Katy was in her crate with the ball the whole time the door was open and it was securely latched the whole time she was out. And she didnt lose track of her ball until I was ready to leave for work! Does this make any sense at all?? The connecting door between the two rooms is closed and can't open because of the furniture up against it and it couldnt have gone through the wall! Its almost like some mischievous something HID IT from her but I definitely heard it hit the floor (in a closed room!) and she heard it too! (insert Twilight Zone theme song here ) ... and when I get my second wind I'll tell you what my former boss used to see in HIS old house every morning! [/QUOTE]
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