My Family's Haunting

From: Melissa (melsie_3@hotmail.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Katy, Texas
Source: Form Submission

My family lives in Katy, Texas, a small town just west of Houston. In March of 2000, my husband and I bought our first home. Everything was fine for about two months, then we began experience strange things. We have two cats that stay in the house, but we don't allow them to sleep in our rooms and sleep with the door closed. My husband and I work different shifts so we sleep at different hours. At night, I began feeling what I thought was a cat get on the bed, walk about halfway up the bed and lie down. Trying to move the cat with either my leg or hand, nothing would be there.

After this happened a few times, I began getting up at night and turning on the light to look for the cat and nothing would be in our room. One day, my mother-in-law came over and we were visiting. I don't recall the exact conversation, but my husband said, "I don't know what to think about the 'cats' walking on our bed. I get up and nothing is there." I was dumbfounded. We talked about it and what we both had been experiencing was the same thing. After that, the activity started getting very bad.

At night, I would be woken up by 'someone' poking me on my legs from under the mattress. After sitting up, I could still feel the bed moving where my legs had been. This happened often. The lights would turn on and off by themselves as well as the water faucets. My 16 year old daughter and 15 year old son kept thinking that I was calling them. They would continually come into the room where I was at, asking what I wanted, they would hear me calling them.

One night, my daughter and I were sitting on the couch watching TV and we heard what sounded like my voice call her name twice. We looked at each other and our mouths dropped. This was the first time that we realized that someone was calling them but it wasn't me. My son was petrified of being in the house. He would see 'shadow' people. My husband, on several occasions had been held down on the bed where he couldn't move or talk for about a minute before 'it' would release him. Before living in this house, he had never believed in the paranormal or ghosts. Now we are all believers. At night when trying to sleep, we could hear footsteps and the movement of clothing as if a lot of people were walking through our room.

One night it was particulary loud and I was afraid. I went into the den to watch tv for a while. I heard a noise that I couldn't identify and turned the tv, fan and a/c off to listen better and it sounded like the entire room was breathing a really raspy sounding breathing. We finally found a psychic and two mediums that we talked to. All three of them told us the same thing without knowing that we had talked to the others. The said that we had several 'earthbound spirits' and a poltergeist, and that there was a portal in our house. We found a priest to come and excercise the house.

For a few months afterwards, it was relatively quiet, and we thought our problems were over. Then, it started up again and became much worse than before. After living with this for two years to the point that it wouldn't let us sleep at night, we sold the house and moved.

So far, our new home has been okay. I should also mention that my daughter and I both have psychic abilities. We can sense and sometimes see and hear paranormal activity. Ironically, after living through everything, I became interested and am now a 'ghost hunter'. The photos that I have taken, EVP, etc has a very high amount of orbs, ectoplasm and apparitions. It's an intersting 'hobby', but I never want to have to live with it again.