The House

From: Shannon (dragonfire_o7@yahoo.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Croton Ohio (the creepy house)
Source: Form Submission

Hey it's Shannon here. i wanted to tell the story of the house on croton road. now i promis you that this is true and i am not lying about this.

there is a house on croton road in Croton Ohio, i town near where i live now, that is as haunted as they get. this place has a room in the basement that makes a grown man want to cry. this room is called the "red rum room". my mother moved into this house when i was about 13, about 4 years ago. anyways, there was the room in the basement and when i first came to the house i went adventuring and saw what was painted on the door. if you have ever seen the shining before then you know that the word "redrum" is murder when spelled backwards. well redrum was painted on the door of the creepiest room in the house in black dripping letters. well needless to say that when i went down there i instantly felt a heavey dread on my heart and a heaviness on my body.

the second night i ever spent in that house was horrifying. i wen to bed about 10:30 pm and for some reason i couldnt turn out the light for fear of something i didnt know. well when i went to sleep i heard this knocking on the wall right above my head and inside my room. it was constant and then stopped for about 5 minutes then started again. things went like this for about 3 or 4 hours then i finally fell asleep. the next day i found my bathroom door open and i knew i had closed it that night. then again that night the door to my bathroom opened on its own, a couple times in a row.

i started to investigate the ghost in the house and they didnt like it. they started to get violent and then finally my mother was forced to move out by the land lord. when i was helping my mother move boxes and things to her new house, i had my cousin over helping too. we had a break so we decided to search the basement for clues on what happened at that house. we suspected a murder or some type of foul play. many would say what happened next was my over active imagination when i know it wasn't. i know because my cousin saw and heard it too.

anyways, when we went down stairs we shut the door behind us and walked down slowly. we both saw a shadow figure move by the pipes and walk towards us. we bolted for the door and were stuck because the door was shut and we couldnt get it open. about 2 hours later we decided to go back and go to the redrum room. stupidly i agreed. well when we went downstairs we made sure to leave the door open this time. we made it to the redrum room and through it to the room to the storage room that was connected to it. i wasnt able to look at the room nor turn my back to it. suddenly i heard the door open and shut and footsteps on the stairs. i gasped and started to shake and my cousin told me to just calm down it was probably my mother. i said ok and suggested we leave so we did. as i walked through the redrum room to go back i noticed a face in the paint on the door that looked like some one tried to paint over it. it was a face of a boy about 17 or 18 years old and grinning. when we went upstairs we saw the door was almost all the way shut, not open like we had left it. we asked my mother if she had been downstairs and she said she was in the bathroom ( the entire investigation was about 15 minutes long) cleaning. then i asked about Bill my stepdad, and he wasnt even there.

if youhave ever had this happen to you let me know so i can figure out what it was and so i know im not alone.