Playful Hauntings

From: tina easterly (oneeastwood @aol.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: my home
Source: Form Submission

hi. i have been enjoying all the stories and thought i would share mine. i have been living here for 16 years. our house is supposedly sitting on the same site that a little one-room school house for black children once was. i have heard from a few of the old-timers that early in the 1900's when blacks were segregated, there was this school. i cannot find any info on the name of this school or how many children attended or the teachers. anyway, the story is that some white men came to the school and raped and murdered two little black girls then burned the school down.

i have always felt like there is children here even before i found out about what happened. i often feel like someone is watching me and sometimes think i see things out of the corners of my eyes. i hear alot of things being moved and played with downstairs in the basement, but whenever i go down there everything is just as it were the last time i was there.

the two back bedrooms upstairs have activity in them. my daughter sleeps in one of these rooms. she just started sleeping in there all night in just the past couple of years. she has told me that she sees shadows and feels like someone is watching her sometimes. my son never complains about seeing or hearing anything in his room. the last room is a spare bedroom and i used to spend time in there reading and sewing. sometimes the feelings of someone else being there would get so strong, i would leave. it wasn't anything evil-feeling, just intense.

my husband says he doesn't feel anything. my dogs will "watch" things happen and follow with their eyes but don't go nuts or anything like that. alot of the time when i hear things downstairs, it is the sound of the old china cabinant doors opening or closing. i keep my daughter's barbie collection in there. i also hear the pool table balls "breaking" and rolling around and sometimes the sound of the balls dropping on the concrete floor. but of course when i go down there everything is the same as it was the last time i was there.

one time i was in the basement fiddling around on the computer and it felt as though someone came up from behind me and tapped me on the shoulder. this scared the crap out of me and i knew when i turned around to look no one would be there. there wasn't. this happened 2 times in 2 days.

one time i went to the basement to turn off the lights (you know how kids can never turn them off) and as i was getting ready to come up the steps, a big, long, warm, puff of wind hit me in the side of the head and blew my hair all around. it didn't take but a half a second to get up those stairs!

the last time anything has happened lately was one morning i was up at 4 am getting ready for work and i had put on coffee to brew. i took a shower and went back to the kitchen to get a cup. as i was walking toward the kitchen, i happened to glance down the hall towards the kid's bedrooms and there were 2 little girls standing side by side looking at me. it startled me but i wasn't scared. the taller one looked to be about 6-8 years old and the smaller one looked to be around 4-5 years old. they had on plain white dresses that looked like the little cotton petticoats i used to wear as a child. i couldn't make out facial features or hair because they looked kind of transparent. then they just quickly faded away.

i'm hoping to find out more about the history here. when i do i'll post more. thanks for letting me share my story.