Lathem Victorian Mansion

From: Tabi (MtdewLover_0420@yahoo.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Lathem
Source: Form Submission

I spent many summers with my cousins in the small town of Lathem, often experinceing a ghost story or two. This particular story i rember well being as it was the first time i really got to know my cousin susan. she had four sisters, and often i found my self busyier then i could control.

Well she had 4 or 5 babysitting jobs in town and this one had an amazing house. Often when visting i would gawk at the house. it held its beauty after all the years of miss-treament and abuse. Well she had to babysit that night and asked if i wanted to come along,noticing i had a liking for the old victorian two story house. i didn't think twice about saying yes.

She went and asked the parnet if it was alright and she agreed as long as i didn't cause any trouble. Well being as the child was no older then 5 the night started pretty normal. As she gave her a bath, i sat in the parler?? and watched tv. After giving her a bath she put her to bed and came into the room and we found the orgianal version of the hunchback of norte dame on tv. we watched the movie and played around with the slot machine in the house until about 9:30 p.m. when the movie ended. as the credits rolled,we decided to find something more interesting.

Finding a classic cartoon on tv, we settled down on the love seat to watch. it was very quiet in the house, which held 4 bedrooms, a parler,living room,kitchen,dinning room, servents quaters , a master bathroom and two other bathrooms. about 10:30 we heard a sound like someone was cooking,well frying something in the kitchen on the first floor. We had been on the second floor because the girls room was on that floor and if she woke it would be easyier to get to her. so we turned off the tv thinking maybe it was on the tv. after about five minutues of the frying conitueing, we decided it wasn't our imagenations and went to investiagate. heading down the hall on the second floor we checked on the girl,who was soundly sleeping. Then we went through each room to see if maybe they had left something on we hadn't noticed before. after searching the complete second story we went to the bottom floor and began seraching. never the less,we never found the sound. and i never liked that house again either.

When the girls mother got home around midnight, we told her what happened and she simply replyed.."you get used to it"