My Haunted House For Sale

From: Anita Graber (Anitag@zoo92.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: 823 E 15th Winfield Ks
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Fri Oct  9 13:27:55 2009

I desided to buy a home of my own with a strong list of must haves. I wanted a fixer-uper, big, and I wanted the cost low enough that we could carry it if one of us lost our job. My search took almost a year but i finally found it. A big ugly house on the corner of 15th and Broadway in Winfield Ks. I was livable but not pretty. The potential was good. I told myself that a new porch and windows and i have my dream home.

We signed the paperwork on October 31 and joked about our new "monster house". Once we took ownership and got setteled I started having dreams of the house. In the dreams the door bell was ringing and the front door was in a different place. I answer the door to no one there. I remember that dream and think "that would be a better place to have the door." Where the door was in the dream there now sat a fake fireplace. I looked at it closer and saw that it hid a door frame that was walled upon the outside and on the inside was a window. This was all hidden behind the fake fireplace.

Next I dreamt of the kitchen being in a different place and found that it too was in that location of the house in the past. I dreamt that the esiting kitchen had hard wood floors and that too was true. We talked of putting a stair well to the basement in the main part of the house only to find that that was where the stairs were at one time.

But the money for these projects did not come as fast I had hoped and the dreams took a dark turn. NExt I dremt that my husband died and with the life insurance money I fixed the house up. The next day he ran off the road and just bairly missed death. This happend 2 other times to the point that we felt the house hated him. We spoke often of how the house had feelings of its own.

I had spoken to the owners of the house before us and was told that she had had the same dream of the door being in a different place and the home repairs. She also told me of scary things happening in the house. She said that it was one of the reasons they left.

One day I had a friend over and her and I sat in the front room we began to hear someone walking upstairs. Being the only onse there we desided to go look into it. We had such a sense of dread wash over us that we were afrade to go up the stairs. We called up there and gradually worked our way up there to find no one.

Windows started falling out of the house and the front door all in one month. As we lay in bed it sounded as if there was somone in the attic tapping on the ceiling. I woke the next day to see there was plaster pebbles on the covers. We were getting scared of our house.

Everyone had said that it felt as if someone was standing at the top of the stairs and that you felt as if you had to push through them to keep from falling down the steps at times. My oldest son was coming down the stairs one time and fell so hard that he cracked ribs on both sides. He said that it felt as if someone pushed him and kicked his feet out from under him. He being a 6 foot man that was not an easy job Im sure.

As our fear grew we looked at finding somewhere else. My husband had anouther near miss and we were out the next week end.

We are selling house for the amount owed aginst it.

Anita Graber