The Old Farmhouse

From: Kerrie (KSierra@comcast.net)
Story type: Ghost
Location: old farm house
Source: Form Submission

This story starts before my family moved into this old farmhouse. I boarded my horses on this property where this farmhouse was located and it was always kinda spooky. We would occasionally use the bathroom in there when we went to see our horses. I always got an eerie feeling whenever we went in there.

Fastforwarding to when we moved in. We moved into this house in the fall of 94, it was a dreary house that just needed some TLC and we made it up to look kinda victorian. The whole time we lived there I always felt like there was a prescence there watching me, sometimes I would wake from a dead sleep for no reason and have an overwhelming fear.

We had a mirror in the living room that I would always see shadows in out of the corner of my eye, these weren't glares from the TV or from cars on the road since we were far from the road. I would see shadows from the corner of my eye wherever I was in the house really.

One afternoon I was in the basement with a friend of mine, this was a basement that had a dirt floor and a type of meat locker where cattle and pigs were slaughtered, this house was very old dating back before the 1890's. While my friend and I were down there we heard a childs voice say "mommy" we both looked at each other and said did you hear that and we hightailed it out of there.

My daughter who was 3 at the time was at her grandmothers house and there were no other children around on the property. My daughter who I believe had a ghost of her own there would always say the name "Gabrielle" out loud as if to have an imaginary friend she would be talking to. We knew noone with this name and it's not a name she heard on TV, it's not exactly a very common name either, she was saying this name clearly when she was two years old, more clearly then she could say the most easiest of words, also when she was a few months old til about when she started to walk she would stare up at the ceiling when she was laying down just jabbering and laughing as if she could see someone.

We moved out of there in the fall of 2001, on one of the last nights we were getting everything out of there to move into our new house my mom went up there alone to gather up someomore of her belongings. When she went in to the house my german shepperd was acting spastic and completly not like himself, my mom said he was acting like he was terrified of something, which was very unlike Brock to act that way.

As she had gathered up some of her things and started to head out of the house she heard a loud cow bell ringing right outside the front door, there were no cows on the property and she was the only one there, she said it stopped for a minute and as she opened the door to go out she heard it again she said it was very loud and right outside the door then she said my dog went crazy. She walked out the door and it stopped, she looked around and there was nothing there where the noise had come from, there was nothing around at all.

I would also like to say that while I lived in this house I was always sick with some sort of ailment, from a cold to the flu to the stomach flu or some sort of sinus infection, after I moved out of that house I have been sick one time with a cold and that was a year after we moved out, just sort of coincidental if you ask me, also my animals that lived in the house were sickly alot.

My cats that I had when I moved in all died within a year of each other and my dogs all died of some sort of horrible death. My great dane got a painful blood infection, my chow hung himself, and my rottweiler killed my pomeranian, my german shepperd we took with us when we moved along with another mutt that we had and she died a couple of months later I think from cancer, my german shepperd we had to have put to sleep because while we lived in that house he turned so vicious to strangers that our new landlords would not take on the liability of us having him, we had to have the rott put to sleep after she killed my other dog, this all may be irrelevant to this house but it just seems to strange to not go along with it, all my cats and dogs were healthy prior to this and so was I, I think this house was just evil and it tried to make other beings evil or it killed them trying.