Rolling Marble

From: Luke Garza (lukegarza@loop.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Missouri City, Texas
Source: Form Submission

The following story was told to me by my friend Rachel back in our days at the University of Texas together. She claims to have known a girl in high school whose family moved into a haunted house in the suburb of Houston known as Missouri City. I have written a fictionalized account of the story and have entitled it "A Place Called Four Doves." But here is a sampling of the true story:

Not long after moving in, the family began to experience unexplained noises and occurrences. For example, while the family was downstairs, they would hear the sound of furniture being shifted around on the top floor. On more than one occasion, family members would assume that one of the missing parents or siblings was upstairs making the noise, only to see that family member walk in through the front door moments later, unaware of what the others had just heard. One night, the wife awoke to a noise which she described as several hundred hammers hitting on wood all at once. When she went downstairs to investigate, she discovered that every one of the downstairs windows had been simultaneously opened. The family would receive strange crackling phone calls as well. After the father had finally enough and the family was sufficiently spooked, they decided to move. The last night they stayed in the house, they all slept in the same room. As they tried to sleep, they heard the sound of something rolling across the perfectly level floor. When someone turned on the light, the family found a child's marble, which didn't belong to any of them. They turned off the light, and again, they would hear the marble roll across the floor. Creepy, huh?