Houses of Terror

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Story type: Ghost
Location: Home Town - South Africa
Source: Form Submission

My housekeeper recently told me this story. When she was a child of about ten years old, she and a couple of her friends went to an abandoned house on one of the farms in our district.

They started to play inside the house, when all the windows and doors that were open at the time, all of a sudden slammed shut - all at the same time. Suddenly an old man appeared in the room and laughed at them and then just as suddenly disappeared.

Hysterical by now, they tried to open the windows and doors to no avail. They were stuck. They were there for about four hours when the doors and windows suddenly opened again and they were able to escape.

The people she worked for before us lived in one of the most haunted houses in our town. There is a rocking chair -that isn't really there, that rocks to and fro, there is a desk chair that is always pulled out and away - you can push it back in but in front of your eyes it will pull out and to the side even if you're sitting on it.

There are a lot of hauntings in our town. During the Boer war the Boers and people that were on their side - English included - that didn't want their farms and country invaded by the British redcoats invited British soldiers to dine with them and promptly poisoned them.

After they died they buried them under the floorboards of their houses - no wonder there are so many hauntings in our town.

My husband, who is a very level-headed, stubborn person and somebody who would very easily tell you that you're lying unless you bring him the facts on black and white - and then sometimes he doesn't even believe that - (He doens't call a spade a spade - he calls it a &%$#@ shovel), refuses to go into one house in this town.

As a teenager he went to visit a friend that stayed in that house and as they were sitting in the parlour, they could hear footsteps going to the fridge, the fridge opened by itself, closed and the footsteps walked out of the kitchen, right past them and into the diningroom where one of the diningroom chairs pulled out by itself.

Just before we were married he lived in a house where one of the previous owners committed suicide in one of the bathrooms. If you go down the last passage before the main bedroom - you pass this bathroom and your hair always stand on end - at least everybody else's but mine. I am very intrigued by the paranormal but alas, a ghost can hit me over the head with a sledgehammer and I wouldn't notice.