A few ghosts
 

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Story type: Ghost

Location: Virginia

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A few ghosts
My parents moved into my house in snow Snow Creek, Franklin County, Virginia in 1980, the year before I was born. Right away they noticed that something else also resided there.

My dad recalls that on my parents first wedding anniversary in that house, he bought my mom a microwave. To keep her from seeing it, he decided to hide it in my sister's room. He walked down the hall, past the bathroom, and set it in the room. As he was walking back down the hall, he heard a noise. To his surprise, the bathroom faucet had turned on full blast, all by itself!

This wasn't the only experience in the house. My mom and sister were home alone one night and heard a loud noise on the basement stairs. They got out of the house and called the police, who arrived shortly and checked out the house. They found the culprit. A ham had managed to roll a couple inches, fell off the top step where it was resting, and fell down the steps. The only weird fact is that it made the right angle curve halfway down and stopped neatly in front of the bottom step.

A few other occurences are that my mom was the only one up and she was watching t.v. The way this t.v. worked was to turn this knob and it would turn the antenna on the roof. Mom got pretty scared when it started Turning By Itself!

My sister and I were home alone and heard footsteps in the hallway. Right after they moved in, when everything had just gotten put up, the china cabinet would start to shake and rattle as if somebody not accustomed to the placement ran into it.

When I was a kid I would get real scared and have bad dreams. According to my parents, this coincided with the ghosts getting really active.

Probably the most funny one of all is that my mom was laying in bed one night and felt a presence beside her. She asked it to please go away, and it did. The next morning my dad confirmed the fact that it did move, to the corner of the room.

I have lived in Franklin County all my life, and can say that my house is not the only thing haunted. The woods and barn behind my house will fill you with depression if you stay in them. They have an air of death around them. My neighbor says that it's probably because horses, which were kept in the barn, were sacrificed in the woods.

Besides my immediate surroundings, the high school I go to has its own quirks. I was walking down the hall and at the same exact moment my friend and I jumped back. People asked us what was wrong and my friend started to tell them that she had seem a column of black smoke, about the diameter of a baseball shot out of the floor. This was the same thing I saw out of the corner of my eye.

The last experience I want to relate is about this place in Calloway (another town in Franklin County). I was there with a group and we were staying there overnight. It is this hotel-like building used by groups for different things, and is really old. I was upstairs and was going down the hall. I passed under a light and my shadow then moved to the front of me (since the light source moved behind me). I looked down at my shadow and saw one somebody snaeking up behind me. I spun around to surprise them and There Was No On There!

These are most of the things now.