Post by paranormalskeptic on Jul 20, 2009 13:25:33 GMT -5
May 2008-
we had just moved into an older apartment house, we rented the entire home, not even seeing the downstairs apt, we were shown the upstairs and I didn't like the stairs, they bothered me for some reason so the manager offered us the downstairs apt, but the current tenant hadn't moved out we figured since someone was living there, couldn't be bad so we took the entire place...only to find the house was a mess, the basement was literally crammed to the ceiling with junk, we had to hire people to clean it out truck load after truckload, -the bathroom in the downstairs had a hole in the wall the toilet was loose you couldn't use the thing - the upstairs wasn't as bad - but that kitchen couldn't be used the sink drain wasn't connected, it would require thousands to live in- our apt was a wreck- we repaired the house living there rent free - I stress before I go on with the story we had professionals in there, fixing the wiring and plumbing and re keying the entire house
these professionals all had experiences while working on our home which I will add as events unfold.
My first night in the new place- I am awakened by footsteps- think nothing of it- after all the other place we had just moved from an apartment complex was so damn noisy Id been awaken nightly.
JUNE 2008
As I began cleaning this place I'd sometimes smell cigar smoke lingering for a minute or two and start smelling foul odors, hearing jazz type music, but there was no near neighbor or any source of the music - then those shadows out of the corner of my eye..but I chalk it off as being over stressed, from the move.
But I am not the only one, Matt hears something to, one day he claimed to be pushed by a ghost
((at first I thought he had too many mikes hard lemonade's))
- his fall is so bad he requires stitches
and keeping with that "nothing is ever just simple" motto that seems to plague us he ends up getting violently ill days later, post concussion syndrome along with 13 stitches from the fall.
A day or two later I had a plumber in, he was fixing some loose pipes, and fixing the upstairs sink, when he was done he came upstairs to give me the invoice and says Mame I don't know how to say this but something shoved me when I was working down in the basement, I thought you were there trying to get my attention, kinda creep ed me out, then he laughs and says I think you have a ghost! I laughed it off. Ghosts are not real.
A week or two later, odd things keep happening but I'm focused on getting settled here finally we have a whole house
Stereos turn themselves on and off, when they never did this in the old place- Matt claims something is bothering him in the basement. poking at him? He comes upstairs and
claims to have been shoved while down there- I think he's insane, , my girls are upstairs and my youngest tells me that
she just felt like she walked into spiderwebs cold ones, now its July and there are these areas in the house that are ice cold at times, you can see your breath, yet my other daughter in the computer room is experiencing a hot spot, it was way warmer in that room and it smelled foul, like rotting flesh/eggs...then it returns to normal no smell, no heat, or cold area my batteries to my camera kept dieing as I would try to photograph the upgrades we were making on the home, then they be fully charged again......odd. and this happens frequently - there are no spiderwebs and the house isn't drafty yet we keep having these sensations
later Matt brings me down to this small storage area in the basement and says "its" in here- first I think he's
crazy then as God as my witness or whatever you think the higher power of life is, I was shoved so much so that I lunged forward, I got a bit freaked out- and argued with him that it may be High EMF fields just making us paranoid ??
Later that night we both saw something it was a wispy figure of a woman that seemed to be standing in the doorway- it was so clear to me I said OK- you draw what you saw and I draw what I saw, and see if we think we saw the same thing
And when I looked at his drawing I got a chill- he'd drawn the same odd collar on a woman figure with the same length dress and the same hair freaky a mutual hallucination? At that point I didn't know what to think?
JULY 2008
It would be a few days after that -before me the paranormal skeptic would entertain that there was something nonliving here-
cupboard doors would be open in the morning, when I knew they were closed, I found my necklace in a new plastic container of kitty litter, but still I wasn't convinced...we had just moved you know I was tired and things get lost.
I had the apartment re keyed, the locksmith, while working all of a sudden says did you need something? I am in the back room and told him "No, why?" He mumbles that he swore someone was standing right behind him, thought it was me.
Next day
I go upstairs gathering my kids laundry a bit frustrated because I found a picture of Jesus had fallen off the wall so I rehung it up and it fell again immediately so I head downstairs to get a hammer and some nails as I was coming down the stairs and felt a violent shove, that almost knocked me down I grabbed onto the railing as I felt something invisible go through me- I felt violated and reacted by yelling at the top of my lungs " Whoever you are I command you in the name of Jesus and his team of angels to leave now and go to the light - leave this house now you are unwelcome- with this shouting of course Matt comes running finding me danging from the railing-and the whole stairwell now reeked with the strong smell of roses, it only lasted for a minute but from that minute on I knew something was here, what I didn't know but it could move things- shove people, make foul odors, and it seemed not to like us all that well - We wanted a logical explanation- so we contacted TAPS the guys that do ghost hunters on sci-fi to get their opinion -we were actually looking in the yellow pages there was no local ghost hunters so we had to find someone TAPS was the only group I knew of.
More and more things would happen- things would move knock over, there were shadows and noises and a friend of Matt's who was staying with us - who had no idea about what we we're experiencing- came down stairs one morning and told me that we had a ghost - he had heard pots and pans moving around, saw a lady up there- yet there were no pots and pans up there to rattle - freaky
One night Matt and I were in the downstairs living room watching TV when we heard loud footsteps upstairs, and bangs we ran upstairs me with the phone in hand, thinking someone had broken in, ready to call the police we find nothing except the chain lock to the back door swinging as if the door had just been moved, the doors were all locked.
At some point we had the electricians in this week and when they both told me that they felt like something touched them, while they were working at this point I do not even bat an eye.
((BTW We had them check for Emfs they found nothing abnormal, ugh there blows that theory)
AUGUST 2008
I don't hear back from Tap's right away, I'm thinking its summer maybe they are out filming, then I get a phone call - from a well known lady in the paranormal field whom had done several TV shows with a demonic slant- (I opted to omit her name, because I believe it unfair to say negative things about someone without them being able to defend them selves)
Anyway this lady started out the conversation by stating that she had personally spoken to Jason over our case, and he was concerned because of our children, (that turned out to be a lie- Jason as far as I know to this day, doesn't know about our haunting) She then went on to explain that the Rhode Island team that you see on TV often refers out cases that they can not come to, and that she had been forwarded our case, and we begin talking about all of the things that had occurred, and she tells me that I need to get blessed St Padre-Pio and St Michael metals, I tell her we are not Catholic she says we still need them, that we have a demon and we need a blessing and that she also wanted to know if we'd consider going to paranormal state, as they needed cases and ours sounded like it was right up their alley - then she wanted money, for gas..I listened to her and said look I cant make the decision here, I will need to talk to my other half, but no way do I want to be on TV nor do I want anyone with paranormal state coming to our home, she then said she was contacting a demonologist and would have him contact us and told me to call her 24-7 if it got any worse.
At this point I was desperate, it seemed anyone that came into our home was being pestered by whatever was in it...so even though I thought it was insane, I got those metals as she told me to...had them blessed, thinking this was insane I hung the crosses and all those silly prayers. Burnt sage and managed to make it worse.
I had just finished the St Michael's prayer and the sage is burning when I heard a loud bang, looking around I found every cross, and religious picture angel statue had knocked over, yet the family pictures and my photographs of wildlife remained on the walls, and my nurse statues and bottles remained upright?? I can't explain that one, what did we have a selective earthquake?
Then we all started seeing these shadow figures, straight on now they were no longer the corner of the eye quick glimpses they were dark masses of human form with a 3 d and darkness to them that there are no words for, you have to see one to know what it is... one evening about 7 PM this shadow thing walked through the stairwell into the living room, then vanished into the wall, my cat chased it crashing into the wall after it, there was a foul odor at the same time, again it was over powering and lasted only for a moment.
We'd see them in every room - and you'd feel like you were being looked at, then look up and it be there they vanish into walls sometimes spinning around and disappearing into the floor.
My kids said they saw these glowing balls, drift through their room. I only saw one once it was a sphere of light, didn't know what it was, and couldn't figure out how to duplicate it either.
Matt was shoved on the stairs again then Matt felt a burn on his leg one night, a scratch materialized on his leg before our eyes
at that point we called that well known lady back -we needed help ASAP
She said "sorry, its beyond our scope, you need clergy there to do a blessing" So Matt told her off in spades, and hung up on her.
At that point we recontacted TAPS reported that this woman told us to do things which we did and it made it worse...we then learned that this woman had never been in touch with Jason as she told us and also the gas money thing seemed to make Kristyn G. mad, she quickly put us in touch with another taps family...that like them, didn't declare a place haunted without going there
The demonologist did contact us, and tried and over the phone cleansing- didn't change a thing we also had some church contact us and tell us we had a global prayer chain over the haunting- too weird for me to think of, was set up by the first lady-
The cigar odor became common I started calling the smoking ghost Charles- for some unknown reason WE had the city in to check our sewer lines to make sure there wasn't a leak, they found nothing -
One day I am cleaning had that feeling I was being watched and
said OK Mr Ghost, make yourself known, and a bottle of cleaning
fluid that was on the floor toppled over, just as I said that and the aroma of cigar smoke filled the room, I back out of there, and see an apparition of an old man in a chair briefly appear and I am totally thinking that I am losing my mind as he disappears into thin air
September 2008
Eventually a team from the Taps family shows up and does a 2 day investigation - and they had some weird things happen while they investigated, flashlight responded to them by going on and off when asked- they heard a horrid laugh as they were leaving they had packed all of their equipment up the laugh sent the team running back upstairs, it was if they were being taunted by it - one of the team was shoved to the ground during the investigation, 2nd night the lead investigator and myself became ill and we both had to stop investigating the rest of the team kept going until daybreak - after the team pulled out of the driveway the lights flashed we heard bangs and footsteps again- it was like ha-ha you didn't get us - it continued weird things we got used to it everyday at any hour things might happen, but it got so we could command it to stop, I know it sounds crazy but it worked
February 2009
Finally the team gave us a review of no evidence was captured so they couldn't officially say we had a haunting but their personal experiences made them feel it probably was...
While researching the history of this house they found that the deed has changed hands almost yearly since it was built- that trend even continues today as this house will be on the market again come July
1840 wow thats a huge number of people- odd they found a man who once owned the place by the name of Charles and he worked at the cigar factory - and other things that do seem to tie into some of the weirdness The also connected our home to a lady who was a victim of the Binghamton Clothing Factory fire back in 1913
My own research found that a prior tenant also experienced the same sort of happenings and she also informed me that another former tenant was into the occult I also learned that the Binghamton fire victim survived the fire, but she had jumped 4 stories that day to save herself from the flames and had a broken back.
I did get some EVPs there- which I posted elsewhere on this board -
June 2009We have moved as of June of this year and thus far seems what ever was in that house has stayed there
I want to stress although our first contact with the strange lady from one of TAPS family wasn't good the second team was fantastic and if you need help- don't hesitate, they will find you help and you don't have to be on TV
we had just moved into an older apartment house, we rented the entire home, not even seeing the downstairs apt, we were shown the upstairs and I didn't like the stairs, they bothered me for some reason so the manager offered us the downstairs apt, but the current tenant hadn't moved out we figured since someone was living there, couldn't be bad so we took the entire place...only to find the house was a mess, the basement was literally crammed to the ceiling with junk, we had to hire people to clean it out truck load after truckload, -the bathroom in the downstairs had a hole in the wall the toilet was loose you couldn't use the thing - the upstairs wasn't as bad - but that kitchen couldn't be used the sink drain wasn't connected, it would require thousands to live in- our apt was a wreck- we repaired the house living there rent free - I stress before I go on with the story we had professionals in there, fixing the wiring and plumbing and re keying the entire house
these professionals all had experiences while working on our home which I will add as events unfold.
My first night in the new place- I am awakened by footsteps- think nothing of it- after all the other place we had just moved from an apartment complex was so damn noisy Id been awaken nightly.
JUNE 2008
As I began cleaning this place I'd sometimes smell cigar smoke lingering for a minute or two and start smelling foul odors, hearing jazz type music, but there was no near neighbor or any source of the music - then those shadows out of the corner of my eye..but I chalk it off as being over stressed, from the move.
But I am not the only one, Matt hears something to, one day he claimed to be pushed by a ghost
((at first I thought he had too many mikes hard lemonade's))
- his fall is so bad he requires stitches
and keeping with that "nothing is ever just simple" motto that seems to plague us he ends up getting violently ill days later, post concussion syndrome along with 13 stitches from the fall.
A day or two later I had a plumber in, he was fixing some loose pipes, and fixing the upstairs sink, when he was done he came upstairs to give me the invoice and says Mame I don't know how to say this but something shoved me when I was working down in the basement, I thought you were there trying to get my attention, kinda creep ed me out, then he laughs and says I think you have a ghost! I laughed it off. Ghosts are not real.
A week or two later, odd things keep happening but I'm focused on getting settled here finally we have a whole house
Stereos turn themselves on and off, when they never did this in the old place- Matt claims something is bothering him in the basement. poking at him? He comes upstairs and
claims to have been shoved while down there- I think he's insane, , my girls are upstairs and my youngest tells me that
she just felt like she walked into spiderwebs cold ones, now its July and there are these areas in the house that are ice cold at times, you can see your breath, yet my other daughter in the computer room is experiencing a hot spot, it was way warmer in that room and it smelled foul, like rotting flesh/eggs...then it returns to normal no smell, no heat, or cold area my batteries to my camera kept dieing as I would try to photograph the upgrades we were making on the home, then they be fully charged again......odd. and this happens frequently - there are no spiderwebs and the house isn't drafty yet we keep having these sensations
later Matt brings me down to this small storage area in the basement and says "its" in here- first I think he's
crazy then as God as my witness or whatever you think the higher power of life is, I was shoved so much so that I lunged forward, I got a bit freaked out- and argued with him that it may be High EMF fields just making us paranoid ??
Later that night we both saw something it was a wispy figure of a woman that seemed to be standing in the doorway- it was so clear to me I said OK- you draw what you saw and I draw what I saw, and see if we think we saw the same thing
And when I looked at his drawing I got a chill- he'd drawn the same odd collar on a woman figure with the same length dress and the same hair freaky a mutual hallucination? At that point I didn't know what to think?
JULY 2008
It would be a few days after that -before me the paranormal skeptic would entertain that there was something nonliving here-
cupboard doors would be open in the morning, when I knew they were closed, I found my necklace in a new plastic container of kitty litter, but still I wasn't convinced...we had just moved you know I was tired and things get lost.
I had the apartment re keyed, the locksmith, while working all of a sudden says did you need something? I am in the back room and told him "No, why?" He mumbles that he swore someone was standing right behind him, thought it was me.
Next day
I go upstairs gathering my kids laundry a bit frustrated because I found a picture of Jesus had fallen off the wall so I rehung it up and it fell again immediately so I head downstairs to get a hammer and some nails as I was coming down the stairs and felt a violent shove, that almost knocked me down I grabbed onto the railing as I felt something invisible go through me- I felt violated and reacted by yelling at the top of my lungs " Whoever you are I command you in the name of Jesus and his team of angels to leave now and go to the light - leave this house now you are unwelcome- with this shouting of course Matt comes running finding me danging from the railing-and the whole stairwell now reeked with the strong smell of roses, it only lasted for a minute but from that minute on I knew something was here, what I didn't know but it could move things- shove people, make foul odors, and it seemed not to like us all that well - We wanted a logical explanation- so we contacted TAPS the guys that do ghost hunters on sci-fi to get their opinion -we were actually looking in the yellow pages there was no local ghost hunters so we had to find someone TAPS was the only group I knew of.
More and more things would happen- things would move knock over, there were shadows and noises and a friend of Matt's who was staying with us - who had no idea about what we we're experiencing- came down stairs one morning and told me that we had a ghost - he had heard pots and pans moving around, saw a lady up there- yet there were no pots and pans up there to rattle - freaky
One night Matt and I were in the downstairs living room watching TV when we heard loud footsteps upstairs, and bangs we ran upstairs me with the phone in hand, thinking someone had broken in, ready to call the police we find nothing except the chain lock to the back door swinging as if the door had just been moved, the doors were all locked.
At some point we had the electricians in this week and when they both told me that they felt like something touched them, while they were working at this point I do not even bat an eye.
((BTW We had them check for Emfs they found nothing abnormal, ugh there blows that theory)
AUGUST 2008
I don't hear back from Tap's right away, I'm thinking its summer maybe they are out filming, then I get a phone call - from a well known lady in the paranormal field whom had done several TV shows with a demonic slant- (I opted to omit her name, because I believe it unfair to say negative things about someone without them being able to defend them selves)
Anyway this lady started out the conversation by stating that she had personally spoken to Jason over our case, and he was concerned because of our children, (that turned out to be a lie- Jason as far as I know to this day, doesn't know about our haunting) She then went on to explain that the Rhode Island team that you see on TV often refers out cases that they can not come to, and that she had been forwarded our case, and we begin talking about all of the things that had occurred, and she tells me that I need to get blessed St Padre-Pio and St Michael metals, I tell her we are not Catholic she says we still need them, that we have a demon and we need a blessing and that she also wanted to know if we'd consider going to paranormal state, as they needed cases and ours sounded like it was right up their alley - then she wanted money, for gas..I listened to her and said look I cant make the decision here, I will need to talk to my other half, but no way do I want to be on TV nor do I want anyone with paranormal state coming to our home, she then said she was contacting a demonologist and would have him contact us and told me to call her 24-7 if it got any worse.
At this point I was desperate, it seemed anyone that came into our home was being pestered by whatever was in it...so even though I thought it was insane, I got those metals as she told me to...had them blessed, thinking this was insane I hung the crosses and all those silly prayers. Burnt sage and managed to make it worse.
I had just finished the St Michael's prayer and the sage is burning when I heard a loud bang, looking around I found every cross, and religious picture angel statue had knocked over, yet the family pictures and my photographs of wildlife remained on the walls, and my nurse statues and bottles remained upright?? I can't explain that one, what did we have a selective earthquake?
Then we all started seeing these shadow figures, straight on now they were no longer the corner of the eye quick glimpses they were dark masses of human form with a 3 d and darkness to them that there are no words for, you have to see one to know what it is... one evening about 7 PM this shadow thing walked through the stairwell into the living room, then vanished into the wall, my cat chased it crashing into the wall after it, there was a foul odor at the same time, again it was over powering and lasted only for a moment.
We'd see them in every room - and you'd feel like you were being looked at, then look up and it be there they vanish into walls sometimes spinning around and disappearing into the floor.
My kids said they saw these glowing balls, drift through their room. I only saw one once it was a sphere of light, didn't know what it was, and couldn't figure out how to duplicate it either.
Matt was shoved on the stairs again then Matt felt a burn on his leg one night, a scratch materialized on his leg before our eyes
at that point we called that well known lady back -we needed help ASAP
She said "sorry, its beyond our scope, you need clergy there to do a blessing" So Matt told her off in spades, and hung up on her.
At that point we recontacted TAPS reported that this woman told us to do things which we did and it made it worse...we then learned that this woman had never been in touch with Jason as she told us and also the gas money thing seemed to make Kristyn G. mad, she quickly put us in touch with another taps family...that like them, didn't declare a place haunted without going there
The demonologist did contact us, and tried and over the phone cleansing- didn't change a thing we also had some church contact us and tell us we had a global prayer chain over the haunting- too weird for me to think of, was set up by the first lady-
The cigar odor became common I started calling the smoking ghost Charles- for some unknown reason WE had the city in to check our sewer lines to make sure there wasn't a leak, they found nothing -
One day I am cleaning had that feeling I was being watched and
said OK Mr Ghost, make yourself known, and a bottle of cleaning
fluid that was on the floor toppled over, just as I said that and the aroma of cigar smoke filled the room, I back out of there, and see an apparition of an old man in a chair briefly appear and I am totally thinking that I am losing my mind as he disappears into thin air
September 2008
Eventually a team from the Taps family shows up and does a 2 day investigation - and they had some weird things happen while they investigated, flashlight responded to them by going on and off when asked- they heard a horrid laugh as they were leaving they had packed all of their equipment up the laugh sent the team running back upstairs, it was if they were being taunted by it - one of the team was shoved to the ground during the investigation, 2nd night the lead investigator and myself became ill and we both had to stop investigating the rest of the team kept going until daybreak - after the team pulled out of the driveway the lights flashed we heard bangs and footsteps again- it was like ha-ha you didn't get us - it continued weird things we got used to it everyday at any hour things might happen, but it got so we could command it to stop, I know it sounds crazy but it worked
February 2009
Finally the team gave us a review of no evidence was captured so they couldn't officially say we had a haunting but their personal experiences made them feel it probably was...
While researching the history of this house they found that the deed has changed hands almost yearly since it was built- that trend even continues today as this house will be on the market again come July
1840 wow thats a huge number of people- odd they found a man who once owned the place by the name of Charles and he worked at the cigar factory - and other things that do seem to tie into some of the weirdness The also connected our home to a lady who was a victim of the Binghamton Clothing Factory fire back in 1913
My own research found that a prior tenant also experienced the same sort of happenings and she also informed me that another former tenant was into the occult I also learned that the Binghamton fire victim survived the fire, but she had jumped 4 stories that day to save herself from the flames and had a broken back.
I did get some EVPs there- which I posted elsewhere on this board -
June 2009We have moved as of June of this year and thus far seems what ever was in that house has stayed there
I want to stress although our first contact with the strange lady from one of TAPS family wasn't good the second team was fantastic and if you need help- don't hesitate, they will find you help and you don't have to be on TV