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OUR SPOOKY OLD HOUSE... (continued)... is nearly 100 years old and provides us with an occasional spooky and unexplained incident to ponder and share with others. Nothing hurtful, dangerous or demonic... just very unusual, quirky and mischievous more than anything.
Well, IT JUST HAPPENED AGAIN! Another unexplained and strange "coincidence" in our dining room this time.
Earlier, I told you about the "triangle of rooms" that has 95% of the incidents occur in them... the "kitchen-dining room-downstairs bathroom" connection. (Note: I know that I have yet to describe the numerous small to large incidents that have occured within this area of the house... but those short incident reports will follow as time goes on.)
This morning, about 20 minutes ago, my wife and I were sitting in the front room/TV room when we heard a loud, muffled crash in the house... maybe a couple rooms away !
I jumped up to investigate and found nothing disturbed in the games/piano room. As I entered the dining room, over near the basement door, there had been a stack of empty gift boxes in a tub and 3 wire storage racks set on top. This stack had been there since before our yard sale, ...untouched for well over 2 weeks.
There was no one else in the house and my wife and I had not walked through this room in nearly 2 hours.
The wire storage racks "decided", for no apparent reason, to just move sideways 5 or 6 inches from on top of the box of boxes to where they could then crash down onto the carpeting and rest up against the wall !
I saw no cause or explanation.
Just another quirky, strange, spooky "coincidence"?
Or is it another piece in a pattern of mild, but annoying paranormal occurences in our spooky old house ?
Monday, November 12, 2007
Friday, November 2, 2007
- OUR SPOOKY OLD HOUSE... Marble Chessboard Incident
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OUR SPOOKY OLD HOUSE is nearly 100 years old and provides us with an occasional spooky and unexplained incident to ponder and share with others. Nothing hurtful, dangerous or demonic... just very unusual, quirky and mischievous more than anything.
Our old, 2-story house was built in 1910 and sits on the edge of our small midwest town. The large town cemetery surrounds our 1-acre property to the north and northwest... and a few completely filled-in, abandoned water wells dot our back and side yards. To look at the house, there is nothing exceptional or out of the ordinary about it, the garage or the yard. But since we moved in 15 years ago, there have been many, many unexplained incidents that make the hair stand up on your neck or give you goose bumps.
As far as we know, no one has actually died in our house... there was an old, unverified rumor that a toddler boy fell into an open, uncovered water well at the bottom of the basement stairs a long time ago and drowned... apparently just an old (unconfirmed) rumor. Also, our large TV room has a big picture window and two pocket-doors that seal off the room... and it is rumored that several previous-owner family members, upon their deaths, were laid out for visitations in that room before their burials (also unconfirmed).
One thing that is true, is that the previous owner did try to intentionally burn down the downstairs bathroom portion of the house... while her husband was in there taking a shower !!! She claimed she "accidently" caught the bathroom doorway and carpet on fire... they were divorced soon after.
***The majority of incidents we have noticed over the years, do seem to occur in that downstairs bathroom/dining room/kitchen "triangle of rooms" area.
Anyway, on with the incident...
Several years ago while on a business trip to San Diego, (in March of 2000 I think) I purchased a great-looking, decorative marble and wood chess set as a souvenir from Tijuana, Mexico.
It has carved wood sides and a base with drawers that hold the marble, rough-carved chess pieces when they are not displayed. The chessboard inlaid on top is a pattern of pink and gray/white marble squares that match the chess pieces. The whole chess set weighs about 20 pounds or more.
When not in use, we stand it on edge and lean it back at a 45-degree angle against the dining room wall as a classy, room decoration.
One sunny afternoon a few years ago, my wife and I were watching television in the front room... when we heard a very loud and heavy "Ka-Thump" that came from the dining room area. Our dining room is two big rooms away from the front room, (plus we usually have the TV turned up a little too loud)... so the "Ka-Thump" must have been pretty loud for us to hear it like that.
Startled, we both jumped up to investigate and found that the heavy, marble & wood chess set had... for no apparent reason... fallen FORWARD and crashed top-down onto the carpeted floor !!! Nothing was broken on the chess set BUT, remember... the chess set is always leaning BACK against the wall at least at a 45-degree angle ! We looked around and saw no reason for the set to have fallen FORWARD like that... no one else in the house, no windows open nearby, no earthquakes (in Illinois ?)... no explainable reason.
So I repositioned it and nothing has happened since.
Very strange indeed... Go figure ?
OUR SPOOKY OLD HOUSE is nearly 100 years old and provides us with an occasional spooky and unexplained incident to ponder and share with others. Nothing hurtful, dangerous or demonic... just very unusual, quirky and mischievous more than anything.
Our old, 2-story house was built in 1910 and sits on the edge of our small midwest town. The large town cemetery surrounds our 1-acre property to the north and northwest... and a few completely filled-in, abandoned water wells dot our back and side yards. To look at the house, there is nothing exceptional or out of the ordinary about it, the garage or the yard. But since we moved in 15 years ago, there have been many, many unexplained incidents that make the hair stand up on your neck or give you goose bumps.
As far as we know, no one has actually died in our house... there was an old, unverified rumor that a toddler boy fell into an open, uncovered water well at the bottom of the basement stairs a long time ago and drowned... apparently just an old (unconfirmed) rumor. Also, our large TV room has a big picture window and two pocket-doors that seal off the room... and it is rumored that several previous-owner family members, upon their deaths, were laid out for visitations in that room before their burials (also unconfirmed).
One thing that is true, is that the previous owner did try to intentionally burn down the downstairs bathroom portion of the house... while her husband was in there taking a shower !!! She claimed she "accidently" caught the bathroom doorway and carpet on fire... they were divorced soon after.
***The majority of incidents we have noticed over the years, do seem to occur in that downstairs bathroom/dining room/kitchen "triangle of rooms" area.
Anyway, on with the incident...
Several years ago while on a business trip to San Diego, (in March of 2000 I think) I purchased a great-looking, decorative marble and wood chess set as a souvenir from Tijuana, Mexico.
It has carved wood sides and a base with drawers that hold the marble, rough-carved chess pieces when they are not displayed. The chessboard inlaid on top is a pattern of pink and gray/white marble squares that match the chess pieces. The whole chess set weighs about 20 pounds or more.
When not in use, we stand it on edge and lean it back at a 45-degree angle against the dining room wall as a classy, room decoration.
One sunny afternoon a few years ago, my wife and I were watching television in the front room... when we heard a very loud and heavy "Ka-Thump" that came from the dining room area. Our dining room is two big rooms away from the front room, (plus we usually have the TV turned up a little too loud)... so the "Ka-Thump" must have been pretty loud for us to hear it like that.
Startled, we both jumped up to investigate and found that the heavy, marble & wood chess set had... for no apparent reason... fallen FORWARD and crashed top-down onto the carpeted floor !!! Nothing was broken on the chess set BUT, remember... the chess set is always leaning BACK against the wall at least at a 45-degree angle ! We looked around and saw no reason for the set to have fallen FORWARD like that... no one else in the house, no windows open nearby, no earthquakes (in Illinois ?)... no explainable reason.
I leaned the chess set back against the wall and tried to manually repeat the incident, but it took quite a bit of pulling the set forward before it would roll on over onto its chessboard top !
So I repositioned it and nothing has happened since.
Very strange indeed... Go figure ?
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