Post by Greg C. on Jun 23, 2007 10:20:48 GMT -5
I know many of you have had a ghostly encounter or two and maybe Wade will share his story of the one he saw while in San Antonio. This is the thread to post any ghost stories you have.
I have only had one: A friend of the family bought a house back where I was born in Staten Island New York. It was a very old house, maybe even one hundred years old. After they were there a while one of the nieghbors who had lived on the block for more then sixty years came and told her that the house was haunted. They say it was inhabited by a somewhat friendly ghost and he is rarely seen but is heard almost everyday. The story goes that he was a fireman and every day he would leave for work at three o'clock. So he would put his boots on and stomp down the stairs on his way out and supposedly to this day, you can still hear the footsteps.
So I visited the house many times during the years and always made sure I stuck around until three o'clock. I never heard a thing. Then on my last visit which was a few months ago, at around two o'clock my friend and I walked over to the stairs and tried to challenge the ghost to come down. We asked it questions and said things like "I'll only belive in you if I hear those footsteps at three o'clock". So we waited until that time and stood there and listened carefully. We were the only two in the house. Ten minutes passed after three and I figured he wasn't coming down. We walked into the kitchen and then we heard them. We ran to where the stairway was and sure enough we heard the footsteps. It was very creepy.
But I always wondered why he could only be heard on the strairs becuase my friend said that was the only place he ever encountered him. It didn't make sense until we found a compartment in the wall adjacent to the staircase. There had been a large portrait on this wall and no one had moved it and since the people loved it so much they decided to keep it there. But it was now old and dusty and starting to warp so they removed it from the wall to get it professionally cleaned. They pulled it away and there was a hole in the wall covered by a flat piece of wood that blended in. They removed the cover and found a large box there. Inside that box were photographs of the fireman, his pair of boots, and a gold watch and chain stopped at three o'clock.
I have only had one: A friend of the family bought a house back where I was born in Staten Island New York. It was a very old house, maybe even one hundred years old. After they were there a while one of the nieghbors who had lived on the block for more then sixty years came and told her that the house was haunted. They say it was inhabited by a somewhat friendly ghost and he is rarely seen but is heard almost everyday. The story goes that he was a fireman and every day he would leave for work at three o'clock. So he would put his boots on and stomp down the stairs on his way out and supposedly to this day, you can still hear the footsteps.
So I visited the house many times during the years and always made sure I stuck around until three o'clock. I never heard a thing. Then on my last visit which was a few months ago, at around two o'clock my friend and I walked over to the stairs and tried to challenge the ghost to come down. We asked it questions and said things like "I'll only belive in you if I hear those footsteps at three o'clock". So we waited until that time and stood there and listened carefully. We were the only two in the house. Ten minutes passed after three and I figured he wasn't coming down. We walked into the kitchen and then we heard them. We ran to where the stairway was and sure enough we heard the footsteps. It was very creepy.
But I always wondered why he could only be heard on the strairs becuase my friend said that was the only place he ever encountered him. It didn't make sense until we found a compartment in the wall adjacent to the staircase. There had been a large portrait on this wall and no one had moved it and since the people loved it so much they decided to keep it there. But it was now old and dusty and starting to warp so they removed it from the wall to get it professionally cleaned. They pulled it away and there was a hole in the wall covered by a flat piece of wood that blended in. They removed the cover and found a large box there. Inside that box were photographs of the fireman, his pair of boots, and a gold watch and chain stopped at three o'clock.
