On 1/3/2017 12:04 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 1/3/2017 12:45 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>> "jmcquown" wrote in message news >>
>>>
>>>> Before I was married (1982) my fiance rented a shotgun house. It was
>>>> the former caretaker's cottage behind what used to be a moderate
>>>> plantation house in west TN. I was there by myself, putting up some
>>>> shelf paper and cleaning the kitchen. I could see out the kitchen
>>>> window down the driveway.
>>>>
>>>> It was a nice Spring day in April. I had the windows and doors open
>>>> while I did some cleaning up in the kitchen at the back. There was a
>>>> wooden screen door at the front with a squeaky rusty spring. I was
>>>> alone at the back of the house when I heard the rusty spring, heard the
>>>> door open, then heard it thump shut. I heard heavy footsteps walking
>>>> through the front room, towards the bedroom (which was in the middle of
>>>> the house). I called out, "Michael? I'm back here!" Nothing. I
>>>> looked out the side kitchen window. No cars in the driveway. I went
>>>> back to whatever I was doing. Then I heard the screen door spring
>>>> again. And the wooden door again, thump. And again, heavy steps
>>>> walking into the front room. There was no one there. I was suddenly
>>>> filled with a feeling of dread. I literally got goosebumps. I knew I
>>>> wasn't alone in that place. I exited via the side kitchen door and
>>>> walked home to my parents house which was not far away.
>>>>
>>>> A few days later I met the two middle aged women (I think they were
>>>> cousins) who owned the property and lived together in the main house.
>>>> According to family legend, a man who was a caretaker there in the
>>>> 1950's believed his wife was having an affair with one of the farm
>>>> workers. He allegedly got drunk and in a rage came home and stabbed
>>>> her
>>>> to death.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, I don't have any citations. All I know is I refused to ever
>>>> spend time alone in that place again.
>>>
>>> So somebody COULD have been in the house but you never checked. No
>>> ghostly apparitions, frosty breezes, clocks running backwards at 10x
>>> speed, blood running down the mirrors, or even woo-ing sounds?
>>>
>>> It could have just been your stalker Alex!
>>>
>>> -sw
>>>
>> LOL I'm sure you know what a shotgun house is. I could see clear
>> through from the kitchen. There wasn't anyone there. The room did get
>> very cold (it was a warm spring day) but I didn't mention it, just that
>> I got goosebumps.
>>
>> Jill
>>
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>>
>> Heh you wouldn't have got me back in there either!!!!
>>
>>
>>
> There was a haunted church in downtown Memphis, too.

No! Only the minds of gullible believers are haunted:-)