When I was a practicing funeral director, I worked in an old home that was built in the early 1800's. It was originally a grocery store which became a funeral home in the 1950! 's. Many times I would be asked to stay behind to mind the funeral home while the owners were out to answer the door and telephone. Many times, on the 2nd floor (their personal living quarters), as I was watching TV, I would see a person wearing beige clothes on the top of the steps in the corner of my eye. As quickly as I could turn my head and focus my eyes, the person would be gone...without a sound. Similarly, as I'm working in the office (in the basement) by myself at night with no one else in the entire funeral home (with the exception of perhaps some dead bodies), I would hear many footsteps above me, as if there were 20 or more people walking around with shoes on. I would quickly run up the stairs and shout "Hello!", never getting a response. I'd run into the viewing room which is directly above the basement office and it would be completely empty! After a few months of this happening, I approached the funeral home supervisor's wife and co-owner of the funeral home about these occurrences. She said that they've experienced them too and agreed that it "just wasn't the old house settling". She said none of the images in their peripheral vision nor the noises ever acted in a threatening manner and never caused any harm, so they learned to live with them. She added that the original owner's wife died of a freak accident on the property. In the middle of winter, she went outside where the outhouse used to be. As she was doing her business, the old wooden floor gave-way and she fell into the foul sewage. She drowned in her family's own feces and urine! It took some rope and a few horses to get her out. A few months later, her husband committed suicide inside the home by hanging himself above the 2nd floor steps, and the grocery store soon after closed-down for good. As for the multiple shoed footsteps that are often heard at night, that can't be explained, but perhaps they are just other unsettled souls who found a place to gather.
When I was a practicing funeral director, I worked in an old home that was built in the early 1800's. It was originally a grocery store which became a funeral home in the 1950! 's. Many times I would be asked to stay behind to mind the funeral home while the owners were out to answer the door and telephone. Many times, on the 2nd floor (their personal living quarters), as I was watching TV, I would see a person wearing beige clothes on the top of the steps in the corner of my eye. As quickly as I could turn my head and focus my eyes, the person would be gone...without a sound. Similarly, as I'm working in the office (in the basement) by myself at night with no one else in the entire funeral home (with the exception of perhaps some dead bodies), I would hear many footsteps above me, as if there were 20 or more people walking around with shoes on. I would quickly run up the stairs and shout "Hello!", never getting a response. I'd run into the viewing room which is directly above the basement office and it would be completely empty! After a few months of this happening, I approached the funeral home supervisor's wife and co-owner of the funeral home about these occurrences. She said that they've experienced them too and agreed that it "just wasn't the old house settling". She said none of the images in their peripheral vision nor the noises ever acted in a threatening manner and never caused any harm, so they learned to live with them. She added that the original owner's wife died of a freak accident on the property. In the middle of winter, she went outside where the outhouse used to be. As she was doing her business, the old wooden floor gave-way and she fell into the foul sewage. She drowned in her family's own feces and urine! It took some rope and a few horses to get her out. A few months later, her husband committed suicide inside the home by hanging himself above the 2nd floor steps, and the grocery store soon after closed-down for good. As for the multiple shoed footsteps that are often heard at night, that can't be explained, but perhaps they are just other unsettled souls who found a place to gather.
Glad you liked my story. LOL...don't worry about the quote...no big deal at all. Welcome to the Forum. Hope you like the other two stories I posted too (Neon Blue Light and A Lingering Spirit). Take care.
~~ Nobtis nobtis5@yahoo.com http://www.geocities.com/nobtis5/Nobtis.html
Hey wicked,
I love sharing my stories with others, but also one can't be too safe. Anyone could take it when they visit this site and call it their own. I may publish a book of short stories one day (who knows?), and the last thing I'd need is to have someone steal my work just because I wanted to share it with others for free.
~~ Nobtis
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