Chapter 3~A Family of GhostsA Chapter by MsMermaidGhosts in the first house I bought in Spokane.
When I and my 5 children arrived in Spokane we all stayed with my sister while I hunted for the perfect house to buy with my nest egg.
I found a beautiful brick two story, turn of the century house with a big covered porch. It didn't take long after moving in for things to start happening. The first thing I noticed was late at night. I could hear walking, as if someone were walking along a long wooden floored corridor. The sounds seemed to be coming from my closet, but when I looked, I couldn't see anything and my closet was very small and not a long corridor the length of the house, that I envisioned in my mind when I heard the echoing footsteps. Later, when I was talking to my oldest daughter, the subject came up and she said she heard the sounds too whenever she was in the house. (She lived in a bus converted to a motor home parked in my driveway.) But it was usually during the day and downstairs when she heard it. She thought she saw the vision of a man dressed in black wearing black boots from the early 1900's going up the stairs one time. She also saw a woman from the same era and some young boys. She got the sense that this family had lived in the house when it was first built in 1902. We continued to hear odd sounds in the house the whole two years we lived there but none who witnessed it seemed afraid, nor were the ghosts frightening. They were just a young family going about their daily business in what they thought was still their home. © 2011 MsMermaid |
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1 Review Added on December 11, 2011 Last Updated on December 13, 2011 AuthorMsMermaidSpokane, WAAboutI've been writing poetry since I was a child, but I still have a lot to learn. I like the old fashioned rhyme and meter style of poetry, but have tried my hand at Haiku and other styles. I hope to hon.. more..Writing
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