An excerpt from Haunted Ohio IV about an 1857 house in Old Washington. (Just to be perverse, in this excerpt I stop right before what I think is the best part--about the basement, which owner Ruth called the dungeon of terror.--if youve got a copy, you can finish the story on page 87) The first person speaking is owner Bill. “I’ve had some definite experiences. It was Christmas time and my wife was out at work. I was sitting in the library watching TV with the two dogs. I was sure I had locked the doors. I heard footsteps from the kitchen through the dining room, into the library and then I heard keys dropped and a glass set down. It wasn’t my imagination—the dogs jumped off the couch and ran to greet the visitor, assuming it was Ruth. They stopped and looked at the doorway, dumbfounded. Nobody had walked into the library; nobody else was in the house. That was the type of thing that happened to me.” Doors also open, especially one onto the upstairs porch, as Ruth Dixon can attest: “We’ve got a double-decker screened-in porch on one side of house and one of the bedrooms opens onto the second level. When it’s hot I’ll sometimes go there to sleep. One night, it was so hot, I didn’t fall right to sleep. I could hear footsteps coming towards the door to the porch. The door flew open and I looked up, expecting to see my husband. “’What’s wrong?’ I said. “There was no one there and no one in the bedroom. Then I got to thinking. The bedroom is fully carpeted. I couldn’t have heard anyone walking across it. I sat down in a chair. The door flew open again. It was a calm night and there was no wind. I stood up and said, ‘What seems to be the problem?’ The door flew shut.” Both Bill and Ruth have heard mysterious sounds and footsteps. One day Ruth was chatting to a friend on the phone. “I was sitting in a chair beside the phone and as we talked, I could see the lights going on and off in the parlor through the transom over the door. I told my friend and she panicked! “’You have seven or eight doors to the outside. You could have someone in there with you!’ “So I went to check. I couldn’t get to the door with the transom because there was painting equipment piled in front of it, so I went up the hall to the other door. My two little dogs ran along with me. We were halfway up the hall when the door to the parlor flew open with a tremendous crash. We all stopped dead, then the dogs turned tail and ran. I heard quick footsteps—leather-soled shoes on wood—approaching out of the parlor and down the hall. I felt this cold breeze which got colder and colder the closer it got to me. I felt absolutely frigid, then the footsteps went on behind me, and opened and shut a door that wasn’t there. Then it was over. It was very, very scary. I really didn’t know what to do. “I went back to the phone and told my friend. She said to have the electricity checked and I imagined the rest. “‘It’s a dark, dreary day and you’re alone in the house,’ she said. ‘Your weight on the floor caused the door to fly open.’ “But the door goes open all the time. The electricity was all fine...
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 13:00:08 +0000
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