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Reader's Ghost Stories
September, 2000
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See also: Sir Richard's True Ghost Stories



This was sent in from Linda

One  day in july 1997 my brother clamed he saw a ghost. The next day my grandpa
died.  My brother and I talked about it.   He said the ghost had a wife, three kids and a dog.  My brother said the ghost's name is Sunny.  He claimed Sunny died 107 years ago.  My brother talked about for months after that.  Now he sees Sunny every day.



My name is Ron Baughman and the stories that I tell are
the concerns of a house that I lived in, with and without my family, for
thirteen years that is located in the city of Canfield OH. There were many
unexplained events that started to take place roughly a year after we ( my
father, mother, younger sister and brother) had settled in.

My parents purchased the house in the fall of 1979. It was a little house in a
quiet historic community. When we moved in, the whole upstairs of the house,
which would eventually become three bedrooms ( one larger and two smaller)
joined by a long hallway, had been in the process of being remodeled and
needed finished. It was shortly after my father and his friend finished with
the upstairs refurbishing that the odd occurrences started.

The first experience that I recall is vivid in my memory, I had just gotten home from
my friends, the lights were out in the house and it looked like no-one was
home. I walked down the downstairs hall that led to the main bedroom ( my
parents and later my room), the smaller downsatirs bedroom, and the bathroom.
I opened up one of the doors that led into my parents room to see if my dad
might have been taking a nap. When I opened the door and turned on the light
I heard what sounded like nails being drug across the wood flooring of the
room and out of the lower corner of my eye I caught a movement at the side
and under the bed in the center of the room. I didn't get a good look at what
was apparently making the noise as it crawled under the bed, but it looked to
roughly be the size of the back of my hand, smooth, and light colored.
Whatever it was was left by me to be unseen because I'm scared of spiders and
in my minds eye that is what this thing put me in mind of as it slowly
scratched it's way under the bed. I quickly closed the door and left the
house to go back to my friends house uptown. Later, when I got back home, I
told my parents what I had seen in their room. At that time they were not to
concerned about strange goings on. That would later change.

Things really started picking up that summer and continued for the rest of the time
that I lived there. As a matter of fact summers seemed to be the peek time
for the weird stuff to happen. Thats when the noises, objects being moved,
unexplained lights would be seen, physical assaults would occur, voices could
be heard, feelings of dread, and other such, were at there best. These events
happened to many a relative or friend who would stay the night with us. They
would all have something to talk about the next morning or sometimes in the
middle of the night.        Many of the events were centered in or around the
main upstairs bedroom.      When it was completed it became my bedroom /
guest room for relatives. It was a large "L" shaped room with a cubby hole
opening on the small part of the " L " that was just the right size to fit my
bed, there was a small hexigonal window that looked out into the front yard,
and a larger sliding window on the other end of the room. There was a large
closet that had smaller "doorways" that led into the attic crawlspaces. Those
little doorways always did, and still do, give me the creeps and I don't know
why. My aunt and uncle were staying with us for a couple weeks and were using
my room, one night my mother was staying up late in the kitchen, which was
located at the bottom of the upstairs hallway, working at the kitchen table,
when she heard my aunt and uncle running down the hallway and down the stairs
into the kitchen. When they got downstairs they were both a little wild eyed
and outta breath.   Seconds later a little girl could be heard running down
the upstairs hall and down the stairs, giggling the whole way down. My
mother, aunt and uncle sat there petrified, afraid to look to the stairway,
when they did nothing was there and all was quiet. My uncle told her that he
and my aunt had just gotten into bed and shut off the light on the stand next
to it when it sounded like something had seriously bumped into the stand
about knocking over the lamp. He said that they both layed there for a moment
neither one having the courage to be the first to leg it outta there because
they had to pass by the stand to get to the door, when my aunt finally ran
for it he was right beside her. When they got into the hall they could hear
something coming from behind them, thats when they made for the downstairs
and into the kitchen.       There were more occurrences with a small child
and at least one adult , that I'm aware of, that took place there. They
really made their presence known. This one day I was at home doing the dishes
at the sink with the upstairs hallway to my back.  I was the only one in the
house except for my siamese cat. My sister came home and walked into the
kitchen and asked me who that was standing behind me when she came in? I told
her that I was the only one home except for her. She said that when she came
in there was someone behind me that ran upstairs when she walked in.    On
some nights you could hear the sounds of people having a conversation through
the vent that led to the main bedroom upstairs. It sounded as if a t.v. was
on but when you would go up there it was all quiet, but back downstairs it
would resume. You couldn't make out what was being said, but you could
definetly hear them.



This came in from James...

My name is James Mazur.  This ghost event has happened only in my friends house. We believe it is haunted.
 
It was at my friends house when I was 9.  We were parting the
night away.  When we went to bed, I heard a Yipe from his dog Tommy.  My Friend
told him to shut up and he went back to bed.  Then I had to use the
bathroom, when I turned the light on, I swore I saw A Black and Red Paw print
and a pentagram.  I shook my head and went outta the bathroom.  Then I heard this
low Growling sound.  Tommy was sound asleep next to my friend Justin.  Then I saw
Green Eyes from his closet.  I closed the closet trying to make no noise.  On
1:15,I heard a Loud howl outside and saw what looks like a Ghost Cerebus  (The
three headed dog of hell) and a Deformed guy smiling weird at me.  That was
it.  I got picked up from his house .He said I was a chicken and I was making
stuff up.  Put then He saw the same things 1 night later and now he moved from that place.  No one goes there and they call it Cerebus House because the past owners have saw what I've seen.  The history of the house is that the first
owners of the house were said to have made Satanic Rituals and contact the
devil.  I also have a shadow man in my house.  I say Hi to him and he waves
back.............



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