Another ghost story..

[sumi]

My great grandfather's house in Portland was haunted. You could hear steps going up stairs and doors opening. If you slept in one of the downstairs bedrooms you had to make sure your feet were covered.

Great Grandpa's own grandfather died in the house and the phenomenon started happening shortly after. You'd hear something and know it was just Old Jack. He's the one who built the house originally.

I don't think my Great Aunt mentioned anything when they sold off the house after Great Grandpa died in the late 90s. Wasn't the best area of the city by that time but the area was undergoing urban renewal and being gentrified again. So someone bought a huge Victorian house on an acre in downtown Portland Oregon not knowing they were getting a family ghost.

It was a neat house. At some point Great Grandpa had connected the "garage" to the house so you could get there without getting wet. He installed wooden doors so you could get one car in. More could have fit but he didn't want to take down the 2 horse stalls that were still there. All the sidewalks in the neighborhood still had the metal rings for tying up horses out front of a house if you were visiting

That sounds like a lovely house! Many of those old houses seem to come with a ghost or two. I kinda expect it from some of them, with all the history they have.

 

[Chic Rustler]

Neat!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

 

[sumi]

This going to sound like bs. But when i bought my first house (it was built in the 40s) we wouod always see dark spots around the ceiling from the corner of our eyes until we turned to look. The place was pretty creepy as well.


A few years in i decided to rewire the place. While working in the attic i found a pair of lineman pliers with no insulation on the handles. They looked to be from the 50s. They had also been blown up. A chunk was missing from the cutting edge from cutting into a live wire. They were engraved with the name ray.

I tossed the pliers. And i ran all the new wiring in metal conduit. Never seen anything afterward

I would be asking everyone old enough in the area about Ray and the possible story behind those.

 

[moxies_chickennuggets]

I don't see why people would just dismiss spirits. People on this earth become attached to things, places and even other living beings. And I am sure many don't even know they are dead.
I have always been sensitive to "things" myself.

 

[NH Homesteader]

There is one house I'm sure is haunted but we knew the guy so it's kinda like, oh hey Dave! Lol it's creepy when you don't know the story though.