Post by Marc Brunson on Jan 27, 2007 12:33:09 GMT -5
Some of you may know this story that I told in confidence. I thought about whether I should speak about this story or not, and then decided I would because it has a lot of bearing on why I started looking into the paranormal in the first place.
I had experiences as a child of course, most children do. But, there in an extremely over active imagination of a child can explain a lot especially by the time you are a teenager. When I was 16 I had another experience, the last major encounter was also the first one I can swear on.
I went to visit my family in Kentucky on my mother's side. Where they lived at the time, there was a very old house in the next lot, next door to their own house. They owned this other house and used it for storage. Also there in the house was a sort of gym. There was a vertical plate machine, scissor machine, leg press machine, and a bench w/bar and weights. We rarely went in this house at night, if ever. I never thought anything of it, I just thought that maybe it wasn't wired for electricity. I found out a few weeks later that it was wired, when we went in there looking for something and there was not much sunlight. That day I thought I saw something out of my eye later in the day when the sun was back out. It was going upstairs of this house and thought I seen out of the corner of my eye, someone hanging from a rafter and they appeared to be wearing a civil war era union uniform. I was pretty sure of what I saw but just passed it off as light reflections in the window. I said nothing of what I had seen for fear I would be considered a weirdo.
So, about a week later I believe it was, me and my cousin were out and about nearly the entire day. I had been getting into working out for about 30 min a day and my cousin was doing the same. We basically missed our work out time during the daylight hours. And I wasn't worried about that, I had no reason to worry about it. I told my cousin I was going next door to the house to go work out and he was like "We should just skip it today, once isn't going to matter." I knew if I didn't I would not go back the next day, so I told him I was going to go out there for a while and do my thing. Now understand, I had been there nearly a month by now, and I never knew him to skip a workout. Not to mention all this in mind, I had yet never heard anyone say anything strange about the house but there was a general thought about "don't go in there at night.." just not out right.
So here's the story, it is about 8 o'clock at night, I decided to go ahead and work out, I head out to this house and start working on the vertical plate machine first, as I always did. Nothing out of the ordinary that night that I am aware of. Walked in there and set my weight on the plates and went at it. Had been in there maybe 10 to 15 min when I noticed, the paint on the ceiling was all white again. "What?" The paint on the walls and the ceiling were all chipped out cracked and nearly gone it had all fallen off so much on the walls. The ceiling was still pretty much there but cracked up and chipped none the less. Now I am looking at it like it was freshly painted yesterday.
So I decided to raise up and have a good look. I let go of the bar and raised up, when I looked around I saw all of the walls were well painted and the door was no longer where I last remembered it. The door was on the other end of the room and the windows were all gone. The wall on the other end of the room still looked chipped up and cracked up and missing paint but now had a door in it where there was not one before. Now seeing all this a thick mist rolled above the wall near the ceiling. This wall then began to have blood run down it all the way to the floor, and it was most evident that the blood was covering the door and somehow the only thing in the room was what I was sitting on, the vertical plate machine.
Needless to say, I was out of my mind scared. I have never seen anything like this. I have seen worse as a kid, but that could all have been discounted because I was just a kid. Not to mention I hadn't seen anything since I was about 9 or 10 so this is like 6 years difference in seeing anything at all like this. I didn't know what to do, so I just closed my eyes and said to my self "This isn't real.." over and over until I opened my eyes and everything was back to normal. I ran for the door that was now back to my right. I ran for it and out of the house quickly. I went back into my family's house, and went in and sat down in my cousin's room where I was staying. He came in and was like, "Where you been it's like midnight?" I said "What?" He asked me where I had been again and I told him what I had seen. He then told me he should have said something because nearly everyone has had something happen out there in that house. I asked him what time was it again, and looked at a clock... remember I went out there at 8 o'clock and was only out there about 10 to 15 min till anything happened. The whole time I would have to say should have been no more than 20 to 30 min, here he is telling me it is 12:00 am. not 8:30 pm. 3.5 hours were missing. This my cousin said had never happened or at least nobody had noticed it before.
Bottom line is I saw some freaky stuff, and I think it was an anniversary thing where I had walked in there at the wrong time in the wrong place on the wrong day. This is all I could figure out about what had happened. Between I and my cousin we had decided not to speak about the matter any more. In fact, there are very few people who know this story from me and even now I am not completely comfortable in this experience being known, but it may be of some use in helping someone else.
I had experiences as a child of course, most children do. But, there in an extremely over active imagination of a child can explain a lot especially by the time you are a teenager. When I was 16 I had another experience, the last major encounter was also the first one I can swear on.
I went to visit my family in Kentucky on my mother's side. Where they lived at the time, there was a very old house in the next lot, next door to their own house. They owned this other house and used it for storage. Also there in the house was a sort of gym. There was a vertical plate machine, scissor machine, leg press machine, and a bench w/bar and weights. We rarely went in this house at night, if ever. I never thought anything of it, I just thought that maybe it wasn't wired for electricity. I found out a few weeks later that it was wired, when we went in there looking for something and there was not much sunlight. That day I thought I saw something out of my eye later in the day when the sun was back out. It was going upstairs of this house and thought I seen out of the corner of my eye, someone hanging from a rafter and they appeared to be wearing a civil war era union uniform. I was pretty sure of what I saw but just passed it off as light reflections in the window. I said nothing of what I had seen for fear I would be considered a weirdo.
So, about a week later I believe it was, me and my cousin were out and about nearly the entire day. I had been getting into working out for about 30 min a day and my cousin was doing the same. We basically missed our work out time during the daylight hours. And I wasn't worried about that, I had no reason to worry about it. I told my cousin I was going next door to the house to go work out and he was like "We should just skip it today, once isn't going to matter." I knew if I didn't I would not go back the next day, so I told him I was going to go out there for a while and do my thing. Now understand, I had been there nearly a month by now, and I never knew him to skip a workout. Not to mention all this in mind, I had yet never heard anyone say anything strange about the house but there was a general thought about "don't go in there at night.." just not out right.
So here's the story, it is about 8 o'clock at night, I decided to go ahead and work out, I head out to this house and start working on the vertical plate machine first, as I always did. Nothing out of the ordinary that night that I am aware of. Walked in there and set my weight on the plates and went at it. Had been in there maybe 10 to 15 min when I noticed, the paint on the ceiling was all white again. "What?" The paint on the walls and the ceiling were all chipped out cracked and nearly gone it had all fallen off so much on the walls. The ceiling was still pretty much there but cracked up and chipped none the less. Now I am looking at it like it was freshly painted yesterday.
So I decided to raise up and have a good look. I let go of the bar and raised up, when I looked around I saw all of the walls were well painted and the door was no longer where I last remembered it. The door was on the other end of the room and the windows were all gone. The wall on the other end of the room still looked chipped up and cracked up and missing paint but now had a door in it where there was not one before. Now seeing all this a thick mist rolled above the wall near the ceiling. This wall then began to have blood run down it all the way to the floor, and it was most evident that the blood was covering the door and somehow the only thing in the room was what I was sitting on, the vertical plate machine.
Needless to say, I was out of my mind scared. I have never seen anything like this. I have seen worse as a kid, but that could all have been discounted because I was just a kid. Not to mention I hadn't seen anything since I was about 9 or 10 so this is like 6 years difference in seeing anything at all like this. I didn't know what to do, so I just closed my eyes and said to my self "This isn't real.." over and over until I opened my eyes and everything was back to normal. I ran for the door that was now back to my right. I ran for it and out of the house quickly. I went back into my family's house, and went in and sat down in my cousin's room where I was staying. He came in and was like, "Where you been it's like midnight?" I said "What?" He asked me where I had been again and I told him what I had seen. He then told me he should have said something because nearly everyone has had something happen out there in that house. I asked him what time was it again, and looked at a clock... remember I went out there at 8 o'clock and was only out there about 10 to 15 min till anything happened. The whole time I would have to say should have been no more than 20 to 30 min, here he is telling me it is 12:00 am. not 8:30 pm. 3.5 hours were missing. This my cousin said had never happened or at least nobody had noticed it before.
Bottom line is I saw some freaky stuff, and I think it was an anniversary thing where I had walked in there at the wrong time in the wrong place on the wrong day. This is all I could figure out about what had happened. Between I and my cousin we had decided not to speak about the matter any more. In fact, there are very few people who know this story from me and even now I am not completely comfortable in this experience being known, but it may be of some use in helping someone else.