This true and frightening experience was told to me by "Julie". She and her family are followed by spirits, and this is one of many accounts she has told me, and graciously allowed to be posted on this fine page. This was taken in 1985 just before Christmas. The experiences of a family of 7 were many, but here are the most memorable. "My dad built the house in the 1950s, so only we lived there, but the house was always haunted. It had a sense of foreboding that never left. Our dogs often stared, growled, and bristled their hair, eyes following something we could not see. My sister lay in bed one night and heard chains and growling dogs running back and forth from window to window outside her room. She ran out terrified. She woke up one morning to see our dead grandpa standing at the foot of her bed, smiling. Doors opened, there were cold spots, unexplained noises, odors, lights going on at all hours, the washer and dryer coming on at 3 a.m. My dad had a 30 foot boat trailer out in the yard that's engine would suddenly roar into life late at night. Once my dad was yanked out of his bed by the ankles. His screams woke my mother who found him wide eyed on the floor. I was grabbed, hard in the sides and tickled while I was in bed. It hurt and I was swinging my arms trying to hit whoever it was, my arms just swung through the air hitting nothing, yet the tickling continued. It was so hard it was lifting me off the bed. I thought it'd never stop, but finally it did. My parents often came home to find us kids sitting out front waiting for them to come home because we had been scared out of the house. We heard footsteps, and things often turned up missing, only to reappear later in a most obvious place. Toilets often flushed with a jiggling of the handle just to be sure. The picture told us what we already knew, we had a ghost. A psychic told my folks our home was cursed and they had it blessed. But "it" became more active. Years ago we tried a Ouija board. We asked if a spirit haunted our home. It said "yes", but would give no further information. My folks tried the board alone, and whatever it said terrified them. They threw the board away and refused to tell what it told them. They said "they forgot". We know now to leave those boards alone! Even though we no longer live in Largo, my parents still experience paranormal phenomenon as did I in my own home . I often wonder if it is all connected. Who knows. A film expert said the face is not a flection or camera error. He said whatever "it" is, it is behind the glass with the picture of Christ, and has it's own light source lighting up its face. He asked that we never bring film to him to be developed again. He was that scared. Thank you for your interest.

Submitted From: Chanda Wright, Maryland USA

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