Well, just to set things up this was a house I have only
been to once as *Mel was a friend of one of my friends-
*Jen in high school. I knew them through the drama club. I
can personally vouch for only one of the experiences (I was
there for the one), the others I heard straight from Mel
and Jen and believe them 100% if for any reason, my own
experience there...
Mel's house is a very old farmhouse way out in the
boondocks, dirt road, no neighbors, the works. At play
rehearsals Mel would always joke about the
family "poltergeist" and the crazy stuff it would do
because the competition for attention in their house was
fierce-they had 12 people in their family.
Well one night
after play practice Mel, Jen and I went back to Mel's house
and were watching The Princess Bride (great flick) when we
heard a crash in the kitchen (around the corner from the
living room). Startled, I was hoping it was one of her many
family members that had come home but no one answered when
Mel called out. So she went into the kitchen and a jar of
jelly had fallen out of the cupboard onto the floor and was
smashed. She came back in and said she needed help cleaning
the mess in the kitchen. Jen and myself went to help and we
all went out to the garage to get the mop and some rags.
Honest to Pete when we came back in the mess on the floor
was gone! We all just stared at each other and then Mel and
Jen just turned around and I followed (speechless) to
return everything back to the garage. I asked what the heck
happened and they both just said it was the family
poltergeist. Mel had a name for it, I think it was Herman.
I couldn't believe how calm she seemed to be about it. It
was then that we went back to the living room to continue
watching the movie and talk. Absolutely dumb struck but
intrigued at the same time I wanted to ask Mel all kinds of
questions. I got her to talk about some of the things that
have happened, Jen was able to back up some of it because
she had been there for some of the instances. The only
story I can remember all the details to is the one about
the Christmas tree in 1992 (the year before at the time).
The family all went out and got a real tree. Mel had said
that it was a huge headache, her dad just couldn't get it
straight in the stand and everyone was getting anxious just
to set it up and decorate it. Finally they just left it a
little crooked and were going to decorate it the next day
since it got to be late in the evening.
The next morning Mel heard her mom yelling and her dad
swearing. She went out to the kitchen and saw her whole
family bickering and looking out the window. He dad thought
one or more of the kids was to blame and kept saying how
expensive the tree had been. Everyone said that they hadn't
touched the tree. Finally Mel asked what was wrong with the
tree. Her mom then pointed out the back window and Mel saw
it on its side in the backyard. A closer look and you could
tell that there were no footprints around it to indicate
that it had been a person(s) who moved it. There was no way
it could have been thrown from the doorway because the
doorway was very narrow and didn't even face that direction
it was on the side of the house and besides,the tree was
enormous, no way it could be thrown that far by anyone in
the family. Weird.
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