My ex-wife and myself purchased an older home, built in
the late 1910s or early 1920s, about a year or so after we
married, in the early '90s. The house was very large; four
bedrooms, full basement and large living room, kitchen and
dining room. "Full of character" was how the realtor had
put it. It had a character in it, alright.
The bedrooms comprised almost the whole of the upstairs;
the steps led up from the living room just inside the front
door. There was a landing halfway up, with a window, then
the stairs did a sharp dogleg at the top, with three steps
up. The upstairs hallway then led straight down to the
bathroom at the far end, with the bedrooms lining the
hallway on either side.
On the third night we stayed there, my wife got up to go to
the bathroom, which was right outside and left of our
bedroom.
As she stepped outside into the hall, something to her
right caught her eye; a figure was standing in the dark at
the top of the landing. It was small, a child. She couldn't
tell how it was dressed, but it smiled at her and laughed,
turning around and walking down the stairs, disappearing
around the dogleg to the lower steps to the bottom floor.
She walked, cautiously, to the top of the stairs, and
peered down. No one was there, of course. She swears that,
as slow as he was moving, he should still have been on the
stairs when she looked down.
When she woke me and told me about it, I chalked it up to
her frequent incidents of sleepwalking, thinking she'd
probably dreamed it. I never, myself, saw the ghost, but we
did have a cat that would sit at the bottom of the steps
(or the top), and stare at something there we couldn't see.
Every once in a while we would glimpse something, or have
things disappear in one place and show up somewhere else,
but other than that, the little guy hardly ever bothered us.
Since she saw him on the steps, and the cat would sit and
stare at the steps for hours, we speculated that maybe he'd
fallen down the steps and been killed there.
Not scary, but
weird anyway.
Contact me here: robnmaryd@wmconnect.com
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