Years ago, when I was in my early 20's, I was
dating a man who worked for a property
management company.
Living in California, our
town has a large section of homes that date back
to the early 1800's. These are beautiful old
Victorian style homes, and many are historic
buildings.
My boyfriends job was to renovate
and restore these homes so that his boss, who
owned the company, could resell them.
One Saturday, my boyfriend was going up to one
of these old homes, to meet with his boss, and
go over the last minute list of items that
needed to be done before the home was listed for
sale, so I went with him.
When we pulled up, I was instantly captivated
with the house. It was breathtaking, and seemed
so warm and welcoming. When my boyfriend's boss
arrived, we all went in to tour the house. As
they stood in the kitchen discussing work to be
done, I wandered through the home, room by room
dreaming of how wonderful it would be to be
lucky enough to live in that home. Eventually I
wandered up to the 2nd floor, where all the
bedrooms were. As I wandered from room to room,
I noticed that each bedroom had its own sun room
attached, which looked out onto the property and
its gorgeous views. As I walked down a large,
open hallway, I kept thinking that the house has
such a strange layout. I then noticed to my
left that there was another hallway, but this
led straight to a wall. It was not decorative,
or functional, and way too dark to even be a
landing, and it struck me instantly as not being
right, but I thought, ok, whatever.
I continued
no more than 3-4 steps, when I heard a voice
shouting at me to Get Out! Get out Now! Hurry,
hurry, run! It was loud, frantic, and right in
my ear, and I did what it said. I bolted
through the house, down the stairs and out onto
the back lawn, and realized when I got out there
that I was terrified, shaking and crying, only I
didn't know why.
My boyfriend and his boss had seen me running
out of the house, and were right behind me,
asking if I was ok, had something happened, was
I hurt, was someone upstairs? I instantly
realized that #1, they had not heard the voice
screaming, and #2 it was a female voice.
Since
we 3 were the only ones there, and they were
both males, I was now confused.
I tried my best to explain what happened without
sounding like a complete nutter, but quite
honestly I felt such a fool. My boyfriend and
his his boss were both clearly concerned, but
all I wanted to do was leave. At that point, I
thought what the heck. I proceeded to tell them
exactly what had happened upstairs.
Finally, my boyfriend's boss said "Honey, there
is no way that you could have known this, but
this particular home had been very large,
about twice its size. It was occupied by a
family that had lots of kids. During the mid
1800's, there was a large, tragic fire, in which
several members of the family died, including
several children, one of them being a teenage
girl. The family's loss was so devastating that
instead of rebuilding, they cleared away the burnt
half of the house, and walled off the remainder,
leaving only what remains now."
Apparently, the hallway that led to the wall,
was the main hallway to the other part of the
house that was no longer there. The house had
been repaired enough to look like nothing had
happened.
Whoever or whatever told me to leave the house
that day, I don't know. But I know this, from
that moment on, I truly believed in life after
death, in spirits and the like. |