Ten years ago I moved into an old restored
mansion that had four other people and the owner
living there. The owner of the place was from a
well to do family and received a huge portion of
his inheritance in the mid 1980s. He decided to
use the money for a home so he purchased this old
place that had been made into tenement housing.
He got all the druggies and bums to move and
started fixing the place up on his own.
The
history of the house is quite interesting as it
was built by one of four brothers that had
started a large engine corporation here in
Indianapolis, the man built the home in the early
1900s for his new wife. It is an old English
Tudor style home with a three car attached
garage, also, the attic is quite large and has
always been referred to as the belfry.
After my
friend refurbished the place he would rent rooms
to pay the mortgage and for the company. The
house was always full of people and something was
always going on somewhere. I lived in the
basement in the old billiards room along with a
roommate in the next room. There were a couple
of times I was home alone and down in my room
when I would hear someone upstairs scooting
furniture around. I would page the whole house
on the intercom to see who was doing it, but I
wouldn't get an answer. I went upstairs through
the whole house to find no one else home, nothing
would be moved either. This happened to me twice
while living there for the brief nine months.
When the owner returned home I asked him if he
was around earlier and he said no. I told him
what happened and he said that previous roommates
had mentioned similar incidents like hearing
laughing or a feeling of heaviness in certain
hallways. I never felt afraid or like there was
a malevolent force, just some left behind spirits
not wanting to leave or the liking the furniture
arrangement. |