Stevedog
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This didn't happen to me but to a close family friend.
It was early 1980's in Southern California. A newlywed couple needed a bigger place because they were expecting their first child. They couldn't afford much in the way of housing by themselves so the Husband's best friend said he could move in and share expenses. Together they found an old two story house that had once been a farm house. The farmland was now a grocery store strip mall and housing but the house remained, standing out for it's unique architecture among the Southern California suburbs.
Walking in the front door let guests into what the realtor called the foyer but was actually once a porch that had been permanently enclosed. In fact you could still see the door jamb from the original front door leading into the main house. The wooden staircase seemed too narrow and tended to creak but otherwise the house was perfect for the trio.
There was one other odd feature, a small room near the front door which was always a little too cold. While the summer heat seemed to invade all other areas of the house this one room felt almost frigid. Nobody saw anything particularly different about this room to explain the cold but the single friend volunteered to take the room as his bedroom because it was nice to be cool on those summer nights.
A few notes about the cold room. The friend who stayed in that room spent quite a bit of time trying to find out what made the room always so cold. He sometimes stood in the doorway with half his body in the warmth of the house and the other half in the cold. In winter time it became quite unpleasant due to the cold. The friend got himself a small space heater and it did a pretty good job of warming up the area immediately in front of the heater, but had no effect on the rest of the room. It was like a small bubble of heat right near the heater but the rest of the room remained just a cold as always. The couple had a cat but the cat would never go in that room. Once the friend saw the cat growling at the door to the room. As a joke the husband picked up the cat and tossed it into the cold room. The cat landed with fur up and claws out. It darted out of the room and avoided even going to that half of the house for the rest of their time there. When the baby was born it would immediately start crying whenever taken into that room, even if she was asleep.
When the baby was born the wife's mother came to visit. She was uncomfortable in the house, especially on the stairs. She kept feeling like she was about to fall down the staircase, not by tripping or losing balance but like someone was behind her getting ready to push her.
In the backyard was a small building, it was once a barn but had since been used as a one car garage. In the rafters, wrapped up in old blankets was a pair of French doors. They were decorated with ornate carvings and seemed almost custom made for the old front doorway in the foyer. They reinstalled the doors and wondered why anyone would have removed them in the first place.
That first night after the doors were reinstalled the friend got up in the middle of the night to use the restroom. When he got back to the cold room he saw a woman in his room. Pale skin tone, red hair and dressed in black. She was standing in the same space where his bed was, standing through the bed. She turned to him and looked to be speaking but he didn't hear anything. And then she was gone. He assumed it was a weird hallucination in a half awake state so he ignored it and went back to sleep. He didn't even mention it to the rest of the house, until a few days later.
Over the next few days they heard creaking on the stairs and the sounds of doors closing. Then one afternoon the wife was walking down the stairs and saw a woman standing at the base of the staircase. She was wearing a black dress and had red hair. The woman turned to face the wife and there was no face, just a blank pale skinned head. The wife then heard a voice say "Get out".
That night everyone shared their stories and compared experiences. The question came up, why now? They had been living in the house for nearly a year and there were no sights or sounds anything close to what had been happening. Then all three immediately came up with an answer. Oddly they each reach the exact same answer, at the exact same time and they even phrased it the same way in their heads; "Now the house is complete."
They removed the doors and put them back in the garage where they found them. The cold room remained cold but all other strange occurrences stopped. They moved out if the house several weeks later.
The question they wrestled with was whether or not the house itself was haunted or just the doors.
It was early 1980's in Southern California. A newlywed couple needed a bigger place because they were expecting their first child. They couldn't afford much in the way of housing by themselves so the Husband's best friend said he could move in and share expenses. Together they found an old two story house that had once been a farm house. The farmland was now a grocery store strip mall and housing but the house remained, standing out for it's unique architecture among the Southern California suburbs.
Walking in the front door let guests into what the realtor called the foyer but was actually once a porch that had been permanently enclosed. In fact you could still see the door jamb from the original front door leading into the main house. The wooden staircase seemed too narrow and tended to creak but otherwise the house was perfect for the trio.
There was one other odd feature, a small room near the front door which was always a little too cold. While the summer heat seemed to invade all other areas of the house this one room felt almost frigid. Nobody saw anything particularly different about this room to explain the cold but the single friend volunteered to take the room as his bedroom because it was nice to be cool on those summer nights.
A few notes about the cold room. The friend who stayed in that room spent quite a bit of time trying to find out what made the room always so cold. He sometimes stood in the doorway with half his body in the warmth of the house and the other half in the cold. In winter time it became quite unpleasant due to the cold. The friend got himself a small space heater and it did a pretty good job of warming up the area immediately in front of the heater, but had no effect on the rest of the room. It was like a small bubble of heat right near the heater but the rest of the room remained just a cold as always. The couple had a cat but the cat would never go in that room. Once the friend saw the cat growling at the door to the room. As a joke the husband picked up the cat and tossed it into the cold room. The cat landed with fur up and claws out. It darted out of the room and avoided even going to that half of the house for the rest of their time there. When the baby was born it would immediately start crying whenever taken into that room, even if she was asleep.
When the baby was born the wife's mother came to visit. She was uncomfortable in the house, especially on the stairs. She kept feeling like she was about to fall down the staircase, not by tripping or losing balance but like someone was behind her getting ready to push her.
In the backyard was a small building, it was once a barn but had since been used as a one car garage. In the rafters, wrapped up in old blankets was a pair of French doors. They were decorated with ornate carvings and seemed almost custom made for the old front doorway in the foyer. They reinstalled the doors and wondered why anyone would have removed them in the first place.
That first night after the doors were reinstalled the friend got up in the middle of the night to use the restroom. When he got back to the cold room he saw a woman in his room. Pale skin tone, red hair and dressed in black. She was standing in the same space where his bed was, standing through the bed. She turned to him and looked to be speaking but he didn't hear anything. And then she was gone. He assumed it was a weird hallucination in a half awake state so he ignored it and went back to sleep. He didn't even mention it to the rest of the house, until a few days later.
Over the next few days they heard creaking on the stairs and the sounds of doors closing. Then one afternoon the wife was walking down the stairs and saw a woman standing at the base of the staircase. She was wearing a black dress and had red hair. The woman turned to face the wife and there was no face, just a blank pale skinned head. The wife then heard a voice say "Get out".
That night everyone shared their stories and compared experiences. The question came up, why now? They had been living in the house for nearly a year and there were no sights or sounds anything close to what had been happening. Then all three immediately came up with an answer. Oddly they each reach the exact same answer, at the exact same time and they even phrased it the same way in their heads; "Now the house is complete."
They removed the doors and put them back in the garage where they found them. The cold room remained cold but all other strange occurrences stopped. They moved out if the house several weeks later.
The question they wrestled with was whether or not the house itself was haunted or just the doors.
