Dad's House

 Although Brother Dan lives in South Carolina and I live in Florida, we both manage to make it up to visit our Dad in Tennessee at least a couple of times each year.  He lives in a home that was built sometime in the 1950's.  It is possible that the former resident still resides in the home. 

From time to time the footsteps of a small, elderly lady can be heard slowly walking up and down the hallway.  The old wooden boards in the hallway creek with every step. 

One late evening, Dan and his wife were sleeping in the back guestroom.  Dan happened to open his eyes and see the silhouette of an old woman leaning over looking at their 18 month old daughter that was sleeping in a playpen at the foot of the bed.  Dan could feel a slight depression at the end of the bed where the apparition had placed it's right hand as though it was trying to support itself.

On another one of our trips, I took the following picture of Dan and his wife, Christine.

Just to the left of Dan's head, an orb can  be seen.  At the time I did not have access to a computer for further photo analysis, but when I returned home from vacation I took a closer look at the orb in the picture.  After cropping and enlarging the image of the orb from the original photo, a face appeared inside.  If you look closely, it resembles the face of an elderly lady.

In December of 2003, my father was sitting in the kitchen and felt a cold breeze blow up through the hallway.  It was strong enough to blow the curtains by the kitchen sink.  The odd thing is all the windows where closed and no heat ducks were running at the time.  My father feels certain that this was the spirit of the old lady.

Additionally, another type of haunting has occurred in this house.  One evening while my father was trying to fall asleep, he was 'attacked' by a black mass.  As he laid in bed, a black mass "darker than the blackest black" sat upon his chest and began choking him.  It took him maybe 15 seconds or so before it let him go.   After the incident my father got up, walked around the house, and eventually passed it off has some kind of horrific hallucination or waking nightmare since he was really tired at the time.  However, a few nights later, the black mass returned and again began choking him while he laid there in bed.  This time after the entity had let go of him, he got up and started praying and rebuking the demonic entity in the name of Jesus.  This time he was wide awake and was sure that what he experienced was in fact real.

The next morning after telling his sister of what had transpired the following evening, she came over with a local pasture and had every room in the house blessed.  The black mass, so far ,has not returned.

As for the spirit of the little old lady, she is apparently still there.  Her footsteps are still heard from time to time and once in a while a mysterious breeze of cold air will whish by.

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