The House on Old Train Depot Road

My family and I lived here from 1985 - 1989.  I can only assume that someone had died in my bedroom at some point in the history of this house or that some great evil took place there - why else would the words Holiness in the Holy Ghost, 1933 W.C. be inscribed on my bedroom wall by the door?

A Mysterious Energy Force

The house was built in 1912. Although I cannot remember for certain, I believe my first unusual experience that took place here was by a mysterious energy force. It was late afternoon when Dan and I decided to go up the road and play with the neighborhood kids. Dan walked outside the front door onto the porch first, and I followed behind. As soon as I stepped foot out of the front door onto the porch a bright 'orb-like' white light flew past me, knocking me back into the opened screen door, and vanished into the side of the house just to the right of the doorway. Though this happened quite quickly, I saw that the light appeared to have come from the direction of the front upstairs window (which can be seen in the above photo). The reason I say this is because at the fraction of a second that I first saw the entity, it made a curve as if it had shot out of the upstairs window and made a loop around the overhang back towards the house where I was stepping out of the door onto the porch.

Dan did not see it. Whatever it was had the force to push me back. Dan turned around and asked me what was wrong. I, of course, did not say anything to him at that time because he was quite a bit younger than me and he may not have believed me at the time anyway. I just kind of 'brushed' it off as extremely unusual. Was it a spirit? Could it have been ball lightning? If my memory serves it was a partly cloudy day. Sun was out and no rain.

The strange thing about the front upstairs window is that there is no doorway in the house to that room. One day when my dad was water coating the roof, he opened the window, but told me it was empty and very small inside. Why it was put there and what it was used for is anybody's guess.

The Ouija Board Prophecy

In 1988 I asked the Parker Brothers Ouija board that I used to own what the name of my future wife would be. The planchette on the board moved very slowly, yet there was a strong, magnetic-like connection. It reluctantly spelled "D-O-R-S-H".  I actually got mad with it and put it in the closet because I had never heard of such a name.  As fate would have it, two years later, I met DORSHIA, whose brothers and sisters sometimes call her "Dorsh" for short.

Great Grandmother's Mirror

Browsing through some old photos, I found this picture of my great grandmother's mirror and dining set. In the mirror is some kind of strange pattern of light. This does not appear to be a reflection from something else in the room, nor does it resemble a reflection from a camera flash. My mother took this photo probably around Christmas time in the late 1980's and does not know of anything that could have caused this anomaly. After my great grandmother had passed away a year or so earlier, my mother acquired this mirror and dining set. That Christmas my mother claims she saw her spirit at a family gathering.

Out of Body Experience (OBE)

My first and only out of body experience occurred in this house, and it wasn't a pleasant one.  I fell asleep (or so I thought) listening to a tape of Samantha Fox (Ironically, the name of the song was Dream City).  Anyway, the next thing I realize is that I seemed to be elevated, or higher than what I normally would be lying on the bed.  Then I looked down towards my feet.  Standing at the foot of my bed was a whitish, hooded-looking apparition staring at me with slanted, black slits where the eyes would be.  Although, there was no mouth, I could sense a kind of evil grin coming from him.  If that was not bad enough, I looked to my left, standing silently beside me was a black apparition - a dark mass.  I panicked and started praying to God, Jesus, or whoever would listen to help me.  It seemed that maybe 15 to 30 seconds passed before I felt a jolt and 'woke up' abruptly.   I am certain this was no dream.  This was in fact an OBE.  One that I do not ever want to repeat.

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