About a year ago, a friend of mine had a party at his house.
After a couple of beers, the topic of ghosts and hauntings popped
up.
His wife works for an insurance company in downtown East Pete.
Their office is an old, rennovated house with a cute carriage
house that was also turned into an office. She began telling me
about the various things that took place there. She told me it
was common for things to disappear and reappear elsewhere.
She also told me that there's one part of the office that always
seems colder than usual, dispite the fact that the sun beams through
there for a good portion of the day. Another incident that occurred
was that a customer brought her small child with her and the child
refused to go into that very same office. But the story that she
told me that really grabbed my attention was about one of her co-workers.
It seems that this particular co-worker usually worked afterhours
to catch up on the backlog of work. One night she needed something
from the third floor of the office (used to be the attic). She knew
she would be awhile, so she locked the front door and proceeded
to the third floor. As she was going through some files, she heard
the very familiar sound of the front door chime. It rang as though
someone walked in. She knew that couldn't be possible, because she
locked the door. She stood there for a second or two, perplexed,
and decided that maybe she didn't secure the door as well as she
thought. So, she started down the steps to the first floor to see
if there was a client waiting for assistance. As you've probably
figured out, there was nobody there. She, once again, checked the
door. It was still locked securely. She went through each of the
rooms to make sure nobody "slipped" in. Convinced that
she just imagined the whole thing, she went back up to the third
floor. After a few minutes, she heard the door chimes again. She
went back down to check the door again. This time, she got the feeling
that she wasn't alone in the office. She grabbed all her stuff and
left the building in a hurry. She refuses to work in the building,
by herself, and swears the place is haunted.
My friend's wife, and her boss, were kind enough to allow us to
"check the place out". There were no murders or violent
crimes committed in the house to the best of the owner's knowledge.
The only thing that the current owner found out about the old house
is that the original owner's wife and the owner of the bar, directly
across the street, were having an affair. Other than that, it seemed
like any other house.
We did an EVP session on each floor of the old home. We managed
to get a few positive results. Photos and video came up empty. The
room, I mentioned earlier, that is always cold was infact very cold.
It was ten degrees colder than the rest of the house. Despite this
difference in temperature, all attempts to capture anything paranormal
came up empty.
Although we managed to grab a few EVPs, nothing out of the ordinary
happened. We would like to get back there again to see if we might
have better luck with a return visit. We'll keep you posted !
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