Your True Tales
March 2007 - Page 18
Cries in the Night
by Patrick Schmitt
When I was a child in the 1970s in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, my father heard a strange crying in the house while he was sitting in the kitchen. My mom was working and my sister and I were sleeping. This was at night, but not late. It sounded like a baby crying. Knowing there was no babies in the house, he thought it might have been a cat outside. The crying continued off and on, and sounded as though it was coming from inside. He then thought my aunt might have came in with her newborn son. He went toward the front door to greet her only to see nobody.
Perplexed by this, the next day he asked both next-door neighbors (these were row houses) if they had a baby in their house last night. They answered no, but the one neighbor asked him to come inside for a minute. She then proceeded to tell him of a similar incidence experienced by a neighbor close by. This particular neighbor heard the baby crying for several nights.
On one occasion in the middle of the night, as he heard the crying he got out of bed and saw the figure of a ghostly woman going down the stairs. These houses were built on old farmland and we figured that maybe the mother and baby were separated in some tragic accident and the mother appears when she hears her baby, trying to reunite in the spirit world.
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