In 1996, I began dating my neighbor. I hadn't been dating and had never brought anyone home, so I didn't realize this might be an issue with whomever was haunting my house. However, shortly after I began dating my neighbor, Mr. Ghost was back. Again, the toilet flushed on its own, household items were re-arranged and my daughter felt that someone was following her again.
One night, I had a candle lit in my room and the candle went out on its own. After my neighbor and I became quite seriously involved, he began noticing things as well. I told him about Mr. Ghost, and to my surprise he believed me.
This is where the story becomes even more interesting.
The tragic death
I was a Social Service Director at a nearby rehabilitation center and one of my resident's sons was the Fire Chief for this small town. I told him about the strange events in my apartment. He informed me that he remembered answering a call to that address about ten years earlier. The man who lived in my apartment had committed suicide. In fact, the man had taken medication and was found in the bathtub a few days after he had died. The authorities had an awful time removing the body. There was so much water damage to the bathroom and the stairs that the apartment had to be remodeled.
Had we discovered the identity of our "Mr. Ghost"?
A few months passed and my neighbor and I were married. We moved to a three-bedroom townhouse in the same complex. We were moving my things out of my apartment and my husband said that he would go to my bedroom and get the rest of my clothes from my closet. A short time later, he returned looking quite pale and very upset. He didn't have any of my clothes. When I asked him what was wrong, he said that when he walked into the bedroom, an eerie feeling come over him. The room was so cold. He felt that he needed to get out as fast as possible. He didn't return to get my clothes; in fact, he refused to go back to that apartment. He said he felt that the presence, or "Mr. Ghost," was somehow angry that we were married and I was moving out.
The haunting moves with them
It didn't take long for strange things to happen in our new home, especially with my husband and my daughter. One day, I was placing towels in the hall closet and saw a shadow walk behind me. Thinking that it was my husband, I asked him what he wanted. He was actually in a different room and had not been near the hallway.
On another occasion, my daughter heard a male voice tell her to "Get out!" She came running down the stairs, petrified. I had really enough now. I stormed up the stairs and told Mr. Ghost to leave us alone, that he needed to move on.
The attack
Things calmed down again for awhile, but then Mr. Ghost returned with a vengeance.
One night while we were in bed, my husband awoke feeling a presence at the end of our bed. Suddenly he couldn't breath. It was as if someone was choking him, and he fought off the phantom as best he could.
What happened next was really strange. A thin light appeared near our bedroom wall and we saw a shadow-like figure walk into what looked to be this doorway of light.
After that, nothing strange ever happened again. My daughter's feeling of someone watching her disappeared. There were no more phantom voices. The eerie presence my husband sensed was gone.
Perhaps Mr. Ghost had found his way to another dimension.
