And Then There Was That Ghost...

You don’t have to go too far into the categories on this blog to know our haunted homestead has a ridiculous amount of completely unexplained events happening. We are used to that sort of thing (for the most part).

This incident happened in October 2019. I was there for a visit and had asked about recent activity but no one had seen or heard anything lately. That night after I was back in my own non-haunted house, my son’s girlfriend sent me a video she was innocently recording when a ghost upstairs in the house decided to intervene.

They have a dog and two cats and to get them all to snuggle together at the same time pretty much never happens. However, at this particular time, all three animals were having a nice little snooze-fest on the bed while their owners were watching tv in their bedroom, so my son’s girlfriend decided to take a quick video of the super-cuteness happening. The only other person in the house was my mother, downstairs in the kitchen.

About seven seconds into filming, a rather large noise suddenly came from outside their bedroom in the hallway. This startled both of them, and both the cats (evident in the video capture) as they realized that anyone capable of making that noise was currently sitting on their bed and nowhere near the hallway. So naturally, there was quite a bit of “What the &^%* was that??!”

My son got up and went to have a look, followed by his girlfriend who was still recording.

Trust me when I say when you hear something like that in that house and bravely go investigate, you never know what you are going to find. The fact that a video was incidentally being shot was a bonus.

So in the upstairs hallway towards the large bay windows, there is a metal shelving unit, home to a few different collectibles. The item in the middle of the top shelf was now on the floor on the carpet. Nothing else was disturbed. It had also not been sitting close to the edge and in any danger of falling.

To fully analyze this further, I have to agree that things can fall over. Generally, there is a reason, such as the item is close to the edge of a shelf and something jarring happens to knock it down. This was not the case. It was not too close to the edge and nothing jarring happened.

The oddest piece of the puzzle, which is substantiated luckily by the video, is that the noise it made did not match the end result. The noise was much bigger and sounded like something really big fell down and hit something other than a carpeted floor.

I am calling "ghost" on this one, for several reasons.

1. We all know the place is haunted; this is substantiated by actual appearances of ghosts by several different people, phantom cars every now and then, phone calls from people who have died, evidence in pictures (HERE and HERE), personal items gone into and returned from the afterlife (read it HERE), ghost cats, and unexplained voices, just to mention a few things.

2. There has often been ghostly activity in the upstairs of the house: doors unlocking by themselves, doors opening and closing by themselves, items moving around and disappearing, footsteps pacing in the hall, unseen hands tucking little kids into bed….you get the idea. Please read back through the blog for more.

3. Once again, the sound did not match the falling of that one ornament. As a comparison, if you dropped a bowl on the floor but it sounded like you dropped a tv on the floor, that would be the type of anomaly I am trying to get at here.

4. There was no one around the shelf in the hallway at the time of the incident.

Sorry, but it isn’t rocket science. 

There are ghosts. Plain and simple. 

It’s okay though. They are okay to live with, most of the time. It’s not like the devil himself is suddenly showing up in the middle of the night. Well, actually, there was that time when a hoof shaped "foot"print mysteriously appeared burned into the carpet in an upstairs bedroom….

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The Phantom Car Rides Again

The Phantom Car Rides…Again! 

Last month I was there visiting and was going to stay for a few days. A hurricane was bearing down on Nova Scotia so I decided to stick around. If the power goes out, and weather is wild, it seems like a perfectly good time to get the Ouija board out, if you ask me, but that is a different story for a different day. (insert evil laugh here).

It was late afternoon and I was expecting my son and his girlfriend to arrive home from work at any time. Their dog was there with me and my mother was having a nap. All was peaceful and quiet and I thought I’d brew up a pot of coffee. It was a warm day and the window screen in the door was up.

Just as I was sticking the pot under the coffee maker, I clearly heard a car drive in the driveway. The dog whined a little as she heard it, too and I assumed my son and his girlfriend had arrived. I thought it was odd I hadn’t heard his car before he actually pulled into the driveway, as he has a type of muffler that makes the car sound slightly louder than normal and you can hear him before you see him.

I looked out and there was no one in the driveway.

I marched right out into the middle of the driveway, looking up towards the neighbor’s place, as he also uses the driveway but there was no vehicle or sign of anyone having just driven past.

All was quiet again. My son and his girlfriend arrived home about a half hour later.

You can imagine my excitement at possibly having encountered the phantom car once again.

I kick myself now for not grabbing my phone and snapping a few pictures of the driveway at the time of the sound. You never know when the unexplained is going to show up in your photos.

Here are links to our other phantom car experiences: 

Phantom Car 1

Phantom Car 2

Phantom Car 3

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You Only THINK You're Alone

Since our last post was in November of 2018 (an extra creepy, very intriguing encounter with the afterlife:         The Reappearance ), I thought I would write a short piece about the only paranormal thing that has been ongoing for the last few months. I can only report on the weird stuff that happens when it happens, obviously, and as you know, entities don’t make themselves blatantly known every single day. Therefore, posts appearing here may be erratic, and we ask for your patience in this regard.

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Anyway, I can tell you about something new that my mother has been experiencing lately.

It seemed kind of minor at first. Although no source for the activity can be determined, it is happening almost daily, which makes me wonder about it even more.

As I am sure you know by now, when I visit the house or talk to my mother on the phone, I always ask, “Any ghosts around lately?” (I know, I know---I’m like a kid in a candy store).

So a couple of months ago when I asked her this, she said, “Well yes, I have been hearing something, over and over and over again.”

She proceeded to tell me that almost every time (for months now) when she goes to bed and is about to read her book, there is a noise right above her head. Not in the ceiling, but at the head of her bed, NEXT to her head. There is a small sliding wooden door in her headboard (you know the type; they slide open with enough room in them to store books, etc). And this door slides open and shut, which she can clearly hear, as she is lying in very close proximity to it. 

There is no mistaking this noise; she knows what that little sliding door sounds like. There is also no way it could slide open and shut by itself. She hears it at night when she is reading or sometimes in the day if she feels like a nap and hasn’t drifted off yet.

It startled her quite a bit, to the point where she told “whoever” to knock it off. Then she didn’t hear it for a couple of days but it started again not long after that.

We know it is not a dream. She is fully awake when she hears it. She can’t SEE it happening as she is elderly and can’t whip her head around quick enough, since it is above her.

The only thing that could slide a small door open and shut in this manner would be hands.

But whose hands?

There is no one else in the room.

Or is there?

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Knock Knock. Who's there?

It is very cliché when talking about ghosts to hear tales of doors opening and closing by unseen hands. However, in the house that this blog is about, this very thing has happened countless times over the years. In a house known to be haunted with plenty of unexplained activity in it, I would be surprised if it didn’t have doors opening and closing with no scientific explanation.

I know what you’re thinking: “Why would a ghost bother opening a door when they can apparently walk right through walls?”

This is a great question and probably one of the first I will ask, should I ever get the opportunity to have a good old-fashioned gab session with a disembodied spirit. (Believe me, I have questions.) I would assume the opening and closing of doors is because they want us to know they are there. Like all the times they spin coffee mugs through the air. Or walk around on creaky floorboards overhead. Or bang on the  walls of the unoccupied bedroom upstairs. Or rock in empty rocking chairs. Or call us on the phone. The list goes on and on. 

Who knows why they do anything? They have their own agenda to which we are not privy. It’s like they think it is none of our business or something. They live in our houses but apparently think they don’t have to answer to us if they don’t want to. 

The very first incident I heard of doors mysteriously opening and closing in our house was when I was a young girl, maybe 7 or 8 years old. Hearing adults talking about weirdness and unexplained goings-on was just second nature during my childhood. It concerned me and freaked me out of course, like it would any kid, as it was obviously going on in my own house and I spent a lot of time playing by myself upstairs. I was usually scared to some degree to go to bed at night but I got used to it after a while and came to accept it as the way my life was. 

 As you have probably read elsewhere on this blog, I did hear a lot of noise coming from the empty spare bedroom that shared a wall with my bedroom. It was always a “spare” room so no one was ever in there. No living people, anyway.

So as I said, the first time I remember hearing about doors opening and closing on their own was very interesting and startling to me. The incident happened to a family member. He was in the largest upstairs bedroom one afternoon. He would have been a young adult at this time. My mother always said he told her he was reading on his bed. There is a door leading into the bedroom from the large walk-in attic and another door that leads out into the front hallway where the other bedrooms are. Suddenly, he looked up from his book as the door leading into the attic was opening. No one was there but it opened all the way. In a few seconds the other door opened, as if someone had come into the room through one door and exited through the other.

Currently, my son sleeps in that bedroom. There is now a sliding lock on the door that goes into the attic. He often locks it, goes to work, and comes home to find it unlocked. His elderly grandmother is the only other person in the house and she is not able to climb the stairs.

In the walk-in attic, there is also a set of rickety dark stairs leading down to another door that opens up into the kitchen. This door doesn’t close one hundred percent tight, thanks to many layers of paint around the door and casing over the last hundred years. But it does close enough that you can consider it “shut”. I agree it can become slightly ajar because of this but there is a handful of people (myself included) who have been in the kitchen and happened to look towards it at just the right moment when it has opened way further than you would expect due to natural movement in the kitchen or because the house is ‘settling”. It opens a LOT on its own.

 When my mother was a little girl, an older family member used that back staircase regularly when it was time to go to bed. He would take his lantern, traipse up those back stairs, through the two bedroom doors mentioned above and settle in for the night in what is now the “spare” bedroom. Does he still take that route at the end of the day? Possibly. 

Just off the kitchen is a wonderful pantry. And in the pantry there is a door that leads into a typical dirt-floor cellar. While there has been a lot of “activity” in the pantry, nothing unusual goes on in the cellar that anyone is aware of. However, over the span of many years there have been very loud, unexplained banging noises on that cellar door (from the cellar side) to which no explanation can be found. Not like knocking, but like loud “I’ll-bust-this-door-right-down” banging. It never usually lasts long. If you open the door and look, there is never anything visible. Lots of people have heard it. It is totally random. No one has an answer.

One particular occurrence of this was the day my mother’s friend passed away. My son and mother were the only ones in the house. Before they were notified of the death, that cellar door slammed shut (so it must have also been opened first by whoever or whatever) with an alarming noise. My son went to investigate and tried to open it but this time could not budge it even a little. It normally opens no problem, with absolutely no resistance. Finally, he hit the door as hard as he could and it finally gave. Nothing visible was responsible. Was this a forerunner to the death they would soon learn about? Did the deceased come by to let them know her time had come? Again, the answer is “possibly”. 

In a previous blog post entitled More Recent Haunted Events at the Homestead from 2011, I mentioned how my mother had experienced the dining room door slamming shut very forcefully while she was in the adjoining kitchen. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: There is no wind blowing through the house. Cats can’t slam doors. There is no reasonable explanation for such things to be happening. Yesterday, my mother told me of another incident. She was sitting at the kitchen table last week and suddenly the dining room door just simply closed. Then immediately after, it opened right back up (she keeps it open all the time). She is used to all of this by now, so doesn’t get alarmed too much.

There have been other door-related incidents over the years, such as the door knob on the spare room door rattling in the middle of the night while people slept in there, to more recently the ghost of a deceased cat clawing and scratching at the front door to be let in. It stands to reason that since ghosts/spirits/etc can exert enough energy to move objects, make noise and sometimes even materialize, they can just easily open and close a door when they want to.

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What does a ghost have to do to get a cup of coffee around here?!

Yesterday we visited my mother’s house, the one this blog is written about. My mother, my son and I were sitting in the kitchen having a discussion about a vehicle my son wants to buy. The pantry is connected to the kitchen. It was daylight, sunny and everything in the pantry was clearly visible.

I was facing the direction of the pantry. My son sort of had his back to it.

Suddenly, we heard a noise in the pantry. I looked in there, and Scott turned around to see what was going on. There is a shelf in there with hooks attached underneath which holds coffee mugs. There’s probably twelve or so. The hooks are very sturdy and the mugs have hung there for many years.

When Scott and I diverted our attention to what was happening, we clearly saw the mug on the far left in mid air, on its way to falling to the floor. It hit the shelving unit underneath it, then hit the floor.

No other mugs were even moving. The mug that somehow jumped UP off the hook did not even collide with the others that are very close to it. A mug moving upwards (with no human intervention) to come off of a hook is not an easily explainable event. Skeptics could argue the hook was loose and the mug just fell but that would be impossible as the mug handle rests DOWN onto the hook. And the hook was still well attached when I inspected it afterwards.

Scott and I just stared at the scene unfolding, thinking “what in the hell just happened?” I think my mother saw what happened but she doesn’t get too concerned over this stuff anymore. I picked the mug up and put it back on its hook.

What’s even stranger is this exact same thing happened many years ago when relatives were visiting. They were in the kitchen and watched this same event unfold, as a mug came off its hook and ended up on the floor.

Of all the weirdo stuff that happens there, I get most intrigued by these events that I see happen when there are witnesses. And yesterday, there were two.

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Today's Haunted Incident

Today we went to visit my mom at her house, which of course as you know by now, is haunted. I have two incidents to report.

The first did not happen today but my mother told me that about two weeks ago she was sitting in the living room watching tv with my brother. Suddenly, she felt "something" hit her in the eye. She said it wasn't anything hard or rigid but felt more like something soft as if someone might have balled up a paper napkin and tossed it at her face. It did not hurt her, only startled her immensely. She could not see anything that would have caused this, and quickly looked in my brother's direction in case he had seen anything weird happening, but he was asleep in the chair.

The second incident took place today and actually happened to me. Shaun, myself and the two kids were in the kitchen with my mother. It was after supper and we were getting ready to leave when I had to use the bathroom. I laid my cell phone down on the kitchen table right beside Shaun so I would not forget to bring it with me when I left. I was in the bathroom for only a minute but when I came out of the bathroom the phone was not where I had left it on the table. Of course, I questioned everyone but no one had seen the phone. We all looked all around the kitchen for the phone but it was nowhere to be found. (Half jokingly, I said out loud," OK, Willie, you can bring my phone back." If you don't know who Willie is, scroll back to some first posts on here)

My son, Scott decided to send a text message from his phone to mine so we could listen for the "alert" tone my phone makes for incoming messages. Immediately we heard it ringing from the dining room. We found the phone in a coat pocket ( not my coat) that was hanging on a dining room chair.

I had not even been in that room with my phone.

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MORE Recent Haunted Events at the Homestead

I have a recent report from my mother (who, as you probably know lives alone in that house) that on Nov. 11 of this year she was sitting at the kitchen table when suddenly the dining room slammed shut. This door does not even close all the way due to many years of paint layered on it, but after the "slamming" it was tightly closed. She went over to the door and it didn't even seem to want to open normally, so she had to push on it hard to get it to open.

She saw nothing unusual on the other side of the door, for those of you who are wondering.

In case you missed previous blog postings of the "activity" in her house, you can find them here:

The House I Grew Up In


Trying to Capture Ghost Voices on Tape


Recent Events


Phantom Cars

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