You tell that ghost who's boss!

Freaky! Maybe your bed is haunted by something that used to sleep on your side of the bed.

Does looking for "Bloody Mary" in the bathroom mirror count as a haunted "southern thang" too?:)

It was Zool! I just know it! You'd better call Drs. Venkman, Stantz & Spengler STAT!

I think you can reach them at 867-5309...NO WAIT, that's Jenny's number....

Sounds like it's time for some EVP work on that place. See if there are any spirits hanging around talking up a storm! Or you could just wait and see if it happens again and call the boys from TAPS to drive out and investigate! Who knows...you could end up on TV?!

Yep, definitely haunted!

I lived in a haunted duplex for a while. My dad was the only member of my family who believed me and didn't think I was nuts. He lived in a haunted house when he was a kid. And we aren't even Southern!

I would have crapped myself but I am a wuss too. Very funny post.

Hmmm, any chance you could teach the ghost to do laundry?

I once checked into a B&B in Shelburne Falls, MA. I was really late for check-in, having gotten myself good and lost in the state park and driving through the mist. When I finally found the place, all the lights were off an my hosts had gone to bed.

There was a note on the counter: "Your room is at the top of the stairs to the left. We'll settle up in the morning. The ghost's name is Elaine."

I marched into the room, pulled off my shoes, and announced, "Elaine, I'm NOT in the mood." (She never gave me a bit of trouble after that.)

Talk about whistling by the graveyard....

Maybe you just jumped in your sleep and moved the bed that way?

You should totally contact those kids on Paranormal State.

It's pretty common to move a lot in your sleep. Any chance your bed is on wood/tile and you could have jerked hard enough to move the bed?

Perhaps one/all of the kitties have developed telekinetic powers?

Unless you notice your yarn stash is moved or knitting paraphernalia disturbed, just have another glass of wine and cast something on...and keep a large pair of needles on your bedside table, "jest" in case your ghost has solid legs.

Some cousins of mine lived for years in a house haunted by a ghost named Gus, but, although I stayed with them numerous times, I never met him.

Maybe if you are nice to the ghost(s) they will help you find things and maybe even do your laundry now and then? Stranger things have happened.

very strange. you're right. i checked the quake map (http://www.data.scec.org/recenteqs/Maps/Los_Angeles.html) and there was nothing at that time.

Cue the Twilight Zone music... I lived in Bilouxi Mississippi for a bit, a place that had at least three ghosts to each living person. Spooky place.

Oh wow...spooky. Let's hope the jerking-while-sleeping thing turns out to be the explanation! Actually, I would not worry too much if I were you...Soba can take down any and all comers, including spectral ones :)

leave the laundry out for the visitor. If you're going to have a haunted house it should work for you.

My cat often stares into space for hours on end, and I think she is watching a ghost.

Oh man, NancyKnits, if Soba has developed supernatural powers the world as we know it is done for!

hee hee! Do ghosts read blogs? Anyway, there is probably a very logical explanation--it was Soba, trying to freak you out!

Perhaps you could have a talk with the ghost. Explain how busy you are currently, let it know that you would appreciate it if you could be woken up really close to the time that you need to get up in the morning. That way, it would be a win/win.

xo

As a self-appointed witch, may I advise you not to get that ghost mad....

uh oh. Better contact Lisa Williams. She'll tell that ghost to ski-daddle.
www.lisawilliamsmedium.com/

Think critically about this, there are no such things as ghosts. Perhaps you can find a more plausible and realistic explanation.

You know, this happened to me once too. I sat bolt upright in bed on a Sunday morning around 5 am. Finally convinced myself I had dreamed it - the cats did not seem too disturbed, so I figured it wasn't anything. Turned out a building had been imploded about 10 miles away.

I wish it had been a ghost though. Then maybe all the hours I have spent watching Ghosthunters would be of some use!

well that is very mysterious indeed. Haunting is the only explanantion.

I hate it when that happens. Hmm...Soba teaching Frankie and Bob the kitty-kinetic-mind-meld exercise? Super gophers getting their springtime game on? You are sure calm, I'd be having nightlight time! Rest on the bus eh?

Perhaps you have a spectral fan? And because they cannot attend any of your book evening dos they are getting your attention by shaking you from your slumbers. Next time it happens just ask them if they have a question, give them the answer and hop back into bed for a restful, peaceful night's sleep!!

See, I have all the best ideas!

You're very calm about this. I guess you're too busy to get to excited, but, frankly, if my bed was moving on it's on, I'd need to start sleeping on the couch!

I have lived in haunted places my whole life. Just tell the ghost not to move the furniture and it should be okay. On the other hand, do you live on a busy street where a ginormous truck could have moved your bed across the room while it was speeding down the street?

Was it Armando? If he is anything like I pictured him looking, next time move over!

From those who delve in these sorts of things: a little sage smudge will get that right out.

Interesting. Did you check the weather/news stations to see if maybe there was a small quake? Sometimes local scientists have one of those thingies that measure the earth's virbrations and maybe they caught something no one else did. Maybe you live on a fault? or maybe you have a very friendly ghost...break out your pottery wheel!

Oh, oh! Maybe, like some said, you jerked in your sleep. Happened to me once. I was 19 years old and when I did that, I strained a muscle in my side. Hurt like the devil for several days!

At the risk of spoiling everyone's fun . . . is it possible that your house's foundation has settled? Any cracks in the walls or foundation? I used to work in an industrial area that was built on a landfill over a drained man-made lake near the Columbia River. You can imagine everyone in the area looking for the shortest route to high ground everytime there was an earth tremor. . . and we have a few of those here in Oregon. So, who knows what lies underground? Poltergeist anyone?

Ohmygod, I have no idea how you went back to sleep! Especially alone, I'd be completely terrified. =/ I'm such a wuss.

Courtney - your cat isn't watching ghosts she's fixing the dead pixels so you won't notice

Laurie - If your house/bed was haunted your cats would have told you. They are particularly sensitive to those types of things. Maybe you kicked in your sleep and moved the bed yourself? ? ?

I used to push off of my foot board in my sleep and scare myself half to death and move the mattress off of the frame....

IF you think your house might be haunted you can smudge the house. You take a bunch of dried sage and light it up and smoke the perimiter of your house inside and out. My local Wild Oats carries the smudge sticks over by the vitamins and bath oils and stuff. You can leave a note to the unknown specter letting him know where the closest funeral home is and directions that if he/she would like to cross over they can do so at the almost daily funerals. You can also have an ordained priest or minister bless the house. Don't go throwing holy water around yourself it just pisses off the dead.

Hope this helps!

Love your adventures, thanx for taking us along.

Hmm...Tuesday morning at about 6:40 EST I violently slammed down my circular needles and a tangle of yarn on the table after about my seventh time trying to start that beret.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

My sister-in-law is a Santeria Priestess; do you want her number in NY?

I wish I was kidding but unfortunately, I am not.

Someone is trying to get your attention...did you try reasoning with it ? The spirit sounds lonely for you. =)

My parents house is haunted and it used to scare the bejeezus out of me. Did you explain to your visitor that you really don't have the time right now? Maybe they could do some laundry or dust or something and then you could make the time to properly pay attention to them?

That's awsome(ly creepy)! I love stuff like that!! You should open it up for tours. Or a haunted B&B. My MIL would pay to stay there!

I read about a man whose restaurant was haunted and the ghosts kept disturbing the customers. Evidently there was a type of music they didn't like, and it always set them off. He went to the spot where they were most active and said he didn't mind if they were there, but if they kept harrassing the customers he would blast the music they hated and make their afterlives a living hell.

They played nice after that. XD

Perhaps speaking firmly and laying down rules would help?

Enjoy your ghost, Laurie! It's an interesting thing. I have two (?) that like to pull all the drawers and cabinet doors open in my kitchen most nights. They also enjoy pulling all of my clean towels off the shelves (also in cabinets). It can get annoying at times, but it's harmless fun, really. I mean, what else are they going to do? You were asleep! Asleep = no entertainment value. ;)

Call Ghost Hunters!!

I know how you feel. I used to wake up to sounds of someone reading the paper. Rustly paper sounds, ya know? Look all over the house...nada. My bedroom at home happened to have been the study of the folks who owned it before. Two professors, who also happened to have died in the house.

Nice huh? You'd think they would have retired after they died.

Ooooh! I love ghosty stuff! Whenever my boyfriend and I travel I always make sure we stay in a haunted inn. My ex-husband's family all have this weird psychic stuff going on, and the family house has at least one ghost. I've never seen anything myself, but my four year old appears to have a touch of the shining.

Well, strangely enough, I *do* house clearings, if they get feisty again...

My house is haunted too. It's an old 1896 Victorian and I don't know who all is there, but it's more than just the live humans. As 'Jami in WI' discovered, all you have to do is tell them to leave you alone and if they're nice they will. Our ghosts used to yell in our ears at night until I told them that it was annoying and couldn't they do something cool like play the piano. They haven't yelled since.
They don't play the piano either, unfortunately. But it seems they've sort of retreated. My ghost expert friend says they must still be there, but are being quiet out of respect. I'm thinking of inviting them back to hang out as long as they don't shout at us anymore, makes it hard to sleep.

I used to work in a haunted restaurant. I watched an empty cup move across the table on its own, stop, move in a different direction, and stop again. Unless the ghost becomes a nuissance, just coexist with it.

My business partner told me about his ghost. While he was doing the dishes (the business partner, not the ghost), his good crystal wine glasses would be tipped over from the counter into the sink full of water. He threw down the dishcloth and yelled at the ghost.
"That's it! Now you've done it! I've put up with a lot of your crap but when you mess with my good crystal you've gone too far! Get your ass out of MY house!"
Such a drama queen. But it worked.

It was the earthquake possibility that got my attention.
Back in 94, my house suffered a lot of damage in the Northridge earthquake and I got a touch of PTSD. Thereafter, I would feel "little" temblors in the night and wake with a terrified jolt. The next day, I would ask people at the office, "Did you feel that earthquake/aftershock?" Invariably, the response was to look at me like I was delusional.
Turns out, I was.
My dog (a German Shepherd) slept on the bed with me. Occasionally, she would twitch, and I would feel it like the earthquake all over again!
Okay, so in my case, the earth/bed did not actually move 6", but it did move. I swan.

I like the Armando explanation. :-)

Excuse a poor New Englander - Bell Witch? Can we hear that story?

I have to tell you I had a weird thing happen on Monday night too, around 2:30. I woke up, wide awake, and then relaxed to fall back asleep. As I got relaxed I heard snoring on the other end of the couch. I listened for awhile and it was very relaxing and I just accepted the sound like it was supposed to be there. Then I opened my eyes and remembered I was alone in my house and I was like, "wait a second..." I shouldn't be hearing that. AND then it was very quiet.

So yes, Monday was werid for me too. :)

Yup, us Southerners have ghosts. My grandmother haunts our family (both immediate and extended.) She was a chain smoker. Every once in a while someone in our family will notice the smell of cigarette smoke. It doesn't freak anyone out or anything. It's kinda nice to know that our Nanny is watching over us and participating in our lives still. She also cussed like a sailor, but if I start hearing that in the middle of the night I'm gonna run like all get out.

Supposedly it takes a whole lot of energy for "them" to make contact, so if you just tell "them" to stop till you aren't quite so busy, they probably will. Here is another thought - whenever I have had that sort of thing happen to me, something HAS actually happened - like someone passed over (but it doesn't have to be someone close, an acquaintance's parent, sibling, etc, would do it), or something major has occurred. A friend of your grandmothers, for example, could just have been saying "bye sweetie!" as they passed. Ask around.

And Beth, I had the same thing happen to me when I was a teenager. Someone was sitting in a chair at my bedside, but I was cool with it and it calmed me, so I went back to sleep. The next morning I got the heebie-jeebies about it, but at the time, it was not scary. (Now, earthquakes, I find them out-of-my-mind terrifying).

Of course, it could actually have been the building settling. Roll a cat toy across the floor and see if the floor is still level.

Though I was born, raised, and still live in Ohio, I believe I'm eligible for Honorary Southernership based on my Grandma's 1880s Victorian farmhouse in Southern Ohio. It's unquestionably haunted. My Mom and sister had the most experience with hauntings both visible and aural; me, I've never experienced anything but a palpable "presence".

Having dabbled in Wicca (lapsed 1st Degree), that sort of thing doesn't bother me as long as it's a pleasant vibe (which it is). But for those who don't believe in ghosts? Hee hee hee.

Oh, golly. It just occurred to me that maybe the reason nobody's bought the place yet (it's for sale) is because the ghosts are chasing them off?

As for your haunting... perhaps it was Roy, jumping on the bed to say hello. He always seemed to have the soul of a tiger.

Darlin' you're living in prime earthquake country! Try checking out: http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/FaultMaps/Los_Angeles.htm

after you feel a tremor.

From a fellow knitter that also works in the geology dept. at a major SoCal University

We have a ghostie at our house too. She looks like a little kid and can only be seen in reflections. She runs down the hall, slams doors and freaks the cats out. I drew the line when she rode in the car with me one day. I was stuck in traffic and looked in the rear view mirror to see her sitting in the back seat. I turned around and she was gone. I yelled at her that "The house is one thing, but I don't need a haunted car too, missy!". No more car rides. But she does slam the occasional door from time to time or run up and down the hall.

I hope this doesn't kill your ghost buzz, but either you have a partying dream life or the cats aren't as innocent as they'd like you to believe.

My friend owns a haunted b&b. Her cat, Kimmy, who was a present from me, died at 20 years old about 8 years ago. He visits from time to time, especially if one of her other cats is sick or dying. She calls hime the kitty angel of death. ;-)

Oh yeah...when I lived in Savannah GA a town that had suchs things as ahunted Pub Crawls I lived across the alley from a building that was built on...get this...and OLD INDIAN BURIAL SITE! It seemed the building was so haunted on the second floor the owner had been trying to rent it out for like 8 years with no takers.

Ain't no haint gonna run me off -
Probably you pushed off from the wall in your sleep.
Then again, this is EXACTLY how the wackiness started in The Exorcist.

My 3 year old looks up at doorways when she is playing and says, "You don't belong here!" often enough that it's starting to give me the jeebies.

My 11 year old used to talk about the lights that played with her when she was trying to sleep.

My 9 year old thinks it's all a load of crap. She's a lot like her father who claims not to believe in any of the ghost stuff, but who totally loses his cool if I even mention ouija boards.

Weird.

Anyway, I suggest you use my 3 year old's approach.

Spooky. I have a suggestion, on my blog I have being doing some research unrelated to ghosts and hauntings more like herbs and blood pressure..hahah. I found out that that in the middle ages they used to hang bunches of hawthorne berries were hung over doorways to banish evil spirits. Worth a shot.
Good Luck

Oh honey, that's just the gnomes! They're clearly still on a bit of a bender from St. Patty's Day. You *know* how gnomes like to par-tay!

Worry not. They're probably sleeping it off now, will wake up with an epic collective hangover by about Thursday, and be back up to their old tricks by next weekend.

HAHAHA!!!!!! And I love it that it's a southern thing. Since moving down below the old Mason Dixon I have found that to be so true!!!!!! Just one thing: tell the ghost if it wants to stay it has to learn how to feed the cats and change the litter box .
:-)

I would check for ants. I hear they are might strong and could have been trying to carry your bed away.

I bet the ghosty went next door. It didn't get enough of a response from you, so it just bumped through and left. No worries!

Hmmm - I'd guess a sonic boom; but one stong enough to move your bed should have knocked over glasses and stuff, too.

Better a ghost than ants with superpowers and a vendetta!

Oh, Southerners do all have ghosts. My great-grandma was from Arkansas, and she visits on occasion. Not as often as she used to -- she died in '98 -- but now and then. I smell her perfume on rare occasion, but she usually pops in when I'm sleeping. People have told me I'm dreaming this, but the "visits" have a quality totally unlike a dream. It usually happens when I'm stressed and it always makes me feel better. It's nice.

A stranger ghost is scarier. I would sage the place and ask the spirit to move along.It can't hurt, after all.

Are you sure one of your cats are not screwing with you? You never know what they will do for some perceived slight...like shorting them by a crunchy at dinner time.....

Seriously, though, did any of your neighbors feel anything? If not....get out the sage and smudge the house.

Well, as another Wiccan here suggested...sage smudging would be a good idea...Gretchen has a good explanation. Also, just going with the flow and/or being firm in letting the spirit (if that's what it is) know you are having none of this, is very effective.

Sometimes, when DH is out of town, his ex-father-in-law visits one of the common rooms in the house..I can tell by his pipe tobacco...I just send him the best (rascal that he was, so I hear) and send him on his way...I suggest you try the same!

Love your posts; especially the cat photos. Cheers, K.

I grew up in the adjorning neighborhood to the actual Bell Witch land. You have not lived till you sit in the cementary on Halloween eve daring the Bell Witch to slap your face.

She never did.

Much like your high school years, good times.

Ok, this has nothing to do with this post. But has anyone ever told you that you have a resemblance to Mrs. Fussypants? Here's a link if you are unfamiliar:

http://fussypants.typepad.com/whatsmartmommiesknow/

Take away her hat and you two could be sisters!

I vote foundation shifting or some such building settling thing. Otherwise the cats would have acted weird.

As for the Southern ghostliness - yep. We've got an old Southern plantation house that's been in the family for over 150 years. Mom lives there now. Brick with the tall white columns. Burned down just after the Civil War, built back up on its same foundation. The huge portraits of ancestors in the parlors and front hall. Civil war battles there, accidental deaths, suicides, mysteries, etc. and a family graveyard down the hill. Many people claim to have seen the various ghosts (I haven't), and most have heard weird things like clattering dishes of a dinner party in the dining room, the old piano playing in the middle of the night in the back parlor, horses galloping right outside the windows. Some relatives refuse to stay overnight. My great aunt told me when I was little not to be worried 'cause the ghosts were all kin and wouldn't hurt us... Mom thinks it's an inexpensive burglar deterrent... I wish I could sic them on my lying cheating ex-husband and scare the weeny off of him...teehee...

Animals don't always freak around ghosts. In this one place I lived, my roommate's dog would look up at nothing and wag her tail like she was greeting someone she know and liked. And her cat ignored it pretty much. I saw that ghost myself, once, but it was not visible often.

We did the ol' mary in the mirror in 4th grade in the girls bathroom. Scared ourselves so bad we used to go down to the 2nd grade bathroom pee after that! I thought it was a Midwest thing? lol
My Dad passed away on Christmas day when I was 8 months pregnant. One evening (she was an infant)when I was bringing her upstairs to bed I smelled his aftershave. I was alone in the house except for my daughter.I just smiled and said "Hi Grandpa".
I believe that if you leave Them alone,they'll let you be.
Maybe you could leave a list of chores out for them??

Ehhh...last time I had a middle of the night earthquake-like bed jolting it was accompanied by rattling windows. Turned out to be an explosion at the refinery a few miles away. I'd have preferred a ghost!

If it happens again, politely tell your new "roommate" that you would love to entertain him/her, but 3:40 in the morning is not the time. I worked with a gal once who had a "family ghost." It apparently haunted several of her family members at different times (they apparently had nailed down what departed family member it was). If it showed up at an inconvenient time, she merely asked it to leave, and it did. Other times, she would have a little talk with it. It was very well behaved, apparently and just stopped by to check on her once in a while.

Another thought.....do you happen to live near an air force base or naval air station? I was knocked out of bed by a sonic boom once. It was a no-no and the pilots weren't supposed to do them over populated areas, but once in a while, one slipped out.

Oh, yeah, sonic boom. I live very close to an AFB. Luckily they've only happened during the day the couple times I've heard it. Still quite a surprise.

Could be anything, my sister's bed once fell apart on her (well it had been my bed first, before that my mom's, before that who knows, it is a Victorian era bedframe....) she didn't realize it until we all went searching the house for what had crashed. She was asleep in it. It could have been the house settling, it could have been a lot of things. Right now I'm not thinking ghost, as I should be getting to bed myself.

I used to sleep with my sister in bunk beds (her on the top). She was forever going off at me for rocking the bed, and her revenge was to wait until I was dead to the world and then yell 'PAULA' at the top of her voice, just so she could watch me sit bolt upright, just tall enough to catch 40% of my hair in the bed springs of the top bunk (bitch!). She would so freak out if I ever told her it wasn't me rocking the bed!

Hmm. I am also perhaps an honorary southerner, down to the crazy family names and civil-war history. Once, while staying at grandma's (here in Oregon), I was SURE I heard a whisle outside. I looked out real quick, but no one was on the patio. Could have been anything, but it was really unnerving.

I sort of favor the leg-jerk scenario. Take a calcium supplement before you go to bed (and we should be doing so anyway). I don't know what it was that happened chez poops-a-lot but I will say that every so often I feel a thump on my bed as if a cat had jumped up on it. Only thing is, I don't have a cat.

You know what's strange? My friend, who lives quite near you, I think, had her bedroom dresser randomly fall over the other day. Again, there was no earthquake, it wasn't broken or anything, it just fell over =/ Maybe there's an angry Californian ghost somewhere?!

I know a house that is surely haunted: The former house of my in-laws, who died both in 1990. Well, my husband and I moved into their house, and I soon found out that my mil was still there. In her life, she never was overly fond of me, and I felt totally disliked by her house, silly as it sounds. It was so creepy, feeling her looking over my shoulder and sensing fits of rage all the time...I could never relax while living there.
When my marriage finally broke eight years later, I left this house, and moved into an appartment. It took my husband about two years to find someone who wanted to actually buy this house. The new family moved in, and the parent's marriage broke within the next two years. Until now, there have been three more families living there, all of them falling apart in very short time. At the moment it's empty, and everytime I drive by I find it sort of looming above it's front lawn. It surely has a kind of... well... influence...

Ghosties, ghosties everywhere! I'd just smudge and ask it to leave. Maybe sprinkle a little sea salt around the outside of your home for extra protection. Or call
Like every good Southerner, we lived in a haunted house (Queen Anne, not Victorian, though) when I was little. It's why I sleep in socks to this day--once you've had a cold, clammy invisible hand grab your bare feet under the covers...well, it's an experience I never want to repeat.

It was the Little People!

My DH's grandmother had a house in Kinderhook, NY that was haunted. He saw one of the ghosts in his bedroom when he was a kid. It was a revolutionary war soldier.

I've never seen a ghost, but a couple of years ago I was in a house we'd just moved into in Virginia. It was evening, and I was alone with only my two kids, when I smelled men's cologne. No one in my house wears cologne. It was so strong that I walked to the front door and then the basement door to see who had come in -- no one. It didn't scare me, which is surprising because I can usually work myself into a freak-out pretty easily. Since it didn't happen again, I figured it was just some spirit passing through.

I don't think I could deal with that on many levels, not the least of which would be being totally freaked out! Maybe you could call in that lady from "Most Haunted" on the Travel Channel :) She could come and discuss (in her British accent) what exactly your spirit friend (or not friend since you can't handle new anythings at the moment...) wants. She and her posse could tell you if it is a good spirit or a bad one and all that jazz.
I'll have to check back more regularly to see if there are any more incidents and how it's going for you!

oh wow. jerk me back to the past with the bell witch. my grandmother in sparta, tennessee had a root cellar. we used to run up the roof and jump
off the high end. you could see all the jelly jars and relish jars in the moonlight if you were
doing this late. looked like eyes. she had the classic 4 room tar paper sided little house - two bedrooms, kitchen, "den", then the back porch where the boys slept. my uncles used to tell me if i stayed in the outhouse too long, the snapping turtles would come up and pinch me on the behind. my cousin my age and i would tell the little ones the bell witch would get them if they followed us out to jump off the root cellar roof. leather britches beans and bacon fat and those biscuits would keep you going for days. you remember the jar of bacon grease in the fridge that everybody had for cooking?
wow. i remember she got indoor plumbing in the 70's and she hated it.
thanks for the memories!
sharon k, now in wyoming.

Years ago, I rented a room in someone's house. At the time I had a 14lb cat that liked to pounce on my toes in the middle of the night, so I'd developed a reflex kick that was just strong enough to slide 14lbs off the foot of the bed.

The first night in my new room, before I'd brought over my big hunk of a cat, the landlord's itty-bitty, teeny-tiny, approx. 5lb (adult) kitty came in while I was asleep and jumped on my toes.

Ummm... a kick that just slides 14lbs off the foot of the bed is enough to give 5lbs a flying lesson. The loud *BANG* as she hit the sliding closet doors kinda woke me up. It took a couple of minutes to figure out why I'd woken up! (She was fine, came in later in the morning to be petted. Or fed, maybe.)

I HATE IT when that happens. AND IT DOES happen. You can just let that fellow know that you dont have time for it. That really works well. - you just have to be quite forceful.

If you just tell your new "friend" you don't have time to get to know him/her right now and could he/she please play nice, that should work out. We've been there, done that, had a child "friend" in a house in Georgia (yup, in the South), and we had a really good time with him. :) It was actually really sad when we were moving away.

lily, your comment about the house negatively affecting marriages reminds me of a book i checked out from the libary - using feng shui techniques to help kill clutter in the house. i am currently drowning in clutter...

anyways, the book talks about how homes can have residual predecessor energy. a kind of energy grime builds up over time like dust on a light bulb.

laurie, i've been waking up in the middle of the night lately, too, thinking there's an earthquake. i finally figured out that my big red dog was having big dreams and he was shaking the bed!

you could do some more CSI sleuthing with your camera...when i was directing an agatha christi murder mystery play, our cast got haunted in the theatre. my backstage photos contained lots of swirly ectoplasmic stuff. weird stuff.

Damn, Girleen!! You crack me up like NO ONE else!!xxooj

I do't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but dead time starts at 3 AM - the time most paranormal experts believe spirits are most active. Just an FYI.

My last house was haunted. When we were packing up to move, all kinds of weird things happened like the TV turning itself on and off and changing channels and the dishwasher turning itself on while completely empty. That is how I knew the ghost was male. After I announced, out loud: Look, we're moving, either pack a box or knock it off, things settled down. I believe the ghost stayed behind although the cat does meow at things unseen in the new house.

And, I've looked for the Bell Witch.

Gotta love livin' in the South!