How could I have missed a haunted thread?
[MENTION=1906]GatorRay[/MENTION]'s house is mighty freaky!
And here's my contribution.
When my dad was going to college, he lived in a two story duplex with his 3 brothers and a sister who were also in college. The oldest brother owned the house and lived on the top floor. All the others shared the downstairs unit. Now, this was in the Philippines in the 60's. My dad and his siblings hired a maid from the province who is quite naive - she did not finish 3rd grade even. One day, the maid told my uncle that this guy named Benjamin asked her to marry him and she plans to say yes. Well, my dad and uncles were quite surprised because they didn't even know she was seeing someone and so they asked to meet the guy. Well, she said sure... Benjamin lives on the 3rd floor! Uhm, it's a 2-story duplex... Anyway, she insisted there's a 3rd floor and she kept pointing to it and so my dad and uncles thought she was loco-en-la-cabeza. My uncle was in med school, so he tried to get her to see this doctor but she refused... So, my uncles told her to go home to the province.
Well, that's when the bad stuff started happening... Benjamin would not allow the maid to leave the house! The house is walled with 6-foot high walls and an iron gate. If somebody tries to open the gate with the maid, the gate will not open! But, it opens just fine without the maid...
So anyway, my dad, uncles, and aunt are skeptics - I mean, it was to be expected from 2 engineering students, 2 med students, and a law student... So they suspected it was some trick the maid is pulling. They were having dinner and were arguing with the maid about it and the maid was crying when all of a sudden a big rock from out of nowhere landed on the soup bowl in the middle of the table and split it in half! So they all stood up, startled, and their chairs floated up and got stuck like with magnets on the wall! The maid said Benjamin is so angry she's getting scared. So, of course, my dad and his siblings ran to the front door to try to get out but all their shoes were stuffed with hay and mud...
The next day, my uncle called in an exorcist from the church and they were doing the rites when the maid said Benjamin is kneeling right next to the priest responding to the prayers so the priest sprinkled holy water on the maid and the rosary that she was wearing like a necklace floated up and got hung up on a peg on the wall. The exorcism was of no use and the priest said this is not an evil spirit...
Anyway, the maid is now so terrorized and scared and my uncle who owned the house was getting fed up with the things that were happening so he got a giant can of kerosene and told Benjamin that if this does not stop he will burn the house down. Well, he stopped. Anyway, nobody really knew what happened next but my uncle explained that he was able to talk to Benjamin and they made a deal that my uncle will keep the house, Benjamin will remain on the invisible 3rd floor and the maid will go home to the province. And things went back to normal.
So then my dad graduated and moved out, and years later met my mom and they got married. After I was born (I'm 3rd kid), we moved back to the duplex. My uncle still lives on the 2nd floor (well, he still lives there until today). One day, my brother, who was 5 at the time, was playing peek-a-boo with an invisible friend so my mom asked him what his friend's name is and my brother told her it's Benjamin. My mom did not know anything about the previous events that happened in that house so she did not think anything of it - just the normal pretend play kids do. So then she told my dad about it and my dad about passed out. So my dad talked to his brother and told him he doesn't want Benjamin playing with the kids and, I guess my uncle talked to Benjamin because my brother never saw him again.
Then, one night, somebody robbed our house while we were asleep! It was so wierd because my mom is a very light sleeper and I was a baby then and would wake up for feeding several times at night. But that night, I didn't cry and my mom didn't wake up until morning! That's when she noticed several things missing in the house. And that was wierd too because the stuff that was missing were all junk! For example, we just bought a new stereo and right next to it is the old broken stereo. They took the old broken stereo and left the new one... Anyway, my uncle went to talk to Benjamin and Benjamin admitted to doing something to keep us sleeping and hide our stuff except for the junk stuff. The police never solved the crime. But my uncle (who is now this big shot lawyer) hired his Private Investigator to gain info on the robbery and we found out that the robbery was done by this crime ring made up of criminals who are in prison in cahoots with their warden. The warden would let them out at night, give them firearms, and have them rob a house. Then they round them up and put them back in jail before morning... The prisoners prefer jail to freedom because they get free housing, free food, free tv, free booze, and a nightlife! Anyway, if my mom would have woken up while the robbery was going on, there's a big chance she would have been shot. They shot somebody before already.
Anyway, that's my freaky story... Oh, and Benjamin and my uncle are still friends until today in that house...
love the stories!
