Ghost In the Window

From: DannyBoy (d_b_ruiz@yahoo.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Unknown
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Fri Jan 29 23:02:40 2010

Not everything we dont understand is paranormal.

I had an English teacher in high school who was entranced with the paranormal but an incredible cynic. He shared this story with us students. The best part about being in his class was how many macabre films I saw. His favorite was Edgar Ellen Poe. I saw every single Edgar Ellen Poe movie ever made.

If anyone has any reference to this paranormal occurrence, I would appreciate any references or links to whether or not it is factual or not.

According to his story there was an old Victorian house somewhere in Virginia where this old man and this old lady lived.

They never took care of their yard or their house. The yard was nothing more than weeds and dirt. It was not a wide house, but a narrow tall house. Two stories with an attic on top. No one ever met the people that lived there. They were very private and never left their house or went into town to buy groceries or other necessities. Necessities were always delivered by mail, or the grocer would leave groceries on the sidewalk leading up to their house. There were no cats or dogs living with these old people that anyone ever saw.

At night, some of the windows would light up. Most times from the attic. It was that way for years. For years if anyone stepped on to their yard, the old man would come out the front and scream: Get off my yard!

The house had cracked windows, very old and worn out window frames, doors and and a dilapidated porch. There was always an old lady looking out through one certain window every evening and night on a rocking chair rocking. And so it went for many years.

On Halloween nights, the house became a tradition and a mandatory challenge for years to every kid in the neighborhood to dare them step or walk up to the The Old House property. The house was so overbearing very few kids ever took on the challenge.

Eventually the old man and old lady died, and the house was left abandoned for many years. The house stood abandoned for years while someone somewhere was settling the estate. During that entire time no one dared go near the house. But almost everyone swore that you could see the old lady in the window on her rocking chair. Mostly on moonlit nights. More so on stormy nights when the lightening would strike. With the strike of the lightening you really had a very distinct image of the old lady on the rocking chair. It became a phenomenon everyone experienced in the neighborhood at one time or another.

One day, a crew of construction workers showed up and began emptying the house. Once it was empty, instead of bulldozing the house they began to disassemble it. Because it was a very old Victorian house, they decided to preserve many parts of the home.

And to their surprise, when they began taking down the windows they found a very interesting window. It was the window where the old lady sat behind every night on her rocking chair for years rocking and looking out. There was an image imprinted on the glass of her on her rocking chair. It turns out that the windows were made of glass with a lot of lead crystal and silver. The same compounds photographers used in the early days of photography to capture an image on a photo plate.

Experts theorized that at some point when the old lady was sitting in front of this window, there was probably a very powerful lightening strike. Powerful enough to act as a powerful strobe and captured her image on the glass.

So they say.