Haunted House

From: Alicia Chauvin (edc4@infonline.net)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Philadelphia PA
Source: Form Submission
Subject: Personal Experience

This is a true story.

My Aunt Lucy purchased a house just outside of Philadelphia, it was reported to have been built on an Indian burial ground. I guess the first incident happened when my cousin Nikki was having her 10th birthday party outside, and my aunt Bonnie went inside to get something.

I don't remember now what it was. She saw a lady with long black hair sitting in the living room, she didn't recognize her and thought she might have been a friend or neighbor.

The lady offered to bake a cake for Nikki. Bonnie went and told Lucy about this, and she said there wasn't anyone around to fit the description. When they went back in to check, she was gone.

Not long after, my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer and came to live with Lucy. The entire family was visiting and sleeping on the floor in the room with my dying grandmother. My aunts were burning church incense at the top of the stairs, because, being from the old country, they believe that the dead come to visit the dying. We heard footsteps coming up the stairs, they'd go just to the top step where the incense was burning, and turn and go back down. This went on all night long. There was moaning and voices heard through the heating ducts. Sometime in the middle of the night the stereo downstairs came on. My Uncle Frank went to shut it off, shortly later it came on again.

This happened several times. Later that night, my cousin Eddie went to the bathroom and looked out the window. He saw the upper torso, head, and arms of a man staring back at him. He was very frightened by the sight.

Another time, my Uncle Frank had just succeeded in breaking into the basement. He found lots of religious pictures on the walls of the basement. Shortly after this was when it was found that the house had been built on Indian burial ground. They couldn't live with the spirits, so Frank got transferred to Oklahoma, and they moved. There wasn't any more trouble after that.