The Smell of Old Spice

From: Angela Shepherd (angi@niteowlz.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Rixeyville, Va.  (an old hunting lodge turned house)
Source: Form Submission

We rented a house about 2 years ago. It wasn't much of a house but to us, it was home. My husband had gotten a job as a security officer and i was home. Our oldest child was sleeping and it was probably about 2:00 am. I heard a noise on the porch like someone walking around, but when i looked out, there was nothing there. I called my husband and told him, but of course he laughed. The next night he again left for work. Around the same time as the previous night i again heard the footsteps. It went on for about a week then stopp ed. About two days after the footsteps stopped, I began smelling Old Spice. I asked my husband the next morning if he had bathed in it that night. He told me he didn't wear it. He said it was probably left over from the night before. The weird thing was , i only smelled around my feet, and it seemed to move around me. Never staying in a spot more than three minutes, then i wouldnt smell it after about ten minutes. This also went on for about a week when one day i couldn't take it anymore and i shouted "Enough! You are making sick with the cologne!! Knock it off!" Of course i was pregnant and it may have been hormones but i was really mad. After that the smell also went away. We moved 10 months later.