Eerie Story 8

Taken from WW Messageboards





i've never seen a ghost, but i've heard one.

we lived in a really rural part of west tx for a while- real rought and tumble border country in a really rickety old ranch house. that has a wrap around porch. I loved to go out into the yard (it was about 35 acres) and look for rocks (lots of quartz, sometimes you'd find an arrowhead...)
There was this one spot with rock mounds, which looked to us a lot like stettler type grave sites (we had no history of the property aside form what the previous owner could tell us- he inherited it and propery details are more word of mouth down there then documented). one day i found a beat up pocket watch that had some engraving on it (it is illegeble to the naked eye); I looked it up on the net, and the last year that this model was manufactured was 1865.
A few days later our kitchen sink turned on by itself. we made a joke about the ghost wanting his watch back. several times our blankets came off the bed as if they were being pulled away from us to the direction of our feet; we thought it was our dog at first but she was never in the room when it happened, and it always felt like something in the corner to the front left of our bed was staring at us; really creepy and our bedroom was always freezing, even in the summer. We had a porch light that we would make a point to turn off, and if we got up in the middle of the night and went downstairs, it would be turned on. The creepiest thing was if you were downstairs at night, alone it sounded like someone with a cane was walking on the porch. If you went in to use the bathroom you could hear it get closer and closer and then stop right at where you were. there was a window right behind the toilet and I was always afraid to look our of it, so we covered it with a picture