haunts

Due to public demand (?) i have decided to share some of the stories i heard about my new abode.

One night, my housemate and his friend decided to have a few drinks in the house. It was late, and being a big old house, the house was quiet except for a few squeaks. My housemate's friend was going to sleep in the room next to mine, which had windows that was fronting the side garden.

It was dark, around midnight, and he was drunk. He noticed that there was a rustling outside his window and peered to look. There was a small kid looking back at him! His eyes were blankly staring back, and he was so pale. The hair on his back started to stand out and he bolted out of his drunken stupor, running out of the room yelling for my friend. When asked, he described the boy vividly, and my friend started smiling a bit. He later showed him a pic of a young boy. "is this the boy?" my friend asked. "yes, that's him!" My friend later told him it was his great grandfather as a young kid, who usually was seen around as a kid going about the house to "check up" on the people.

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My friend himself had a particular experience with his kid. On a really hot night, he and his niece and nephew decided to sleep in the car and turn the a/c on. His nephew, about 5, was super "likot" (restless) and was moving about always, so he tyends to get lost most of the time. Sometime during the night he woke up, and saw that his nephew was gone from the car. He saw a figure of a kid running about outsided and thought it was him, so he decided to follow it. They had a mad goosechase around the house before he realized that it wasn't his nephew. CHills started to dawn on him when he saw that it was his great grandfather. He ran back to the car, saw his nephew and niece sleeping inside, which he saw that a part nearby the car started to smoke. So he woke them up and they were able to put out the fire. In a way, he figured, it was his grandfather keeping him away from danger.

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Granted, the haunts are not scary, and they are pretty harmless, but hell, i don't want to personally experience seeing one :-P