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I wrote the story below about two years ago. It is the story of a friend of mine who had a ghost in her house. I had not seen my friend in awhile and decided to call her for a lunch date. She told me I should re run the story about the ghost who has been living with them but to wait until we have lunch together as she had an update to the story. Let me start by telling you the original story of my friends ghost.
My friend and her family are a average American family living here on Long Island in New York. They live in a average neighborhood in a modest comfortable home on a friendly street. All is well and normal in their world except for one small annoying intrusion.
Since they have lived in the house , especially around the holidays, the family has been dealing with a ghost in their house. This has been going on for over 40 years.
The house was originally built by a young couple who had two little kids and a grandfather who lived with them. The grandfather lived on the second floor and loved his home. He had a sitting room on the second floor with a bedroom and private bath. Outside he kept roses and flowers that he loved and tended with care.
Both the young husband and wife worked full time jobs. The grandfather watched over the children until the couple returned home at night. The family seemed typical to the other families in the neighborhood. The granddad was happy to be with his family and tend his roses. He was content with his life. Often you could find him smoking his pipe waiting in his rocking chair on the front porch for the children to return from school. Life seemed to be working and happy for this family.
It started during one hot summer. The young couple began to fight. The young man started to drink heavily. Often you could hear yelling and loud arguing erupting from the house. The neighbors began to talk. Eventually the people on the street had to call the police when the fighting became too loud or violent.
Often the neighbors could hear doors slamming and furniture being thrown against walls. By the fall of that year gunshots were heard a few times and the police were a constant fixture at the home. The family was dissolving. The old grandfather was caught in the middle of a terrible situation. It was a difficult time.
The couple divorced. The wife took the children and moved away. The young husband placed the house for sale. The grandfather had to be placed in an old folks home. Word had it his heart was broken.
The family, my friend, who now live in this home were the people who bought the house from the young husband. That was over 40 years ago. They are a lovely happy normal family who have loved , taken care of and enjoyed the house all of these years . They raised their children in the house and have kept it in good condition, including trying to tend to the large rose garden that came with the house. This family also has put up with the grandfathers ghost all of this time!
It is said that the old man did not make out too well once he left his once happy home. He hated the old folks home and only lasted a few years before he passed away.
My friend and her family who now own the house started to notice odd activities around the home from the time they moved in to it. . It would increase around the holidays.
Often when the family would be sitting in the dining room eating they would hear the front door open and someone walk up the stair case to the second floor. The family would call out to see who was there without any reply. They would search the house to find it empty but for the family members who were sitting at the table. This odd activity would often increase around Christmas time.
The family would hear someone slamming doors or footsteps overhead on the second floor of the house while s they sat in the family room on the first floor. Again. they would search only to find an empty house.
The worst of it was the ongoing smell of someone smoking a pipe. Each time this would occur the house would fill with the smell of a freshly lit pipe being smoked. At times the odor of the pipe would be so overpowering the family needed to open windows and doors
I ran into my friend who owns this house a few years ago when I was Christmas shopping. I asked her at the time if she was still having ghostly problems? She laughed and told me that the old grandfather was still with them. She told me he still brings his smelly old pipe with him too!
I was amazed at how matter of fact my friend was about sharing her home with this ghostly invasion. I wondered if she ever feared the ghost or if she ever thought about bringing in a ghost hunter?
This is what my friend told me:
“No, we are not fearful at all. After 40 years of having him walk around the house we feel he is harmless. For some reason he likes to be in the house during the holidays. He also refuses to move on. We think he still is tending his roses and smoking his pipe. It doesn’t interfere with our lives so we just let it be. Anyway we never touch those roses yet they get bigger and more beautiful each and every year for the last 40 years. Why spoil a good thing? . We don’t mind, we are use to him.”
I remember the day she told me that on the day I ran into her while we were both Christmas shopping I could not help notice in her basket a bunch of red stockings with the names of her family written on top of them . I had to smile as I looked at the pile of stockings as right on top of the pile was a stocking with the name Grandpa written across it. I had to envy how easily this family was handling the strange encounters of their live in ghost.
I could not wait to meet my old friend for lunch this year as I was curious to what was happening with the family ghost. Once at lunch my friend filled me in on the ghostly update..
My friend told me that since we had last seen each other she and her husband did a large addition and renovation to their house. She told me they demolished the front of the house adding new rooms and a new entrance to the house. They moved the stair case to the back of the house and enlarged the bedrooms on the second floor. They also added a large deck and pool to the back yard and had to pull out the old roses and plant new ones in another area.
She told me the ghost reacted when the work started by throwing the tools of the men working on the house or moving them or taking them to never be found again. He would push the men who worked alone hard enough to make them lose their balance and fall over. The carpenters were frightened which often caused delays and problems for all involved. She told me he would pull down sheet rock and bang on the floors and walls frightening the men trying to work on the remodel.
My friend told me that this went on until the day the roses were removed. She told me that was the last day they ever saw or heard or smelled the pipe of the ghost of the old grandfather. Since the house remodel was completed they never again were visited by the ghost .
My friend feels that the grandfather ghost finally moved on . Once the house was no longer the one he knew he did not seem to want to stay. Once the roses he loved were removed and replaced with the deck and pool the ghost seemed to lose interest in staying on and simply moved on.
I guess we changed the house to the point he did not feel he belonged here any longer. She added that she and the other family members felt it was a good thing for their ghost to move on to a better place and feel he has finally found his peace..
I could not help wonder if she kept that stocking with his name on it. When I asked her about it she laughed and told me the stocking goes up every year. She told me that after 40 years of sharing the house with him they want him to know he is always welcome- especially during the holidays!
I find the manner in which this paranormal event was handled by my friend and her family one in which they accepted the unknown as simply something they did not fully understand but also something that was not completely out of the ordinary. They felt the grandfather needed to stay for awhile and they allowed him to. He moved on when he was ready .
I do not know if I could be as easily going with a ghost in the house . I do know I did learn a new way at looking at something that I once considered extreme with new eyes and realize sometimes we just need to relax and let things be.
I truly wish my friends and all of you the love and happiness of the Season.…and Happy Holidays to you too Grandpa!
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She entered her house by way of the front door to find her parents frantic. It seems they had been out looking for her as she was two hours late and they did not like the fact she was out so late in the dark alone.
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This friend also was an Air Force pilot during the 1960′s . He was a FAC or Forward Air Controller pilot in the Vietnam War. After he finished his service to his country my friend became a private pilot flying out of Northern California. He told me of a very odd experience he had during a flight in a small airplane while transporting one female passenger over Sacramento California in 1974. He was flying over Sacramento California one afternoon with his female passenger approaching the Capital Building . As my friend and his passenger flew closer they both noticed a large red orb about 1500 ft over the Capital Building just hanging there silently . My friend had never seen anything like it before.
He radioed in asking if anyone else had reported the strange orb. He was told no one else had. He was fascinated by this strange object and radioed back that he was changing course to circle this object to see if he could figure out what it was and how it was just hovering in mid air . He and his passenger flew a semi circle around this object to get a better look at it. He said it was about the size of a Volkswagen. It was a perfect sphere hovering about 1500 feet directly over the Capital building ‘s dome. It was an incredible sight he told me as it had a liquid plasma moving interior. My friend described the orb as nothing he had ever seen before. He told me it was completely silent and did not move at all beside the motion of the plasma material in the center of the orb. There was no obvious method of how this object was able to hover in mid air. He and his passenger flew around the object as to make sure it was not a reflection or something that was a projection of some kind. It appeared to be equal all around and a solid object hovering in place over the Capital building. When my friend and the passenger returned to their planned course they radioed in the sighting to be met with a dull response that no one else is reporting the object. They landed shortly after with the anticipation all the news all over would be covered with the fact this large red orb was hovering over the Sacramento Capital Building in Sacramento California. To their utter astonishment there was not one word of it anywhere. It seemed incredulous to him and his passengers that thousands of other people out and about the Sacramento area did not notice that huge orb hovering directly over that building. He watched the news for about a week without any other report of the object. This my pilot friend found as strange as the sight of the object. He told me he never got over that day and wonders often what it was he saw hovering over that building. The only reasons I can come up for this is either the craft was cloaked from the ground so those below it could not see it or that the world just does not look up. Even on beautiful days in Sacramento. I find this encounter very interesting. I too witnessed a strange red orb with the same plasma type material moving within its borders. Although the one I saw was much smaller it too hovered silently in mid air. Interestingly the red orb I saw was also in the mid 1970s. I have been carefully reading other reports of similar objects and think one theory worth considering is that these orbs are secondary objects being released from much larger mother type ships. They may be used for the purpose of surveillance or some kind of connection with our planet that we do not yet understand. I came to this conclusion as I did come upon a few reports that mentioned second larger ships at a greater altitude seen around the area of orb sightings. I see no reason to discount this theory or any logical explanation concerning the reports all over the world of orbs over houses , buildings, towns, and cities. These objects are doing something, We just do not know what it is! I was glad I took the time to privately ask each of my pilot pals about this subject as they were the ones up there with the objects when they sighted them. The idea of it being lanterns, balloons, birds, swamp gas, or other planes was wiped out by the close view and expert eyes of the pilots flying along with these objects. I know after talking to those I know who fly the skies that I will pay far more attention next time I am traveling by air. Who knows what may be found if we just pay attention and look!
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