Ghost Hunting Read Online Free
Author: Grant Wilson Jason Hawes
why their kids were seeing shadows in their rooms. Put simply, they wanted to know what the hell was going on.
Sometimes you can wait all night to find evidence to support a homeowner’s claims. Sometimes the evidence eludes you altogether. That night at the Wrenns’ house, Andrew and I ran into something even before we finished setting up.
We were in the hallway positioning a video camera when we found ourselves confronted by a dark mass. I tried to get it on camera, but the battery was dead—even though it had been charged a few minutes earlier. Spirits need energy to manifest themselves and they’ll take it from anywhere they can find it. In this case, it seemed to come from our camera battery.
Sometime later, as we were exploring the house in teams, the motion detectors in the kitchen went off. A moment after that, the one in the hallway near the bedrooms went off as well. Then we heard a loud bang.
When we investigated, we saw both girls hiding under their covers. Karen told us that she had been roused from sleep by a huge bang on her bedroom door. We noticed that the girls’ closet was open even though it had been closed when they’d gone to sleep.
In order to calm the girls down, Sarah told them the bang had been one of our cameras hitting the floor. Karen and Ellen seemed to accept that and went back to sleep. But an hour later, Karen ran out of her room babbling about her closet.
Grant and I went to investigate. We saw that Ellen was still fast asleep, but in the recesses of the closet, a dark shape that looked like a woman was sitting on some cardboard boxes. The air in the room was oppressive—warm and thick, like the hottest summer days.
We moved closer to the entity, confronting it. The shape seemed to tilt its head as if to get a better look at us. Then it vanished—but not before we got a sense of its all-too-human features.
We described what we had seen to Sarah, who went pale and suggested that the entity might be her great-aunt, who had passed away months earlier. In fact, now that she thought about it, the activity in the house had started at about the same time that they’d acquired her great-aunt’s belongings.
“Where are they?” I asked her.
“In the basement,” she told us.
We went downstairs to see what might have been included in the deceased woman’s belongings. As we descended, we heard what sounded like footsteps following us down the stairs. And as we approached the pile of stuff Sarah had described, Grant and I felt ourselves being pushed from behind, which was jarring to say the least.
As it turned out, the woman’s belongings were nothing out of the ordinary—mostly clothes. However, they were important enough to Sarah’s great-aunt to keep her tied to this world and the Wrenns’ house. We suggested to the family that they get rid of the dead woman’s stuff and have their home blessed.
They did as we suggested, placing their great-aunt’s belongings in storage and asking a priest to bless their house. Immediately after that, all activity in the house ceased.
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GRANT’S TAKE
W hat was odd was how the two boys in the house, Jesse and Adam, slept through everything that happened that night. Motion detectors went off and we heard that loud bang, and the girls woke up—but not the boys. I can only speculate that the dead woman had more of an affinity with Sarah’s daughters than with Sarah’s sons.
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STAND BY ME FEBRUARY 1997
M ost of the ghosts we encounter in books and movies are ghosts of people who lived—and died—a long time ago. They were alive during colonial times, or during the Civil War, or in the Victorian era. That’s what we as a culture have been conditioned to expect from ghostly visitors.
Indeed, many of the supernatural entities Grant and I have encountered have their roots in those bygone times. But not all of them. Some of them are of a much more recent vintage.
When Casey and Dan Kelly agreed to house-sit for their friends in
Sometimes you can wait all night to find evidence to support a homeowner’s claims. Sometimes the evidence eludes you altogether. That night at the Wrenns’ house, Andrew and I ran into something even before we finished setting up.
We were in the hallway positioning a video camera when we found ourselves confronted by a dark mass. I tried to get it on camera, but the battery was dead—even though it had been charged a few minutes earlier. Spirits need energy to manifest themselves and they’ll take it from anywhere they can find it. In this case, it seemed to come from our camera battery.
Sometime later, as we were exploring the house in teams, the motion detectors in the kitchen went off. A moment after that, the one in the hallway near the bedrooms went off as well. Then we heard a loud bang.
When we investigated, we saw both girls hiding under their covers. Karen told us that she had been roused from sleep by a huge bang on her bedroom door. We noticed that the girls’ closet was open even though it had been closed when they’d gone to sleep.
In order to calm the girls down, Sarah told them the bang had been one of our cameras hitting the floor. Karen and Ellen seemed to accept that and went back to sleep. But an hour later, Karen ran out of her room babbling about her closet.
Grant and I went to investigate. We saw that Ellen was still fast asleep, but in the recesses of the closet, a dark shape that looked like a woman was sitting on some cardboard boxes. The air in the room was oppressive—warm and thick, like the hottest summer days.
We moved closer to the entity, confronting it. The shape seemed to tilt its head as if to get a better look at us. Then it vanished—but not before we got a sense of its all-too-human features.
We described what we had seen to Sarah, who went pale and suggested that the entity might be her great-aunt, who had passed away months earlier. In fact, now that she thought about it, the activity in the house had started at about the same time that they’d acquired her great-aunt’s belongings.
“Where are they?” I asked her.
“In the basement,” she told us.
We went downstairs to see what might have been included in the deceased woman’s belongings. As we descended, we heard what sounded like footsteps following us down the stairs. And as we approached the pile of stuff Sarah had described, Grant and I felt ourselves being pushed from behind, which was jarring to say the least.
As it turned out, the woman’s belongings were nothing out of the ordinary—mostly clothes. However, they were important enough to Sarah’s great-aunt to keep her tied to this world and the Wrenns’ house. We suggested to the family that they get rid of the dead woman’s stuff and have their home blessed.
They did as we suggested, placing their great-aunt’s belongings in storage and asking a priest to bless their house. Immediately after that, all activity in the house ceased.
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GRANT’S TAKE
W hat was odd was how the two boys in the house, Jesse and Adam, slept through everything that happened that night. Motion detectors went off and we heard that loud bang, and the girls woke up—but not the boys. I can only speculate that the dead woman had more of an affinity with Sarah’s daughters than with Sarah’s sons.
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STAND BY ME FEBRUARY 1997
M ost of the ghosts we encounter in books and movies are ghosts of people who lived—and died—a long time ago. They were alive during colonial times, or during the Civil War, or in the Victorian era. That’s what we as a culture have been conditioned to expect from ghostly visitors.
Indeed, many of the supernatural entities Grant and I have encountered have their roots in those bygone times. But not all of them. Some of them are of a much more recent vintage.
When Casey and Dan Kelly agreed to house-sit for their friends in
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