Ghost Hunting Read Online Free Page A
Author: Grant Wilson Jason Hawes
a two-level house in northern Rhode Island, they had no idea what they were getting into. It started when Casey heard what sounded like a male voice in the room where her four-month-old son, Liam, was sleeping. Concerned, she got up and went to check on the child, but there was no one else in the room.
The scenario repeated itself the next night, and the night after that. At the same time, Casey began to feel a presence in the house, as if there were someone lurking just out of sight, watching her. Finally, she caught what she believed was a glimpse of the intruder out of the corner of her eye.
He was a young man with dark hair, dressed in a blue T-shirt, jeans, and white Converse sneakers. Though Casey wasn’t old enough to remember the fifties, it was a look she associated with that era. Over the next few days, she saw the figure again and again, always with her peripheral vision.
Finally, the Kellys called T.A.P.S. Grant and I went out on our own and spoke with the couple. We discovered that Dan hadn’t seen or heard anything out of the ordinary. The experiences were strictly his wife’s. Casey didn’t seem especially frightened by the phenomena, but she was concerned about the safety of their child.
Because they were only house-sitting, Dan felt it wasn’t their place to remove the entity, if it came down to that. On the other hand, they were supposed to remain in the house another three weeks, and he felt that his family life was being disrupted. Young Liam had gotten very attached to his mother in the preceding few days, and he cried uncontrollably whenever Casey left his side.
Grant and I set up a camera in the living room facing the hallway where Casey said she had seen the entity. Then we walked through the house, instruments in hand, alert for voices or other signs of a haunting. Unfortunately, we came up empty.
Finally, around two in the morning, Casey cried out. When Grant and I responded, she said that she had seen the entity again, out of the corner of her eye as usual. He was standing in the hallway, dressed the same as always.
We reviewed the videotape in the camera and didn’t see any sign of a human figure. However, we did see a flash of light and a collection of floating globules. Obviously, something had happened at that moment.
The rest of the night was uneventful. It seemed to us, based on everything we had heard, that if there was a spirit in the house it was a harmless one. After all, it hadn’t done anything threatening. It just seemed to be curious about the baby and the new people in the house.
When we followed up a few days later, we learned that Casey had been in contact with the homeowners and had told them what transpired. They were a little shaken by the information. Apparently, one of them had had a brother who had died in his early twenties during the 1950s. Eventually, they showed Casey a picture of the young man. He was exactly as she had described him.
Grant and I encouraged Casey to reason with the spirit by explaining her family’s situation out loud and asking it politely to remain hidden until after the Kellys left. Casey did and the incidents stopped—until the day she and her family left the house. Then she saw the entity one last time, as if it were saying good-bye.
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GRANT’S TAKE
P eople often look at us strangely when we tell them to communicate with the spirits haunting their homes. But sometimes it’s the only way to make a house livable again. If you had a neighbor who was doing something bothersome, you would talk to him, wouldn’t you? It’s the same with a ghost.
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THE GHOST IN THE WALL MARCH 1997
A s Grant likes to point out, if a phenomenon occurs in only one spot, it’s most likely not of supernatural origin. The supernatural just isn’t that meticulous.
That’s the first thing that occurred to us when Eric Small and his girlfriend, Tara Quinn, pointed out the lone wall from which they had heard voices and banging sounds every night.
The scenario repeated itself the next night, and the night after that. At the same time, Casey began to feel a presence in the house, as if there were someone lurking just out of sight, watching her. Finally, she caught what she believed was a glimpse of the intruder out of the corner of her eye.
He was a young man with dark hair, dressed in a blue T-shirt, jeans, and white Converse sneakers. Though Casey wasn’t old enough to remember the fifties, it was a look she associated with that era. Over the next few days, she saw the figure again and again, always with her peripheral vision.
Finally, the Kellys called T.A.P.S. Grant and I went out on our own and spoke with the couple. We discovered that Dan hadn’t seen or heard anything out of the ordinary. The experiences were strictly his wife’s. Casey didn’t seem especially frightened by the phenomena, but she was concerned about the safety of their child.
Because they were only house-sitting, Dan felt it wasn’t their place to remove the entity, if it came down to that. On the other hand, they were supposed to remain in the house another three weeks, and he felt that his family life was being disrupted. Young Liam had gotten very attached to his mother in the preceding few days, and he cried uncontrollably whenever Casey left his side.
Grant and I set up a camera in the living room facing the hallway where Casey said she had seen the entity. Then we walked through the house, instruments in hand, alert for voices or other signs of a haunting. Unfortunately, we came up empty.
Finally, around two in the morning, Casey cried out. When Grant and I responded, she said that she had seen the entity again, out of the corner of her eye as usual. He was standing in the hallway, dressed the same as always.
We reviewed the videotape in the camera and didn’t see any sign of a human figure. However, we did see a flash of light and a collection of floating globules. Obviously, something had happened at that moment.
The rest of the night was uneventful. It seemed to us, based on everything we had heard, that if there was a spirit in the house it was a harmless one. After all, it hadn’t done anything threatening. It just seemed to be curious about the baby and the new people in the house.
When we followed up a few days later, we learned that Casey had been in contact with the homeowners and had told them what transpired. They were a little shaken by the information. Apparently, one of them had had a brother who had died in his early twenties during the 1950s. Eventually, they showed Casey a picture of the young man. He was exactly as she had described him.
Grant and I encouraged Casey to reason with the spirit by explaining her family’s situation out loud and asking it politely to remain hidden until after the Kellys left. Casey did and the incidents stopped—until the day she and her family left the house. Then she saw the entity one last time, as if it were saying good-bye.
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GRANT’S TAKE
P eople often look at us strangely when we tell them to communicate with the spirits haunting their homes. But sometimes it’s the only way to make a house livable again. If you had a neighbor who was doing something bothersome, you would talk to him, wouldn’t you? It’s the same with a ghost.
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THE GHOST IN THE WALL MARCH 1997
A s Grant likes to point out, if a phenomenon occurs in only one spot, it’s most likely not of supernatural origin. The supernatural just isn’t that meticulous.
That’s the first thing that occurred to us when Eric Small and his girlfriend, Tara Quinn, pointed out the lone wall from which they had heard voices and banging sounds every night.
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