Living With Ghosts As I Write

Got a call from the ghost hunters (PINK) in Kentucky last night. They spent the night at my house in March and picked up the most EVPs they have ever recorded. Last week they did a presentation at the Independence, Kentucky Library and had a crowd of 100 people. They are using an EVP from my house, among others, where a voice says "Glad I'm dead and they get mad," after the question as to why they haunt my house.

Among things we've experienced: I've been poked, slapped, had my hair yanked, had something crawl into bed with me almost every time I take a nap, and watched my Christmas tree get torn down one year by something I couldn't see. Lights go on and off, exercise equipment starts by itself and runs full tilt, crashes, bangs, and thumps all the time. I called PINK because something hit my big screen television so hard it moved the entire stand sideways and terrified my cats and dog. I've seen the woman pass through the dining room. We have three distinct spirits in our house and they make their presence known at times. The male makes it clear he doesn't like us being there. The woman makes physical contact (pokes,light slaps), and the child makes very little contact. The thing that bothered me the most was the long ringing of the phone: one short ring and then one continous ring until you picked it up to get a dial tone. It did it all night one night until we unplugged all the phones. The Christmas tree was the most bizarre thing I've ever seen. The branches bent down from top to bottom in a wave like someone walked on them. Ornaments flew everywhere and the lights and television made an electric short circuit sound while the tv screen went all static.The house is Victorian, pre-1900, probably around 1870, no one knows for sure. At least one past resident has been murdered, and it used to be a doctor's office at one time.

Channel 19 in Cincinnati is coming to film the outside of the house for their morning show on PINK October 31. I guess it will also feature some of the EVPs from my house, and a place called the Loveland Castle in Loveland, Ohio. I'm not real sure how much of their visit here will be on the show, but PINK tells me our EVPs are the big hit of their presentations.

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