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Friday, August 26, 2005

Haunted book auction

From an eBay auction:

Well there's no easy way to put this so here it is. My wife and I bought a house about 3 years ago (2002) located in the historical district of Piqua Ohio. The house had only two previous owners. The original owners who built the house in 1886 and their daughters who we purchased the house from. Not actually from her but from her Estate. The house had barely any updates since around the 20's we believe, with the help of the historical Society. Everything was quiet in the house until last October when we started to replace some of the plaster walls in the upstairs. We came across a small 5'x7' room that nobody knew about, not even the realtor when we contacted her almost two years after purchasing the house. In that room where pretty neat things. There was a 16x20 framed picture of a woman, wearing a cross necklace, she almost looks like a old salvation army type woman...not smiling or anything. A few hats in some boxes, a few books, a few hatpins, and a spoon and fork. I don't know anything about the room and can't find anything out about it because the only decendents of the original builders were his two daughters, which the last one passed away in 1999. Neither of the sisters had any children, and both sisters lived in the house together and never married. I had heard from the older lady that lives across from us that that house had served as a private school during the 30's and 40's. She wasn't clear exactly what year, she was only going by what she remembered years previous. Anyway....to make a long story short, strange things started happening almost immediately after opening the wall to the little room. The usual strange noises and you think you see something but you know really that it can't be anything other than you mind playing tricks on you. I'm not a believer of this kind of thing normally but I can't ignore all of the things that started to happen either. I've just been telling me that it's the cat or the dog doing this....Well, not exactly! On October 27th of last year, we came home and we thought we had been burglarized. There was stuff everywhere, thrown across the room. Nothing big had been moved, upon further looking it was two of the books that we had found in the room, shredded to pieces all over our downstairs. I don't mean in just one room in one little pile, I mean thousands of pices of these two books totally destroyed. So I thought the obvious thing was to assume the dog had gotten into the books and tore them up since we examined everything and nothing was stolen. Well, not exactly! The books were on the bookshelf with about 100 other books none of the other books were touched or moved just the two spots where the missing books were. Not only that but we couldn't find one chew mark or bite mark on any piece of those pages. That was the biggest and most difficult thing that had happened. There were always the dog barking looking up at the ceiling when nothing was there...that happens all the time. I frankly getting tired of it. I've decided to try and sell all of the items that were in that room, one at a time, and see if this makes a difference. If that doesn't work we'll be forced to sell our home and move. We'll be listing other items later. The picture of the woman fell from where we were hanging it and the glass broke and we had to take it and have it replaced, behind the picture was another photograph of the same lady in the same pose. We've selling one of 5 books we have left and that is the one listed on here today.
Hat tip to Curt at The Groovy Age of Horror for emailing the link. You're right, it is right up The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire's alley.

1 Comments:

Blogger Tina said...

I perused the "haunted section" of E-Bay after someone emailed the actual auction page of this Jewish "dibbuk" Wine Cabinet in 2004.
http://www.dibbukbox.com/

I think this piece of furniture is way creepy, and when it comes to possibly tangling w/the tortured souls of those who may have suffered during the Holocaust, I don't think I would take it lightly.

8/27/2005 06:31:00 PM  

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