Haunts?

[Nolena]

Whoa!! And you stayed there alone?  I would have set a new land speed record out of there!

Perfect story for Halloween.

[angiepoo]

Wait, wait, I got a story too.  I grew up in a house down in Fontana that was built in the 20's.  It had an attic and a basement.  I hated this house because I had to come home to it everyday only to be by myself untill my parents would get home from work around 6:00 every night.  I would always hear noises coming from the attic and can remember calling my mom to hurry up and come home from work.  Well one morning around this time of year, it was still dark outside.  I was getting ready for school (I think I was about 7 or .  Had all the lights on in the kitchen and dining room and was sitting at the dining room table eating my cereal.  Next thing I knew I got this chill up my back and something told me to turn around.  I turned to face the kitchen and saw what appeared to be a spirit.  It was short like child size and seemed to be a boy.  It floated across the kitchen floor from the hallway to the back door and then disappeared.  Now let me tell you, I was FREAKED OUT!  I jumped out of my chair and ran straight to my parents room screaming.  My mom told me I was seeing things that weren't there.  Well a few years later we found out that there was some sort of house fire long before we lived in it and that a little boy had died in the house.  Is that freaky or what?!

[Wrightwood]

Skydore house/cabin on the corner of Willow and Helen is nothing but a pile of rubble. From what I understand it was demolished today.

[angiepoo]

Wasn't that house on the map of historical homes?

[Local]

Anyone heard about any happings at our old house. I have had a few friends and tenants tell me a few things. The brick house on edna and lark.

LOCal

[Goldie]

[Wrightwood]

He may be too scared to finish 

[AntiFltLndrs]

CAMP YO MAMA! 

Wow,  you're an appreciated literary artist and you can fix my dish washer. Man, I love you   

 P.S.  Is rust in my dishwasher rack covered in my Buyers Home Warrenty? 

[ChattyCathy]

YoMama, you've got me hooked!  What happened next?

[Wrightwood]

He was so scared re-telling the story he skipped town for a few days 

[Nolena]

"He was so scared re-telling the story he skipped town for a few days."

Did he whitewater raft out of town, or travel by more conventional means? 

[WWDREAMN]

Hey Yomama, some of us are still on the edge of our seats. Pleeeease tells us more.

[dl_lvr_4evr]

I want to hear the rest of the story too!

Well i have seen a cowboy ghost go down the hall a few times when watching tv, havent seen him seen him lately. Just a harmless spirit, no big deal.

[phoenixgirl]

A cowboy ghost?  That's interesting.  I believe I have also seen a cowboy ghost, but not indoors.  This is not something that I talk about because it sounds so strange.  Has anybody else seen or heard of a cowboy type ghost, perhaps in lone pine canyon?

[ChrisLynnet]

I haven't heard of a cowboy ghost on Lone Pine but I have heard of the top half of an Indian that walks (or not) through that area. I have also heard about an old lady that walks through houses "looking for the children." Yikes!

My Dallas house was haunted when I was a kid. I hated being alone in the house too. I'm also pretty sure there's something on the stairs in our Wrightwood house, but that sounds more alarming than it really is. Like dl_lvr_4evr's ghost, it's not worrisome. It's the Dallas house that freaked me out.

And let me add my plea to the others -- YoMama, where are you?!

[TheSandman]

yo mama, i have to hear the end of the story. 

you wouldn't tease people by starting to play a song and then suddenly stop and walk offstage.

really, you can't take your football and go home.

wrightwood (moderator), someone has to finish this ghost story.

otherwise, i'm going to have to tell my mama.

[TheSandman]

knock knock.  can yomama come out and play?  oh, why not?  he saw what?  ghosts!  do you think he might tell me about them?  oh, okay.  so when he stops crying he might come out and tell us all about it.  great.  thank you.  bye bye.

[Sagebrush]

Thought i would tell my little ghost story while waiting for yo mamas most anticipated ending.
Before I moved to Wwood I lived in Ashland, OR in a little 2 bedroom house. One of the rooms was an office/sewing room with a window that faced the front yard. I would sit in front of the window and sew 3-5 days a week after work. Out of the corner of my eye I would always see a shadow walking by and then disappearing around the corner of the house. The first time I thought it was just my imagination but then it kept happening!! Every time I sewed I would see this shadow! I talked to the neighbors and they said nothing bad ever happened there and then a few of my "hippie" neighbors offered to do a seance to try and channel the spirit. I declined but one day they were over having a few drinks and we ended up doing the seance. My neighbors said it was a young man who had been in the military. After that night very weird things started happening. The front door started to pop itself open and then slam itself shut and we always heard noises coming from the attic...big heavy footsteps!! I talked to another friend who was in to that sort of thing and she told me that by holding that seance we let the ghost into our house where as before he was only outside in the yard!! I was totally freaked out. Things finally got so weird that I was never in the house alone...not even for a minute!! We stuck it out because we were moving back to wwood 2 months later but those last few months were very eerie......

Still gives me the chills.....

[ChattyCathy]

My cousins lived in a haunted house (yes, I'm a believer). 

Little things started happening - flowers on the mantle would be on the floor in the morning, the vase still on the mantle.   Water would turn on by itself, a lot of creaking in the house - but these minor things could be explained away until one day when my cousin was babysitting her younger siblings.  She was in one room with the kids and heard a crash in the living room.  No one else was home. She went into the living room and the vase was broken on the floor near the fireplace, but the flowers were strewn throughout the room, like someone had thrown them - but they didn't land in a bunch, they were strewn individually throughout the room.

This freaked my cousin out, who was a teenager at the time and was already witness to the other weird things going on in the house.  She immediately went next door to await the return of her mom and sister. 

When the rest got home, they went into the house and there was the sound of furniture moving on the second floor.  They had two huge St. Bernards, and the dogs could not even be dragged up the stairs and pulled away, absolutely refusing to go upstairs -- which was not in their nature.

All of them went to the neighbor's to await my uncle's return.

While the house was empty, the lights could be seen turning off and on by the neighbor's daughter who was out in her car with her boyfriend.  She thought it was my uncle playing games with her, only to find out when she went into her house that no one was home.

Their house is listed somewhere as a haunted house.  I'll have to ask my aunt about it - I haven't heard about it since I was a teenager myself. 

When they moved into the house, all the rooms upstairs were painted very dark colors - seems like one was painted black.  The upstairs was like a square divided up into four rooms - no hallways.  You had to go through one room to get into another.  I always thought the house was very strange.  They had lakefront property.  It really was a creepy place.

They moved away, and like I said, they found it listed as a haunted house in some book of haunted locations. 

[Merle]

Not sure how to post, but I am going to try to add to haunts.
When I lived up there between 1965 and 1971, we used to hang out at the "Edna House".  I believe that was the name of it.  It had a bigger house in the front, and if you went around the back, there was a smaller house attached to it.  I knew all the people who lived there, so was in both parts of the house frequently.  If you were in the front of the house, which was 2 story, we would always hear chains in the upstairs.  If you were in the back house, you would always hear people walking around above you, even when we knew no-one was home up there.  One night, I was asleep in the back house, and I woke up to someone or something hovering over the bed, and an awful laughing noise.  Scared me to death.  In the years to come, all of us had done research, because I was not the only person to have this experience.  People had scetches of what they say, and we all came up with a name that sounded like Geniver or Genavive.  We later found out that there was an old grave under the house, or a cemetary or something, a witch hunt took place way back when, and there was indeed a Gwenivere that was hunted down as a witch and buried there.
I never slept at that house again.