[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by sugarmaple

Thanks, I will. Have you read anything by Dr. Raymond Moody, pretty interesting stuff!

I haven't - yet.

Thanks for the recommendation!

[Gannon]

Years ago my mother and I lived in this house on East st in Rutland with her boyfriend at the time. We stayed on the first floor with him for a while, and I got to stay up late whenever they went out. So while I watched tv I would hear the sound of footsteps going across the ceiling, like children were running around unpstairs. Then the footsteps would run down the hallway stairs, stop then run back up to run around upstairs again before stopping. Logically this would be simply someone living there except that the upstairs had been empty for atleast a good ten or so years prior. I remember I was perplexed and curious more than afraid, and so I went into the hallway to check on the front doors, which were locked, then went upstairs to take a look around and sure enough there was no one around. This happened probally four or five times over the coarse of the following year or so, and it stopped when my mother and I moved into the upstairs apartment. If my mother or the guy that owned the place knew anything about it, they never told me.

[chrismpv]

Well, when I sell my house, I will need to say: rumor has it.
I wasn't told about any rumor when I bought my house 20 years ago. A few years later, I was telling my "ghost stories" to friends and they said that teenagers usually didn't like to babysit at my house before I bought it.
I just heard something or someone opening and closing doors, dresser drawers, etc. Never saw anything but both my husband and I heard it. A year later, we found at the local historical society a painting of the lady that lived in my house from 1862 to 1945. That painting had been in the attic until a family found it in the 1960s and donating it to the historical society. We purchased the painting from them and hung it over the fireplace. We never heard anything since then (19 years ago). I think that her ghost was looking for the painting.

To top it all, I talk to a medium in another town in Vermont and discussed my ghost. She said that it was a woman that lived in my house a long time (by the way she didn't know where I lived)... and her ghost hang out on the second floor, in the bedroom on the left and sat in a rocking chair without arms located between 2 windows. Guess what .. I did have an antique rocking chair without arms located between 2 windows ...

Last but not least... when I was pregnant, I wrote down names (boy and girl) for my baby and finally picked Nelson & Samantha... A month later, I went to see the tombstone of my "ghost" which is in the graveyard behind my house. I saw 2 names of family member burried there with her: the 2 names were: Nelson & Samantha.

PS... the medium said she was a nice ghost guarding her house.

[rem31708]

Originally Posted by chrismpv

.Last but not least... when I was pregnant, I wrote down names (boy and girl) for my baby and finally picked Nelson & Samantha... A month later, I went to see the tombstone of my "ghost" which is in the graveyard behind my house. I saw 2 names of family member burried there with her: the 2 names were: Nelson & Samantha.

PS... the medium said she was a nice ghost guarding her house.

WOW - these are all wild stories, especially the one about the names! Also the one about the photo and her rocker. You all are making me believe in ghosts. I do believe, but won't really until I see or encounter one. I keep hoping...

I worked on painting and repairing my father's 200 year old farmhouse in Canada during college and there were likely some spirits there but I figured they would be nice to me as I was caring for their ancestral home and loved it too. My mother, years later after my father died, got totally freaked out one time and claimed she saw a ghosty figure in one room upstairs. She was then in the process of selling the home, which made me so sad (she ultimately did sell it) and I figured the ghosts (likely ancestors) were mad at her because she did not care about the home and was 'dumping' it. I still miss that home so much...it had been in my fathers family for 6 generations.

We now sleep in an antique bed that came from that ghost room. (which was moved to VT). No bumps in the night yet. Assuming one does believe ghosts exist - which I sort of hope but am waiting to confirm from personal experience - I wonder whether ghosts can store energy that would remain in the walls, furniture, objects around them and where they have lived? If so would they follow their objects (furniture etc) to another home, ie would they come with the furniture they'd lived in when it came to VT? So far no hauntings at all, though occasionally I'll get a feeling about one of them. I figure they'd be on my side. I never had a bad feeling in that old house and even slept alone there as a young college kid. (the scariest thing then was a bat inside the house at night!)

[Serenity Seeker]

I just read Joseph Citro's book - Cursed in New England: Stories of Damned Yankees. I thought it was well written and gives not only the stories behind the curses, but the feel of colonial New England as well.

[kpinvt]

My parents live in a house built in the early 1770s. It was once a tavern and has been owned by our family for five generations.
I was staying with my parents after having my first child and had just put the baby down for a nap. I started down the stairs and saw a man walking down the hall. He was wearing formal clothing... maybe from the 1800s. He was walking away from me, so I never saw his face. He continued walking down the hall and turned into the dining room. I followed, but there was no one there. I haven't seen anything/one since though my sister-in-law who lives on the other side of the house says she sometimes sees a woman walking through a wall. She's dressed in a long dress with an apron. My dad says that there was once a doorway where my sister-in-law says this woman appears from.

[Asta]

Originally Posted by arel

I got a spooky feeling when I saw the Retreat Tower in Brattleboro. I later read or heard that it is haunted. Have others heard this, too?

Anyone who knows about the Retreat will, if you ask them, very matter-of-factly admit that it is haunted, and many of them have even reported sightings. One woman I know has seen a small child sitting in a window on the third floor of a building where the school used to be. Another has seen the figures of men in shackles walking thru the underground tunnels that connect the buildings on the Retreat campus, and another refuses to go up to the attic because every time she does she gets a cold feeling, even on the hottest summer day.

The Retreat tower was built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Retreat, and many say it too is haunted. I remember walking to work one morning and looking up at the tower. There was one turkey vulture roosting on each of the tower's turrets, silhoutted against a dark, rainy sky. It was really eerie.

In Chesterfield, right over the bridge from Brattleboro, are the remains of Madame Sherri's "haunted castle." Local legend has it that she was quite a sensation in Brattleboro in her day, and that the ruins of her "castle" are haunted. Some say that during a prohibition-era party a NYC gangster was murdered at her home.

http://www.keenephotos.com/MadameSherris.asp

The Riverside Motel, which is mentioned at the end of the above article, was torn down a little while ago in order to make way for a new motel which will be opening soon, if it has not already done so. That motel was rumored to have been haunted. People reported hearing a baby crying constantly, when no one was there.

Chesterfield is right over the bridge from the roundabout on Putney Road, and I always kind of considered it to be kind of an extension of Brattleboro.

[nbeyor]

If anyone knows of someone who would like their home investigated please let me know. I belong to a paranormal research group and we are looking for cases. Thanks

[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by Serenity Seeker

I just read Joseph Citro's book - Cursed in New England: Stories of Damned Yankees. I thought it was well written and gives not only the stories behind the curses, but the feel of colonial New England as well.

I enjoyed that book

[Mary Gee]

I grew up in the house you are talking about. The Eddy House in Chittenden Vermont. My Father bought the house when I was a pre-schooler in the 70's and we lived there for many years. My Father is Asa Gee Sr. and my name is Mary Gee.