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Had a very strange experience the other night. I was sitting here in my office reading Jason & Grants book that was just released (at the time), and I had reached the 12th story. oddly enough it was midnight. Suddenly, all the smoke detectors in the house went off. They are the AC kind with battery backup, and are tied in so they will all go if one goes. They went off for about 6 beeps and stopped. I jumped up in a panic to go investigate. It was kind of strange that they only went for a few seconds. It was not a bad battery, as the bad one will keep chirping every so often, and it has been 3 weeks now with no other incidents. Anyway, I checked around, stuck my head in all the bedrooms and sniffed around the hallway, but found nothing. Maybe being a firefighter, I was extra suspicious of what went on, and got back up and checked several more times over the next hour. Never found any cause, no power surges, no weather occuring, nothing. No one else awoke to the alarms either, which was really odd.

What was really strange was what went on in that hour. After the initial look, I came back to my office and tried to return to my reading. I had this awful spine chilling spooked feeling. Extremely like something was there and I was not alone. I could not shake it. It progressed during that hour. It got to the point that I could not do anything but sit and stare at my computer. I couldn't read or concentrate on anything. As it progressed, I felt more and more spooked, like I have never felt before, even on investigations. I literally felt like all my energy was being drained, then progressed to a headache, nausea, and total weakness. I felt like the life was being sucked out of me. At some point, I got the feeling from nowhere that it might be my Mother. She passed away 5 years ago this December. I don't know why I felt that, it just popped into my head. I even verbally spoke to her saying "I love you and miss you, but if you are here, you are draining me and causing me to feel ill, and spooked".

It didn't subside. It continued to the point that I gave in and went to bed, feeling terrible, and still having concerns that there may have been a smoke or CO2 issue in the house. Looking up CO2 symptoms, they almost matched, but that detector didn't go off. The next day it dawned on me that that night before was my Daughters Birthday. Her and my Mother were close. I am now almost completely convinced that it was my Mother coming to visit her. No feelings or activity has happened since. (although I feel that chilled feeling a little now while remembering and writing this). We have been in this house for almost 2 years now, and it is only 7 years old, so I doubt any deaths had occured here, but there is rich history in this area of pioneers, Civil War and Indian battles, etc.

I have laid in bed many nights, not quite asleep, and while squinting, can see shadows moving around my bedroom doorway. I just write it off to being tired and squinting causing me to see things. The other day, my oldest Daughter told me she has been seeing shadow people moving around her bedroom doorway also. Same house, same hallway, feet apart. This was kind of unsettling. Guess we will see what happens next.

UPDATE-1/08- My 14 y/o Daughter just told me that while she was standing at the front door, looking out the window, waiting for me to come home, she saw a "purple outline of a person walk by the front door and go into the wall to my office". This was in daylight, around 5-6 PM. Luckily it didn't seem to scare her. She said it was her size, maybe less, like a child.

UPDATE- 4/08- While laying on the couch watching TV, the smoke detectors did their thing again. They would all go off for about 5 beeps, and then stop for no apparent reason. This always spooks me, from a Firefighter mentality, as well as just being strange. I didn't even have time to get up when I noticed what looked like someone had passed by the window to the backyard outside on the patio. With the same speed of motion, it appeared to go through the back door, causing a plant (that came from my Moms funeral) to sway like the breeze of someone walking by it. The AC was not on, and there was nothing that would cause it to move like that. Also, many times at night, while sitting here on the computer, in the quiet, while everyone else is asleep, including the cats who are laying on the floor of my office, I will hear noises as though someone is in the kitchen. But when I go look, there is nothing. It has been suggested that we do an investigation on my house, but I am not so sure I want to know the results, mainly for fear of getting some disturbing EVP's. I know my wife and Daughter don't need to know any such results that may be found either.

UPDATE- 3/30/09- We continue to have activity here. Usually shadows moving quickly behind doorways. I had another smoke detector incident the other night around 3:00AM. Everyone was in bed and the one in our bedroom started to beep every 2 minutes or so, like if the battery needed to be replaced. I was so tired, I wasn't about to get up and get the ladder and a battery, and just tried to go to sleep and hoped it would stop. After about 4-5 rounds of this single beep, it stopped. It didn't do it again, but I remembered it a couple days later and changed the battery again just to be sure. This morning when I got up, as I walked into the kitchen, once I got passed the fridge, I caught out of the corner of my eye, what looked like someone peeking their head and one shoulder around the fridge, within 3 feet of me. I was still half asleep and just assumed it was my wife. After a few minutes I realized she had already left the house, and my daughter was still asleep. Glad it happened early in the morning instead of late at night. : )

UPDATE- 10/13/09- Had yet another occurrence with the smoke detectors and some creepy stuff going on. Same duration of about 5 seconds, same very energized feeling in the hallway which centers between all 5 of the detectors. I have an almost constant feeling someone is either standing behind me, looking over my shoulder, or peering out from behind a doorway. We have considered doing an investigation here, But I am not sure I want to while still living here. Maybe when we move out some day. Oh, and we still have the ghost cat. You can feel it jump up on the end of the bed at night, and take a few steps up the bed next to my legs. You can feel the covers move as if a cat is walking on the bed. Not scary, but freaky.


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Had a very strange experience the other night. I was sitting here in my office reading Jason & Grants book that was just released (at the time), and I had reached the 12th story. oddly enough it was midnight. Suddenly, all the smoke detectors in the house went off. They are the AC kind with battery backup, and are tied in so they will all go if one goes. They went off for about 6 beeps and stopped. I jumped up in a panic to go investigate. It was kind of strange that they only went for a few seconds. It was not a bad battery, as the bad one will keep chirping every so often, and it has been 3 weeks now with no other incidents. Anyway, I checked around, stuck my head in all the bedrooms and sniffed around the hallway, but found nothing. Maybe being a firefighter, I was extra suspicious of what went on, and got back up and checked several more times over the next hour. Never found any cause, no power surges, no weather occuring, nothing. No one else awoke to the alarms either, which was really odd. What was really strange was what went on in that hour. After the initial look, I came back to my office and tried to return to my reading. I had this awful spine chilling spooked feeling. Extremely like something was there and I was not alone. I could not shake it. It progressed during that hour. It got to the point that I could not do anything but sit and stare at my computer. I couldn't read or concentrate on anything. As it progressed, I felt more and more spooked, like I have never felt before, even on investigations. I literally felt like all my energy was being drained, then progressed to a headache, nausea, and total weakness. I felt like the life was being sucked out of me. At some point, I got the feeling from nowhere that it might be my Mother. She passed away 5 years ago this December. I don't know why I felt that, it just popped into my head. I even verbally spoke to her saying "I love you and miss you, but if you are here, you are draining me and causing me to feel ill, and spooked". It didn't subside. It continued to the point that I gave in and went to bed, feeling terrible, and still having concerns that there may have been a smoke or CO2 issue in the house. Looking up CO2 symptoms, they almost matched, but that detector didn't go off. The next day it dawned on me that that night before was my Daughters Birthday. Her and my Mother were close. I am now almost completely convinced that it was my Mother coming to visit her. No feelings or activity has happened since. (although I feel that chilled feeling a little now while remembering and writing this). We have been in this house for almost 2 years now, and it is only 7 years old, so I doubt any deaths had occured here, but there is rich history in this area of pioneers, Civil War and Indian battles, etc. I have laid in bed many nights, not quite asleep, and while squinting, can see shadows moving around my bedroom doorway. I just write it off to being tired and squinting causing me to see things. The other day, my oldest Daughter told me she has been seeing shadow people moving around her bedroom doorway also. Same house, same hallway, feet apart. This was kind of unsettling. Guess we will see what happens next. UPDATE-1/08- My 14 y/o Daughter just told me that while she was standing at the front door, looking out the window, waiting for me to come home, she saw a "purple outline of a person walk by the front door and go into the wall to my office". This was in daylight, around 5-6 PM. Luckily it didn't seem to scare her. She said it was her size, maybe less, like a child. UPDATE- 4/08- While laying on the couch watching TV, the smoke detectors did their thing again. They would all go off for about 5 beeps, and then stop for no apparent reason. This always spooks me, from a Firefighter mentality, as well as just being strange. I didn't even have time to get up when I noticed what looked like someone had passed by the window to the backyard outside on the patio. With the same speed of motion, it appeared to go through the back door, causing a plant (that came from my Moms funeral) to sway like the breeze of someone walking by it. The AC was not on, and there was nothing that would cause it to move like that. Also, many times at night, while sitting here on the computer, in the quiet, while everyone else is asleep, including the cats who are laying on the floor of my office, I will hear noises as though someone is in the kitchen. But when I go look, there is nothing. It has been suggested that we do an investigation on my house, but I am not so sure I want to know the results, mainly for fear of getting some disturbing EVP's. I know my wife and Daughter don't need to know any such results that may be found either. UPDATE- 3/30/09- We continue to have activity here. Usually shadows moving quickly behind doorways. I had another smoke detector incident the other night around 3:00AM. Everyone was in bed and the one in our bedroom started to beep every 2 minutes or so, like if the battery needed to be replaced. I was so tired, I wasn't about to get up and get the ladder and a battery, and just tried to go to sleep and hoped it would stop. After about 4-5 rounds of this single beep, it stopped. It didn't do it again, but I remembered it a couple days later and changed the battery again just to be sure. This morning when I got up, as I walked into the kitchen, once I got passed the fridge, I caught out of the corner of my eye, what looked like someone peeking their head and one shoulder around the fridge, within 3 feet of me. I was still half asleep and just assumed it was my wife. After a few minutes I realized she had already left the house, and my daughter was still asleep. Glad it happened early in the morning instead of late at night. : ) UPDATE- 10/13/09- Had yet another occurrence with the smoke detectors and some creepy stuff going on. Same duration of about 5 seconds, same very energized feeling in the hallway which centers between all 5 of the detectors. I have an almost constant feeling someone is either standing behind me, looking over my shoulder, or peering out from behind a doorway. We have considered doing an investigation here, But I am not sure I want to while still living here. Maybe when we move out some day. Oh, and we still have the ghost cat. You can feel it jump up on the end of the bed at night, and take a few steps up the bed next to my legs. You can feel the covers move as if a cat is walking on the bed. Not scary, but freaky.