I know I should probably do these in a sort of order, but my mind is rather scattered. Before I go on with this case, let me give you a quick run through of the homes my family has lived in that I can remember.
1st House: don't remember anything about it, nor hearing any ghostly stories from it. Probably the only time of peace I guess.
2nd House: From what I have been told, it was built on an old Indian burial ground. Nothing really majoy happened here. My sister would see what she coined "lightning birds" outside her window late at night. Then just some minor paranormal stuff here and there.
3rd House: Don't know the history behind the house, but a lot of bad freaky things happened in this home. I remember every night while in bed seeing the shadow of some sort of animal sitting on the top shelf in my bedroom. Thing is, there was nothing physically there able to cast the shadow.
4th house: Most of the stuff that happened here was confined to the basement. Don't really know the background of this area as well. Most of the phenomenon here was banging and knocking or things being thrown. You never wanted to be alone in the basement though, always a feeling of being watched down there.
5th house: first real spook central my family encountered. This house was built on bloody land. A lot of death went on around this place. Supposedly it was a sort of internment camp for indian tribes in the area. There was a small stone cabin behind the house that dated back well over a 150 years. There were voices, things moving on their own, scratching behind the walls, things slamming, footsteps, and so on. I'll probably cover this house in my next topic. Again, another novel.
6th house: Things just went from bad to worse and is the main subject of this post. This is the house where I encountered the shaking bed. The house itself has a sad and disturbing history. And this is where we begin.
A Sad Tale
The house originally had three occupants. It was a family of three, the father, mother, and son. The parents had bought the land to build a home and raise their son. The family had built the home themselves. Building the house exactly the way they wanted it. They were bit entrepenurial and ran a small business on their property with a nursery outside and a small bar out of their basement. From the photos that I had seen they looked to be happy and content with where they were at. One day the father and son had gone out in their car, never to return. They had both been killed in a car accident. The mother slowly went insane overly consumed with grief from the two most important things in her world. Without them she felt as if there was nothing left for her. She finally went mad and ended up killing herself in the house that she and her husband built. She did this by banging her head repeatedly and as hard as she could on the door which would become my sisters bedroom. She ran in the bathroom and then down the hall to the top of the stairs, splattering blood on the walls as she ran. With her last bit of energy, she threw herself down the stairs ending her physical existance.
Moving In:
When my parents first bought the house, the house itself was roughly 17 years old. So it wasn't too old. Definitely not old enough that would make one think it had a history, but it did. When we first moved in, there was alot of things still in the house that belonged to what we found out was the previous owner. First tip that something was off. My parents mainly bought the house because it was attatched to a sizeable amount of land roughly 10 acres. So what happened to the former owners and why were there keepsakes still here? Stuff left behind was stuff normally wouldn't leave. Boxes of photos, trinkets and so forth. And wasn't until after the big incident that we found out what happened here.
Change Can Be a Bad Thing
Before even moving in, my parents had plans for what they wanted to do to the house. The basement was basically unbuilt. Just a cement floor. There had been a fire down there when the previous occupantts were still living here, and you could see the extent of the damage. Ititially when we first moved in the house basically had 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, kitchen, dining room, living/family room and a basement. The kitchen looked like something out of "that 70's show" except instead of a linolium floor, it had carpet. So first thing on the bill was to fully remodel the kitchen. With that completed, my dad decided to start remodeling the basement. Start sectioning it off so that we would have a real family room along with a den and other rooms.
Early on, I would get feelings that something else was here. My sister would get the same feelings as well. In case you are wondering, we are both "sensitives" along with my mother. Again, it was one of those kind of being watched feelings.
As my dad proceeded to build out the basement, he started to have pain in his lower back. nothing major initially, but enough to cause him to start slowing down the build. He thought it might be caused from an old injury he sustained from when he was younger. But it wasn't enough to get him from stopping to build.
One night, I was staying in my sisters room and we were just up late talking. My parents had already gone to bed and we hear a loud banging coming up the stairs. Freaked of course, we go to hide under the covers. Nothing else happens this night.
A whole school year passes and nothing major has happened yet. Only real thing going on was my dad's back had been slowly getting worse. Another thing to note is that we tried to get the "stains" (from the blood, but at that time we didn't know that) off of the walls. It waasn't coming out. we tried scrubbing, painting over it, and whatever else to only have the stain reappear later. Another clue.
The Perfect Vessel
It was the middle of summer. My sister went to stay at my mom's sisters place. Which would end up to be a good thing. My dad's sister was having some problems with her boyfriend and needed a place to stay. Since my sister was away, they let my aunt stay in her room. My aunt had/has self-esteem issues not to mention a fairly bad history with both alcohol and drugs making her an ideal candidate for what was to come.
A few days pass, and everything is fine. Then late at night, my mom starts to hear people talking loudly from the room my aunt was occupying. My mom was a bit upset that my aunt would invite people into the house so late and then just act like nobody else was around. The following morning, my mom asked her about it and my aunt told her that she had nobody here and that she was asleep the whole time. My aunt's dog disappears and returns the next day with a large unexplained wound on its side. Things were rapidly starting to deteriorate. A few more nights pass and with each night, my mom would hear people talking. A woman and two men. My mom looked out her bedroom door and so no lights coming out from the room.
Sunday Bloody Sunday
The day started out like any other day, uneventful. I was outside with my aunt playing with the dogs. My mom was inside the kitchen cleaning the dishes and just looking out the window. I turned to look at my aunt and she looked a bit off. I felt a bit uncomfortable and decided to go inside. My mom was watching my aunt and saw that she was having a conversation with a woman. Then she sees the other person step inside my aunt. My aunt then proceeds to turn and come inside. Only thing is, it wasn't my aunt. I see her come in and she proceeds to go directly downstairs where my dad was watching tv. I follow her down. She starts to yell at my dad.
Aunt:"GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!"
Dad: "What do you mean, this is my house?"
Aunt: "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!! WHEN YOU MOVED IN, I DIDN'T MIND! BUT YOU ARE MAKING CHANGES TO MY HOUSE AND I WANT YOU TO STOP!! GET OUT NOW!!"
Dad: "I don't know what you are talking about, I bought this house. I own it, this is my house."
Aunt: "NO, IT IS NOT YOUR YOUR HOUSE! I BUILT THIS HOUSE! IF YOU DON'T LEAVE NOW, I WILL MAKE YOUR BACK EVEN WORSE! I THOUGHT IF I MADE YOUR BACK HURT IT WOULD STOP YOU FROM BUILDING!"
Dad: "I will not leave my home!! I bought it, it is mine!!"
This went on for a few minutes and basically went in a circle. My mom then came down the stairs and started speaking some buddhist chants and then proceeded to throw uncooked rice at my aunt. She screamed in pain. It was like something you saw in a movie when you saw a person possessed or a demon or whatever get hit with holy water. My mom kept throwing the rice and chanting and with each throw would be proceeded with more screams of pain. Eventually, things calmed down and my aunt seemed to return to normal. My mom then explained to my dad what was going on.
My aunt felt lost and didn't understand what was going on. She wanted to go upstairs and get something from her room and i went and followed to make sure she was ok. She was very shaken and well she should be. So get in front of the door, that's right same door where a grief woamn bashed her head on repeatedly, and wouldn't you know the door was closed. I go to try and comfort her and say everything will be ok. She turns and looks at me. Thing is i could tell it wasn't her. These eyes were filled with malice and hatred. She brings her hands up in a motion to try and strangle me. I jump back barely in time and luckily my mom came up as well and began to throw the rice and chant again. Again, my aunt screamed in pain. Eventually things calmed down and nothing else happened the rest of the night.
Endings?
The next morning, my aunt packed up and left the house never wanting to return. She came back to the house a couple times but refused to step inside. And if we did manage to get her in she would never stay inside for more than five minutes.
A few days after the incident, we had 3 monks from the temple come out and exorcise the house so this would never happen again. Luckily it never did.
Interesting thing, is that the stains are still on the walls to this day. I'll wash them off, and they will slowly reappear a few weeks later. Occaisionally I would have dreams and the spirit would show up saying that it has returned and that we can't get rid of her. Pretty terrifying and would always scare the bejeezus out of me. Any time I had those dreams it would fill me with dread. Maybe we haven't fully gotten rid of her.
The house is still filled with ghosts. All of them hitchhikers. Most of them are protectors and have saved us at one time or another. But these ones are a topic for next time