My Parent's Haunted House

Since Halloween is coming up, I thought I would talk about something that I do not talk about often. My parents live in a haunted house. They live in Spring Lake Subdivision in Shreveport. They have lived there for about 18 years. The house was built in the 1960's. I can not explain it, but there are multiple ghosts that come and go as they please.

The first sighting was right after they moved in. My sister was in the upstairs bathroom and saw a lady go by in a long ruffled dress. My sister actually ran down the stairs with her underwear around her knees. We mentioned this to the previous owner, and only then did she say, "Oh yes. We saw things all the time." She told us that she woke up once in the middle of the night and there was a lady holding a parasol staring at her.

There have been so many instances it is hard to keep track of them all. My mom often wakes up to ghosts standing over her bed. The latest happened two weeks ago. She awoke, and there was a man smiling at her, and he had a young boy in front of him about ten years old. His hands were on the boy's shoulders. When she awoke and stared at them, they backed away slowly into thin air.  Once there was a man smiling, showing all of his teeth leaning over her on the bed. She screamed "get away from me" and after a few seconds he vanished. She awoke one night to a ghost in the corner of the room swinging back and forth. She screamed, he smiled, and then vanished. Once she awoke to smoke beside her bed. She described it as a vapor.

The odd thing is, they only appear at night. There is never anything that goes on during the day time. The ghosts do not throw things, nor or they violent. They only appear at night, when people are supposed to be sleeping.

One time when my sister was younger and living here, she asked my mom if she had come in and kissed her on the cheek. My mom said it was not her. We figured it was a ghost.

My dad has walked into the den early in the morning to find a ball of light sitting on the couch. When he turned on the light, the ball disappeared. My sister saw the same ball of light running around in the attic when the attic door was opened one day.

My 8 year old niece lives in this house also. We have never told her any of this, and she has never seen or heard anything. I hope it stays that way.

I do not think the ghost are associated with this house. I think it is the land. Our neighbors across the street said that they opened their attic door one night and there was a ball room dance going on. They said the people were dressed in "old timey" clothes, dancing around and around.

I try to think of solutions. Maybe there was an old cemetery here at one time, an old western town. I have absolutely no idea. Sometimes I lie awake at night and try to figure it all out.

I know that the ghosts will not hurt us. My parents never feel fear living there. In fact, I am at their house right now, and I am not afraid. It just is, what it is. 

I am trying to get my mom to get the Louisiana Ghost Hunters to come here to investigate. She will not do it though, because she is afraid that it may stir something up. I said, "You wake up to ghosts standing over you, what could it possibly stir up?" We honestly do not want the ghosts to leave. We just want to know why they come here. I love never knowing what my mom is going to say when she calls and tells me, "Guess what I saw last night?" As long as the ghosts are not mean, I love them being there. It makes it interesting. I just want to know why. I have asked my mom, "why don't you ask them what they want, or who they are?" She said, "When you wake up to ghosts standing over you at 3 in the morning, you don't stop to ask questions." I guess she has a point.

In a way, I think we are fortunate. Some people spend their whole lives wondering if ghosts are real. Well, we do not have to wonder. Believe me, they are real...