My porch is haunted.
It's been a while since I've done a ghost post (hey, that rhymes!) so here goes!
The neighborhood I live in is basically brand new. It was built in pieces, and I think the first piece was built in 2007 or 2008 at the latest. My area of the neighborhood was built in 2009. I moved in at the beginning of September 2009 and I'm the first person to have lived here.
Before the neighborhood popped up, this land was part of Teufel's Nursery. I don't know what became of that business. Before that, who knows what was here! I'm not aware of any ancient burial grounds beneath the foundations of my building. Nevertheless, my porch appears to be haunted.
I live in a townhouse on the end of a building. My door has a window high up in it. When Corky comes home from work, I can see his forehead through the window of the door as he opens it. He's six feet tall. That's how high up that window is. But height doesn't appear to be an issue for whatever haunts my front porch!
It started several years ago. About 3 years ago maybe. I was sitting on the couch watching TV one night and suddenly I jumped. At that time, the couch was facing perpendicular to the door. I saw someone walk by out the window. I saw their whole head! I didn't see their face in any amount of detail, but I clearly saw curly brown hair and a white hat. It looked like a teenage kid. Leaping up, I ran to the door and flung it open.
Of course nobody was there.
Corky was sitting up on the couch saying, "What's wrong? What?"
"I saw someone!" I told him.
"Who?"
"I have no idea.. and no one is here now."
Needless to say he didn't believe me. Until HE saw it for himself! A few months later, we were again watching TV one evening. I shit you not, we were watching Ghost Hunters on SyFy. Suddenly Corky turned his head and stared at the door. He got up and went and peered out the window. Shaking his head, he returned to the couch.
I was looking at him. "You saw it too, didn't you?"
Corky was unwilling to admit that he had seen someone. He said he THOUGHT he saw SOMETHING but he didn't know what it was.
When we brought home our first French Bulldog puppy, Abigail, in February of 2012, she saw it right away. She would stare at the door and make an "uff" sound, somewhere between a bark and a huff. It happened a couple of times where Abigail and I would see it at the same time. It's always the same - brown hair, white hat, walking right to left and then gone.
In August of 2012, my friend S moved in with us for a few months until he could find a roommate. Soon, he was seeing it too. He jumped once and said, "Someone's at the door!" Corky and I looked at each other.
"You saw him too."
S was alarmed. "Saw who...?"
Oh, nobody. Just the resident ghost! Which makes no sense, because the way the ghost is behaving it seems like a residual haunting. But that is impossible because these buildings weren't here for very long! I guess it could be someone who died recently and for whatever reason likes to walk up the stairs and across our porch into nowhere. But I find that unlikely. Fortunately, it never enters the house.
We had not heard from our ghostly friend in a long time, since early 2013 at least. Until tonight.
Twenty minutes ago, Corky was flaked out on the couch (which is now in a different part of the room) with both Abigail and Jax, our younger Frenchie, on top of the blankets, watching soccer. I was sitting at the table, where I am now, reading a Jodi Picoult Novel. (The Tenth Circle, for anyone who is interested.) Out of the corner of my eye I detected that familiar but almost forgotten movement out of the door window. At the same moment, Jax met the ghost for the first time.
He levitated straight up, hackles raised, stood on the arm of the couch and barked and growled at the door. Corky and I could hardly make him come away! Abigail joined the attack on our ethereal visitor, although I don't think she actually saw him tonight. For several minutes, Jax barked, uff-ed, howled and growled at nobody. Finally he calmed down. Poor little dog!
We have no idea who or what this entity is that appears from time to time. But as long as he stays out there and doesn't come in here, he is welcome to wander our porch whenever he likes!
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