Just got touched

I'm doing the dishes in the kitchen, and I feel someone touch my left shoulder blade, almost as if picking off a piece of lint from my shirt. I fully expected Sarah, my oldest, to be behind me, even felt her presence behind me, but when I turned around there was no one in the kitchen with me.

Shelby is getting touched by a ghost

The first time she reported this to me, I dismissed it. But tonight Shelby came down and brought to my attention a new form of activity.

Shelby is being touched.

The first time was on Dec 26, 2009. She had a friend over, and while they were in the dark, talking to each other before going to sleep, Shelby felt something touching her forearm softly. The touch "walked" up her arm before stopping.

It weirded her out, but I dismissed because it could have been several things. A hair, whatever.

But tonight, as I was inventorying some board games I received today, she came downstairs and told me more touching just occurred. She was painting in the kitchen, which is right above my head, and felt something softly grab the back of her shirt, and pull. it only lasted a few seconds. Sophia was the only other person with her in the room, and Shelby verified that Sophia was next to her and not behind her.

I asked Shelby to demonostrate to me what it felt like, and she pulled on my shirt softly. It almost tickled.

"Are you sure that you felt a pulling?" I asked her.

She was sure.

Tampering with the alarm clock volume

My alarm goes off on weekdays at 5am sharp. I don't use that annoying beeping sound. I tune the radio to one end of the dial, where all the white noise lives, and turn up the volume. So when the alarm goes off, its loud white noise.

Like everyone I'm sure, either I or Holly reaches over to hit the snooze button a few times.

For some reason today I was overly tired. I usually wake up only a few times after the snooze button is hit. This morning I let it go a few times more.

I woke up at some point later, and the volume of the white noise was turned down. I thought that Holly must have turned it down instead of hitting the snooze button. I reached over, turned the volume back up, and hit the snooze button. I got up a few minutes later, started my morning and forgot about it.

Today in the car while running some errands, Holly told me some extra info. This morning, at 5:09, the alarm went off for the second time. Holly reached over to hit the snooze button and as she was reaching for it, the volume of the white noise went down. She snatched her hand away from the alarm clock for a second, then reached over and hit the snooze button, rolled over and went back to sleep.

My corroboration of this event is the fact that I had to reach over Holly and physically turn the volume knob back up. So there was nothing wrong with the radio. Someone actually turned the volume knob of the radio down as Holly was reaching for it.

Thuds, footsteps, Bite'n me arse! Toes have been nibbled on...

I work from home all day in the basement of the house. Yesterday I had the house to myself as the kids started school, and Holly had to go to the airport.

Several times during the day, I heard footsteps walking around upstairs on the main floor. Also, a very loud thud occurred from somewhere on the third floor. I ignored them for the most part and just continued my work. Sometimes I hear a box behind me slide a bit across the floor, and that really gets my hackles up. But I just pretend I don't hear it. The last thing I want is for whatever or whomever to realize that "Hey, if I do this, I'll get his attention. So let me do more of this!"

Also, I have some old computer equipment laying on the floor next to me. During the day, little ticks and knocks come from the pile, like a mouse is in them.

Also, last night something was stinging my ass, all night! Well, it was more of a pinching sensation. Either way, this happened at least five times over the course of the night. Each time, I would put my hand on the area, and feel around for an insect, and come up with nothing.

Around 3:30 I got sick of trying to sleep through it, and just lay there listening to the various knocks, bangs, and thuds, until the alarm went off.

This morning I asked Holly to check my bum for bite marks. If there was indeed an insect biting me, I would have thought there would be welts of some sort. But there was nothing. No bite marks. No welts.

Holly forgot to mention to me that a few months ago she was woken up to the sensation of someone biting her toe. I told her it could have been a dream. Her reply was that she could still feel the pressure after she woke up, and it didn't stop until she moved her foot.

I haven't forgotten the recordings still to review and post here. I've just taken a break from them for the summer. I can feel the urge to start back up, so more material will be posted here soon.

I learned last week that EVPs are technically not the term I should be using for my recordings. EVPs are voice signatures on a recording that were not previously heard with the naked ear at the time of the recording. The bangs and footsteps that I've been recording therefore, can't be classified as EVPs, and I'm not awake during the night to verify if a voice I have captured was heard by a human. So I'll just call them "Night Recordings" from here on out.

The bed moves and wakes me up three times last night

Last night I felt the bed shake about three times, each in separate incidents. However, shaking is not the best verb to describe the movement.

It's like laying on your back, with your knee up. As you fall asleep, your knee will start to fall. You'll feel it falling and jerk the knee back up to the vertical position. This action creates a lateral movement of the bed, and that's what I felt.

Each time I felt it, I checked if Holly was the cause. Nope, she was on her stomach. No way to cause the movement. So other than someone (or something) standing at the side of the bed, giving it a little shove, I have no explanation as to it's cause.

The sheet is pulled from my face

Last night I woke up around 4am and found myself unable to go back to sleep. It was taking me a while to get back to sleep because I would hear little noises and that would get my adrenaline going, causing the opposite effect of what I wanted to do - go back to sleep!

I remember I had the sheet pulled up to my mouth, just under my nose. At some point I was just dozing off when I felt the sheet pulled quickly from my face. It was enough to startle me back awake. But I kept my eyes closed and waited to see what else would happen.

Nothing else happened and I finally fell back asleep.

I feel pulling at the covers

Holly and I had went to bed pretty late last night and we were watching TV in bed. Holly was already asleep and I finally turned things off to try and go to bed. As soon as I got comfortable I started feeling the comforter slowly being pulled off the end of the bed.

I simply lie there, wondering if what I was feeling was just my imagination. I was trying to convince myself that Holly’s description of the events a few days before had contaminated my imagination. I could have been creating this feeling.

But I could not shake the physical sensation that the covers were slowly, VERY slowly, being pulled off us.

Eventually, I feel asleep and did not wake again until morning.

Holly feels pulling at the covers

Last night, Holly and I had just went to bed and the light was still on in our room. I had forgotten something downstairs and left our bedroom to go downstairs. While I was out of the room Holly claims something was slowly pulling the top comforter off of her.

She claimed she gripped the comforter, thinking that it was gravity pulling it down, but could feel the pressure of something still pulling, trying to slowly pull the blanket off of her. Once I entered the room again, the pulling stopped.

She is amazingly calm about this whole thing. She's gone through this before - the house she grew up in was haunted as well, so these things "don't freak her out" she claims.

They freak me the fuck out, that's for sure.

"Something just crawled into my bed!"

Something walked into Shelby’s room last night, right after I put her down for bed. I said prayers with her, tucked her in, gave her a smooth, and said good night. I walked out of her room, got myself ready for bed, and started to look for something to read. I think 10 minutes tops had elapsed when she came into the room, really upset and scared.

"Something just crawled into my bed!"

She said she was lying in her top bunk when something knocked once on her door. Then she heard footsteps on the carpet coming into her room, and stopping at her bed. Then it climbed into the bottom bunk. She felt the bed shake and heard it creak. I guess that was enough for her at that point. I commend her for even getting out of bed and running through the her room to my bedroom. I can imagine how terrified she must have been.

This is not the the first time a spirit in this house made themselves known to my kids, but this is definitely the first time a ghost has upset one of them.

Not cool. It's time to do something about this.

Holly gets scratched

In November of 2006 a mysterious scratch appeared on Holly's back. She first noticed this in the shower, but she's not sure if she actually got scratched in the shower, or if it happened earlier that day and the water hitting it made it sting.

The scratch really looks like two claws to me.

This happened again a few months later, though I failed to get a picture of the second scratch.

I have no other proof that these scratches were caused by something paranormal, but based on other things going on in this house, I can't rule it out.

Neither Holly or anyone else in the house has displayed these types been scratches since these two events occurred.

The scars from these scratches are still visible.