Haunted House
When my family lived in Luthersburg, Pennsylvania before we
moved to North Carolina in 1952 when I was 4 or 5 years old and my sister was 5
or 6. Next to our house was an open field and, on the other side of the field
was an abandoned house. My sister and I were curious about that house. We knew
it was empty.
In those days kids were off the leash and allowed to
explore. Everybody knew everybody else and were all up in their business, plus
the village was barely larger than a football field before it became fields,
forest, and farms. It wasn’t like a crime-ridden city—not even close. So
parents allowed kids to have the freedom to roam, explore, and play unattended
by adults.
My sister and I decided to go to the empty house and see
what was inside. The door was unlocked. I don’t remember if we knocked or just
walked right in unannounced. Inside, all the furniture was in place, but the
paint was peeling off of most of the pieces as if it had stood like that for
years. The dishes were all stacked in the cabinets like they might have been
washed, dried, and put away long ago and never touched again. I opened a drawer
and found it filled with flatware. The spoons, knives, and forks were sort of
untidy in their arrangement, but still, it all seemed present. I do have to
admit to a crime here. I stole a butter knife. I don’t know why, I just liked
it and nobody lived there anymore, right?
While we were sorting out things in the kitchen, we heard
footsteps upstairs. Our eyes met, widened with terror. I couldn’t seem to move.
So we stood absolutely still like rabbits. There was a rustling sound and then
footsteps again. Fear animated us. We scrambled out the door and ran all the
way across the field until we reached the safety of our home and ran up to our
room to stare out the window to see if anyone—or any thing might be coming after us. There was nothing except an open
field and an empty house. We never went back to the house again and, as far as
I know, no one was known to live there again. I will never forget that event
for as long as I live.
Have any of you had an experience like mine? Have you ever
gone into an abandoned house? Did you see anything interesting there?
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