Various Stories From My Mother
Posted to the PARANORMALPRICKHEADS Forums by user "SpaghettiRegretti."
Is what it says on the tin. A short collection of stories that the user heard from their mother.
I might as well hop into this forum discussion of campfire stories and the like, I’ve got a couple of stories my mother told me over the years, they may not be as exciting as other posts, but I’ll still share them for anyone who wants to read them
So a bit of backstory, Back when my mother was a kid, her family was fairly poor, so she had to move from place to place frequently. One of the places my mother lived for a decent bit was a very old house, maybe around the 1900s? There was some backstory to that house, my mother told me that the prior owner was working on a motorcycle engine that was hoisted up with chains so he could get under it, the story goes that he was working on it one day in the garage when one of the chains broke and the engine fell, crushing his head, not a very good history for the house. But they moved in anyways, and multiple events happened in that house. The first one I was told about was when my mother was laying in her bed doing work or something, she said she saw a disembodied head rise from the floor and hover into the ceiling, she promptly ran to her grandmother.
Second one was when she was having a study session with a friend of hers, nothing much happens at this point up until her friend leaves and my mother goes to bed since it was fairly late. she woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, which was downstairs. She walked to the stairs, when she said something grabbed her and “hovered” her all the way down the stairs, she freaks out and runs 2 or 3 blocks out of the house to stay at her friends house.
Third and final story from the house is when she was home alone after getting old enough to do so, she was walking around when she claims she saw a lady in a Victorian dress, with an angry look to her face walk in a room next to her, she enters the room and no one’s there.
These next stories take place in my mothers workplace, which is a nursing home, which she works night shift. A handful of patients have died there, so it’s got this very uneasy atmosphere. I visited once and could immediately feel something off about it, some past workers have tried talking to the higher ups about it, but they brush it off and tell them to keep hush hush about it.
This story happened fairly recently, around 2006. My mother is doing a night shift with a fellow worker of hers when a light for a room that no one resides in lights up (all rooms have an emergency pull string in case a patient falls or gets injured) my mother and her co worker walk to the room, and they can hear these loud crying wails coming from the room, they both knew the room was empty so they were both hesitant to enter. My mothers co worker finally enters the room after the wailing stops, and the whole room is empty, they find the emergency string pulled from out of the wall in the bathroom, they quickly got out of the room after that. The last story also takes place in the same nursing home, my mother is checking up with a patient in their room and helping them with something. My mother sees from the corner of the room, a shadowy arm poke out from the wall for a couple of seconds, before it pulls back into the wall. my mother is in shock, and the patient said something along the lines of “you saw it too?”.
(C) 2002-2008
