From: sltxh@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: A friend's old house.
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:56:55 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

     It is amazing how many of my friends have had something spooky 
happen to them, and I did'nt know it. Since my last little spurt of posts,
the've kind of came out of the proverbial woodwork.

      Today's little nugget, was related by another friend of my. I'd 
cange the names to protect the innocent... but he's not all that inno-
cent, so I'll refer to him simply as my freind. :)

      My friend lives in an old house, built around 1860-70. It was 
built by an englishman, who came to the american west, to help ease 
his tuberculosis. Because of his personal experience with treating 
the disease, and his generosity, he turned his home into a Tuber-
cularium. AT any time there was a doctor, a nurse, a priest, the owner,
and many patients staying there. And, of course, many of them eventually
died of the disease. 

      I spent a couple of weeks there, over the summer, and slept in 
what was the "Death room" (where those who were expected to die soon,
were put.). Although it was wonderfully creepy, nothing happened to me
and I wou;d'nt have felt that way, if I hadn't been told that it was 
a "Death room". 

     While I was there, my friend related to me a story that had happened
to him, as well as most of his family, in one form or another. It seems that 
it is not uncommon for one of the family to see somone walk past a door or
window, but for the yard to be vacant, by the time they get to the door to 
look!  Often, these "People" are dressed in period clothing. One of the 
regulars is the one they call "Col. Sanders", because he wears the same type 
of white suit, with a string tie, that the KFC founder is so famouse for.
The oter is a priest, in a monk's type habit.

    The most traumatic, and obviously un-nattural of these sightings, happened
to my freind, as he sat a the dining room table, a couple of years ago. He
was sitting there, talking with his mother in the kitchen. As he sat there,
somthing walked past the two, dining room windows, right next to the table.
My friend turned to look, and saw that it was the priest. This isn't what
bothered him though, as this much was fairly common. What REALLY bothered 
him, was the fact the the house is built, more-or-less, on a sloping piece
of ground, and from the dining romm windows, it was about a twenty foot
drop! 

   They did a little research into the house's history, (which is where 
they found out about the tubercularium buisness) and found that there 
was, originally, a porch out behind the house, in the area where the 
"Ghost" was seen. (They have, since, added a new porch of there own.)

    There are other points of interest about the house, such as severall
tunnels that brach off from the celler beneath the house. They don't
know whether they were used to bury patients, store items, or serve as 
a hiding place. They aren't too sure they want to find out either.

                                                Joel

P.S. thanks to one and all who have responded to my "Winchester House"
question. I intend to thank you all personally, when time allows, but 
wanted let the appreciation be know now. 
                                              Thanx!
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