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Hi, everyone! My sincere apologies for taking so long to get back--my alternate reality just kept getting in the way! The winner of the print copy of "Hotter Than Hell" is Wanda Flanagan. :) Wanda, if you'd care to drop me a line at raine@raineweaver.com, I'll be happy to get that in the mail to you. Huge thanks, everyone, for joining me here, and to the ladies of RomCon for inviting me.
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When I was about 13 I live in this old 2 story building with a creepy attic. Every night my mom would tuck me into bed and during the night she would come check on my sister and I and cover us back up if our blankets fell off. Well one night, my mom wasn't home because she was on a business trip and wouldn't be home until a couple of days later. Sometime during the night someone came and covered me back up because my blankets fell off. I thought it was my dad or sister, except when I asked they said they never got up in the middle of the night. Weird, huh?
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Haunted by Catherine Wade
Posted by Administrator in FF and P, Giveaway with the tag Giveaway, Catherine Wade
Posted date: 29 Aug 2010

Have you been haunted? Haunted by a memory, by a mistake, by the ghost of your late husband? Brin’s haunted by all three, and the dead husband’s getting a little out of hand. That’s the subject of my new book, Another Time Around. But the question today isn’t what my book’s about, it’s why I wrote it in the first place.

Since I was a little kid, I’ve been fascinated by the so-called occult. I played with Ouija boards and tarot cards, but nothing really cemented my beliefs until I was in high school and met my sister’s friend. Since I was a small child, I’d always felt just odd in my parents’ basement. Not scared, necessarily, but like something was just off. Then I started having dreams about a man wearing a leather tunic with feathers in his hair. He was never doing anything, just looking at me.  Then my sister’s friend came to visit. Our guest room at the time was in the basement, and that’s where she slept. The next morning, she described waking up in the middle of the night to find the exact same man staring at her. Not doing anything, just looking at her.

Want to talk shivers down my spine?

I didn’t know at the time that my sister’s friend was a psychic -  she’s made quite a name for herself in certain circles around the Rocky Mountain area – but I knew in that instant what I had felt, the man I had seen, was real.

It explained so much for me. Why in a certain church in town I always felt I was being watched, why my mother just couldn’t go into the sanctuary without getting jumpy, and why I’d see things out of the corner of my eye only to find the room empty.

As I got older, I started researching the paranormal as a hobby. I’ve always found it fascinating, though I admit I don’t buy the whole thing hook, line and sinker. Still, I think there’s something out there which we can’t explain.

So as I stood in the shower one day (is there a better place to get ideas?) my mind wandered to the paranormal. What if a widow was haunted by her late husband? Not the corner-of-the-eye, dream type haunting. A real, life-like man who could touch her, love her, and completely mess up her life just when she’s ready to move on? Sounded like a book to me. 

So I’ll ask again – have you ever been haunted? Tell me about it.

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Posted by Becky on 2010-08-31 at 08:08:29 am:
When I was about 13 I live in this old 2 story building with a creepy attic. Every night my mom would tuck me into bed and during the night she would come check on my sister and I and cover us back up if our blankets fell off. Well one night, my mom wasn't home because she was on a business trip and wouldn't be home until a couple of days later. Sometime during the night someone came and covered me back up because my blankets fell off. I thought it was my dad or sister, except when I asked they said they never got up in the middle of the night. Weird, huh?
Posted by librarypat on 2010-08-30 at 21:10:30 pm:
We have an 1898 farm house. People who lived here before have told me of the young woman in white on the upstairs landing. My son said he woke up one night to see a young girl of about 10 standing near his bed.
Our middle daughter had a very frightening experience. She was never comfortable in the old part of the house, so when she stayed there with her new baby house sitting for us she stayed in the family room in the new addition. She woke up to take care of the baby sometime during the night. While she was leaning over the portacrib, the hairs went up on her neck. She felt like she was being and it was a menacing presence. She looked down the hall to the old part of the house. There was a green cloud that was forming into a more solid form. Our black lab had been asleep near the crib. At the same time our daughter felt and saw this presence, the dog started growling and the fur was standing up along her back and neck. The dog got up and headed toward the thing growling the whole time. By the time the dog got halfway there, the cloud vanished. The dog stopped growling and turned around to come back and lie down again. My daughter said the feeling of menace vanished when the green mist did. In the almost twenty years we have lived here, no one else has had a negative experience.
I have not seen anyone, but I have felt a welcoming presence here.
Posted by Cate on 2010-08-30 at 19:36:34 pm:
Wow, great stories! It always amazes me how many people have experienced the paranormal, but how many folks say they don't believe!

Thanks for sharing, everyone!
Posted by wanda flanagan on 2010-08-30 at 17:34:13 pm:
Yes I have my family moved when I was about 12 and once in the house strange things started to happen .My six yr old sister was found in the hallway crying around midnight one night we asked what happenned she said she went to get something to drink and the man knocked her down (the only male in the house was our dad ).I was once playing in the bathroom as girls will do playing with my makeup and curling irons I had the door open , I looked into the mirror and saw a man staring back at me I assumed my dad had a friend over who needed to use the bathroom so I said Ill be out in a minute I went out of the bathroom and into the livingroom to tell him he could use it there was no one there my parents were in their room asleep and all the doors were locked.The man I saw was as solid as me and you.My dad said he was laying on the couch once and the the end towards his feet lifted up and dropped to the floor.I am a definate beleiver in spirits theres no other explanation for the things that have gone on in that house .None of us were or are afraid My parents do say that since us girls have grown up and moved out that rarely does anything happen anymore.
Posted by Virginia C on 2010-08-30 at 13:00:53 pm:
Hi, Leah! I have lived in the same house for over 30 years. My mother and I owned the house together. She passed away several years ago. I have had many paranormal experiences in my home, both before and after my mother passed away. The first experience was to glance over at a living room window late one night and see the "Scream" face looking in! I rushed to the door and turned on the front porch light, and not a "soul" was about! Another time, on Halloween night, I heard distinct footsteps on the wooden floor of the upstairs hallway. My mother and I were both downstairs and no other "human" was in the house. One night, I went upstairs to my room without turning on the stairway light. When I got to the doorway of my room, a large misty shape moved from the area of the doorway and went across the room and out the window. One bright Sunday morning, I had overslept, which is a rare occurrence. A voice from the doorway of my room said: "Are you getting up?". I looked over through sleep-filled eyes and saw the blurred image of a large friendly blonde woman dressed in red and royal blue. I answered, and then realized it wasn't my mother! The "woman" was twice the size of my mother (who was actually downstairs in the kitchen). Since my mother passed away, I have noticed unusual scents in the house. I have smelled my grandfather's pipe tobacco, my grandmother's lily of the valley, and my mother's fingernail polish remover. All of these people are deceased, and none of those items are in the house! The time that I was the most afraid was when I came home to find my house almost in a vacuum state. There seemed to be no air, no sound, and no smell of any kind in the house. My cats were in hiding. I don't know what had been in the house, but it had some kind of mojo!
Posted by Leah Braemel on 2010-08-30 at 07:02:49 am:
I used to live in a haunted house. There was a ghost who used to haunt my youngest son's bedroom, or at least what I'd originally designated as my youngest son's bedroom. I moved him out after a few months to share a bedroom with his older brother. There were times in the middle of the night when I'd feel the need to check on him, and would find/sense an old man in the room. I never said anything to my family but did convince my husband it would be a good idea to get the boys to share a bedroom so I moved son #2 into son #1's bedroom. Whenever I encountered the old man after that, I'd tell him he was dead and this was our house now, that it was time for him to move on. It didn't work however.

When we moved out ten years later, my eldest son and I were talking and he was saying he was glad we were moving out of the house because it was haunted. He said he'd lie in his bed where he could see down the hallway to the top of the stairs. An old man would walk up the stairs, stand on the landing and look at him, then turn and go into son #2's old bedroom. Said it was a nightly occurrence. That he knew it was an old man and he inhabited that particular bedroom creeped me out. Son #1 also said there was an old lady who haunted the main floor, particularly the kitchen. I never met her though.

The house was only built in 1983 but it was located on the grounds of a former World War II spy training camp. I never got the feeling the man was a spy, but perhaps a farmer from 100 years before.
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