OTHERPLANE

"Larry" the Ghost

... by Chancecito


I been living in my house for five years now and my grandparents and greatgrandparents lived here before my family and I. Stories have been passed on from each member that has lived in this house for generations about "a ghost we call Larry". Larry and his family lived here before my greatgrandparents. We believe that Larry was an abusive father to his wife and his son. The house was moved from the main street in our town to a couple blocks away. The Beauty shop which lies on the old foundation is known to also be haunted.

When we first moved to this house, all of the past relatives who lived here before, came to us at seperate times and asked us if we had any experiences with the ghost, which my brother and I had suspected the house as being haunted, long before my family had moved here. In one of the bedrooms, which my brother and I would stay in when we visited my grandparents, there was a portrait that would watch you. The whole head of the portrait would follow and stare at you. When we moved, I wasn't to happy to find out that this would be my new bedroom. There was a period of about two months when I couldn't sleep in my bedroom because of knocking noises on the wall, and the door to the attic that was nailed shut, would open. My parents didn't believe me until one night they heard a loud noise like a bowling ball crashing through my closet. A few months after the closet incident, Larry cooled off.

Then out of nowhere, I awoke in the middle of the night to find my room the color blood red. I checked my window to see if the shades where open, but I only found out that they were closed. I shut my mouth and didn't mention that incident until a couple months later when we were talking about Larry to my brother's girlfriend. When I explained what happened to her, my mom freaked out, and said she saw the same light glowing through my doorway. We splashed Holy Water throughout my room and that kept Larry away for about six months.

Just in the past month, when I kind of get a feeling of the entities presence, and my friend Derek stays the night, Larry or something makes Derek get up in the middle of the night and leave the room. I talked to Derek and he says he dosen't sleep walk and dosen't know how he ends up awake on the livingroom couch (every time he stays).

Just last night Larry (the entity) was the loudest and longest he has ever been. My whole family could not sleep through the night. I felt him in my bedroom and I heard my chair move, and a split second later my dog was circling the chair. Then I heard him crash around my parents bedroom and no more then a few minutes later I heard footsteps above me. Then he was making noises in the livingroom, and my eleven year dog who never runs and can't hear, chased him through the livingroom and out through the kitchen. Then the dog came into my room and stared at the ceiling above me, the footsteps started again. Finally at 3:30 in the morning he stopped thumping around and we all got a little rest.

We think the reason he was so loud and active this time around is because some kind of important day or anniversary. Maybe this day could be the day he abused or murdered his wife or son or even both of them?



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