Doctor's House

by gr33nm4n

So yeah, this story spans over several years but it still causes me extreme curiosity and some may find it slightly chilling.

When I was about 2-5 months old my family lived in a trailer on a piece of property with an old large white house on it that was built in the very late 1800s. My Father was born in 1917 in a small community in rural Louisiana that went bust during the Great Depression, but at one point it had a general store, train station, post office, etc. Now its just a block (Gold Dust Loop) amid a bunch of fields in central Louisiana.

Anyway, the large white house was a Doctor's house.

When I was born in 1983, my dad was already 66 years old. I'll make it clear, he didn't believe in ANYTHING supernatural, ghosts, aliens, etc. If he had never seen it, it didn't exist. Period.

He told stories about what the town used to be like when he was young, and one of the stories was that the Doctor's wife took their kid and "left him" sometime in the late 30's--the two of them essentially vanished. The doctor committed suicide afterwards and the large white house went unoccupied & boarded up.

As I said, when I was born we lived in a trailer on that property. My dad bought another trailer and had been a carpenter back in the day, so he built a large home a couple lots over using the two trailers (built frame around them).

Now, when I started talking I started telling all these stories about an old man that I had all kinds of adventures with and called him my grandpa. I didn't have a grandpa alive at the time. Parents brushed it away as an overactive imagination and in time I forget all about it.

Years later, I'm talking to my dad after a news story about an earthquake and he mentions feeling tremors when I was younger in our house at night. To which I reply that was impossible since Louisiana doesn't have earthquakes. Well, in typical old man fashion he became agitated and swore that occasionally his bed would shake at night. Weird.

Before my mother passed away, she told my sister not to live in the house with her daughters and to sell it instead because she thought something "bad" was there. When asked to elaborate, she said the whole time we lived there she occasionally heard voices and footsteps when no one was in the house. She was very sick and had moved out of the house after her and my father separated, then she passed away shortly thereafter. I don't think my sister really paid much attention to what she said, she wound up moving into the house a few months later.

A couple years later, I'm in Texas and my sister is now living in the house we grew up in. She calls me freaked the eff out. Complains she heard an old man's voice and a woman's voice arguing, and a child's voice. I roll my eyes and brush it off. Then, my older brother goes over and leaves that night claiming he heard the same thing. So then, being the religious people they are (I'm an atheist), they call a local pastor after this goes on for about two weeks with increasing intensity.

They do a blessing of the house. As they are finishing, my sister's dogs go berserk outside for no apparent reason, and the three lawn chairs on the porch are thrown into the yard with no one or nothing else on the porch. There were 4 witnesses to this, all claiming the same thing happened.

I didn't witness it, but I would have certainly liked to have seen it for myself.

In any case, after thinking about it, and having read a lot on supernatural experiences, I think it's plausible (supernatural explanation anyway) that all those experiences are linked together. The doctor that killed himself, the missing wife and kid, my old man imaginary friend, my dad's bed shaking, and the eventual ghostly noises and occurrences. It doesn't really frighten me at all, but it definitely makes me really curious.

TL;DR: My house was quite possibly haunted by the spirit/ghost of a small town doctor that committed suicide, and possibly his wife and child he may have murdered and everyone in my family over a long period of time had differing experiences that support your typical supernatural story.

#Event/BedShaking #Building/Trailer