House In Canyon

#Location/US/Texas/Amarillo #Unexplained/Paranormal
John Lerma
Second one:

Around 1995, some friends and I rented a 2 story house about 1/4 mile west of Canyon. When we went to look at the house, for some reason NONE of us wanted to stay in the front bedroom. It just didn't "feel" right. }

One of the guys ended up taking it. He was a really nice guy, kinda quiet, but would still party with us. As the weeks wore on, he started acting kinda weird. Got real religious, which I have no problem with, but he would just sit there in the middle of the floor and read his bible, and quit communicating with us. He then just left one day, and we never heard from him again. I heard he went to join some kind of religious cult, but not sure of that.

On the first floor, in the dining room, we set up all of our instruments and would jam. A couple of times when we were all in the adjacent living room, we would hear my hi-hat on my drum kit open and close. Of course, I would go look, and no one was there. And a hi-hat opening and closing is not something the wind can do or anything like that.

I had one of the 2 rooms upstairs. It was an older house, so there was a vent in the floor where you could actually see down into the living room. During the wintertime, I would put a pillow over it to keep my room warm. Several times when I was the only one at home I would go downstairs for a few minutes, and come back up and see the pillow moved to the side of the vent.

On a whim, I bought one of those slot-car racetracks one day, the kind you push the trigger to make the cars go around the track. I would leave the cars on the track, and again, go downstairs and come back up to find the cars set neatly to the side of the track. And again, this would happen when I was the only one home.

My friend Rob played the upright bass in the Amarillo Symphony at the time, and one of the other bassists was a woman named Inez, who went by psychic name of Bubbles. He asked her to come check out the house, just for fun.

She immediately was struck by the front bedroom. She said there was something, not sure if it was male or female, inhabiting that room, and that it was very evil, and that we should avoid the area.

She said in my room she sensed two young presences, and that they were more playful than anything. And in the room across from mine she sensed a female presence that was malevolent, but not near as evil as whatever was in the front bedroom.

We talked to the guy we rented the house from and found out that it had physically been moved there from another location years before. Supposedly that has something to do with hauntings in some cases. Anyway, there you go. Crazy stuff, I know, but when there are several people experiencing things in one location, it's kind of hard to ignore.

A few side-notes about the Canyon house:

The room across from mine was taken by my friend Steve, and he never really mentioned anything weird happening in there. Forgot to mention that it was an "older" female presence in there, according to Inez.

In my room, it was a young girl and boy, possibly siblings.

Rob the bass player had the back bedroom on the first floor, and never experienced anything in there; Inez said she didn't feel there was anything in there of note.

The front living room was adjacent to both the front bedroom (by French doors) and the dining room (by an open doorway). In that room we had one of those "touch" lamps, where you touch it and it gets excessively brighter, then turns off.

Several times when we were in there watching a movie or playing video games, it would start flickering; like really fast flickering, more than would be possible by physically touching it. We all kinda weirded out over it at first, then got used to it. That might have been an electrical issue, with faulty circuits or something, who knows.

The front porch had a floor made of wood, and when we were all in the living room we would hear (and feel, because it was right outside the front door) heavy footsteps on it sometimes.