2012-09-02, 01:37 PM
I think I was 8 years old. I was at a family friends' grandpas house. The grandpa had passed and they were moving all of his things into storage until everything with the will was sorted out. Anyways there were three of us kids. Two 8 year olds and one 13 year old. We were playing in the empty house and it was a bit ominous because the grandpa had just passed and this house was built just after the civil war. Running up and down the stairs, we ended up in the guest room upstairs. It was a very small room with a small closet with shuttered doors and a hanging light bulb in the center of the room with a pull chain. They had left this stool in there. It was the only piece of furniture in the house. The light was left on. We turned it off and went downstairs getting ready to go since the Uhaul was all packed up. Once downstairs we heard quiet laughing coming from upstairs. We went upstairs to check it out and the light was on. The chain was moving ever so slightly, not swinging, but it definitely looked like it had been touched. So creeped out my older friend turns off the light and we run as fast as we can downstairs. Again we hear the laughing, but louder. We run up the stairs and the stool was in the corner and the chain was swinging and the light was on. At that point we ran straight out of the house and told the parents. They checked it out and said the light was off and we were just being silly. They locked the doors and we left. If anyone was in that house playing tricks they got locked inside because those doors were the type that if you lock it it is locked doesn't matter what side you are on. To this day my friends and I know what happened but no one ever believed us. The house is still unoccupied as far as I know 15 years later. I have since then moved across the country, but my mom still lives down the street.

