Post by Ted on Jul 5, 2006 21:31:47 GMT -5
My wife and I used to live in NJ in Sussex County, one of the few counties left in Jersey with bits of rural properties and farms. We lived in a small house on 6 acres, which was originally part of a 250 acre farm back in the mid 1800's. The house that we lived in was originally the farm hands house. The main house was approximately 400 yards away, which I lived in with my parents till they sold it and subdivided thus them moving and my wife and I getting the smaller house. Anyway, many times at night when we were going to bed and sometimes in the middle of sleep we would here music coming from the basement. This always puzzled me because there was no radio in the basement, plus it was a very small basement, not the type you would lounge in, so I never understood why, who ever was doing it, would be doing it from the basement. Whomever it was, must have come from around th 30's cause it sounded from that type of era. Many times I would get a sense that I was not alone when in the basement and sometimes would hear voices. Once the furnace repair guy thought he saw someone standing in the back watching him, he thought it was me at first and asked what kind of dog we have, he heard it upstairs, little did he realize that I was on my way down the cellar steps to see how he was doing. My wife refused to go down there alone. There was also this one spot outside that my dog kept digging at, all the time. One day I finally cleared the area where she was digging so frantically all the time and the area was an indent in the ground, approx. a 20x20 square. Made me wonder if it might be an old family graveyard from way back, never found any stones and I really did not want to dig, just in case, so I made a nice flower garden out of it. Have many more to share including ones from when we lived in the main farm house.