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Sugar and Spice and Everything Ni … AHHHHGGG! What was that?
A little ghost girl in period clothing
It’s not often you see a home that is over 100 years old in my western state. However, I recently got the opportunity to list a historic home that was 145 years old. It was a true-life pioneer home and I was thrilled. Double fun for me, the 80-year-old owner is the matriarch of a family whom I adore and who I have assisted with sales in the past. I consider her a dear friend.
After my first visit to this home, a structure that had been abandoned for over 10 years, I knew that I would need my handyman to help me do a good trash-out of the place. After he took a look at the scope of the work and gave me a bid, my Seller hired him to do the job and he eagerly got started clearing away the overgrown bushes from the front of the home.
This task took several days. One day I stopped by to find him dragging large branches across the yard. He turned and looked at me, and matter-of-factly said, “There was a little girl over there. A little ghost girl. I saw her over there.” He pointed towards some bushes that were close to the front door. I looked and didn’t see anything, but I know him well and didn’t doubt him at all. He has a very “open” type of energy which makes him much liked and approachable by all.
The door kept closing on its own, leaving me in total darkness….
Later in the week, I happened to stop by the house alone one afternoon. The midday sun was shining brightly as I stepped into the front foyer of the house. The inside was pitch dark inside because the windows had been long ago boarded up. As I stopped to let my eyes adjust, the door began to slowly shut behind me. Unconcerned, I pushed it back open but noticed there was no breeze whatsoever that could have caught the door to close it. This happened twice more and finally I had to prop the door open so I would have light to see inside the house.
As I turned my attention back to the house, I suddenly heard four heavy, distinct footsteps walk across the wood porch behind me. I whirled around but saw absolutely nothing. I now suspected that something else was going on beyond the usual. I “felt” for any nearby energy and found only a lighthearted playfulness. It was as though somebody was happy to see me and was trying to entice me to play. It was very definitely there, but completely non-threatening. I thought nothing more about it, completed my work and left.
A few weeks later, I decided to hold an open house for curious neighbors. The day before the open house I was outside in the yard doing some last-minute preparations. My lender drove up to have a look at the house to give me an opinion on lending possibilities. He’s a good friend so I said hello and encouraged him to go in and have a look at the house while I continued what I was doing outside. Much to my surprise, he walked up to the front door, hesitated, turned around and abruptly told me he remembered he had somewhere to be. He left quickly without even going in and said nothing else to me.
I had over 100 people come to the open house, many of whom asked if I thought the house was haunted.
The next day at the open house, my lender was at my side at the welcome table outside of the home. We had a huge turnout, and as the open house was winding down, somebody asked me playfully if I thought the house was haunted. In turn, I told them the story of the little girl my handyman had seen the previous week. Everybody was amused, except my lender friend, who silently went white as a sheet. After the crowd left he said, “I didn’t tell you this but yesterday when I looked in the front door of the house, I saw a little girl standing in the foyer!! I was so shocked that I didn’t know what to do except leave quickly and that’s why I ran out of here!” Poor guy, I couldn’t blame him for his reaction. He told me that she didn’t seem scary, in fact quite the contrary, but that he just didn’t feel that he could stay there after he’d seen that. We agreed that since both men had seen the little girl, and because I had also encountered “somebody” playful in the same area she had been seen, that she was definitely an entity to be believed in!
I thought no more about it until I went to see my client the next weekend. I was telling her about the open house and joked that some people had asked me if I thought the house was haunted. Her reply was instant. She said, “Oh yes! We had a renter in there for 5 years who told us that she often saw a little girl there, on the front porch and in the front room. We never saw her but our renter saw her frequently.”
Clearly my Seller was comfortable with the idea of this little ghost girl. I didn’t see any point in mentioning the other occurrences to her, so I didn’t. But I later shared what she had said with both of the guys. They were both truly blown away.
So, how would I interpret this? It seems like an awfully big coincidence that the three of them would mention this little girl without knowing about her from anywhere else. I personally never “saw” her but had sensed her innocent and playful energy when I was at the house. I don’t believe that souls are truly “trapped” here on earth like Hollywood would have you believe, but I do believe that they visit, and can take on any form that they wish in order to convey a message. I am guessing that this soul once had happy times at this house, and enjoys a visit once in a while to partake of the comings and goings of others in the house. She feels peaceful and playful. Do I think she’ll show up to the new owners? Hard to say. I suppose it depends upon how playful she thinks they are!
By the way, I did get the door closings and the footstep sounds on my iPhone video recorder. I was videoing something else and the timing was perfect.
Here’s to finding a home that makes you so happy, you’ll even want to visit it from the other side!
Love and light – Jennifer
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Impressions of a Psychic Realtor 