earlier on tonight i put up a status that i had a visit & WestcliffWriter asked if it was a ghost - i did do a long followup in the status but it seems i forgot about the word count - so this is why this log entry (lets see if i remember all that i wrote & can retype it here )

yes - Ghost ... this house was built in 1910 & we were the 2nd family to live in it - the original person who lived here built it & the rest of the row .. over the years everyone in the family has had some sort of experience here .. although its normally me that they seem to like. some examples being -

the kitchen light switch you can watch rock on & off..(my dad did the electrics & even changed that switch - but it still does it)

i used to do the vacuum cleaning - plug the old dust buster in a socket in the downstairs hall way and work my way towards the back of the house - it had a long lead - but then it stopped working - of course i've pulled the lead to much and the plug has come out of the socket - yes there it is laying on the floor - plug it back in & silence - hmmm .. check the switch & its in the off position ! - switch it on & the beast comes to life - walk back and continue for a few mins and off it goes again ... same reason ! grrr.. walk back and now work my way back to the hallway .. dust machine going great guns until i look up and notice the plug is on the floor again BUT hoover still working !! i never did like the noise those things make ...

the back bedroom (which is where i sleep now) when it was my sisters she awoke one night to find a man at the bottom of her bed dressed in WW1 uniform - boy did she scream the house down ! - the area up the road from us used to have a convent on it & during WW1 was a medical center for returning soldiers - so he could have come from there - BUT this part of the house wasnt built until the 1970's

this room also has the sound of a piano being moved (you can hear the wheels squeaking and the stings inside vibrating - but the noise is coming from the flat roof ....and there has never been anything up there.

same room - when my uncle & aunt came over to stay from OZ, one night she said she felt someone stroking her hair - thinking it was uncle being a bit frisky she rolled over to tell him off - but he was fast asleep.

i've felt that around the house - it was something both my grand mother & mum used to do to me when i was a kid..

bottom of the stairs there's a misty patch & i always felt it was an old man (grand father?) - same location theres been a strong smell of violets (grand mothers favorite flowers) - we generally never kept cut flowers in the house - some superstition on my mothers side

All children under the age of 2 (i've got 16 nephews / nieces - and ever local neighborhood children) whenever they go into the front room will look up in the right hand corner of the ceiling and start to giggle and "talk" to whatever is there - anyone older than 2 never see anything - when these kids start to talk and get asked what they saw not one of them remembers..

you can put something down in the middle of a table, turn around, look back & its gone - turn around again & ask for the item back .. and there it is again

it may sound a little frightening (and ive told these stories to quite a number of people & they always ask "are you not scared ?" ) but i've never felt that way - and who was it tonight ? - i suspect it was my mother who died just over 4 years ago - just making herself known .. and as ive been typing this i keep looking over my shoulder as i feel someone there ....

X's & O's to you all - both living & dead