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From: NYP Staff Member 07-02-04
A
Few Chilling Tales To PonderI have been waiting a while to put these stories on the internet. There are a few so keep up with me.
When I was about 11 years old I was sleeping on the parlor floor next to my parents room. At the time I was living on the 3rd floor on the corner of Ontario St. And I-787 in Cohoes, NY. Well anyway I was sound asleep when all of a sudden I heard a little girl cry out daddy don't, daddy don't hurt me. Then I heard weeping as if someone was crying. I was not the only one who heard it because shortly after I heard that my father came out to check and see if it was me. This house had to of been built in the 1850's. It is a very creepy looking house. I decided to ask a neighbor if they knew anything about it being haunted. She told me yes. She said that a family had perished in the house some years back and that she has experienced some strange things. She also told me of an old lady that sits in her rocking chair at various times in the night. I also got a strong urge to call the children spirits Jesse and Jane and to this day I don't know if that is related to the ghosts.
A few years would pass since moving from there that I would experience another "haunt". The next experience would happen on the corners of Sheridan and Sherman ave in Troy, NY. My brother purchased a house there and right off the bat he knew something was wrong. His deed had a lot of words that were missing and just looking at the house you could see something was very wrong. At various hours of the early morning I would awake to the sounds of horses in the yard. There was another night when my brother heard someone knocking on his upstairs door. The problem there is that you would have to break in the downstairs door in order to gain access to the second floor. Pretty freaky huh?
I would eventually move and went without experiencing another problem until 2 years later. I moved into a 3rd floor apartment on 6th ave in Troy, NY. The cross streets are Glen ave and Swift st. Well anyway I was watching television at about 1:30am when out of the corner of my eye I seen something that came out of the old fireplace. Now the fireplace was blocked off and had been for years. Anyway I seen this shadow that eventually turned into the figure of a little boy. The boy looked about 5-6 years old. The boy came in front of the couch and stared at me for about 30 second before he walked away into my bedroom. I also placed my tape recorder in front of the fireplace to see if I could get an EVP. To my surprise I did. On the tape I heard a voice say in a very drowned out voice "Help Me" and it repeated it about 10 times. Little is known about the house but, it was definately inhabited by something from its past.
Finally, The last story is about the house I live in now in Lansingburgh, NY also known as North Troy. North Troy has a very rich history, In fact the whole city of Troy is historic. Troy is home to some great figureheads such as Uncle Sam Wilson, Emma Willard, Russell Sage, Moby Dick author Herman Melville and also home at a point to 21st president Chester Arthur. Anyway it all started in the house in November of 2001. It was around Thanksgiving time and we had a ceramic pilgrim boy and girl the sat upon our coffee table. I was watching television and happened to look at the pilgrims. The hat on the boy pilgrim levitated about 2 inches and turned over and fell to the stand. At that point I left the parlor and went into the kitchen. Thank god my brother was walking in at the time and caught the same experience or else I would of been told I was nuts. That was only the first time something happened. Eventually my mother was sitting in the kitchen when she heard a little girl crying outside the back door. She got up and looked but, nobody was there. My mother is a skeptical person but, I think that changed. She was babysitting my niece when she heard my niece talking to someone. My niece was only 1 years old. The my mother heard a mans voice talking back to her and again nobody was around. On another occasion my brother had books thrown at him in his bedroom followed by all of hearing walking up and down the basement stairs. There was also a night when my niece's plastic scooter went riding down the ally way in the backyard. The scooter disappeared and was not found until the next morning near our garage. Most recently I was awakened at 3:00 am by someone whispering my name. Until this day we still experience things in this house but, we have learned to live with it for now.
Anonymous: July 10, 2004
My story happened back in the 1970's. It happened when me, my mom & dad and my older brother were living above a respectable pizza parlor in Cohoes, NY. We had a dog and for no particular reason the dog would bark. The dog also refused to enter certain rooms at different times. It was around Christmas when my father was awakened by a loud party in the living room. He heard music and people having a great time. When my father entered the living room the party stopped and the Christmas tree went flying across the room. On a separate occasion my father seen a hand floating in the air coming toward my brother and myself. My father later found out that the lady that live on the second floor had continuously seen a guy in a pin striped suit rocking in her rocking chair. The pizza parlor is still there and a few former owners have said that when they come into work pans and utensils end up in weird spots. This is just one of many ghostly places in the historic city of Cohoes. I can always feel something walking down Rensem st. but it gets stronger when you are in front of the pizza parlor.
Raymond W. July 10, 2004
I had a ghostly experience back in the mid 1946. I was just released from the US Navy following World War II. I was sitting on the couch with my mother taking off my boots when something walked past the outside window. Now my mother has seen this on more than one occasion. Anyway my mother and I got up and ran outside in the snow and I was so excited that I forgot to put my boots back on. We got to the basement door and watched as the latch opened and so did the door. At this point we did not see a figure. We went down the stairs and this shadow appeared and went directly into the furnace and disappeared. My mother the skeptic called the police. With further investigation the police opened the furnace where they found the bones of a human. In the same house there was a blood stain on the wall that could not be removed. After the bones were discovered the satin disappeared. They was nothing weird that happened after that. That is my story and I believe that the spirit that we had was just looking for peace and that is what it got.
Revieced 8/30/04
From:Miranda/Seneca
Long Island
Who was I talking to?
It was 4th of July and my parents and my best friend came over to celebrate. my parents had left and Seneca (my best friend) was helping clean up. it was late at night and it started to storm very hard, so I decided she can spend the night. Then we went down to the basement to watch TV, then I told her to stay down in the basement and that I would be right back, except she didn't seem to hear me. So I went up stairs to fetch some popcorn and a movie to watch. When I came down stairs I saw Sen Glaring at the window, so I asked her did anything happen while I was gone, because she seemed to be in an odd transe. But then she told me "Miranda what are you talking about? You never left."And then I said, yes I was I went up stairs to get a movie and some popcorn. And then she responded, yes I was talking to you I heard your voice but I never back to see if you were really there. Then she told me what the voice said. It said that there is this one tree that I hated on my property and that I felt harmed by it, then I said that I met this one strange guy that was giving me a long, evil looking smile. Ever since that eerie night, we never found out what really happened.
Christopher Robin Sharlow
Lyman, Maine
Added: January 12,2005
Being a ghost hunter and photographer, I have literally hundreds of stories under my belt, Mostly personal ones which have occrred to me since getting into the paranormal. I am originally from Massena, New York.
Our landlord was telling us that ever since we moved into or apartment here in Maine that he has been witnessing extraordinary things going on. I simply told him that ghost follow me everywhere especially after I have been hunting in a graveyard(here in Southern Maine there are very old ones). This experience really threw me for a loop!! Our landlord was telling us that one of the things he's been witnessing is our lights in our apartment going on and off while my wife and I were at work, so to rule out an intruder I simply spread out some flour on the floor to try and catch a possible perpatrator sneaking into or apartment. Well, we did end up getting a few footprints, one pair of HOOF footprints!!! I think that someone or something evil has been visiting my home at night while we have been at work. He is known by many names one of them being the Devil!
Thankyou,
Christopher Robin Sharlow
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