My father has been a minister since before I was born. Due
to his occupation, we moved a lot. When I was 20, I was
still living at home, but had gone out of state to visit
family for awhile.
We were living in Texas, in one of the most lovely homes we
had ever lived in. This house was the church parsonage.
Which was provided for us by the church my dad was
pastoring. It had in a very beautiful neighborhood as well.
While out of state, I received a phone call from my
mother. She told me that I needed to come home
because "Your mom and dad are going crazy". She then
related this story to me....
The night before, they were in bed sound asleep. All of a
sudden their ceramic musical church started
playing "Amazing Grace" loud and strong. It was as if
someone had just wound it up. They thought someone had
broken in because they were the only ones there. The music
stopped as suddenly as it had started. It didn't wind down
like normal. They both got up and searched the house.
They found nothing. Needless to say, they were both shaken
up a bit. So, they stayed up awhile before trying to sleep
again.
Finally, they decided to go back to bed and try to get some
sleep. They hadn't been in bed 10 minutes when they heard
a door in the house slam shut. Dad jumped up to
investigate and mom grabbed the Bible. This time my dad
found a bedroom closet door closed and the closet light was
on. It hadn't been before. But there was no sign of a
person or break in.
Mom and dad didn't get much sleep that night. What little
sleep mom did get, she got with her Bible under her
pillow. :)
We found out that the church had been able to purchase this
house reasonably cheap due to the fact that the previous
owner had starved himself to death in the house after his
wife had died. I don't know if they had both died in the
house. I really wish I had done some research on the
previous owners. Could it have been the anniversary of one
of their deaths? There were never any other disturbances
at this house during our one year there.
Oh, the closet door that slammed and where the light was
found on .....was the room I used. Glad I wasn't home!!!
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