Poltergeist

Location:Lawrence, Mass.
Submitted by: Gloria Grimaldi
Hi, this is my second story:
What happen to me the second time, was even more scarier than the first. This time I was 16yrs old, and newly married. We had a double wedding. And we dicided to live together for economy reasons..being newly married is expensive, especially when you move to a new state, and town. All four of us picked out
an apt. at Lawrence Mass. Just untill one of us couple's can afford to find another apt. with a good price. the apt we found was great. it was big, it had two bedrooms, one big bathroom and a dinning/living in the center.

Now, at the time we move in, little did we know that the town of Lawrence Mass. had a history of gost activity.

It took only a week to get settled. And Jane and I decided to make a special Spanish meal for our husband's. We was in the dinning room finishing our meal. Now, at this time it was really snowing hard outside. and since we had the radio on, we listen to the news..it said a blizard was heading our way, so our husband's decided to go out and shop what we needed before the storm came, In Massachuset's, when it snow, your in for a day, or two.
After the men left, we girls started to clean up, Jane did the dishes, I did the table. At that time it felt kind of chilly, and I check the temperture..it read 70degres, but to me it felt more like 50degress.
I was carrieing a big bowl of rice to the refrige. when I felt my fingers slowly opening one by one, this was not me doing it, it felt like someone was pulling my fingers away from the bowl. before I knew what happen, the bowl fell on the floor, shatterd, and rice all over the floor. I could not believe my eys..and I was so scared and dumpfounded, that all I could do is stare with my mouth open. Mealwhile, I could hear Jane in the Pantry, doing the dishes, more like breaking the dishes, I turn around and she was white as a sheet. and when I walk over to tell her what happen, I look down at the sink and notice she was dropping the plates, breaking them, one by one..I yelled and said "Stop!!", and she did. and started to cry, after a few minutes she calm down long enough for her to tell me that it wasen't her, something was making her do it. I told her what happen to me.
Now, Jane, at the time, did not believe in gost. in fact she denied they excisted. I in the other hand do, so when she turn around and said she was going to finish up, I knew she was in denial.
I had no other choice but to pick up my mess and clean up. But inside of me I knew something was up, and it was not done with us yet. after all of that was done, the men arrive from shopping, and when they came in,told us that the storm was getting real bad, at that moment I was explaning to them what happen while they was away. at the same time Jane was getting ready to iron her husband shirt, but when she plug the iron in, all light when out..I scream, Jane scream, and the men just stood there a bit werrie, and mad because we was acting like little kids..so they said.
Jane and I was hugging each other, and her husband said, "listen, it's just the fuse, all I have to do is go downstairs, and put a new fuse in", Now, at this time, I notice it got even colder, and it didn't felt like cold from outside, The cold I felt was like it was coming from inside me. Jane said, there was no way she was going to stay behind, for a girl who doesen't believe she sure had fool me!, but I second the motion, and we all dicided to go together. Now, stay with me, because this is hard to explain, but what happen, really happen!,
and it was dark, no light, and the only light we had was the street light from outside, The sofa was against the window, so my husband could see his jacket on the sofa, as he walk toward the sofa; Jane, her husband and I, was shoked to see the jacket go up, and threw itself at my husband's face..actually, it was something that pick up his jacket and with force threw the jaket at his face,is more like it. My husband said to us to cut it out!.but when he heard us say behind him, that we did not do it..he turn white. he didn't even pick up his jacket, the next thing we knew we
was running down stairs, bumping into each other. when we arrive to the fuse box, Jane's husband was trying to calm us all down, including my husband. he was still white face and look like ready to pass out. so was Jane, I in the other hand already knew all about this, I could not talk, My teeth was shattering; and
scared. after a long talk of Jane's husband, convinsing us that we had to calm down,go up stairs and see if the lights work, we went up slowly, and reach to the apt. happy to see light at last. All of a sudden we heard someone run down the steps, from our door, at the same time, my husband got the corrage to go to the window to see
who whould come out the downstairs door, and
Jane's husband ran down after who ever ran down the stairs..but no one came outside, and no one was at the stairs..no foot print in the snow outside either...
After we settled down and was sitting at the dinning room table, with hot coco in front of us,
we started to talk about it..there was no dinieing what happen, not even Jane can denied the fact that we encounter with a gost, and we was going to find out what the hell is going on, when we talk to the owner of the house.
We dicided to go to sleep, hoping that, that was the end of it..but it wasen't. What happen next, has no name, and scary to the max...
we where in our beds, and in the middle of the night my husband and i heard bangging in our door, it jolted us to wake up, when I sat up, my husband was already at the door, and when he open it, there stood Janes husband, who look like he just got out of the shower, totally wet, together with Jane, her nightgown was soak, both had there eyes wide open and scared, Jane husband said to get out of the room Now!, he sounded really ergent, and i didn't notice till I was out of my bedroom that I too, and my husband was sweating like pigs..Jane's husband said that he woke up because he could not breath, and that it felt he was being sufficated.
He realize that the room felt like a hot-room.
and after he and his wife got out of there room, they ran over to our door and started banging for like what seem to him, the longest time ever.
As we was standing there, between the dinningroom and livingroom, all doors shut with a load bang!, one by one they shut, not all together. with such force I was sure we was not going to be able to open it again.
Then silent, we felt the admispher, feel diffrent..normal, not cold, not hot, but just normal!!, I can't explain it better than that. it was like a load of unhappyness was lifted.
calm.
That's when we knew it was all over..for now anyway..but we did not go back to sleep, what we did is have coffee, sat in the living and talk, the rest of the night, Jane said that she'll never again say she does not believe in gost!!
a few days latter we had no other activity, but we got a hold of the owner, and found out that someone had hung himself in the chandelier that is bettwen the living/dinning room..30 or 40 years ago. She knew about this, and did not tell us..she did say that she didn't think it was going to happen again..See, every aniversary of his death is when it happens. We pack our things..and walk out with our down-payment..and we said she better warn people about it..or well call the first newspaper we can find..and tell them about it ourselves..
No one should go through, what we went through. especailly when it could have been affoided.
because believe me, if she would have told us..we would have never, ever taken that apt.
Gloria