The previous owner of the house had burned coal for heat, so there was a layer of coal dust over EVERYTHING. I was over at the house prior to moving in and was cleaning in one of the upstairs bedrooms. I remember the feeling of being watched, and I looked up and out the bedroom door. There, on the landing of the staircase was a foggy outline of a person–almost like steam or mist. The shape was clearly discernable as a person, but bby the time I blinked and looked again, it had disappeared. I didn’t think too much about it, although it startled me at the time.

When we moved in, my son was almost 2 years old. There were lots of occasions where we would hear or see things, such as hearing voices and footsteps coming from the third floor ballroom as well as seeing shadows out of the corner of our eyes. One time we heard music box music coming from what sounded like the bedroom above the living room, but when we checked upstairs it sounded like it was coming from downstairs. We never could figure out exactly where it came from, but it went away after a few minutes.

There were a lot of other weird things and feelings in the house, but the incident that sealed everything in my mind was after the birth of my daughter when we moved my son into the back bedroom. I went into his room in the morning and heard him having an animated conversation with himself, or so I thought! He kept telling me he was talking to the old man, George, and became insistent that he was in the corner of the room. He said he played with George a lot and talked with him a lot. When I checked the original blueprints of the house, I found out that the man who built the house was, indeed, named George.

It is a lovely home, and I never felt unsafe or that the spirits there were unfriendly. In fact, I really miss the house terribly!