Resurrection

Stacey lived in an old three storey house with several of her friends. They had lived there for about three years before the four of them managed to save up enough money to move somewhere else. All four of them acknowledged that it was haunted and everyone had agreed from the beginning that they would have to save to move out. It was just that they had gotten the place dirt cheap... of course they found out why soon after. The house was located on Montgomery Street in Rhinebeck, New York. The four of them agreed that two entities were hunting the house and that one was a normal spirit and the other a poltergeist. The poltergeist activity consisted of glasses that broke by themselves, toilet seats that perpetually came down after being lifted and things disappearing and being found again a few days later. Every now and then, Stacey would wake up to feel somebody tickling her feet.

Once in a while, the four felt like they were not alone. It would not happen in any particular room or any level of the house. The feeling would just come randomly and would hit them with crystal clarity. These feelings they mainly attributed to the ghostly activity. One day, after a heavy thunderstorm, Stacey came in from the front porch and looked up the stairs to see an old woman standing there. A loud crash came from one of the upstairs closets and diverted her attention away from the old woman. She had only looked away for a second, but when she looked back, the woman was gone. She had rushed up the stairs to find a clothes rack, which had fallen down by itself. On the third of August, Stacey and her friend Grace who had fallen asleep together talking on their bed woke up to a room that was ice cold. They could see their breath steam up when they breathed out and found their blanket pulled back and folded neatly at the foot of the bed. Hearing strange noises coming from the attic, at two in the morning., they ran down the stairs and spent the rest of the night on the front porch refusing to go back in. But thinking that the act had been one without bad intentions, they decided not to call the others so as not to worry them.

Their landlady, a pleasant old woman, kept telling them an old man would be standing at the porch every time she passed. The one time she tried to talk to him he had disappeared into thin air. Other people who visited them said they saw a man looking through the window on the second floor. Once, the four of them decided to conduct a thorough investigation of the house and found, in the attic, a brick wall. No other part of the house was made of brick and as they approached it, the temperature suddenly dropped and a feeling of impending doom settled upon them. One of them actually tried to touch the wall but just as she did, the lights went out. Once, when investigating the cellar, they found an old chest which they discovered belonged to an old sea captain who had died there in the late 1800s.

Stacey was the last to take her suitcase and leave the day they moved out. The others were waiting for her in the car as she took one last look at the house. She was suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that if she did not leave soon, she would be hurt in some way. As she left, one of the light fixtures that had been directly above her fell from the second floor landing and smashed as it fell to the ground.