Haunted House

  This past May my parents moved into a new house across town. The house was previously owned by a childless widower named Kenny. He passed away a short time ago and the closest family live in Michigan. His niece came down for the closing and when she had my parents alone she told them that they should know that since Kenny passed away, his spirit has continued to stay. Family members had seen him since his death roaming the house. She told my parents that in the event they saw him, to not be alarmed because he kept to himself and wouldn't bother them. This didn't bother my parents. A few weeks later my mom mentioned to me an incident that had happened to her on June 12th. It had stormed heavily the Wednesday before and water had leaked into the basement. The next morning she asked my dad to go down and clean up the water with the shop vac. My dad had the tv on in the living room and watched the morning news with breakfast. He left the tv on and went downstairs to start cleaning up the water. My parents have three dogs. My mom started taking the dogs out to use the bathroom one at a time. She took the first dog out the back door on a leash and took her around front. When she was done, she took her around back and put her back inside. She then took the second dog out without a leash and around to the front. While the dog was running around the yard with her, she happened to look up at the front window of the ranch style house and saw my dad watching tv in the recliner by the front window. She said the glare from the tv made his hair look white. She took the dog back inside. As soon as she got inside, she heard the shop vac still running downstairs. Thinking that was odd, since she just saw him watching tv out front, she went downstairs. My dad was vacuuming up water. He stopped and she asked him if he had just been upstairs watching tv. He said no, he had been downstairs the whole time vacuuming water. She told him what happened. They went upstairs and found the tv still on, but no one watching it. My dad didn't know what to say. My parents don't have a problem having a ghost around, but my mom won't say she saw a ghost. All she will say is that she saw a man watching tv and that my dad was downstairs at the time vacuuming water. Incidently, Kenny's favorite recliner used to sit exactly where my parents unknowingly placed their recliner to watch tv. Hopefully he's happy with his home's new caretakers.  
  by Hodge Hager