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Welcome to paranormal night.
Shift your home for all things
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that go bump in the dark.
And your fan story is told here.
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Today’s story is called My
Mother’s Father.
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My mother’s father.
That’s what we’re going to call
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him.
He’ll never earn the right to be
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called a grandfather.
And if only half of the stories
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that my mom told me about him
are true, he really doesn’t
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deserve the right to be called a
man, more of a monster.
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Anybody who would do the things
that he did to children don’t
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deserve any rights at all.
My mom had a lifetime of assault
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essays, physical, mental and
emotional abuse from this man.
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I asked her one time, how did
she got?
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How did she get out?
How did you get out of that
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situation?
She said.
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Well, it was simple.
Once I turned 18, he he didn’t
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want me more.
He wanted nothing to do with me
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because he liked him young.
That was the last time that my
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mom had actually seen her dad.
She left the house when she was
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18, but now we had mail coming
to our house and a lawyer
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explained to us that this house
was now ours.
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This house that had so much
torment, so much memories for my
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mom was now our home.
We could live there if we
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wanted.
The lawyers explained to us that
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he had unalived himself, and
with my mom being his closest
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relative, everything was hers.
Now the lawyer acted like we
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should be happy, but my mom had
this overwhelming sense of
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dread.
She didn’t want to go to the
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house.
She didn’t want to do anything
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with the house.
The only thing that she talked
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about doing with the house was
burn it.
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But we were in a financial
situation where we could use the
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money, We needed the money, and
we needed to at least see if we
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could sell the house.
We were definitely not going to
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live there, but we had to go
through and at least see if we
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could sell it.
That started the process of my
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mom hiring people to try to fix
the house.
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She never stepped foot in the
house at all.
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She just wanted to know if it
was even worth trying to sell.
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After about 2-3 months worth of
work, the house was ready to
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sell.
Now I was about 6:00.
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At the time, my mom hadn’t
stepped foot in the house, but
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they were doing a showing.
It was the first time that my
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mom had been back to that house
since she was 18 years old.
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But the house didn’t look the
same.
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Everything was painted and fresh
and new.
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My mom felt like his memory
might have been washed off.
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Whatever horrors had happened in
this house to her, and God knows
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how many other people, she felt
like it was new.
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It was washed away.
With his death, he had unalived
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himself in the basement.
We walked into the house and it
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did.
The house felt different,
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inviting.
My mom felt like maybe she could
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have a sense of closure.
Selling this house was going to
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erase him from the history
books.
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As we’re walking around the
house, that’s when things
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started to happen.
The house felt inviting, almost
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too friendly.
As we’re walking through the
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house, I’m about 6 at the time.
I see a door.
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I see a door that leads to the
basement.
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My mom’s face freezes as I start
to walk down those steps.
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She said, where where are you
going?
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Don’t go down there.
It’s not it’s not safe down
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there.
It’s where he used to take his
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people.
It’s where he used to take my
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mom.
My mom walks to close the door
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to the basement and that’s when
she hears it.
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Very familiar voice calling her
name, saying the same things he
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used to say to her when she was
a kid.
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Come on down here, it’ll be fun.
We never went back.
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My mom made sure to sell the
house, but felt some sort of
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anguish inside of her because
what if he was still there?
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What if his spirit lingered on?
What could he do?
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She almost got very
confrontational with the lawyer
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saying that the house shouldn’t
be sold, it should be burned to
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the ground, the land should be
blessed, things like that.
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But try trying to convince
somebody of that.
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Technically, it was her house.
She could do with it as she
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pleased, but it’s a lot harder
to get rid of things than you
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guys think it would be.
You can burn it, but there’s
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houses right next to it, and
they may not like the idea that
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you’re burning the house.
You could tear it down, but
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certain people don’t feel that
way either.
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It’s a lot harder to get rid of
something that you don’t want in
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the 1st place.
It was 20 years ago.
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I’m 28 years old now and we had
this conversation recently about
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that house, things that I
learned about my mom, things
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that I learned that had
happened.
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I asked my mom when she was
telling the story.
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What did I say?
What did I say that made you
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want to pick me up and Take Me
Out of that house?
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You said.
And she told me that I said that
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the man down to the basement
knew your name and he wanted to
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play.
He wanted to play with you.
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She had kept me from him my
entire life.
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But somehow the moment we got
into that house, it awoken his
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evil and it was communicating
with me.
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He wanted me to go down to the
basement and she wanted me to
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avoid the same fate that she
had.
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Now, I’ve never been a big
believer in the paranormal, but
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I have always been a big
believer in my mother.
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I don’t think that somebody who
had a lifetime of abuse and
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torment from this man would joke
about a lifetime of abuse and
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torment with this man.
I don’t think she would make up
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that she heard heard something
just to protect us, something
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that didn’t exist anymore.
