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Originally Posted by xxxmx

my gram lived in a beautiful old house with wood floors and ornate woodwork and draperies... all the good stuff. i'm too young to really remember, but she has told the story and many people have backed her up on it. she used to rock me to sleep in the front parlor and then carry me upstairs when i stayed with her. one night while my aunties were visiting, everyone was reading in the parlor while my gram was rocking me. apparently i was fussy that night and wouldn't quiet down. all of a sudden, a woman appears to be walking straight out of the wall towards my gram with her arms out. everyone freaks, everyone leaves, no one is calming down. now me personally, i never would have set a foot inside that house again. but they did ...

so the crux of the story: they never saw the apparition again but they often heard footfalls on the back stairway, but the sounds would stop at the landing. as it turns out, one of gram's ancient neighbors was visiting one night when the footfalls began. she then told my gram all about the previous inhabitants of the house. a young woman had lost several children to sickness and while the house was quarantined, everyone stayed in the front parlor room. the other goosebumpy revelation was that the stairway used to open into the parlor, but at some point the owners decided to wall up the opening and have the stairs let out into the dining room. that's why the footfalls stopped at the landing and that's why the ghost appeared to come out of the wall.

freaky deaky, gram still gets shivers when she tells the story.

Good story!