I live in central Texas. My mother-in-law whose name is Jane has been the unfortunate victum of living with two entities for the last fifteen years or so. Let me tell you about Jane, she is real great and I would never trade her for anything, however, she is a real cleaner. And I mean this girl can clean! And she knows where everything in her house is and is supposed to go. It drives her nuts if the slightest thing is out of order. You can not wear your shoes on the carpet, lean against the walls, put anything in the refrig without wiping it off, and no smoking or drinking.

They had their home built new in a new up and coming subdivision in 1984. It is a nice all brick two story home, four bedrooms, two and half baths. The first experience came the day after they moved in. Jane and her oldest daughter Lisa had left to go clean their former home leaving her husband Dan and her two younger daughters Laurie and Megan at home. Both girls had crawled into bed with Dan and shortly after Dan heard someone downstairs turning on the water and closing cabinets he also heard them walking through the rooms and on the stairs. Dan assumed that Lisa had not left with Jane and went back to sleep. After ten he and the younger girls got up and when he could not find Lisa he got real concerned. In fact he was so sure that someone had been in the house he took both Laurie and Megan and drove back to their former house that Jane AND Lisa were cleaning up (which was a good twentyfive miles away).

Later Jane would hear voices (high pitched) and things would be moved. This especially drove her crazy because she KNEW where she had put something. Bad smells would come up in a room that had been vacant all day. Cigar smoke would often occur in the one bedroom that was unused. And the doors would unlock, this was really bad because if her husband came home he would get really mad and yell at her (causing you guessed it a real strain on their marriage) she would double and triple check herself that the door was locked and whalla it would be unlocked and sometimes wide open when she got home from the store or the bank or whereever. Light switches would go on and off. Once when she was standing right next to it! The house had a real freaky feel to it and often you would see shadows out of the corner of your eye. After I married her son and became more familier with the problem Jane opened up to me more. They had lived in the house for about six years when Lisa first saw the first entity. She had stayed home while Jane took the younger girls for haircuts. She was in the younger girls room making Megan's bed (A rarity unto itself!) when she looked up and saw a girl sitting on the floor near the TV and door. The girl was about twelve or thirteen with long hair and a long dress. She had her knees bent and her arms around her knees. Lisa watched her for a few moments and then the girl disapeared. She was watching TV downstairs and looked up to see the same girl come down the stairs and fade away. She quickly went outside and waited nearly hysterical for Jane to come home. The two younger girls of Janes were often reporting hearing things and once the older one, Laurie, was pulled slightly down the stairs. When questioned about it she told her mom that whatever touched her had been "jolly". One morning while fixing breakfast Laurie was sitting at the table nearby and Jane heard a voice clear as day asking her a question (unfortunately she could not remember what the words were) Jane assumed it was her younger daughter annoying her and told her to wait. Then she and Laurie realized at the same time that the voice had not been Megan or anyone else.

For a long time the entity would awaken her at night by trying to get into bed with her and Dan. She would feel it crawl up onto the bed and the weight of it across her legs. She likened it to a toddler crawling up the bed to sleep with her. When it would happen she would lay still and wait for the feeling or presence to go away. This happened sometimes several nights in a row and then nothing for a long time. Sometimes her husband was aware of something and sometimes not. He remained of the opinion that all of them (wife and girls) were nuts as he refused to admit to having experienced anything. Several times when Jane was reading in the bath (she's got one of those great whirlpool tubs that you can lay and read in for hours) she would hear him murmering in his sleep like maybe the presence was messing with him. She also woke up twice and when leaning over to look at the clock looked down and saw two girls laying on the floor.

There was a night when she woke and saw a red door hanging in the room. (I never understood where this fit in) this scared her badly and she never went back to sleep that night.

As unnerving as all of this is Jane was not ever afraid well at least not to the point of getting help or moving. But she was afraid real bad once. While vaccuming she got real real scared and out of the corner of her eyes saw something. Shortly afterwards (I forget if this was later that day or the next day) she was doing dishes and got the same feeling she turned and saw a man in the kitchen behind her close to the table. He was short with short dark hair parted and combed over. Dark rimmed glasses, mustache, blue work shirt (like a mechanic) and dark pants with heavy black shoes. He was gone from her vision instantly but obviously she got a good enough look. He frightened her very badly but has never been seen since.

Dan finally got a look at it. Jane was up late reading the paper at the table (as is her nightly habit before taking her bath) and Dan came in the kitchen and popped her on top of her head. "I just saw your little friend." he said and continued that he was watching TV and saw one of the girls standing at the foot of the stairs in a gown watching him. After a moment he realized both of his girls were much older and they didn't wear nightgowns nor had he seen them come downstairs. He looked again and she was still there after a moment he looked again but she was gone and then he went to thump my mother-in-law on the head and tell her. He was pretty shaken up about it and later refused to talk about it.

Jane started to really miss things around the house. A favorite hair bow of Lauries was missing for months and one day while putting away the laundry she closed one drawer put some underwear away opened the first drawer again and on top of some folded t-shirts was the hairbow. A Bealls credit card went missing for several weeks and made her miss using it for a sale. Once when putting up sheets in the closet she could not shut it and after trying seveal times held the door open all the way asked the presence to leave and was able to shut the door right away.

The upstairs TV's had serious problems one that would glow when unplugged (Jane's room) and one (girls room) that would change channels continuously when she was in the room once she really wanted to watch something on Oprah while making beds and when she asked IT to stop and explained how much she wanted to see the show the TV changed channels all the way to the channel with Oprah and stopped. Lisa would wake up with one of her posters (The Nelson's remember them) in bed with her under her covers.

We came to the conclusion that it was two girls one preteen and one about five. (with the exception of the man) The subdivision was wooded farmland before being developed so there is no way of ever knowing what happened to bring the spirits into her home.

Finally Jane took a step that has help somewhat. Never particularly religious she made the decision to make it stop. She asked the presence to leave her and the family alone and put out her bible. Since then about two years there have only been small occurences that could also be dismissed as something else, but she knows in her heart that it is probably the entity making itself known.

Thanks for listening.