FEATURED TALES 15
Haunted Campground
(NOTE: The following tale is about ongoing
paranormal events, that involve not only the author and her family, but
friends and guests at the campground as well. This case is currently
being investigated by a paranormal research team, and Jan Thompson from Jan's
Tales has taken an interest as well.)
My Husband and I moved to Dry Ridge, KY
in August of 2004, from Greensboro, PA. We were excited about our move, and the
business we would be running together. A campground that has been in the family
for 15 years, but the prior management let it get run down, so we were filled
with plans for renovations, and additions to make a nice clean family oriented
attraction.
One of my duties everyday was to clean the shower/bath houses, and what started
out as a normal mundane tasked turned into a battle with something Unseen.
I would always start with the woman's bathroom first, because the cleaning
supply closet is in there, and then move to the men's room. Well every time I
would finish my duties, and enter back into the woman's bathhouse all the water
would be running, all the water in the shower stalls, and all the sink faucets.
The first time it happened I thought maybe one of the children on the campground
was playing a prank on me, but that was not the case this was a daily
occurrence. Everyday I cleaned the bathrooms, and everyday when I went to put my
supplies away the water would be running in the ladies bathhouse. This went on
for about a month. Then just as suddenly as it started it stopped.
Then the misplaced things started - keys, money, shoes, checkbook, my husbands
vest, my medication, my ink pens, etc. You see we renovated a large house in the
middle of the campground, and we live upstairs, below is the bathhouses, and our
office.
Every night before I would close the office, I would clean up my desk, and check
that I had my receipt book out, ready for tomorrow's business. I always checked
my pen holder, it was always full, the next morning NO PENS. I would find them
in the strangest places under the chairs, behind my computer, in the draws, the
list goes on.
My husbands vest was another story. During the winter time he always wore this
one gray vest with red flannel inside, and every night when he came in, he would
hang it on the hook in our bedroom. One morning he got up, and went to get his
vest, and NO VEST. We searched the closets in our bedroom, and my daughters, we
looked in the car, and the truck, he checked the garage thinking he may have
left it there, we searched for this vest for three months, and then one
afternoon, I went to take a shower after working on the grounds, and laid out on
my clothes on the bed what I was going to put on when I got out of the shower,
and when I got out of the shower there on the bed laying on top of my clothes,
my husbands vest! No one was in the house my daughter was at school, and my
husband was on the grounds. I have no way to explain how that vest was put on my
bed! This is when we started thinking things are not right here.
Also I have two Black Labs, and they would bark uncontrollably for no reason,
and it would take me 10-15 minutes to get them to stop, they bark at the wall,
the door, the corners in my daughters bedroom like they actually see something,
but there is no reason for them to be barking, it usually happens in the middle
of the night between 2-4 a.m. and it wakes us all up.
I had my front door open by itself and close, and it closed hard...I was in my
bedroom getting my grandson dressed, after a bath, and I yelled "Who came in",
and no one answered, so I went, and looked. No one was there, and the wreath
that I have hanging on my door was swinging back and forth...I walked into my
kitchen, and felt like I walked thru someone, and felt scared for no reason felt
pure terror. I just went back into the bedroom with my grandson, I did not want
him to get frightened. I then called my husband on his cell, and told him what
had happened. We always report to each other and strange events to each other,
it makes us feel like we are not crazy!
Then one day my daughter came home from school, and I was making tea, in the
kitchen, and I heard my hairspray being sprayed so I yelled at her to stop
wasting my hairspray, so she answered "OK", but the spraying continued, so I
yelled at her again, this time she answered with her little glib remark she
always makes "What EVER!!!"...I then proceeded to stomp into the bedroom, and
she was not there. The room was filled with the smell of hairspray! I
yelled for Robin, but she was not there. I went to the kitchen window, and she
was sitting on the patio with friends, and I yelled out the window at her about
the hairspray, and her smart remark. She said she had not been in the house for
an hour, she left as soon as she brought her books up, and had been sitting on
the patio with her friends since she got home, and her friends vouched for her!
I think that was the final straw for me, when something spoke in my daughters
voice!
My son started having strange events in his camper. I really did not believe him
at first until I witness some strange events myself. My son being 23 and very
messy. I took it upon myself to clean his camper every few days. My first
mistake was cleaning it at night the first time. I went into his camper with my
cleaning supplies, and put on some music, well the channel on the stereo kept
changing by itself...No big deal something must be wrong with the stereo right.
Kept on cleaning. The window blinds the kind you have to pull on to make go up,
and down, decided to go up, and down all on their own....That was it, no more
cleaning for me that night.
The next time I went to clean, it was during the day. Nothing happened. Then I
went in the evening, I took maybe to long, and before I knew it, it was dark. I
hurried, and finished up, and just when I was about to leave, my son's bedroom
TV went flying across the bedroom, and hit the floor on the other side of his
bed. I screamed, and ran...jumped in my car, and the whole time I was backing up
my car, my automatic locks we locking and unlocking! I went and got my husband,
and during this time, the camper was making a sound like something was banging
on the walls. It was so loud that the neighbors on the top level could hear it.
They even came to check on me.
My husband, and I went down to the camper, and the one light that I left on for
my son was off, but decided to come on as we entered the camper, and the TV was
still in the same place across the room, but the banging had stopped, but could
not be explained. I though for sure that the place would have been ransacked
with all the noise, but NO, nothing was out of place, but the TV.
My daughter was seeing apparitions of a little girl that she said looked like
she was from Little House On The Prairie, but because I did not witness any of
them, I cannot comment on them. She has wrote a post on them, and you can read
her first hand account. What I can write about her apparitions is. I was so mad
one night after a night of terror with her crying, that I screamed at this
ghost, or what ever it was to "Leave my daughter alone, and if she wanted to
mess with someone mess with me." Well later that night, I was lying in bed
watching TV, I felt like someone was watching me. I looked over to my left, and
standing beside my bed was a dark figure. I was frozen at first, then mad, and I
told this figure, look you do not scare me, so just go away, and leave us alone,
and as soon as I said that it disappeared. Once this apparitions or what ever it
was disappeared that is when I was scared. I called my husband on his cell
phone, ( he was on the grounds), and told him what had happened, and he came
right home. Nothing more happened that night.
We finally contacted a team of parapsychologist, to come in and investigate, and
they brought in some very sophisticated computer equipment. They stayed for 24
hours, to gather data, and then contacted me about 3 days later to tell me that
we were experiencing an actual active haunting, and that they have captured
apparitions on tape, footsteps, and EVPs ( the ghosts voice). They have
determined that the one ghost is a woman in her late thirty's or early forties,
and we also have another ghost, and they would like to return to gather more
data. They will be returning to our campground on September 16-18 and bringing
more people, and more equipment. They will then tell us exactly what we are
dealing with, but they have so far told me that the ghost in my son's camper is
not friendly at all, ominous was the word they used.
Like I said at the beginning of this letter, I will have a sequel. Stay tuned to
part two, and what the parapsychologist find, and how many ghost we actually
have on our little campground. Oh one more thing. My son has moved out of his
camper, the stress, and events that take place are to much for him...so he has
moved into a smaller camper near our house....His camper now sits empty by the
lake, and believe it or not, we have people that are telling us to rent out the
so called haunted camper, because there are many people interested in ghosts,
and haunted places...Well not me, once you live it, you do not want to
experience again, especially if you do it everyday of your life!
-Gloria.
(NOTE: The
author's daughter tells her story below - this story has not been edited for
spelling or other errors.)
Hello, this is what has been happening
to me since my mommy & daddy, and I moved to KY. We live on a haunted
campground, and no one would believe me at first, but now they do, because some
people came here, and took pictures, and even heard the ghost voices. We have
two ghost, but they think there may be more. I have only seen one, and she is a
little girl. This is what happened to me.
1. First episode - I was in my mom & dad's office on the computer, it was about
9:00 p.m. and I heard somebody whisper my name in my right ear. I got scared so
I stood up to leave, and when I looked down at my feet after I stood up they
where covered in something white like fog, so I ran to the door, but it would
not close. I kept trying, and it finally closed, and I ran up stairs, and told
my dad & mom what happened. My mom when down to the office, and she opened and
closed the door, with no problem and she did not see or hear anything, she
locked the door and came backup stairs.
2. Second episode - About 2 weeks later I was upstairs in the living room, and I
got up to go to bed, and I heard a little girl whisper my name in my right ear
again, and I ran downstairs to my mom & dad's office. When I ran down the steps
( the Laundromat is at the bottom of our steps) and it has two doors one to come
in, and one to go to the office, so I ran to the right, to go to the office, and
I saw her, a little girl all in white with a ponytail in her hair on the roof of
our Laundromat!
My daddy was in the office, and I was scared and crying and I told him to look,
but he could not see her, then she was standing in the door way of the
Laundromat and stayed there for a long time, it seemed like an hour, but my dad
could not see her. I wanted to go get my mom upstairs but was afraid to run past
her, so I just stayed in the office with my dad until she went away, and then
ran back upstairs.
This is when my mommy & daddy wanted to take me to the doctor because they
thought I was crazy or something....They never said I was crazy but I knew that
is what they were thinking.
3. Third episode - About 2 weeks after that I was upstairs in the livingroom
again, and I started to go to my bedroom, and the little girl was sitting on my
Curio Cabinet, she was all white, and still had her hair in a pony tail, her
legs were crossed, and she had her hands on her lap. She sat on there for about
20 minutes...I would not sleep in my room after that. I sleep in my mom & dad's
room or in the living room with all the lights on now.
I have had little things happen too, like lights going on and off in my house,
and hear footsteps going up and down our steps and it is always in fours, and
when I look know one is there. I also saw a big white ball above our big window
in the livingroom, my mom was in our laundry room washing clothes, and I yelled
for her, but she could not see it....It stayed there for about 10 minutes, and
just disappeared, and one time I walked in my room, and my dog Zoe a big black
lab was going crazy in her crate she was acting like I never saw her act...I
thought she was being skinned alive it scared me, so I let her out of the crate,
and she ran real fast from the room, like she was afraid, and I could not get
her to go back in for along time, the hair on her back was even standing up.
I still hear my name being called, and I hear footsteps, but I don't see her in
my house, my mom had a preacher come to the house and bless it, but now I see
her outside by the playground, and I saw her by my friends camper, and outside
windows, and stuff. Can you please make her go away, oh yea my brothers camper
is haunted too, but with a black ghost, not a white one like I see, but my
mommy's friend saw the little girl at my brothers camper outside by my brothers
dog she said she had a dress on that came to her ankles, and a ponytail just
like when I see her...I don't know why some people see her and some don't....Why
does she bother me so much, and how does she know my name?
-Robin.
