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Posted by Hope on October 28, 2009, 1:40 pm, in reply to "This is the first time I ever told this story."
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I enjoyed reading that! Very creepy!
If we're swapping fireside spooky stories, I have one for you.
You remember I rebuilt the house after Katrina and that the man I worked with most killed himself a month or two later (it felt like, anyway, frankly, that time was a huge blur to me). Since then, when I'm alone in the house, I've had occasional feelings of being watched but I shrugged it off on how different the whole house was now.....doors opened on different sides than they used to, that sort of thing. I would still look up at a wall in my kitchen years later to check the time when that clock hasn't been there in four years! The human mind, it's a mystery. 
About the end of this past August, I came home to find the attic door ajar. It's one of those 'lift-off' type doors. You have to push it up a good 6-8 inches and push it aside in order to get up in the attic. I thought that was creepy but told myself I was irritated instead because someone (hubby, son) went up there and didn't properly replace the door. I asked about it at dinner but no one claimed responsibility.
I figured they were jes playin with me so I kept the door like that and kept asking. Hubby was not as skeptical as usual about it so he was my main suspect; he's a biologist and not prone to flights of fancy regarding the other world theories out there. My son swore he didn't do it.
I finally made my hubby put it back in place. I was a wee bit nervous since my daughter had broken up with a long-time boyfriend and he wasn't taking it well. It occurred to me that he knew all about our house; the dog knew him, he knew the secret way to get in if someone didn't have a key, etc (they'd been dating for four years). I wondered if he or one of his friends had perhaps gotten up there and was fooling around with us, maybe. I've had one strong stalker experience and it's amazing the lengths they will go to. One girlfriend....well, ya know, it was bad.
I went to see paranormal activity with friends a couple of weeks ago. Since most of us are psych students, we weren't that impressed but it did have some pretty impressive techniques for building tension. And in one of the scenes, the attic door, which is exactly like mine, was left exactly like mine was. 
That did it. I marched home and told hubby he needed to go up in the attic and take a look around. He said he would. Of course, he put it off. This past weekend, we all watched the movie on a laptop and when everyone saw the attic door scene, that was it. They dragged the ladder out and there was a rush to get up there! 
Hubby went first with a flashlight. I expected him to look around briefly and come back down. Instead, he crawled all the up into it with me on the ladder asking questions. He tells me there's 'a little' insulation moved around. I say, "huh, must be mice again." He doesn't say anything, then he asks me to get a rake. 
I tell him if it's mice, it can't be that much, he can use his gloves to pat it into place. He then tells me that it's really too much insulation. I'm like "what?" so up I go too.
The entire left side of the attic had insulation not only moved but piled in weird high bundles, up to the roof in some spots. 
I was sort of standing on the ladder looking around and I told hubby I could see a pole sticking out of some insulation on the other side of the roof and he could use that to shove it all into place. He pulls it out and it isn't a pole, it's our rake.
That disappeared two summers ago. 
A box of Christmas decorations had been pulled open and insulation had been stuffed inside. A box of horses I'd collected as a little girl that we thought had been stolen after Katrina, was sitting right next to that box. But it hadn't been last year when I'd gotten Christmas decorations out.
Pretty weird, huh? I can explain some of this stuff but not all of it.
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