This is a true story. I experienced it myself. Do, sit back, relax, pour yourself a drink, and be thankful it didn’t happen to you. I’ve had a lot of strange things happen to me over the years from UFO sightings to hauntings and being in touch with those who have experienced the undead. That being said, I do not seek communication with the dead either. Sometimes in life we will run into things that are beyond explanation, and we just have to deal with it. One other thing. Some people don’t just experience a haunting at one given house or location. Sometimes the phenomenon follows them.

My ex and I remodeled a house that we would end up living together in for several years. They say if spirits are present in the home and you remodel it tends to stir them up. Our house was literally the “Last House on the Left”, before you hit the end of the street that had turned into a dirt boat ramp though it was Army Corps of Engineers land which didn’t stop the dirt bike adrenal junkies at all hours on many a weekend.

We quickly acquired several dogs. My ex had a Shiatsu, we then got a pure white English Bulldog female puppy, and then a customer of hers dropped off a mother and son Sky Terriers, pure black. Like President Bush’s dogs that he kept at the White House. We even would later acquire an African Grey Parrot that another car buyer of hers dropped off on us as they could no longer keep the bird. Our home would eventually become a menagerie. Almost forgot, we had a big gray streaked Himalayan Persian cat who got along well with the dogs.

First it was several meteorite strikes that occurred. One night while I was writing late I went outside to take a break in the late night air and I saw 4 shooting stars land on my yard and the neighbor’s property just across the street. On two other occasions meteors streaked right onto the property like comets, but strangely enough after seeing them, when I went outside to look for a smoking space stone, I could never locate them! They made a sizzling sound as they sliced through the air! I consider shooting stars to be quite rare, but for some reason, out here in the country far from city lights it became quite common!

I had a vacant lot next door to the right, and neighbors across the street and beyond the lot on my right and we sat on a bit of a hill. The two story house had a spacious porch a driveway that connected to a storage shed that I had a contractor build. It seemed all was set for a happy quiet life, but we met with strange incidents and tragedies. I guess fate never promises serenity, at least, not for me. Anyway, it began when Beatrice, our Bulldog began running down the hallway past the kitchen and bathroom to stop right at the bedroom entrance and began barking. At what, we could never figure out. She must have had very sensitive ears. It was as though she sensed a presence.

They say an unclean spirit can bring out a lot of disharmony in a household because they thrive on it. The demons many people bring with them from their unresolved personal problems and past mental abuse manifest again when evil presences are near. This must have been the case with me ex. Anyway, we heard noises upstairs that couldn’t have been settling of the house as we had the foundation repaired, but at times it would seem like someone was walking around up there in the attic! We would sit there and listen, and when I would get up to investigate she would grab me and beg me not to leave her so we just waited until it went away. I mean, what are you going to do? You live there. Are you going to move out? Nope, you just stay and ride out the storm and hope for the best, and we did.

I talked about people bringing their demons with them, and not to put too fine a point on it but my ex definitely brought hers. Not to blame her for everything wrong under the sun, but she was Bi-polar, obsessive compulsive, and had a history of being promiscuous in her past 2 marriages. I mean, I didn’t know about her behavior until after we were living together so there was an unnecessary tension in the air most of the time. Personally, I am a laid back type of guy who doesn’t like to jump to conclusions or get bent out of shape over minor crap, but they say opposites attract in such a way that two people unconsciously attempt to complete themselves by filling the voids each other have so seemingly unfit people will come together in this way. Sadly, in the beginning when opposites do attract, they are eventually doomed to failure.

For a while, the dogs, the cat, the Grey, and the new house distracted the two of us from domestic problems, but time wore on and things became tense. Both being business owners we had the question of looming retirement at some point and what would be a good new business to get into that would allow us to make a living without having to work so hard. Eventually, we found a hotel property in Colorado Springs to remodel, and the town with its drug addicts thieves and typical Blue state leftist politics was a good prospect for room rentals, though many of the people were less than model citizens. We also acquired 4 cabins on 8 acres near Lake Texoma in Oklahoma. This property I would solely manage, remodel, and rent out to fishermen, skiers, boaters, and even companies that planned employee get togethers.

In the search for self-employment opportunities we instead seemed to have taken on even more of a workload. I ended up managing three properties in two different states and then even going back to the hotel in Colorado Springs to help out there. We were stretched to the limit! The unknown was soon to come a calling at the cabins one afternoon when a bright object just east of the cabins seemed to silently hover in the sky! It sort of wobbled slightly which I thought was a drifting motion like it was floating on the surface of the lake, but how does a reflection off the surface of the lake float in the sky? Besides, it was not located where the lake waters would have been anyway. It lasted a good 45 minutes on a totally clear afternoon. There was simply no explanation for it!

Then it happened! While I was managing these three properties which included an auto wrecking yard, our house near the lake, and the cabins I was gone for 6 months from the Colorado Motel due to the workload. Well she went and had an affair with some loser. I guess she cougared him from all accounts! I was devastated! I thought with her son there helping her that she wouldn’t pull a stunt like that but she did! I’d sunk all my money and assets into our partnership, now what was I going to do? Oh, well stay where I was at, keep working until we sold a property and I could get bought out of my part of the ownership while keeping lawyers out of it. Bad idea as it was proven years later. Word of advice to men and women. If you are separated and do not file for a divorce within two years you lose all rights to your Community Property! This usually favors a woman in the event she is unfaithful and the courts conveniently overlook infidelity in their modern “No Fault” divorce cases. Sounds innocent and an easy method to part ways, right? No, it’s not because it absolves someone for wrongful behavior that contributed to the divorce!

Those were horribly dark days for me, and I quickly found out just how little anyone including family could give a damn either. I had only my writing and work to distract me from the heartbreak and loneliness! Michael Savage, a conservative talk radio show host once said, “Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry alone!” That is so fucking true! So, that is what drives my poetry even today among my impressions of life under the umbrella of today’s issues.

At night sleeping in that infernal bedroom where my ex and I once slept together things began getting weird! One night I was completely aroused from my sleep from the perfectly clear angelic voice that called out my name! I was not frightened and I looked at it as a positive sign, but as time went on I could no longer sleep in the room as I began hearing something else every damn time I fell asleep in that damn room! It was a demonic voice making a hissing noise with ominous breathing that sent chills up my spine! I could never sleep in there again! Upstairs where the large bedroom was that was like an apartment sized room with a door that led to the attic where the damn footsteps could begin in the wee hours of the night was impossible!

Then there was the owl outside the window. Sounded like a barn owl hooting in the night. Indians believe this is a sign of impending death. One night I was outside and saw a huge owl sitting atop the telephone pole across the street from me. It had glowing red eyes and it was bigger than any owl I'd ever seen! I'd never seen an owl like this before! Often UFO abductees describe owls as implanted memory blockers. It seems to be just one more eerie detail that I had to deal with.

So, I slept in the living room on a large couch after I would shut off the TV. Yet, I simply could not find peace as late in the night while I was sound asleep came the sudden crashes of falling dishes breaking on the marble counters, or doors slamming shut, or the foundation crunching! However, each and every time I got up startled, I could find nothing wrong. No broken glass, no door slammed shut, no evidence that there was a foundation problem that would make noises. Nothing! The house had concrete siding and a roof that had been replaced so it was solid.

Eventually, one property sold for about 600 thousand and it was underpriced but that wasn’t my decision. I had to re-establish the corporation with the Secretary of State as well as hold the corporate minutes to acknowledge the sale and partner dissolution of her brother who was a former partner, or the sale would never have happened. What did I get? Nothing. She’d owned the property before Id’ met her even though Id’ sold cars, parts, engine work, and detailed used cars for sale while managing the crew. I hope someone learns a lesson from my foolishness here!

So now with 2 properties left I was consigned to waiting for my settlement looking after the remaining property, and writing whenever I could and working out at the gym to relieve the stress. More weird scenes inside the gold mine? Of course! While at the cabins on several occasions, something ran or walked across the sheet metal roof of the manager’s quarters where I slept at night when I was there! It wasn’t a squirrel or raccoon whatever it was it was too big and heavy, and I was not going to go out there to confront it when I didn’t even have a gun! So, in the middle of the rural environment on a road that led to Buncombe Creek Marina, there in the cabins I could not even get a good night’s sleep some nights!

One afternoon in the winter just before spring I was behind the manager’s quarters doing some work like painting or repairing the stairs to the deck when all the sudden a strange feeling came over me like there was danger very close like a murderer or something! It struck me as very unusually paranoid for me as I am rarely fearful for no good reason. Then I remembered when a friend who had worked for NPR Radio in Oregon talked about the Bigfoot incidents they were having where people were getting telepathic influences from the creatures and being scared out of their wits! One sheriff said that after going out to investigate a complaint he suddenly began pacing outside of his vehicle then he built a fire! He kept doing this for hours! All unusual compulsions he’d never had before! 

I thought perhaps this was happening to me as behind me was a dark creek bed that had run dry! It separated a farmer’s livestock pasture from the cabin property and many times Hereford cows would begin standing at the foot of the creek mooing for no reason as if they sensed something down there! Just across the way not 50 yards was Cabin 2 where to its right was a deep pond bed that had been dug but lay unfinished! So Trees and saplings now populated the bottom and with all the rain we had, the foliage had gotten thick. I knew deer would occasionally venture down there and feed but I found other tracks that my handyman told me were cougar paw imprints!  Our female Bulldog, Beatrice, would stand at the edge of that crater and bark and bark at whatever was disturbing her. There were reports of Sasquatch in the area from time to time but no one took them very seriously. I finished my work in the afternoon shadows of the manager’s quarters looking over my shoulder from time to time, but nothing of a threatening nature happened.

As time went on it was amazing as I observed all the regularly visiting wildlife that graced the property with their presence such as a coyote as big as a wolf and was silver colored that would pass through! On one occasion I came out of Cabin 2 and saw a few feet away a Bobcat running by the cabin and around back. A beautiful animal! He was simply loping along unafraid of me as I was outside all the time, painting, and digging up termite mounds against the foundations, exterminating, painting the metal frontage fence I’d had installed, anything that needed to be done! So animals knew me, and knew I wasn’t a threat. We also had the occasional feral hogs which can be aggressive. My handyman would bring his revolver whenever he would check the back acreage when we tracked the wild pig imprints in the ground!

Not long before I was forced to leave the property as my ex was now ready to kick me off and deny me my fair share of the estate, my life savings and sweat equity to boot, I found a decapitated deer’s head in the yard, antlers and all, It looked as if the animal had been predated by a big carnivore! I threw the head, neck, and antler deep down into the creek, but local dogs kept pulling it out, and God did it stink! That really weirded me out! It seemed a rather fitting end to my occupation of a property I’d given so much of myself to. In those years leading up to 2020 I lost all of the dogs, the parrot, my beloved cat, to natural causes! Along with my investment in the properties and quitting my own business that I had run for decades before meeting my ex left me in unanticipated devastation, but here I am today, still alive and just getting by.

The corrupt statutory courts we have today don’t care what’s right or wrong with their narrow interpretations of the law so that untrustworthy spouses can practically get away with murder and send many women and even men into poverty without legal recourse! With what we’ve seen the court system do to a president (Donald Trump) its little wonder what they would do to the little guy like myself. Sorry to burden the reader with my personal woes, but the paranormal experiences I’ve had over those years were an integral part of everything in my life at that time.

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