Ghosts from the Underground Railroad

Ghosts from the
Underground Railroad

My story of paranormal experiences is a very strange one. My father was just beginning medical school and we had to move into my grandmother's house because my father could not support us while he was in school.

The first night we were there something really weird happened, my clock radio went off! Now, I hadn't even set the clock yet, so how could it have gone off? I was about 7 at the time and I STRONGLY believed in ghosts. My room was connected to our laundry room by a sliding door.

One night I was woken up by a scratching noise on the door. It was repeated in 5 second intervals, until I jumped up and ran into my father's room. He opened the door and exposed nothing. Some nights later my remote controlled car started moving around. This may not sound strange taking into perspective the fact that radio waves are everywhere, but why was it constantly ramming itself into the laundry room door?

I found out many years later from my grandmother that her house was one of the many stops on the Underground Railroad. But, this was one of the few stations that was busted. She told me that soldiers were searching the house when they found the hidden storeroom. Each and every slave was brutally killed for their great "misdeed". I learned that the "hidden storeroom" was actually the laundry room with a hidden door. She revealed to me that my grandfather had seen and heard strange things coming from that room. My grandmother said that she didn't even go near that room during the night. I was surprised that I hadn't noticed this the entire time I had lived there. Needless to say, we moved out of there as soon as my grandmother died.

~ Jim

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