The house we purchased in August of 2005, we discovered, had a rich history of hauntings. Of course, when we first heard of these hauntings, we listened to the tales with a bit of scepticism. We then read the journal that has been past down with the house since the 1970's which maybe made us a little less sceptical, but still sceptical none the less..We were not in the house long before we started to have our own unexplainable experiences. We do not know who haunts the house, but we do have our suspicions. Not everything that we have labelled a haunt can necessarily be proved to be such, we just could not find what else it could be.



We suspect the either Mr. or Mrs. Camp or both are haunting the house. The Camps are who built the house from the single story dwelling that stood on the site, originally built in the 1980's, into the two story brick Georgian it is today. The reason the we suspect Mrs. Camp is because we have been told a story about of four knocks. The previous owners told the story and it apparently had occur prior to the previous owner occupancy as well. According the the story, when there were renovations under way, the people conducting the renovations would sometimes hear four knocks on the wall somewhere in the house. This would go on for several months and stop. Mrs. Camp went blind sometimes before her death I think in 1964. I seemed rather obvious to us that the knocks were those of a blind women who knew her way around the house until someone move a wall or door and she had to relearn her way around the house.



The reason we also suspect Mr. Camp is we will occasionally smell cigarette smoke in the living room. We do not smell it from any of the neighboring rooms and when we step outside, there will not be any odor that we can detect from someone burning a fire in the vicinity. One of the family members who resides near us remember that her grandpa used to carry a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket. She said that she never saw him smoke, but he used to sneak out on the porch , now the coffee room next to the living room, and smoke as Mrs. Camp did not permit him to smoke in the house. Apparently some of the smoke would waft into the living room.



For several months after we moved into the house, I would hear what sounded like music from a harpsichord. I could only hear it from the bedroom upstairs and it sounded like it was coming from the study down stairs. The study was once Mrs. Camps summer bedroom. I would step out onto the terrace or into the landing and could not hear the music. I was never really sure if I was hearing music, because of a permanent ringing in my left ear. My wife, who commonly sleeps with ear plugs, because she is such a light sleeper, woke me one morning coming back into the room from the landing. I ask her what she was doing and she said, "Did you hear that music." This really excited me since now I knew it was not just me. I said, "Yes, I have been hearing it for months."



Another reason that we suspect that Mrs. Camp is haunting the house is the first first night that we spent in house was the night that we fled hurricane Katrina from our house in Alabama. We brought our air mattresses and my wife distinctly hear a female's voice say, "Honey, are you going to be all right?" She just responded witho0ut thinking, "Yes, I think so."



We have heard foot steps in the house; sometimes climbing or descending the stairs, sometimes walking elsewhere in the house.



This is a photo of the outside of the house taken, what appears to be right after it was completed in the 1920's.



This photos was taken from the left rear corner of the house. Some of you who know the house since the Spear famliy renovated it in the 1970's are used to seeing another room in the corner where the back door is and a carport extending to the right.



I presume that the house was just completed judgiung by the pile of lumber in the foreground, and by the approximately age of the photo.



One night about a year ago, my wife and I were watching a movie in the living room and went out to the kitchen to refill our drinks. While I was in the kitchen, my wife called my name in a manner that made me stop what I was doing and make the long walk back to the living room. She said, "The sofa moved."



I said, "What do you mean, it moved?"



She said, " It moved about an inch on one end like someone bumped into it, and then it moved back."



So we have experience visual, audible and physical movement and repeated odor. The only visual experience we had, was actually experienced by my wife when, while we were still on air mattresses shortly after moving in, she felt the edge of her mattress rise as though someone were sitting on the edge and stood up. She opened her eyes to see what had made her bed move and she saw an apparition. She wasn't sure that she was not dreaming. But that is how it commonly happens. By the time a haunting occurs, it has passed before we realize what it was.



In an effort to keep a more accurate account of the hauntings in the house, I starting keeping a log of the events when they occur. They don't occur very frequently, but they do occur fairly regularly. I will add to this post as they occur and I am able to keep up with it.



10/23/2009 11:30 PM I heard a woman crying from the bedroom. It was not my wife.



02/13/2010 12:45 AM Air filter fell out of tight outlet it was plugged into onto the counter after we had gone to bed.