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Cleaning Ghost
(NAME) Janice
(City) oakland
(State/Country) california
(Date) 1972
True Story: Yes

So you want to hear a real ghost story well I sure have one for you and the amazing thing about it is the building is still standing. My then two year old daughter and I moved into the building and made new friend's with a lady and her daughter who lived upstairs’ from us. Well it all started with hearing voice's from neighboring apartment's which had no tenant's it got some what creepy to me. To the point that I hung a rosary on my daughter's bed the bed cover's never stayed on but were always folded neatly and hung at the end of her bed. There also was a man that stood under the street light at night whistling and looking up at our apartment . I would also hear pacing back and forth in the apt upstairs’ which was used for storage which my friend and I upon further investigation found packed wall to wall with furniture no way could a living person have paced back and forth.

Now I'll tell you what happened on the week-end that I kept my brother's so that my mom and Dad could go out. The kid's had been playing all day long and if you have kid's you know that they can sure tear up a house. About 8:00 on that Saturday evening I received a call that my parent's had been in a auto accident and were on their way home from the hospital. Well I gathered up all the kid's leaving the apt. in the condition that one would say that it looked like a tornado hit it. I took my house key's up to my friend as she did not have a phone or TV so that she could use mine if need be while I was gone.

Dad and Mom were badly bruised and needed me to stay for a few day's to help out. Upon returning home I went upstairs’ to get my key's from my friend and went down to my apt. And to my surprise the house was all cleaned up the shade's were drawn and the light's were on. I went back upstairs’ to thank my friend for being so thoughtful but she informed me that she had went down to watch TV one night while I was gone and was sitting in my chair when she saw a black shadow come out of my closet. It scared her so bad she left and didn’t return the whole time I was gone.

So who cleaned my apt? After that every time I was gone after dark when I returned home my light's would be on and my shade's pulled. That's just a few of the thing's that happened. But I think I'll save the rest for another story. By the way I found that the building use to be a hotel used by pimp's prostitute’s and drug addict's before being turned into apt.’s.



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