THE HOUSE NO ONE COULD LIVE IN...

By Harem
Date: 20 April 2001

THE HOUSE NO ONE COULD LIVE IN...

THE HOUSE NO ONE COULD LIVE IN He had moved out With great coercion from me. You might even say, that I threw him out.... The House was very angry..... Because he left.... This event was the clincher that drove me out Out of the house that I had loved so much Where I had spent two wonderful years With a man that I had once loved more than life itself. A man that I literally threw away.... Literally forced him out of my bed, out of my life, and out of my heart..... AND OUT OF OUR HOUSE ...... FOREVER..... I was now sleeping upstairs in the living room on the couch.... The couch was located between the dining room and the living room, as there was no wall in between. It faced the wall, where we had a large picture window. The walls were white, and the curtains were a dark torquoise And matched the living room furniture perfectly.... I was proud of the way that I had decorated. The dark torquoise was the color of my eyes..... He brought it to my attention, when I was hanging the curtains Two years earlier. Somehow, none of that seemed to matter anymore. I was just trying to ride this nonsense out. I kept thinking that I was imagining everything. Or perhaps, I need to see a shrink. Maybe I was loosing my mind.... Or having a nervous breakdown.... The only thing that made me realize that it was all real.... and that I wasn't crazy. Was my kids. Cause they were seeing and feeling and hearing Everything that I was..... Except this event.... I had no witnesses to this one.... No proof... No one to say.... hey... you're ok.... No one to say.... it really did happen.... And yet, it was the one event, that made me realize My life was in danger. That I couldn't play around anymore.... I had to move out.... It was around 10 pm... and the kids were fast asleep. I was on the phone, with a new friend that I had just met. He knew that we were living there alone.... And was concerned about us. He had called me... and we were having a pleasant conversation. Several weeks earlier, I had told him briefly about the strange happenings in the house. He had personally witnesses some of them himself. I had invited him several times to dinnner. During which time, the house showed off quite proudly Right in front of him. Something I never suspected. I thought it would be our secret.... Just the kids, me , and the house. In fact, the house showed off, each and every time That my friend came to visit... So he knew that I was not lying... Or making up stories.... In fact that is why we were on the phone. He stopped coming to the house. He admitted he was scared..... So here I was sitting on the couch Talking on the phone. Just kind of dazing gazing into space. Suddenly the curtains on the picture window began to shake And so did I..... As my favorite expression began to pour out of my mouth into the phone. "Oh MY GOD...!" Not in the normal tone, or manner that I use it. WHAT'S WRONG..... he yelled into the phone.... I became silent. I could no longer speak What was happening before my eyes. Had me frozen He kept screaming... for me to answer But I couldn't...... The curtains kept shaking.... And then started to part..... Sort of like the curtains on a stage...... As you are awaiting for the performance to begin. And so it did.... They parted slowly.... but not at the top seam Which was attached by curtain pins.... which hung on the rod. Parting wider and wider..... My heart was pouding.... I was frozen....... with goosebumps of fear..... Suddenly, something black started to come out from behind the curtains.... At first, I thought it was "SUZY-Q"..... my cat.... Who was also black with white paws and a white bowtie BUT NO....... What might have been a black paw...... Had no white on it whatsoever.... So I knew that it wasn't her...... This black thing, which originally looked like a black paw Began to get longer and longer Coming out from behind the curtain.... Suspended in air, with nothing to support it.... Flowing from a source behind the curtain.... Floating in the air... moving gradually toward me. The couch and I , were approximately 12 feet from the window. Gradually, it began to have the appearance of a black snake As it traveled from the window toward me At the point where it was suspended half way across the room... I could tell that it was aimed directly at me. Somehow at this point I began to call out again... MY GOD - MY GOD No other words would come out of my mouth. My friend on the phone, at this point.... Said he was coming over. I screamed.... NO ! ! ! I was afraid for him to get off the phone.... Leaving me alone with this black thing.... He started coaching me.... telling me to pray..... I couldn't ....... The black thing was slowly heading directly toward me.... Thoughts were racing thru my head. Of what it would do to me.... When it finally reached me... It was heading for my face.... Possibly my throat.... It had finally gotten to a point where it was about a few inches from my face. This black rope / snake, whatever the hell it was. WHEN I finally found myself praying out loud...... Not ready to die ...... not yet..... not this way...... And as soon as the words were uttered.... The black thing...... stopped its steady forward movement. STOPPED MOTIONLESS I kept praying..... shaking and praying and shaking Gradually.... It began to receed..... like the ocean, when the tide is going back out..... I kept praying..... feverishly...... Eventually.... it moved backwards..... slowly very slowly.... In the same manner that it had worked its way toward me. Like watching a movie in reverse...... But very very slowly.... Slow motion.... Returning from whence it came..... The curtains slowly closed.... Like the end of a play, or the end of a performance..... Should I applaud ??? ENCORE ENCORE...... HELL NO ! ! ! ! ! No repeat performances PLEASE..... ! ! ! After sitting motionless for fifteen minutes I finally mustered the courage to get up I turned every light on, in the entire house. The last few nights that I spent there.... I never turned them off..... EVER.... After awhile..... I went over, and parted the curtains. Searching behind them But found nothing..... And so I called the Real Estate Agent the next day. Told him to put the house on the market for sale. I packed the kids, and abandoned the house..... Never to return...... The house sold quickly... Within a few weeks after I had left it.... A young couple with three children.... They loved it..... Several months later, Al.... the agent that had sold the house. Called me long distance, As I had moved several states away...... Telling me that the couple moved out in the middle of the night. Left all their furniture..... And told him..... to try to sell the house for them.... They only lived there for three days..... before They abandoned it. Fleeing in the middle of the night..... Al told me..... "DAMN..... They acted like it was a Haunted House or something.." We both laughed....... I never told him..... .....

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