Back to the house. Earlier that day Aaron and I had stopped by the house to check it out and make sure we knew where it was. The house is the Eureka College presidential guest house, and my dad had described it as a beautiful old house with plenty of room. What he failed to mention was that it was the fabled Lida house. The story goes that back in the 1880’s the house burned down and this little girl named Lida died in the fire. They rebuilt the house and put this framed picture of her up over the fireplace. Many a brave man has sworn that her eyes followed them as they walked through the room. In the picture she’s pointing at the fireplace as if that was the cause of her death. Stories have been floating around for years of irons being unplugged and different strange things happening in the house.
So we pull up to the house and as soon as I stepped out of the car I got chills. I looked up at the attic windows and immediately had to look away. I knew that if I looked long enough I would see a little girl looking back at me. I walked up to the door with the key and the light flicked on “ah motion sensor I thought.” Then the light flicked off. More chills. It flicked on again after several seconds, then flicked off. All nine of us are standing there looking at each other. It’s 11:00 pm. Suddenly we see on the sidewalk a woman wearing a long black skirt and a little house and the prairie style blouse; she was speedwalking. Everyone is stunned. I opened the door and immediately had this feeling like I was walking into a cheap 80’s horror movie. It had all the key components. Bunch of guys having a bachelor party: check. 100 year old house: check. Old black and white picture of little girl who died in the house: check. Flickering lights: check. Strange woman speedwalking: check. Creepy basement and locked attic: check.
We entered the house and immediately took all the guys to the fireplace to introduce them to Lida and tell them her story. From then on nobody went anywhere by themselves. My brother Joe said what everyone was thinking but no one would admit.
“Look at my goosebumps” He had them bad. “I keep thinking I’m going to walk around a corner and see a little girl standing there with her finger to her lips.” We settled down into the kitchen and talked for a while. We were probably there for about an hour and half or so. It was during this time that we toasted Mike’s marriage, we also drank two bottles of wine; this of course did not promote rational thinking. We had been in the house long enough to start exploring so we started with the basement.
It was classic creepy old house basement. Dirty cement floor, windows that don’t lead outside, random dust covered junk built up over 100 years. We walked back through a couple rooms and ended up in what looked like an old woodworking shop. Someone gave out a startled gasp which of course promoted more goosebumps. To the right was another room. The room was bare, no cement floor, nothing in the room at all except for a single old chair set up in the middle. That was about all I could take, fortunately everyone else was of the same opinion. We went back upstairs and moved our stuff up to the second floor. The second floor had five rooms one of which was the Lida room. We all looked at each other then one of the guys unlocked the door with the key and pushed it open. Chills ran through me. Everything about the room was small. The room itself, the bed, there was a small nightstand next to it with a cage that had a little stuffed bear in it, and next to the nightstand an old baby stroller. Again I had that feeling like I was in a horror movie. We shut the door and locked it. There were five rooms upstairs; five guys piled into one room; Aaron, Joe, Mike and I piled into the other. We all crawled into the queen sized bed and snuggled together. Fortunately it was pretty late and we were all pretty tired. I woke at like four something incredibly uncomfortable and decided I would brave the floor.
It wasn’t till the morning that the absolute freakiest thing occurred which, had it happened that night I would have ran out of the house. One of the guys was watching TV by himself in one of the other rooms we didn’t sleep in; it was about 8:30. He got up turned the TV off and started walking out of the room. Just as he was about to walk out the door the TV flicked back on.
So we pull up to the house and as soon as I stepped out of the car I got chills. I looked up at the attic windows and immediately had to look away. I knew that if I looked long enough I would see a little girl looking back at me. I walked up to the door with the key and the light flicked on “ah motion sensor I thought.” Then the light flicked off. More chills. It flicked on again after several seconds, then flicked off. All nine of us are standing there looking at each other. It’s 11:00 pm. Suddenly we see on the sidewalk a woman wearing a long black skirt and a little house and the prairie style blouse; she was speedwalking. Everyone is stunned. I opened the door and immediately had this feeling like I was walking into a cheap 80’s horror movie. It had all the key components. Bunch of guys having a bachelor party: check. 100 year old house: check. Old black and white picture of little girl who died in the house: check. Flickering lights: check. Strange woman speedwalking: check. Creepy basement and locked attic: check.
We entered the house and immediately took all the guys to the fireplace to introduce them to Lida and tell them her story. From then on nobody went anywhere by themselves. My brother Joe said what everyone was thinking but no one would admit.
“Look at my goosebumps” He had them bad. “I keep thinking I’m going to walk around a corner and see a little girl standing there with her finger to her lips.” We settled down into the kitchen and talked for a while. We were probably there for about an hour and half or so. It was during this time that we toasted Mike’s marriage, we also drank two bottles of wine; this of course did not promote rational thinking. We had been in the house long enough to start exploring so we started with the basement.
It was classic creepy old house basement. Dirty cement floor, windows that don’t lead outside, random dust covered junk built up over 100 years. We walked back through a couple rooms and ended up in what looked like an old woodworking shop. Someone gave out a startled gasp which of course promoted more goosebumps. To the right was another room. The room was bare, no cement floor, nothing in the room at all except for a single old chair set up in the middle. That was about all I could take, fortunately everyone else was of the same opinion. We went back upstairs and moved our stuff up to the second floor. The second floor had five rooms one of which was the Lida room. We all looked at each other then one of the guys unlocked the door with the key and pushed it open. Chills ran through me. Everything about the room was small. The room itself, the bed, there was a small nightstand next to it with a cage that had a little stuffed bear in it, and next to the nightstand an old baby stroller. Again I had that feeling like I was in a horror movie. We shut the door and locked it. There were five rooms upstairs; five guys piled into one room; Aaron, Joe, Mike and I piled into the other. We all crawled into the queen sized bed and snuggled together. Fortunately it was pretty late and we were all pretty tired. I woke at like four something incredibly uncomfortable and decided I would brave the floor.
It wasn’t till the morning that the absolute freakiest thing occurred which, had it happened that night I would have ran out of the house. One of the guys was watching TV by himself in one of the other rooms we didn’t sleep in; it was about 8:30. He got up turned the TV off and started walking out of the room. Just as he was about to walk out the door the TV flicked back on.
5 comments:
Oh my gosh this is so funny! i cant believe that all those grown men are so scared of a little girl! hehehe luv ya ali heinold
Was there really a woman in a black dress speedwalking?
Yes, I witnessed the woman in the black dress speedwalking. In fact, she went by more than once (more chills).
It's a good thing for plumb brandy and vino...or I'd still be awake.
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
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