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"The Happenings at the Leroy Gillispee House."

     When I was a teenager of about 16 we lived in Beulah NC in an old plantation style house. The house was nearly 100 years old. Considering it's age it had with stood the years very well. With the exception that the upstairs balcony had been removed or maybe it just simply fell down ...all I know is it was not there when we moved in. The house was huge and I remember thinking a person could get lost in there. It had a fireplace in every room and the house contained a total of 5 bedrooms, a gigantic living room,dining room, huge kitchen and bath. We also discovered an attic entrance in one of the bedrooms. My brother and I slept upstairs and moms room was at the foot of the stairs.

    A lot of weird things happened in that house. I was waken up several times to see someone standing at the foot of my bed. One night I was woke up from a dead sleep cause I had heard some one call my name and when I opened my eyes it was as if a volt of electricity was cursing through me. My brother complained of the same things many times.

     One night stands out in my memory very well. I had returned home from a date. My curfew was at 12 midnight. It was on a Friday night and I had settled down in the living room to watch "Friday Night Video's "(it was a 80's thang LOL) when I heard some one walk down the hall upstairs and slam a door. I jumped up and went to Mom's bedroom to see if she had gotten up to go check upstairs thinking I was in the bed. Mom was sitting straight up in her bed ....I said "Mom did you hear that" ? She said "yes I did !". We both went upstairs to look and of course we did not find any thing there. We did discover that the door that we heard slam was bolted shut. On that particular night there was no one there except Mom and I. I said to MOM now "do you believe me now"?  LOL she never doubted anything that I said anymore about ghosts.

               

"My Haunted house in Shoals Nc"

     In 1995 I lived in a small farm house in Shoals NC just out side of Pilot Mtn NC. The house probably was built in the early 1900's. I could not have asked for a better location it was slap dab right in the middle of the country. I could tell right away that the house had a spirit that did not want to leave. Many times when my boyfriend would leave (he lived with me) the breakers would trip and I would be left in the dark. This happened on a regular basis. Many times I was tapped on the shoulder by unseen hands and when I would turn around there would be no one there.

     One morning we did not have to go to work because it had snowed. It was about 6: 30 am in the morning . I had been laying awake in the bed just being lazy. My boy friend had gotten up and went in the living room earlier. I was facing the wall.  I felt the bed give and some one sit down on the bed. When I turned around thinking he had come back to bed there was no one there. Just an indention on the mattress where some unseen person had sat down. I screamed and my boy friend came running. That incident caught me way off guard.

    The house is still there and I may conduct and investigation there at a later date. I wished I knew then what I know now about paranormal research I might could have gotten some good proof.

 

"The Ghost Girl "

     One night my husband and I was visiting a friend of ours who lived here in Ararat Va (we lived in Dobson NC at the time) . It was late at night when we left close to 12 am . It was rainy and foggy and a over all creepy night. We was traveling down HWY 104 headed toward Mt Airy NC. We were just about at the VA near J.E.B Stuart's Grocery near the bridge when I spotted a young girl walking. She appeared to be high school age and she wearing a yellow school jacket or sweater and had long dark hair. She was frail looking. I don't know what made me do it but when I got to the store I turned around. It kept going through my mind that if I was alone and walking late at night I would want some one to help me. I stopped where she was at and asked her if she wanted a ride and she shook her head and said "TO MT.AIRY " that was all she said. I said "we are going that way let me turn my truck back around and I will stop so you can get in". She shook her head ok. So I went up the hill no more than 500 ft from where she was at. When I got to the spot where I left her at she was gone. I blew the horn and rode back and forth 2 times and still I did not see no sign of her. The whole time while I was turning around there was NO cars that passed. She had no where to go there was a very steep bank on one side of the road and on the other side was a fenced in pasture. I was in shock. My husband finally spoke telling me "HONEY I BELIEVE YOU WAS TALKING TO A GHOST". I thought he had been asleep the whole time.

    A few weeks passed and we went back to our friends house. I told him what we had witnessed. He looked at me and said "YOU WERE TALKING TO A GHOST". He told me about a girl who walks the roads between Stuart Va and Mt .Airy who had gotten killed after leaving some sort of school function. She was found murdered along the side of the road. I had never heard of this story before until that day. Later on I talked with people who say that it is a true story. I even talked to a lady who used to live in Stuart many years ago. I never met her personally just online. She told me the exact same story that my friend told me. The lady had not been told about my experience.

   I imagine the ghost girl will walk the roads until justice is served and her murderer is caught. I am so thankful I had a witness that night.
                                          
  " The Hainted Barn "

     My husband told me this story that his great grandpa Berry Linville and his family has told for years. In Fairview NC in the Bear Creek Community on Bear Creek Road there is a old tobacco barn that is called "The Hainted Barn". His great grandpa as well as others has witnessed this happening while working in the barn hanging tobacco up to dry. They said that you could be in the barn and in the distance you could hear a phantom team of horses and a wagon approach from the distance you could also see the light of a lantern. One day they heard the team approach and they went out side about the time the team passed right by the barn at a full run. You could hear the sounds of the horses and wagon as it jarred and jirated at full speed over the rocky ground. There was nothing to be seen even though the sounds were very vivid and real. At that time it was said that there was a few full grown men that would refuse to stay there over night because of the things that happened there. Back then the tobacco was flu cured and someone had to stay there to keep the fire going to cure the tobacco out properly.

     Today the tobacco barn has been converted into some one's workshop /storage building but it still stands as it did in those days. I wonder if the ghostly team and driver ever found their final destination?

 

"Form Of A Man Walking In Lambsburg VA "

     One night at the edge of dark in the tiny quaint little town of Lambsburg VA my Mom Pearlie and her two brothers Elijah & Woody are walking along the road that is now named Chestnut Grove road. They are chatting back and forth when one of them points out the man walking in front of them. As they watched they could hear his heavy footsteps in the gravel go CRUNCH, CRUNCH ,CRUNCH. No matter how fast they walked the form kept it's distance in front of them. They all noticed that the figure was just a form with no physical aspects of a human. It was just the shape that is all. At that time they got brave and threw a rock at it. All three of them says the rocks went right through the spector. The ghostly being turned off at a certain driveway and disappeared right before their shocked eyes!

 

   "My Uncle Troy's Ghostly Encounter"

     There is a graveyard in Lambsburg VA up above the old Marshall place on Chestnut Grove Rd. My uncle Troy (Mom's brother) had an experience there as a teenager. He had his story published in many publications through the years about his run in with his ghost. He was walking by the graveyard and he seen a white form in the graveyard he walked toward it thinking it was some of his buddies playing a prank on him. When he got close to the form it turned toward him. He said where the eyes would have been was like two gapping holes. He picked up a rock and threw it at the form and it went right through it. He ran to the neighbors house and ended up spending the night with them cause he was scared to walk home. Many years went by and he and his wife and son went to the same graveyard to see if the spirit was still hanging around. They parked the car and my uncle gets out and hollers "if any one is there show your self". He gets back in the car. Minutes later they hear foot steps coming toward the car and they get closer and closer. Troy turns on the car head lights when the steps get toward the front of the car and there is nothing there. Troy's whole family witnessed and heard the footsteps and would swear to this day that there is something in that graveyard. I would love to check this one out personally...there are too many neighbors and barking dogs there these days.

 
         

"  The Disembodied Cigarette"

     This story was told to me by my mother in law Barbara Haynes and also confirmed via my bother in laws Mike and Danny Haynes .

     One night when the two boys were small they were with their Mom along side a road in Dobson, NC off hwy 601. Their dad Roy had went some where and left them at the car for a bit. It was pitch dark. The boys were setting in the back seat when they spotted a lit cigarette coming toward them thinking that it was their dad. The cigarette got closer and they said you could hear the footsteps as the person approached the car. The two boys were looking out the back glass with their faces pressed up against so they could see. Barbara turned the lights on right as the footsteps were at the very back of the car. In the light of the tail lights THERE WAS NOTHING TO BE SEEN. Danny told me the the cigarette was so close that he could see it brighten as if someone was inhaling. Barbara witnessed all this in the review mirror as well.

     They witnessed what they think was the ghost of Barbara's great uncle. Years ago he was with some other people at a location nearby. They were all playing poker when Barbara's uncle was shot. The gun man shot him in the chest. He had a pack of smokes and a lighter in his shirt pocket. The bullet pierced the smokes and lighter and his chest killing him.
 
                            
                     

I learned a long time ago to quit dismissing my dreams as something to ignore. I now keep a dream journal as validation of my dreams in case something comes of them . I also make it a point to tell some one. These are just a few examples!

 

Maggie

    One of the earliest Psychic dreams I can remember having is when I was about 12 years old. I dreamed of my aunts Carolynn's mom Maggie. In my dream her mom and all of us was walking down the road at the graveyard in Beulah NC (we have investigated this place see the grave yard page) Carolynn was telling her mom goodbye. It troubled me so bad that when I awoke I told my Mom. Within 2 days of having this dream my uncle Woody (Carolynn's husband) called my house early in the morning to tell us that Maggie had died . It was unexpected and was a shock to us all.
 

"My uncle Elwood "

   This happened was about 17. My uncle Elwood was dear to our family. He and my family had a very special bond. My Mom would take care of my Uncle. He lived by himself and Mom would see that his laundry would get done and help him with anything else he needed. I was away from home at the time but I had a dream that is still as vivid today as it was then. I had a dream that my uncle was in the backseat of a car and he had gotten choked on something and we could not get him to breathe. I woke up with a very heavy feeling that something was not right. Later that day I went home before my mom got in from work. My aunt Betty called and told me that my uncle Elijah had found my Uncle Elwood sitting in his chair dead. I had to tell my Mom when she got home which was no easy thing. It appears that my Mom and my brother also had some sort of dream about Elwood at the same time I did. My brother had dreamed that Elwood had called to him in a dream.
 

"My Ordeal in Floyd County Va "

   It was the 4th of July in 1990. I laid down to take a nap before taking off on vacation with my Mom, Brother and my Boyfriend. I settled down and drifted right off to sleep. I awoke after vividly seeing a state trooper walk up to my car window in a dream. Well I brushed it off as JUST A DREAM ". Later that day in Floyd County Va I ended up getting a couple of traffic tickets. What was so odd was when the state trooper passed me something kept telling me that I needed to go an alternate route...but I did not listen and he came back to get me.

 

"Stranded in Dunn Nc "

    This happened in 1997. I had a dream that I along with my hubby (then boyfriend) ,his mom and great uncle was sitting in my car. We were in an area that I was unfamiliar with. There was a cop there and we were sitting train tracks. As the train in my dream passed by us ...I could hear the mournful sound of the train whistle as plain as day. It kept playing over in my head after I woke up. I told this dream to Barry .

    A few weeks passed and found us all in Dunn NC after coming back from a trip at Holden Beach NC. I had taken a detour and we all was sitting directly in front of some rail road tracks in town. The train was passing before us and the whistle sounded....at that moment I looked up and there was a DMV officer directly behind me. I said "oh SH*T" because I knew I was going to get pulled over. Sure enough I did. My tags ended up getting pulled cause the stupid officer thought that my dad had put a stolen dealer tag on my car. My dad had to come with a wrecker 5 hrs out of his way to bring all of us home. When I went to court the ticket got dismissed . The officer was in the wrong!
 

" My cousin's Wreck"

    In 1998 I had a very vivid dream of being in a car that was out of control it was flipping end over end. I was a passenger and could not make out who was driving. I took this dream as a warning and cautioned Barry to be careful when driving that I felt like one of us was going to be in a wreck. A few days passed that was uneventful until Barry and I was sitting on our porch and we heard a huge crash. It sounded like 2 cars had hit head on. We lived right next to hwy 89 in Beulah Nc. We went to the road and there was a small car on it's top and the driver was crawling out. I ran across the road to where the driver was at. I just knew as bad as the car was messed up that someone was hurt really bad. Little did I know that the girl who was driving was my 16 year old cousin Misty Ann. I about had a heart attack when I saw who it was. I made sure she was ok and I called her father for her. She did not have a scratch on her. She had thankfully been wearing her seat belt. Her car looked like a crushed soda can.

 

“Andy Was Missing” ( added Sept 30, 2007)

My latest dream that came to past was of a dog that is near and dear to me. My uncle has a dog named Andy whom I rescued some years back. Andy was going to be put to sleep because his owner could not care for him. Andy is my uncles best friend and follows him every where. My uncle and Andy live behind my house and I see them both every day.

In my dream I was standing in my door way and a huge wind began to blow. It was kind of like a tornado type of wind. The wind sucked everything off my porch along with Andy. I was standing in my doorway as I watched Andy disappear over the tree's in the horizon. I called to Andy until he was a tiny speck and the he totally disappeared out of my sight. I told my husband and my Mother In Law my dream.

2 days after that dream my uncle came home and said he could not find Andy. He said he had left work and Andy did not follow him. My uncle works at a nearby greenhouse business and Andy goes to work with him everyday. He is close enough that he just walks to work. I called every where and no one had seen Andy. I made several laps around the neighborhood and still no Andy. I was sick at my stomach and my uncle was beside himself. That dream just kept playing in my head over and over. Finally right at the edge of dark the greenhouse owner called and said she found Andy sleeping by the basement door. Me and my uncle drove out and picked him up. Andy jumped in my car and gave me the appreciative kisses he normally does when I take him for a ride.

I really believe that my dream caused me to take the proper actions to alert everyone that Andy was missing. It was a warning dream. If I had not done that who knows...maybe Andy would have really turned up missing for good.
 
"My Dodge Dakota"
This was occured in the last week of May 2008. We were at my Brother's house in North Wilkesboro. My husband and I were there to help him finish up some renovations on his house.  I was sick and had laid down to take a nap. During the nap I had a dream about my dodge dakota truck getting shoved off the road. It was hanging where it landed by a tree. In other words it the tree was keeping it from tipping over. My Dad was in the dream telling me that it was important that I remembered a name. I can't recall what he told me. 
Fast forward 1 week. My husband totaled the dodge dakota. He swerved to miss a deer. He ran down an embankment and stopped when the truck landed against a tree. If the tree had not been there he would have flipped.  I thank God he had his seat belt on because it was his saving grace. There was no hope for the truck though. My Dad was probably in my dream because he gave me that truck about 6 years ago. Maybe he was warning me of what was going to happen.  Barry was not hurt too bad considering. He got out with just a dislocated shoulder.
Here is a picture of my truck. I want to thank Barry's guardian Angel because he was working over time that night. SO HERE IS A BIG THANK YOU TO THE ALMIGHTY GUARDIAN OF THE LOVE OF MY LIFE!
 
 

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