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Hello everyone,
I'm new to the site and I'm already hooked on the broadcasts. Very fun and exciting. Many of you have already made me feel extremely welcome, and for that I am grateful. I've shared my experiences with a couple of you, so why not tell the forums?
In October, I bought my first house. It's a 1920 farmhouse in a suburb of Chicago called Carpentersville, in the "Old Town" district. My grandpa, who used to make a living building houses just like this one, says that there's no way this house was built after 1900, due to the stone foundation and the way the structure is framed. This was a "handyman special", as it was advertised, so with myself being a handyman (coming from a long line of carpenters), I jumped at the chance to own my own home at a bargain. We've only just begun fixing things up, but money is tight right now due to a few unforeseen problems, so the renovations have been slowed to a near stop at the moment. It's not that the house is unlivable, it's just cosmetic things that need to be addressed. A couple rooms are left empty right now because they started to do some renovations, just never finished them.
So anyways, we believe that the spirit of a little girl lives with us. We hear what sounds like a child running up or down the stairs. Neither of us (my wife nor I) ever feel like we're in harm, so I'm not worried or anything. One day, while I was organizing my CD collection (I'm a music historian and musician, by the way), I started singing a song made popular in the early 1900s. I was alone in the house at the time, and all of a sudden heard a loud and clear girl's voice singing along with me (rather off key, too). I turned to look behind me, where I thought the voice was coming from, and saw, for only a split second, a 10-12 year old girl standing there. I did a double take and she was gone, so was the singing. Needless to say, I nearly had a heart attack. Like I said before, I didn't feel threatened or anything, it was just really really eerie.
That was almost a month ago when that happened. I have a rather large collection of historical and modern musical playback equipment. One time, when I was playing something on the modern setup I have, the circuit breaker blew. Well, that's next to impossible considering the size amp breaker I put on that circuit to power my stereo system. An eerie feeling came over me. So, this was about two weeks ago. After that happened, I cranked up a couple of my acoustic phonographs and played some older music, mostly stuff from the era of 1910-1925 or so, and heard LOTS of activity on the stairs. Like someone kept running down the stairs in a big hurry to come dance and sing with me almost! I tried to ask questions, but sorta felt foolish. Obviously didn't get any answers and I was a little freaked out, but extremely curious and fascinated at the same time.
So earlier today, I sat down at my piano (which happens to date from 1873, by the way) to play and sing some songs. Once again, the running down the stairs sound occurred. I simply continued to play and sing, I'm sort of used to the stair noise now. But then I had my little friend singing along with me while I was playing an older song. I wanted to keep playing and singing but I was so weirded out, I just had to stop. I ran to the stairs with my digital camera, but nothing showed up.
So, I'm waiting on a couple webcams that I ordered online. They should be here this week (I hope). I'm going to set them up and record stuff on my PC. I also have a ustream account that I was primarily going to use for a music discussion show, but I might just leave it on 24/7 so my ghost girl friend can show herself to the internet world... who knows.
Oh, another thing about my ghost girl. She knows her bedtime. After about 8pm or so, there has NEVER been any sort of activity. It's only from the hours of about noon until 8pm. And I'm a night owl, so I'm usually up until 4 or 5 in the morning.
And yes, my wife has seen and heard these things too. She has been singing in the shower when she hears a little girl singing along. She also has been startled by seeing someone standing the door way of the larger bedroom (which is unoccupied at the moment) when she's getting ready for work in the morning. Sometimes when we're watching TV or listening to music in the evening hours after work, we'll hear noise on the stairs and one of us will just say "hello ghost girl!"
So, as soon as the historical society for our township opens up in the spring, we're going over there to try and do some research on our house. Any tips? I just have a feeling we're going to find an obit from some poor little girl, I get choked up just thinking about it. It had to be tragic and terribly sad for her and her family. I'm just worried that she's still here looking for her mom and dad or someone. She was obviously around a long time ago because the only time there's any real activity is when old (and I mean OLD) music is played. If I'm playing something more modern, she's silent (or kills the power, like that one occasion).
So that's my introductory post. Sorry it's so long, but finally I've found some people who I can talk to this about without getting those funny looks and comments like "you're crazy!"
Peace & love,
~Kyle
Posted : 03/02/2008 9:10 am
Sounds like you have had some great experiences there. It would be great if you could get some evp's and pics.
Posted : 03/02/2008 6:16 pm
Wow Kyle cool goings on. I would love to see this place and experience these experiences...When you get the 24/7 cam going post the link and i will watch every once in a while.....who am i kidding i will probably be glued to it.....lol
Well Welcome to the Livescifi.tv Family.......
Posted : 03/02/2008 6:16 pm
Wow those are some experiences. It sounds like such a friendly and loving presence and you definitely sound like you've got you cool about the experiences. I wish you the best of luck in catching something on a stream and if you do we'd all love to see it. Welcome to the site. You're experiences are always welcome here.
Posted : 03/02/2008 7:54 pm
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Thanks for the warm welcome and the nice replies, folks. Very nice bunch of people you have here. I've been doing some research as my time allows and have found a couple bits of info that I find interesting. On March 28, 1920, there was a terrible F4 tornado that ripped through this town, destroying and damaging many homes. Somewhere between 400-500 people died between here (Carpentersville) and Elgin, just two towns south. I guess this storm system continued on and did more damage as far away as Ohio. So that could explain why my foundation is so old, but the house documents state it was built in 1920. It could have been rebuilt right after the tornado if the original structure was damaged.
I also managed to find some telephone directories from 1908 through about 1913 from this area. I've found three different names of people who lived on this corner (I don't know which ones exactly lived on this piece of land, but I'm on a corner lot and all the phone books say are X & Y streets) I'll be going to the library to find out as much as I can. Hopefully some of the newspapers are on microfilm there.
I'm a little nervous and anxious for March 28th to come. I wonder if there will be any sort of activity here? I'm not going to be watching The Wizard Of Oz that day, that's for sure.
By the way, here's a couple pics of my house.
Posted : 05/02/2008 4:43 am
Welcome TNS. Beautiful House! I to was hooked from the start. I received an e-mail from Livescifi when they first started up. From their very first broadcast iv'e been watching.
Im with stmac70. You install the cam and ill be glued too 😮
Again Wecome to the show.
Posted : 05/02/2008 5:38 am
hallo Nomadic.. and WELCOME! 😁
yes, everyone here is very pleasant, most helpful and extremely curious and interested in the same things as you.. so it makes for a brighter community feeling!
i have to say, i enjoyed reading your post! how exciting!
have you thought to set up a tape recorder.. while you are playing music. perhaps one on the stairway.. and one near where you sit and sing? often sounds the ghosts/spirits make are not heard by our naked ear..but may be caught on evp. if you have one, try a digital recorder, so you can download your evidence, and listen to it with headphones on. if you get anything, it would be great to share during Thursday night Q&A session .. share it with Livescifi and us all. that would be super 
yes, check the library newspaper records. that is a great place to start. the phone records are most interesting! you could perhaps find something at City Hall (or where ever your city stores it's Title records to land) in the Land Titles records. they should be open to the public. what else? perhaps see if there are any older stores in the area, that may date to the same time as your home. perhaps the owners have stories to tell of the area? it often helps in narrowing searches. the Historical Society should certainly have records of all kinds dating back to the beginning of the land. i'd love to know if there was a structure on it prior to the tornado on Mar28/20. i'm sure there was! maybe a name can be linked to the little girl with all the above research. at least a family name. hopefully she was alright, and can simply be there because she has no idea how to move on, or is searching for someone.
i wish you the best of luck in your hunt! i can't wait to hear more.. especially if you can get evps! most interesting.😮
i do know how you feel.. not being afraid, but eerie. i have felt calm on all my investigations.. never have i felt fear. i know i shall one day, but till then. i'm kewl with whatever spirits wish to be around me. i'd love to meet them all, as that is mainly why i'm here. to find out how we can go about this, share tips, learn new ideas, and enjoy livescifi.tv at the same time. it truly is fascinating, this ghost hunting stuff.. i was hooked with livescifi.tv the moment i joined back in Aug/07. they've been so helpful to how i investigate. so happy to be here amoungst a great group of people and fans! 😁
spook
ps: your home is absolutely lovely! thank you for sharing your photos 😉
Posted : 05/02/2008 6:29 am
Welcome nomadicsoul, this site is A+++ in my books as well.. and what a beautiful house, please share more of what you come across throughtout your journey.
Posted : 07/02/2008 12:28 am
Welcome nomadicsoul, this site is A+++ in my books as well.. and what a beautiful house, please share more of what you come across throughtout your journey.
Welcome nomadic! Beautiful home you got there..the weather def looks nicer over there in here ...Are you sure its not the east coast..If you ever need to talk about your place or you want to try to capture something in the future let me know 😉
Posted : 09/02/2008 1:05 am
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Welcome nomadic! Beautiful home you got there..the weather def looks nicer over there in here ...Are you sure its not the east coast..If you ever need to talk about your place or you want to try to capture something in the future let me know 😉
Thanks, Tim! Those photos were taken back in September. We have about a foot of snow on the ground right now and the temps just dipped back to around zero. Wind chills tonight of around 30 below!
I have my webcam now, but it's probably the cheapest cam in the world. Very fuzzy and pixelated. I doubt it would make for good ghost hunting material. I do have some high def audio equipment. I'll get some stuff setup and try to capture something on audio. I'll post something on this thread if I can capture anything. I just haven't been able to find the time lately.
Don't forget your Ipod speakers next time, Tim! 😎
~Kyle
Posted : 10/02/2008 9:46 am
Kyle you can also look in the 1920 and 1930 census for your area it takes a bit of work but you can look down the left side of the census and see what address the people lived at. It should give each person who lived there at that time and ages.
Let me know if i can help you can email me at crymsyn56@yahoo.com or holler at me on an investigation night I'm usually there. I used to do genealogies for people and found that the census records are right handy when researching a haunted site. Good luck
Posted : 11/02/2008 8:15 am
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Kyle you can also look in the 1920 and 1930 census for your area it takes a bit of work but you can look down the left side of the census and see what address the people lived at. It should give each person who lived there at that time and ages.
Let me know if i can help you can email me at crymsyn56@yahoo.com or holler at me on an investigation night I'm usually there. I used to do genealogies for people and found that the census records are right handy when researching a haunted site. Good luck
Hi Crymsyn! Great idea with the census info. I just signed up for a 14 day trial on ancestry.com so I could access those records. What a treasure trove of information there! I'm overwhelmed with what I learned in just a few hours. On the land owner's map of my town from 1892, sure enough it shows that a house was on this piece of property with the exact layout of my foundation. So that confirms my suspicions that the foundation was here before 1920. Now for another couple tidbits that helps place a few more pieces of the puzzle...
A couple named Fred & Amanda lived here. They're both on the census reports from 1910 through 1930. On the 1920 census, they have three young daughters. On the 1930 census, they only have one. Now, one could assume that the other two married at young ages and if that's the case, I wouldn't know how to find that info. The other scenario is that one or both of the daughters that are "missing" from the 1930 census could have died between January 1, 1920 and 1930. The March 28, 1920 Palm Sunday tornado perhaps? This is a bit much for me right now. When I couldn't find their names on the 1930 census, the hair on the back of my neck stood up. One of them, Harriett or Margaret is with me. Call me crazy, but I really believe it. Also, Fred's brother Charlie lived with their mother on the same street in 1920. By 1930, their mother had died and Charlie moved in with Fred & Amanda (along with the "surviving" daughter, Dorothy).
I need to take a break from this! Been at it for a while this morning.
I will be in contact with you soon. I really appreciate you offering a hand in this with me.
Cheers,
~Kyle
Posted : 11/02/2008 11:48 am