Ghosts: True Hauntings In Montana

By David Francis Curran

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A Ghostly Desire To Be Known

Sometimes things will happen that indicate, perhaps, that a ghostly presence wants to be recognized.

Judith Gap, Montana is only two blocks long. It's a small open plains town to the east of the Rockies.

Says Del Shore*, "I guess the lady who lived there, lived there pretty much alone all her life. And she died there..."

The house he is speaking about is a big house, two stories with a large kitchen and living room-dining room. Del was visiting a friend of his.

While he was there, Del was told by his friend that their children who slept in separate rooms on the second floor had heard noises form time to time. And that one of the children had awakened in the night and swore that there had been something or someone in the room with him. For Del's visit the children were moved into one room and Del was given the other. He had trouble sleeping. It was nothing he could put a finger on. He thought perhaps, his ill-ease in the room had merely been due to the power of suggestion.

Del neither saw, nor heard, anything that indicated a ghost during his short weekend stay. The strange events happened shortly after he left the house.

That Monday morning, Del's host, Dave, had awakened at 6:30 to go to work. He woke Del, who had been sleeping on the living room couch, and they had a cup of coffee together.

Dave went to work and Del packed his things. He left the house about 7 a.m.

Later that evening Del got a call from an angry Dave.

"What are you up to?" Dave asked.

"What do you mean?"

"Are you playing some sort of joke or something?"

"No, I wasn't playing any joke, why?"

Dave told Del about what his wife had discovered when she had awakened at 8 a.m. She had come downstairs (the young children were all still sleeping) and found the five photos of the family that had hung around the living room taken off the walls and stacked in a chair. But what was really odd was that all the little metal clamps that held the pictures in the frames had been torn out and thrown around the room.

"You sure you didn't do it? Louise is really scared." Dave asked.

Del, said, "No, I wouldn't have done anything like that to you. But if she's scared, you tell her I did it."

Dave did. Since that time there has been only one other incident in the house. Dave and Louise's bathroom is on the first floor near their bedroom. One night Dave heard a noise in the bathroom. Neither Dave, nor Louise, had been in there recently and all the children were upstairs asleep in their beds. They went in together to investigate and found the roll of toilet paper spinning rapidly, dumping its contents on the bathroom floor.

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