This is how I started ghost hunting. 11 years ago I did not believe in ghost and couldn't be paid to believe in ghost. I would roll my eyes or laugh in silence when my mom would tell us about a haunted house she used to live in. When Halloween came around they would show ghost stories and all this paranormal stuff on T.V. I would watch it and laugh, I would say to myself ,I wonder if these people knew how much of a fool they're making themselves look like on T.V. all the laughing, rolling the eyes and disbelieving came to an abrupt end when we purchased this house (Scottsdale community) where we live in today.
For the first four and a half months no one experienced anything unusual, do to the fact we weren't home half the time work and school. I had to have surgery on my left knee in March of 96, after three weeks of rehabilitation I was ready to go back to work. It all started on a Thursday, that following Monday I was to report back to work and I figured I take advantage of the remaining days off and relax a little. After cleaning the house, I went to take a nap it was 12:43 P.M. when I opened my eyes I looked to see what time it was the clock showed 4:53. I realized how late it was, my wife would be home any time now. When I tried to push myself out of bed I couldn't move after the forth time trying, I put my head back down on my pillow and started praying the Our Father prayer, after the beginning of the third our father it felt like the weight on my back lifted. I stood up wondering what the hell that was all about, not believing in ghost what a crazy dream especially saying the Our Father not being catholic and all. I never mention the dream to my wife. Three days later I was the first one home my wife would pick up the kids on her way home from work. After taking a shower I grab a soda and sat down on the sofa chair which was station in front of the big picture window of my house, right across was the entertainment center. As I was watching T.V. a shadow crossed from behind the entertainment center, I turned to see who was walking up to my front door and realized the drapes were pulled shut. I didn't think any thing of it. Two days later I was sitting on the big sofa couch which is stationed by the west side wall, as I watch T.V. this time the shadow passed on the east wall and it was more distinctive of a persons body walking across the floor, I caught it with the side of my eye. I looked to the left and the drapes were pulled shut. I said I must be tired and went to bed. That Saturday I was sitting in the sofa chair all of a sudden I hear the sound of a loud thong noise which came from the spring door stopper, I turned towards the sound it stopped. I'm thinking to myself, am I losing it. As I was lying in bed ready to turn in for the night, I heard that thong noise again I look at my wife and asked, did you hear that? She said hear what, I said forget it, Where's the dog? She’s right here lying down next to the bed. The next couple of weeks there were no shadows or noises which I didn't pay much attention too, because I didn't believe in ghost. One morning I woke up early to go to work it was on a Saturday and the T.V. was on the volume low, I figured one of the kids left it on. The next two days the T.V. was on, later that day I asked who's been leaving the T.V. on everyone said it wasn't them. The next week and a half the T.V. was still being left on, one night I turned the volume up as loud as it would go then I turned the T.V. off. My thoughts were when the T.V. Was turned on I would hear it and wake up and catch the one who's been leaving it on. I woke up the next morning and no one turned on the T.V. As I was walking towards the front room to leave the house for work the Damn T.V. was on with the volume really low. I said to myself out loud, I don't know which kid is doing this, when I fined out they're going too be in trouble. After that there was no more problem with the T.V. It must have been another week or so afterwards, when the whole family was watching T.V. I was sitting on the sofa chair, my wife was sitting on the love seat which was to the left of me and the kids were sitting on the big sofa. As we were enjoying the movie, I saw a shadow move behind the entertainment center again I looked at my wife and asked did you see that she replied see what. I said, you didn't see that she said see what. I stood up looking around trying to figure out how this shadow was protruding into my house. Later that night as I laid in bed with my foot moving two forty back and forth thinking to myself am I seeing things, then my wife turned and said I didn't want to say anything in front of the kids because she didn't want to scare them, I said scared them of what, she said nothing, I just don't want to scare them, so I asked what did you want to say? She told me she seen a shadow three times, twice in the basement and once near the bedroom. I told her it has to be coming from out side with all the windows we have, after that we never talked about it again. It was a Friday around 3:30 AM I was eating breakfast, out of the corner of my eye I seen a shadow this time I turned quick and I caught it moving across the kitchen wall for about 40 seconds or so, it didn't move slow or fast it was like walking causally across a floor. I said to myself there has to be something to this ghost stuff. I went on line to see what I could find on ghost. I found a site called the International Ghost Hunters Society I emailed a guy named Dr. Dave Oster. He told me what I was seeing was called shadow people .I told him I didn’t know what he was talking about and if there was a book I can read to let me know a little bit about this paranormal stuff. He sold me some literature on how to communicate and he gave me some names of books I can read to find out more about the paranormal. After reading the stuff he sent me or should I say purchased. What I was really feeling, I was buying into this crap that I once judge people on. I felt like a big dummy letting this guy swindle a $150.00 out of me. A couple of months passed, one day I came home from work my wife had stood home from work with my youngest because she wasn’t feeling to well. When I walk in my wife asked if I been saying anything about ghost around the kids I said no why, she said my daughter ran into the kitchen white as a ghost and she asked her what was wrong she replied she was watching T.V. she felt there was someone behind her and when she turned around there was a man sitting in the sofa chair. My youngest has slept in her room all night with no problems since we moved into this house and all of a sudden she started waking us up in the middle of the night asking to sleep with us. One morning I asked her why she has been coming to our room, she said she would wake up because of a bright blue light, she said it would cross her room then she would run to our room. I thought she must have heard me talking about ghost to my wife; I was still kind of a skeptic. I was asked if I wanted to do some O.T. on a Saturday, so I went to bed early Friday my kids were watching T.V. in the front room while my wife was doing something in the kitchen, I was laying there on my stomach shaking my feet to rock myself to sleep, as I felt myself falling to sleep something hit the side of the bed to throw my rhythm off. At first I thought it was our 120 pound German Shepard as I looked over the side of the bed the dog wasn’t there. I ignored what had just happened and laid my head back down and before I could start shaking my feet. I felt the quilt being pulled off me slow, I looked over the side to see if the dog sat on the quilt, and no dog I looked as the quilt was being pulled off of me in shock. The next thing I know my whole body shifted to the side of the bed as if someone sat right next to me. I must’ve jumped three feet into the air yelling holy “shit” what the hell is going on!! My wife came into the room wondering what happened, I told her and she didn’t want to talk about it anymore after that night. Now I understand when they say I won’t believe it until I see it. Which in my case I believed it, when it sat right next to me. GHOSTS ARE REAL!!!