Ghost Boots

Submitted by: Cori

My family and I rent an older home in the south. the home was built by our elderly landlord’s father. Just imagine a small little one level country white house with a metal roof, sitting on about an acre of land. That’s it! One early morning after my husband left for work, I was up getting ready for work myself. At the time, our child was around three years old and was sound asleep in bed. Our fur baby was in bed with him asleep. I was in the back of the house in the bathroom doing my hair, when all of a sudden, I heard walking. the walking was so heavy I felt the old floorboards shift slightly under my feet. It sounded as if someone walked from one end of the house to the other and going right past me. At first, I thought our son got out of bed, so I yelled his name but, no response. Then I thought it was the dog walking around in the parallel room to the bathroom I was standing in. So, yelled the dog’s name but, nothing happened. I decided to step out and look around. I went to the bedroom and there were my son and dog both still in the bed asleep. I started to get scared because I knew our babysitter did not arrive at the house yet and the doors were still locked. I went and checked every room in the house and found nothing. I was terrified! The thoughts in my head of, “maybe an animal got under the house, maybe it’s an old pipe knocking around, … maybe it’s a spirit.” I immediately called my husband and stayed on the phone with him until our babysitter arrived. Later that day I called my mom and told her the story. She said, “I’m telling you, the back half of that house used to be an old porch that had been renovated into rooms, and you probably heard a residual haunting of someone walking up on the porch.” A few years go by and my husband went under the house to fix something and he said, “Hell, no wonder the floors are uneven back there, it’s an old wooden porch built from old sawmill lumber.” My mom was right! To this day I still remember hearing and feeling those heavy footsteps from one end of the house to the other, almost as if a farmer with heavy boots on was walking along the porch to go inside. I have not experienced the footsteps since but have seen things around the house and have heard plenty of other noises.