Ghosts..... Have you ever seen them?

Not everyone has the ability nor are open to receiving paranormal l experiences.

This is a very long story from someone who I am very close to.

There is an entire group of neighborhoods in Hendersonville, TN that have been haunted since homes were first built this particular area about 15 years ago. A good friend of mine from college lives in one of the neighborhoods and has told me about their personal experiences and what the neighbors have told them about their experiences. People familiar with the area, say that there was an ancient Indian civilization and burial ground where the neighborhood currently stands.

My friend's experiences began about a year after they built and moved into their brand new home about 11 years ago. My friend's 10 year old son told me how his toilet would flush all by itself. He said that the toilet flush handle would push down by itself as if an invisible hand was pushing it down. This went on sporadically over an entire summer. Then my friend's son said that his closet doors would open by themselves. He would turn around and hear a noise and look around only to see that the doors were closed. The son thought it was funny and was not scared by what he had seen.

A few months later, my friend's youngest son, about 2 at the time, would wake up crying in his crib every night. My friend would bring him into bed with he and his wife. He told them he was scared. This went on for a couple of months every night. My friend's wife decided to buy a visual monitor to place in his room to see just what if anything was disturbing my their son. The nightly crying episodes of the youngest son continued. One night she looked into the monitor and saw her son, but there was something strange showing up on the monitor screen. She saw a close-up image of what looked like the hairline of a person. She ran into her son's bedroom down the hall to see what was going on. All she saw was her son crying in his crib. My friend's wife ran quickly into their son's room and picked her son up and took him with her into their bedroom. She looked back at the monitor and saw something in her son's crib. Looking closely she saw the image of a little boy laying in her son's crib. In fact it looked like a young Indian boy.

My friend and his wife have not seen the Indian boy since, but their home has continued to have strange things happen in it. Closet doors continue to open and close. The gas fireplace has turned on overnight all by itself on a couple of occasions. My friend has told me that his son still wakes up crying and wanting to come into he and his wife's bed. One night, after falling asleep in their bed, their youngest son woke them and asked them, who is that man standing in the doorway of their bedroom. My friend got out of bed to show him that nobody was there. Their son said that he saw a man with red eyes in the bedroom with them and he stayed there for sometime before their son said that he had left.

What is strange about that last part is that my friend told a close neighbor friend about their episodes. The neighbor then told him that he and his son had been approached in recent times by a large entity with red glowing eyes. The entity came to the foot of his bed, where he laid with his young son. He told my friend that the entity was a very large dark figure and as it approached the bed, the neighbor said he became paralyzed and felt a weird force being applied to his body. He begged the entity to leave he and his son alone and sure enough the entity left as fast as it arrived. That neighbor said that he had heard of other nearby neighbors that reported seeing a dark figure with red glowing eyes looking into their bedroom windows. One house in this neighborhood has been sold several times in the 8 years since it was built. One owner and his wife left the home in the middle of the night, never to return to the home. They hired a moving company to pack up their belongings, move them, and sold their home.
 
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Not everyone has the ability nor are open to receiving paranormal l experiences.

This is a very long story from someone who I am very close to.

There is an entire group of neighborhoods in Hendersonville, TN that have been haunted since homes were first built this particular area about 15 years ago. A good friend of mine from college lives in one of the neighborhoods and has told me about their personal experiences and what the neighbors have told them about their experiences. People familiar with the area, say that there was an ancient Indian civilization and burial ground where the neighborhood currently stands.

My friend's experiences began about a year after they built and moved into their brand new home about 11 years ago. My friend's 10 year old son told me how his toilet would flush all by itself. He said that the toilet flush handle would push down by itself as if an invisible hand was pushing it down. This went on sporadically over an entire summer. Then my friend's son said that his closet doors would open by themselves. He would turn around and hear a noise and look around only to see that the doors were closed. The son thought it was funny and was not scared by what he had seen.

A few months later, my friend's youngest son, about 2 at the time, would wake up crying in his crib every night. My friend would bring him into bed with he and his wife. He told them he was scared. This went on for a couple of months every night. My friend's wife decided to buy a visual monitor to place in his room to see just what if anything was disturbing my their son. The nightly crying episodes of the youngest son continued. One night she looked into the monitor and saw her son, but there was something strange showing up on the monitor screen. She saw a close-up image of what looked like the hairline of a person. She ran into her son's bedroom down the hall to see what was going on. All she saw was her son crying in his crib. My friend's wife ran quickly into their son's room and picked her son up and took him with her into their bedroom. She looked back at the monitor and saw something in her son's crib. Looking closely she saw the image of a little boy laying in her son's crib. In fact it looked like a young Indian boy.

My friend and his wife have not seen the Indian boy since, but their home has continued to have strange things happen in it. Closet doors continue to open and close. The gas fireplace has turned on overnight all by itself on a couple of occasions. My friend has told me that his son still wakes up crying and wanting to come into he and his wife's bed. One night, after falling asleep in their bed, their youngest son woke them and asked them, who is that man standing in the doorway of their bedroom. My friend got out of bed to show him that nobody was there. Their son said that he saw a man with red eyes in the bedroom with them and he stayed there for sometime before their son said that he had left.

What is strange about that last part is that my friend told a close neighbor friend about their episodes. The neighbor then told him that he and his son had been approached in recent times by a large entity with red glowing eyes. The entity came to the foot of his bed, where he laid with his young son. He told my friend that the entity was a very large dark figure and as it approached the bed, the neighbor said he became paralyzed and felt a weird force being applied to his body. He begged the entity to leave he and his son alone and sure enough the entity left as fast as it arrived. That neighbor said that he had heard of other nearby neighbors that reported seeing a dark figure with red glowing eyes looking into their bedroom windows. One house in this neighborhood has been sold several times in the 8 years since it was built. One owner and his wife left the home in the middle of the night, never to return to the home. They hired a moving company to pack up their belongings, move them, and sold their home.

Nice story. It was entertaining here too:

Ghosts & Spirits of Tennessee: Haunted Hendersonville
 
Anyone close to Monroe county know of anything haunted? I'm in town for a bit.
 
Anyone close to Monroe county know of anything haunted? I'm in town for a bit.

Across from the Monroe county courthouse in Madisonville, TN. There is an old town cafe which for decades used to be a bank. On the second floor there has been reports of things crashing down and loud voices when no one is there.
Residual apparition sightings have been seen and EVP voices recorded also. Under the cafe there is an abandoned tunnel that runs across the street to the courthouse basement. There are small electrical problems due to antiquated wiring.
The upstairs is used as a banquet hall.

There is a house on J.D. Farm Road that has been abandoned by the homeowner due to the amount of paranormal activity. The owner claims that lights randomly go on and off, footsteps are heard on the stairs, and batteries will die within hours of replacing them. It is believed that batteries are a source of energy that entities drain in order to communicate with people. No one currently lives in the house and it's for sale.

Read more: Haunted Houses in Monroe County, Tennessee | eHow

There is a brick house on Country Club Lane.... It's abandoned, and I went in with some friends as a joke . Books flew at us and twirled around us. We were knocked over and dragged . At night I can hear screaming coming from the abandoned house .

The remains of Chief Oconostota were discovered before Tellico Lake flooded Chota and Tanasi in 1979. UT archaeologists conducted extensive excavations; the more noteworthy discoveries were the remains of the great townhouse and its hearth, along with the grave of the great warrior who died in 1783.The Sequoyah Birthplace Museum and Chota Memorial site is a great place to pay respects to the many Indians who lived and died in the Lower Little Tennessee River Valley. A couple of our members have frequently sensed a presence of someone or something when visiting the memorial site .

During our visit to this area we had a few notable experiences that might suggest this site is indeed sacred and blessed by many spirits. Every member of our group smelled a horse and then leather at one point as we walked around the Sequoyah Birthplace grounds. There were no horses to be seen anywhere during our visit. We also captured several multi colored orbs in photographs. Despite the big debate about orbs, the one I find most compelling is the bright blue orb that was spotted before the picture was taken, and was in fact the reason the photo was taken as it moved in front of my son. In the photo the sphere appears to be in motion and there is an eerie distortion, or blur across his head and face, the rest of the picture is in focus. Later, at the Chota Memorial site we experienced sudden temperature fluctuations (it was approx 56-60 degrees that day and evening.) We felt a cold draft pass by and watched the temperature drop to 22 degrees. This is lakeside, so maybe it was the wind coming off of the water, but, in the center of the stone columns two of us felt a sudden heat radiate from the ground and warm our feet, the experience only lasted a moment. Granted, any one of these episodes could be explained and rationalized, but all together it makes me wonder.

I am convinced we captured an EVP right in front of Chief Oconostota’s head stone. To me, it sounds like an older male grunting one word, which I think sounds similar to “cave”. I have included that clip in our video and made a separate vid for that possible EVP. Also note that as the night approached, some members of the group thought they heard something, or someone speak nearby, and later the 2 members compared stories and both heard a male either say “no” or “go”. It is a beautiful place to visit, with a strong spiritual atmosphere.

A couple around the area.
 
That is me too.

I can telll several stories that include my own experiences and others. I have my own 1,300 member FB board on this topic just for in Sumner County, because I have a vested interest in this topic. On Jonathan Brown's blog, I also posted about Fairvue Mansion in Gallatin, and Monell's restaurant.
 
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If I can locate the house on JD Farm road I'll try & go up. I'm staying on the outter edge of madisonville. Be cool if a couple of us could meet & go out to different places.
 
I was just hoping you hadn't copied/pasted the story because it was intriguing. What's the name of your site?

Ghost & Spirits of Sumner County on FB.

I promise you, it is me. I would not make that up. I shared my story with complete sincerity and dead seriousness. I made a couple of changes to protect the owner of the house, because it would harm their property value if they knew who it was. They also have children thst they wish to protect.
 
Ghost & Spirits of Sumner County on FB.

I promise you, it is me. I would not make that up. I shared my story with complete sincerity and dead seriousness. I made a couple of changes to protect the owner of the house, because it would harm their property value if they knew who it was. They also have children thst they wish to protect.

Fair enough.

Care to share any more stories? You should check out my blog, as well.
 
I have had 3 paranormal investigative groups contact me about visiting this house. The owner has been advised not to open the house to investigations by two pastors.
 
Yes, I have several. I have seen things that can not explain and my home is the center of some paranormal activity.

Examples.

And have you heard of Bethbirei church?

And I believe I have a paranormal group that would love to investigate the house.
 
Examples.

And have you heard of Bethbirei church?

And I believe I have a paranormal group that would love to investigate the house.

I will present them to you after this game and see what you think. It scares the crap out of some people. It used to scare me, but not anymore.

Yes, I have heard of that church. Isn' t in Tullahom/ middle Tennessee area? A lot of orbs seen in photos.
 
I will present them to you after this game and see what you think. It scares the crap out of some people. It used to scare me, but not anymore.

Yes, I have heard of that church. Isn' t in Tullahom/ middle Tennessee area? A lot of orbs seen in photos.

Yes. I plan to make a trip out there soon. There are some weird places here in Mid TN.
 
Yes. I plan to make a trip out there soon. There are some weird places here in Mid TN.

You are so right about that.

Middle Tennessee was the frontier of the US back in the late 1700's and some of the more grand homes were buit in middle Tennessee including Cragfont, the home of Memphis founder/designer, General James Winchester. I will share some stories about Cragfont that will raise the hair on your arms and give you goosebumps.

I also have some stories on Nashville's haunted past.
 
I haven't been able to visit the mansion, sadly. But Dyer Cemetery made me a believer of paranormal activity. That's a weird place, man, stuff I don't even like to think about went on there.
 
What would you think about this if it were your home?

I live in a house that wife and I had built about 10 years ago. We are the only people, who have ever lived on this land and most definiately in this house. The property had once been a tobacco field and before that pasture acreage in the country.

Here are some of the strange things that we have have experienced in our home.

* Two months after moving in, the hardwood floors were popping almost like firecrackers going off. I went out into the foyer, it stopped instantly immediately and would start all over again when he left the room

* About two years after wemoved in, there was a loud knock on the wall behind his bed, in the middle of the night- it woke the entire house up.

* One evening, we went out to dinner and returned home to see a clear jelly like substance blobbed about 5 feet up on the bedroom wall.

* On multiple occasions we found similar clear jelly-like blobs on another wall in the bedroom. This time the blobs of jelly were near floor and even on the floor boards.

* Our dog would sit up in bed and would turn it's head, as if it was following something or someone moving around in the room. Our dogs head angle and eyes were focused at something about 7-8 feet in the air.

* Our dog would often leave the bedroom in the middle of the night and we would hear her grunting noises like the dog was playing. My wife came out into the living room one night and saw the dog sitting up as if someone was standing in front of it telling it to sit.

* We were awakened by music in the middle of the night a few years ago at about 3 AM. The stereo had been turned on by itself and the CD's started playing Christmas music that was inside the CD player. We only use the stereo at Christmas time and had not turned it on since Christmas Day.

* One night about 3 years ago, I was coming to bed and was walking through the living room towards the bedroom. The house was dark, with the exception of a small light that provide enough light so that I would not bump into anything. As I walked towards the bedroom, I felt the urge to duck so not to bump into something in my personal space and as I ducked, I briefly saw a very tall dark figure standing two feet in front of him. I did see a definite shape, but hI could not see any eyes or features. It was literally right in front of me and I could feel a type of magnetic feel to it.

* We hear the bed creaking directly over us upstairs at night, as if someone were flipping to their side at night in their sleep, even though nobody sleeps in that bedroom.

* My wife has open of those plug in night lights in the bathroom that you can either switch to blue or green. One night she went to the bathroom in the middle of the night and the light switched colors all by itself-right in front of her eyes.

* My wife had gotten up in the middle of the night to turn off a small lamp she had left on in the kitchen. She returned to bed and said she a light shining on the wall outside the bedroom door about 3 feet off the ground. She said it looked like a very small flashlight beam that lasted about 3 seconds and flashed twice. She assured me that it was not a car light or anything else, because there are no light can hit that room at that angle.

* Over the past few months, We have both heard sounds as if someone is trying to open our house doors and even some of the doors to the closets and rooms downstairs in the kitchen area.

* My wife has walked up the stairs and has had someone tell her to "shush!" She thought it was me, but I was at the opposite side of the house. She has a similar incident happen where she heard someone tell her "hello" and there was nobody else in the house.

* Most of the recent occurrences have involved my wife. She goes into the living room to watch the news in the morning, as she prepares for work. On multiple occasions she has told me that she hears some one sitting down and also getting up out of their sofas. She recently smelled the fragrance of roses and flowers in her walk in closet as she was getting dressed. She does not keep perfume in there nor wear it. She said it was very strong and lasted about 30 seconds.

* I often feel small fingers tickling my arm. In fact I felt it this morning, but usually it occurs when I am in my bed or in the shower. My bed will sometime shake when I am lying in it.

* A week or two ago, we were lying in bed and distinctly heard someone walking into our bedroom. It sounded like a person wearing socks dragging their feet a bit as they walked on the carpet directly in front of our bed.

* Finally, yes, I have seen a little girl of about 10 years old appear to me in broad daylight in my kitchen area. Not once but twice in one day. The first time I was in the kitchen speaking with my wife. She had her back turned as she was cooking on the stove. I saw what I thought was my son bending over tying his shoes. I turned to speak to my wife and and then turned back to say something to my son, but he was not there, but in fact upstairs and to boot was wearing completely different clothes than the child I saw three feet from me. The second appearance occurred while my family was in my bedroom and I was at an angle where only I could see out the door into the the other room. There I spotted a young girl standing in the other room. He eyes were dark as coal. I looked away and then turned back and she was gone.

We are are not upset by what has taken place. We are merely curious. We are not scared or bothered by what we have experienced. The events, as you see have been spread out and are not daily occurrences.
 
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I wonder if the occurrences would be different if you was afraid or threatened. Have you had any demonic expirence in the house.
 
I wonder if the occurrences would be different if you was afraid or threatened. Have you had any demonic expirence in the house.

No.

I have heard giggles coming from what now is my son's closet since we built the home-before he was born. The fingers that I have felt on my back and arm were small and tiny. I have suspected that we had a little girl ghost for a long time. However, the males voice and roses fragrance suggest that we have a man and woman ghost as well.

I am at peace with this since I saw the little girl.
 
It has to be something friendly, for sure. I'm interested to know what could cause a little girl to show up?

But will you share your experiences at Cragfont?
 
Cragfont was the frontier home of General George Winchester, who founded the city of Memphis. Cragfont was the most stately of all homes on the western frontier in the U.S. back in the late 1700's and early 1800's. It is located outside of Gallatin near the Bledsoe area on Hwy 25.

Visit Sumner County - Historic Cragfont - YouTube

Cragfont is probably the most haunted home in Tennessee. The spirits tend to be a bit violent at times.

Rosemary Rogers was a well known person in the historical preservation circles. I went to church with her and Ms. Ellen Weymss. Rosemary said that she believed that the spirits at Cragfont are those of General Winchester and his wife and a couple of servants. She said that she had seen body impressions made in the beds of the master bedroom right in front of her own eyes as she watched in the same room. She even claimed that she was attacked by one of the spirits. She thought that it was the General and that the General and her did not care for each other. Her close friend, the late Ms. Ellen Wemyss or was locked int the smokehouse by the spirits.

Another woman in town, who I can't reveal because she is afraid of her reputation being sullied by this , was on the Cragfont Board. She told me that she got a phone call from the Gallatin Police Department in late January a few years ago. The police dispatcher said that she had received a 911 call that was verified by caller ID as originating from inside of Cragfont and recorded that originated from inside of Cragfont at 3:30 in the morning. Cragfont had been closed for over a month and nobody had even been in the home for over two weeks.

Another member of the Cragfont Board told about how the Board decorating for the Christmas Open House that they decorated a Christmas tree in the parlor, then when they came back the next day...the entire tree was upside down...decorations and all!

Lowell, the caretaker was very close friends with the late Conway Twitty. Conway had doubts about the existence of ghosts and Lowell told him to come out to Cragfont one evening and he would let Conway visit Cragfont one evening. Conway took up Lowell's offer. Within 30 minutes, Conway was back at Lowell's place out of breath and white as a sheet, and looking as if he had been frightened to death. Conway told Lowell that someone or something was throwing plates, and silverware at him in the house.

I have a friend who has personally experienced rocking chairs rocking back and forth not once bit on two occasions in the nursery, where a lot of action has occurred over the years.


People have reported seeing people walking through the house when nobody was there. People have seen lights flash and flicker throughout the house at night when nobody was there.

Here is a photo taken of a family one a Sunday, when Cragfont is closed. Remember, nobody lives in the home. Look at the bottom right inside the window.

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A local historian looked at this photo and said it was very similar to the portrait of Mrs. Susan Black Winchester, the wife of General James Winchester, which hangs over the mantle in the parlor by the door.

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Several years ago, a group of paranormal investigators was allowed to stay a few nights in the home but their findings were never officially released. The board member that I know said that what they saw blew the minds of the investigators and they have not allowed anyone back in to investigate since.
 
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It has to be something friendly, for sure. I'm interested to know what could cause a little girl to show up?

But will you share your experiences at Cragfont?

It is puzzling to my wife and I. We had a stillborn daughter right after me moved into the home. That is all we can think. There is an old small family cemetery about 250 yards from our house. We have wondered about it. There is also a large cemetery about a mile, as the crow flies from our home.
 

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