I was home at Christmas this past year and after the Harrison Christmas party, the ex-girlfriend and I were up until 1:00 AM talking with Tammy, my dad's second wife. Somehow the story of my sister's haunted crack house got brought up, most likely by me and my dad's second wife had a story I had not heard.
During their separation, my dad had injured his back. Tammy went over to the house and he was laying out on the couch in the family room. She gave him his medicine and he decided he would stay out there, so Tammy was going to go sleep in the bedroom.
"Uh-huh," was all my dad said to her.
She went in, shut the door and jumped into bed. When she shut the door, it latched.
Right as she was getting ready to doze off, she heard the door unlatch and it fell open about an inch. She wasn't asleep yet and thought perhaps my dad was coming in for something in the room, but the door never fully opened.
Suddenly the door slammed shut loudly and she sat straight up in bed as it scared the crap out of her.
She got up and pulled the door and it was definitely latched in the door jam. She opened it and was able to look through both open doors and see my dad was still on the couch.
She shut the door and tried to pull it open again, but it was latched in the door jam.
She laid back down and about 10 minutes later, the door unlatched itself again, swinging open about an inch. Then without warning, it slammed itself shut again.
She grabbed the pillow and blanket off the bed and walked out to the couch where my dad was still awake.
"Does that door do that all the time."
"Yep," my dad answered. Turns out that reoccurring event was why he slept on the couch in that house by then. It was not the furnace kicking on causing it, the door did this by itself at night.
"I'm going to sleep in here with you," she said.
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The next time Tammy visited the house, my dad had moved out and Brandon and Laura had moved in with their new baby.
Tammy had gone over to help her one night with Cole, completely forgetting about the events of her first night in that house taking care of my dad.
As Tammy and Laura were standing in what was Calvin's room, Cole was whimpering as he tried to sleep and Lora was gently touching him. The door that led to the family room unlatched and swung open and suddenly Tammy remembered what happened the first time she was there with the other bedroom door.
Two minutes later, Tammy was standing there when the door then swung back closed and latched. Lora was oblivious to this. Tammy asked her, "Does that door always swing open and shut?"
Laura, not the brightest crayon in the box, said, "Brandon says that when the furnace kicks on, the door swings open and when the furnace kicks off, the door swings shut."
Tammy was standing there and never heard the furnace kick on. We think Brandon told her that so she would not freak out. Tammy could not explain why Lora would believe this story except that she's really gullible.
You could easily hear that furnace kick on in that house when it did. Tammy was momentarily charged up though from witnessing the same thing I had actually witnessed once as I had told Stacy and my dad that night in my mom's kitchen.
Tammy did not return to the haunted crack house after that.
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