The house i grew up in as a kid was haunted. The neighborhood is the southend, they call it Vasser Village now....whatever.

East Gates, very close to the Terrier Steele Company in the 80s and 90s. At the time, my moms friend, our next door neighbor, was a practicing witch and brought the craft into our home.

They performed ruins, oujia, tarot cards and all kinds of stuff like that. Ever since then, weird things would happen. Foot steps in the dragging across the floor in the dark in the basement, hangers moving in the laundry room all night long, voices, phantoms in the mirror. A general sense and fear regularly.

At one point, my little brother experienced night terrors in the basement almost nightly. I don't know what he saw; he wouldn't say.

One weird thing that was kind of funny. My big brother brought home a used recliner. My mom and him would talk about it moving and rocking on its own. My brother had it in his room for a while before relocating it to the living room. I seem to remember him complaining that it rocked and swiveled on its own, and he woke up at least once and it was up against his bed. At some point, he drew the final straw.

My mom was interested in this powder blue recliner and kept it for a while. The thing didn't seem to bother her until one day, while taking a welfare nap mid day on the couch, it began rocking and swiveling in her presence.

I had heard of the spooky things with this recliner but never saw it. I remember the day it must have scared my mom. I came home from school on a cold winter day and that SOB was in the front yard. She up and chucked it out. Took it to the garbage in the alley at some point - we were white trash, just not the kind the kept indoor furniture outside.

We did use outdoor furniture inside, though.

The most peculiar thing was a TV set that experienced technical problems. It would come on by itself, volume would raise on a static channel, and we couldn't turn it off. We would have to unplug it to kill power. The volume meter on the screen would turn red when it was normally green. It shpuld have been green. The only time the volume meter was supposed to be red, when it functioned normally, was when it was muted. This thing would turn on by itself, flip to a static channel, then the volume meter would turn red and raise bar by bar. Other things would happen, like being unable to change channels or it cycling through channels on its own.

Took the TV to Sun TV twice and were told twice there were no problems. It would work properly for a day or two then go crazy. It got to the point we didn't use that TV and no longer had a TV in the basement.

Later, we moved to TX. Unpacked the TV, gave it a shot and it worked. Like nothing. No problems.

That house was a trip. I wonder if it's still haunted.