The Ghost In Grace Houston's House

By Mae Carol Brown

The Ghost In Grace Houston’s House is a short story based on an actual haunting that took place in a small town in North Carolina. The time is the mid-1960s and the story is related by Grace Houston; a bold woman who didn’t believe in ghosts until the day they moved in.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Nov 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9780991162802

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Rossetti

Open Doors

"Who has seen the wind?

Neither I nor you:

But when the leaves hang trembling,

The wind is passing through."

- Christina Rossetti

Many years ago this writer had the occasion to hear what could only be described as a true ghost story. My good friend, Grace Houston, said her family had been visited by uninvited guests over a period of several years. They reluctantly called them ghosts for want of a better name. Regardless of the explanation, her story rang true with me, and I am convinced that something extraordinary happened there.

First, I must tell you that my friend’s name is not really Grace Houston. The phenomenon I am about to relate took place in a small North Carolina town near Duke University, famous at the time for its department of parapsychology. Grace said she had been bothered by those in the department enough and did not want a bunch of ghost hunters prowling