When I was small, we lived in a haunted house. It was so exciting! We were always playing in the cellar, pretending that we would find the treasure that, according to legend, was the cause of all the noises we heard and the ghosts we saw. Our cousins, who lived in the States, would come down to visit during summer vacation, and that was the time we spent making all sorts of stories up to explain the inexplainable.
My cousins were terrified, I was not. I loved it! We would see all sorts of things and we would hear all sorts of sounds of things going on in the cellar. We could hear them up through the entire house. My mom saw ghosts and heard the sounds when she would make her rounds checking that we were all asleep at night. She would also read till it was very late ( that was the only time we would let her…) so she was the one that heard more things.
I was all for the digging and looking for the treasure, but I was the only one. Even though we played with all the stuff that was stored away, no one else wanted to dig. So the years went by and nothing was done to see if there was money buried under the house.
One day I asked my Mom why my grandfather had never looked for the treasure (my grandfather had bought the house), and she told me that he had started. He had been giving the location of two treasures, the one under our house, and another one on the outskirts of the town we lived. He decided he would look for the one outside of town and then continue with the one that was under our house. Unfortunately, when they started digging, they were forced to stop because they found a snakes’s nest. He felt that that was an omen and decided that he would not look for the one under the house either.
Up to date, no one from my family looked for that treasure, so I do not know if there really was one. I do not know if there are apparitions and sound in the house either, it still belongs to the family, but has been rented for a long time. What I do know is that the neighbors we had were extremely poor and years later they ended up having a ranch, furniture stores, and jewelry stores in several towns. I wonder if they found ‘our’ treasure…
Anyway, I received the following pictures and I wonder if this is something like my grandfather found when he went treasure hunting… scary…
