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When Sammy Torres and her family moved into the mobile home in 2004, they knew something was wrong. The former tenants had left in a hurry. “The people who had owned it before had just up and left without taking any of their belongings,” she said. “They left their furniture, their appliances, photo albums with baby pictures and other family photos. They didn’t even take their clothes. I have tried to find anyone who may have known the people that lived here before to see if anyone knew anything about them or the reason they fled as they did.”

Neighbors don’t seem to know. Unpacking boxes the first night Torres’ family stayed in the home, Sammy saw something she couldn’t explain.“I was sitting on the floor in front of the television unpacking a box of DVDs and videos and putting them away,” she said. “The television was off and I saw on the blank screen a young girl with very long braided hair walk behind me from the direction of the bedroom towards the kitchen.”

Thinking it was her youngest daughter going into the kitchen, she kept unpacking the box – then she realized the girl never left the kitchen. She looked in the kitchen; no one was there. “I got up from the floor and went to check on my daughter but when I poked my head inside her bedroom she was fast asleep,” Sammy said. “I thought maybe I had been so engrossed in what I was doing that I didn’t see her go back by.”

Then, day after day, strange things began to work their way into the Torres family’s life and Sammy began to realize it hadn’t been her daughter she’d seen in the television screen that first day – something was in her house. “Things began to happen pretty regular,” Sammy said.

The cabinet under the bathroom sink randomly opened and slammed shut when no one was around, Sammy heard footsteps in the hallway when no one else was home, and everyone heard voices that didn’t belong to anyone in the family. But the children experienced much more than Sammy and her husband.

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PART TWO

Pouring through the stacks of memories her home’s previous occupants left behind, Sammy Torres unmasked the spirit of a young Hispanic girl that sits on her son’s bed.

“One day as I was looking through the photo albums left by the previous owners I saw a newspaper clipping about a car accident,” she said. “It told about a Hispanic family who had been in an accident in which the father and the 12-year-old daughter had been killed.”

A memorial card, Torres presumed had been passed out at a funeral, showed a picture of the girl with long braided hair.

“There were also several pictures of her at different times in her life,” she said. “There were school pictures, pictures from birthday parties and Christmas and pictures of a laughing young girl splashing in a swimming pool and many family photos.”

It was the same girl she had seen that first day in the home, and the same girl who sat on her son’s bed.

And, she later found, the spirit of the little girl wasn’t alone.

“Recently, I was awakened by the feeling of someone staring at me and when I opened my eyes there standing beside the bed was an old woman,” Sammy said. “She was wearing a dress that looked like it was from the late 1800s to the early 1900s.”

The dress was long and black with a high collar and puffy sleeves. The top of the dress had buttons on the front and the apparition wore a cameo brooch at the throat of her dress. It’s hair was gray and pulled into a bun.

“She looked very stern,” Sammy said. “I lay there looking at her for a few seconds and then she was gone. She just disappeared. We have seen her several times since then and always in the bedroom. And we always smell stale cigarette smoke right before she appears.”

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This story doesn't surprise me.  I do wonder why the family that occupied the home previously, left without taking any of there belongings? Is there a part 3?

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Beckster, on 01 October 2009 - 02:53 PM, said:

This story doesn't surprise me.  I do wonder why the family that occupied the home previously, left without taking any of there belongings? Is there a part 3?

Sorry, no part 3. It's amazing how people do just up and leave a place without taking their possessions, maybe they were behind with the rent and just did a runner. The house next door to me was occupied by a family and then one day, they just disappeared leaving behind all the baby toys and stuff, was really weird, nobody knew where they'd gone but the house then got sold and so far, nobody has mentioned anything about it being haunted or weird.