Location: New York United States
Uncle Johnny was my favorite Uncle. So
too was his sister my favorite Aunt. As was things in the old days
children often lived with their parents when not married, even when they
were older.
I grew up next door in a small (actually tiny) house on their
property. We were all very close. Uncle Johnny and his sister were like
second parents to me. As I grew up he would show me everything he knew
about building and fixing things. But as life would have it I would go
away to Military School and then move to Pennsylvania. We visited but
not as much as I would have liked.
Then one day as I was coming home. I saw my father leaving with my
sister to get my mother from work. His only words to me were to stay in
the house until he returned and that Uncle Johnny and Bill were dead. A
million things ran through my mind of how it could have happened. Car
accident, some type of accident at home. What could have killed both of
them? To my shock it was natural causes.
My Uncle had worked on Friday and had Saturday off. As usual he went
out that evening after work with friends and came home around 1am. They
all heard him come up stairs. He followed his normal routine as usual,
used the bathroom, washed up and then went to bed closing his door
behind him. This night he mistakenly closed the door very hard, no one
knows why. The next morning my Aunt got up early and went into the City
to go shopping and his parent's let my uncle sleep in, since it was his
day off.
Around noon my uncles mother (great aunt) decided to wake him up. She
went to his room and called. No answer. After several attempts,
knocking on the door and no answer she decided to enter the room. There
was my uncle lying peacefully in his bed. She went up to him to shake
him awake and instantly knew he was dead.



I was just about asleep when an upstairs door slammed shut hard. It
startled me and I sat up. All of a sudden, the light in the hall seemed
to fade out but it wasn't the light. There, standing in the doorway to
my room, was the figure of a man. I could clearly see the lit hallway
behind it but since it was backlit by the hall light, I could not make
out any features. Everything around this shadow type silhouette was
clear. It looked exactly like someone put a cardboard cutout of a man in
the doorway.
I was just frozen. I don't know if I was scared, paralyzed or what. I
just sat there for what seemed like forever staring at this thing. It
never moved but, finally just kind of faded away before my eyes. I
hadn't fallen asleep yet so I know it wasn't a dream. After that
everything was calm and I finally went to sleep after a long while of
popping back up to see if it came back.
The next morning I went downstairs for breakfast and asked who
slammed the door. My wife to be said it woke her up and she thought it
was me. My aunt was sleeping at the bottom of the stairs on the couch
with the dog at her side but said she heard nothing. I don't know how
she couldn't have heard it. I never did tell my aunt what I saw but
years later after she moved she admitted things happened in the house
but never would go into it. We remained close for many years later and I
even lived with her after my divorce at the end of her life. Not until
then did I find out how afraid of dying she was. She was one of those
people who are terrified of death to the point of not even wanting to
speak of it. Which is why I guess she never spoke of her old house and
the incident. She passed away in 2000 in such a way that she knew she
was dying right to the last second. I was there and the look of terror
on her face made my blood run cold. I miss her very much and still have
feelings of guilt to this day that I couldn't help her at the end.
The old house is no longer there but, I am curious if the new home that is there, has any activity?
Source: Yourghoststories
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