Ghost in the Rocking chair

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Ghost in the Rocking chair

• A true ghost story.

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• I am now 55 years old, this happened 35 years
  ago. My husband and I were living in Monroe where
  he was going to school to be a pharmacist. I was
  working for a local bank. We bought a small
  trailer and moved into a trailer park. Our
  families gave us some old furniture to help us
  get started. My Mother-in-law gave us an old
  rocker which we had to stain and recover.
• Approximately one year prior to my husband
  graduating, I became pregnant with my first
  child. After seven months into my pregnancy I was
  laid off. My husband had to continue his
  schooling as well as work 4 to 5 hours at night
  to make ends meet. In my last month of pregnancy
  I was sitting in my living room around 1000 p.m.
  on the sofa watching television with the lights
  turned off. All of a sudden my old rocker started
  rocking on it's on, a slow steady rock. My heart
  started pounding and I could not believe what I
  was seeing. I was terrified!

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I went to my next door neighbors and told her
that I couldn't sleep and was waiting for my
husband to come home. I did not want to tell her
what I had just seen. When my husband came home
he would not believe me and said it was because
the rocker was sitting over the air condition
vent. Now, this rocker was very heavy and I did
not believe that one little vent could have made
the rocker rock. My husband moved the rocker away
from the vent.
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• My husband continue to work late and two or three
  times a week, the rocker would rock. Again, it
  was only late at night and when I was alone. I
  made every excuse to my neighbors that I could,
  just to visit until he came home. My husband was
  really getting tired of hearing me and said it
  was probably stress over my pregnancy and being
  laid off.
• Well, it continue on until my child was a year
  old. It was not an every day thing and as she got
  older (walking stage) it ceased all together. By
  this time we had moved to another town in south
  Louisiana where he found a job as a Pharmacist.
  We moved the trailer with us and again moved into
  a trailer park.

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• When my daughter was two years old, I became
  pregnant again. In the meantime we were building
  a large home and I was busy buying furniture and
  appliances for the house. Again, I was in my 8
  month of pregnancy at this time.
• My husband's boss had a daughter who at the time
  was 10 years old and she adored my daughter. One
  weekend she wanted to spend the night and she
  slept on the couch. At 100 a.m. she came to our
  bedroom crying that she wanted to go home and
  would not tell us why. My husband called his boss
  and brought her home. The next day, I visited her
  mother to see what the problem was and her mother
  said that she thought she had seen my rocker
  rocking and it had scared her half to death. I
  just told her, well she was probably just
  dreaming.

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• My second child was a boy, and the whole thing
  started all over again. Always, when my children
  were sleeping and my husband wasn't home. He was
  attending many meetings and was getting home
  fairly late several times a month. No matter what
  I did or what I said he would not believe me. He
  swore up and down not for me to tell a soul and I
  never have up until the last several years. The
  rocking again finally stopped after my son
  started walking.
• In the meantime, we moved into our home, which
  had four bedrooms. I had bought all new furniture
  and did not want the rocker. My husband said that
  we would put it in the guest bedroom until we saw
  his mother and ask her what she wanted to do with
  it. I left the rocker in the guest bedroom and
  only went in there when I had to vacuum. I became
  pregnant with my third child and I kept the door
  shut and would never, never go in the room.

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• Sometimes late at night when my husband was not
  home, I would pass down the hallway and I could
  hear it creaking and creaking. One time I swore I
  heard a low voice signing. But I never went in
  that room the entire time I was pregnant nor
  after I had my last child which was another girl.
  
• Several months had passed after I gave birth and
  my husband called and said that two neighbors
  were coming to pick up the rocker. He said that
  he was donating the rocker to them so that they
  could use it at Christmas time for the local
  Santa Claus to sit in to talk to the children.
  Two of the neighbors came to my house and I
  showed them where the rocker was. They commented
  on how heavy it was and it took both of them to
  lift the rocker into the bed of the truck.

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• The rest of this story is what the neighbors
  told my husband and me as well One of them was
  driving and the other one was sitting in the
  passenger seat. The passenger saw something out
  of the corner of his eye and immediately turned
  around and said "Oh My God!" The driver looked in
  the rearview mirror. Both men said with their
  voices cracking, I have never in my life seen
  anything like this before! They were traveling
  about 30 miles an hour down some back roads and
  they said the chair just kind of floated up in
  the air - a little higher then the top of the bed
  and then flew out onto the side of the highway!
  The driver pulled over and they both were in
  total shock. They picked up the pieces of the
  rocker and went to the pharmacy where my husband
  was working.

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• My husband thought they were joking and thought
  I had told them what had been happening all these
  years and they both said, No, she never told us
  anything. Well my husband would not elaborate on
  the subject and my neighbors returned to my house
  to get my side of the story. I told them
  everything that had happened and I could not
  believe that two adults had actually finally seen
  something and I was not just seeing things.

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• A month or so had passed and I was at my
  mother-in-law's house when I told her that we had
  donated the rocker to the Jaycees to use for
  Santa Claus to sit in to speak to the children.
  But before I could tell here that the rocker (had
  fell out the truck) I couldn't tell her what
  really happened. She said, oh that it is
  wonderful, Aunt Rose, would have loved that, you
  see Aunt Rose had 6 children and 13
  grandchildren. She rocked every one of her
  children and grandchildren in that rocker. In
  fact, one of her children found her dead one
  morning in the rocker. She had passed away one
  night and stayed in her rocker until someone had
  found her.