Ghosts Among Us by Leslie Rule

Author:Leslie Rule [Rule, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4494-1314-9
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing LLC
Published: 2011-06-02T04:00:00+00:00

Mordecai House is still home to the long-dead Mordecai family. (Leslie Rule)

Yet the mysterious icy spots persist. In addition to experiencing the baffling cold spots, this writer felt something else.

I was on a private tour with Lynette Minnich, the librarian from the Rhine Research Center, and we followed Teri upstairs. After admiring the lovely rooms there, I sat down next to Teri in the hallway upon the worn wood floors. Suddenly I was startled by the unmistakable sensation of a tug on the back of my shirt.

“I just felt something tug on my shirt,” I said.

“I didn’t do it,” said Teri.

Of course she didn’t. She was three feet away from me. Lynette was standing six feet away.

While I would much rather have seen Mary, or any other ghost who may inhabit the spacious house, I will have to be satisfied with that simple mysterious sensation.

On Lynette’s prior visit she and a few staff members from the Rhine Research Center had been invited to see the mansion. They were gathered with Teri in the same upstairs hallway when they heard a sudden, urgent pounding on the front door. Teri hurried downstairs and opened the door but the huge yard was empty. Perhaps it was simply someone playing a prank, but the timing was odd, as they had been discussing ghosts.

Since my April 2003 visit to Mordecai House, Teri reported that paranormal activity has escalated. “A new employee went to work for us,” she told me. “She is extremely sensitive and has heard a female voice calling her name. Something happens almost every day. They’re mostly little things, but they are things we can’t explain.”

In October 2003, a local TV news team did a story on the haunted museum and something interesting showed up on the film. A ghostly woman, said Teri, appeared, looking out of a window of one of the unoccupied houses behind Mordecai House.

Then during the Christmas season when Mordecai House was decked out for the holidays, decorations were mysteriously moved around.

A couple was visiting the upstairs bedroom when the woman felt someone touch her arm. And an employee was alone in the house one day when she heard the sound of frantic footsteps racing from that same bedroom.

Teri was in her office, in a building beside the Mordecai House, when the employee, upset by the occurrence, told her what had happened. “She was almost in tears, shaking and pale,” said Teri. “She said she’d been overwhelmed by a horrible sense of sadness and grief and then had heard the fast-paced footsteps upstairs.”

Mary?

If so, why did she leave such a strong impression on the mansion—why is it her ghost who is seen rather than the others? Mary was born on September 18, 1858. She married William Turk in the parlor of her home. Obviously, her attachment to the place would be strong. Yet we can’t say for certain if Mary is responsible for any—or all—of the paranormal activity.

The ghost could also be that of her grandmother, Margaret Lane, who married Moses Mordecai and had three children with him, including Mary’s father, Henry.

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