Is this scary?

Question

This is a long one and yes it really happened. I am now 21 and live in a dorm at New York University, but when I was 17 something happened that I can't forget. First let me fill you in on the details. When my parents got married they lived in my dad's condo here in NYC, but my mom was a country girl and when her parent's died she wanted to move into their house in the country in upstate New York. It is a beautiful Victorian house in the woods about 5 miles from anyone, and it's gothic. My grandparents loved this house and mom wanted to keep it. So they moved into the house and had 3 kids, one is me of course. Nothing real strange about the house started happening until I was about 17, and only that one time...so far. I was in my bedroom and my parent's had gone out for their anniversary. My little brother wasn't home because he was staying with his best friend, Todd. They had a test to study for and thought they would go to school together the next day. It was just me and my sister, Julianna, at home. It was about 9p.m. Not late, but it was dark. To beat it all it started raining and lightning and the lights started blinking. So Julianna ran to my room and said that she wanted to stay with me. She was pretty young then. I told her it would be okay so I lit some candles and turned the blinking lights off. She calmed down and she helped me study for a music test that I was going to have the next day at school. Then after she had calmed down completely I took her to bed-around 9:45. It was still raining hard. So I kept studying and after I got finished with the music book I decided to try some pieces that my music teacher told us to study. It was very boring, so I started improvising and I made the piano vibrate cause I sometimes get roused up in the music. Then I heard my glass of apple cider fall. I thought that it fell because of the piano's vibrating, but it was on my nightstand on the other side of the room. I brushed it off. But I had to take the broken glass downstairs to the kitchen garbage. On my way upstairs I saw my sister had gotten out of bed and was in the family room coped by the fire. She knew not to light the fire by herself, but she told me that she didn't light it, but I knew that we were the only ones in the house. I thought that she was lying, but I said nothing and went back upstairs. Then on my piano stand that holds music I seen the Turkish March by Mozart, I knew it wasn't mine. So I went downstairs and asked Julianna and she said it wasn't hers-I thought she was lying. So I put the fire out and told her to go to bed. She said okay and as she went up the stairs, I went in the kitchen to get some water. Then as I went upstairs again I saw that the music had been taken. When my parents got home I told them about it and mom said that the Turkish March was her dad's, my grandfather's, favorite piece. She thought I was playing a trick on her of course. Then as I was going to my bedroom I looked at our family picture. My grandfather was in it holding a piece of music, I never noticed it before because it was so small. I looked real close and seen the music he was holding was by Mozart. I thought "Oh Brother!" I was kindly scared, but not hysterical. I didn't sleep that much that night. The next day in school I sat near an open window in music class because I was hot- I get hot easily. Before the test the teacher said we could take a few minutes to look over the text. The wind blew and turned my books pages to the chapter about Mozart. Then a few seconds later it turned it to the one about Haydn(a classical composer). The thing about Haydn is that his first name was Joseph, and Joseph was my grandfather's first name. It made me wonder. I kept it to myself, who would have believed it?! So was it a coincidence? Was it just the wind? Was it my sister playing a trick on me? Was the spirit of a dead musician? Was it the spirit of my grandfather? Then, a few days later or so, I remembered that Julianna told me that she didn't turn the fire on the other night when it happened. I asked her who did it, and she said that that never happened that she never went to the family room and that she never left her bedroom after I tucked her in. To this day, I don't like to listen to Mozart that much!

Answer 1

If I were you I would listen to Mozart more! This haunting sounds like a cool journey!!

Answer 2

Bazaar is the word for it! It sounds compelling. Like something out there was urging you to understand. Perhaps you can come to terms with it by playing the music that was being suggested. There are forces of the universe that coexist with us though it doesn't have to be scary. Odd, yes but not always scary. The next time something odd happens you'll recognize it and if it never happens again you'll miss it. What a thrill!

Answer 3

That Does Sound Scary And I Think It's Your Grandparents' Spirits Still Haunt The Place And Are Trying To Tell You Something.

Answer 4

Hi, WOW that is a lot. Your GrandFather was with you that night and you sister wasn't herself because your GrandMother had taken over her body. Don't laugh i believe in these sort of things. My mom passed a while back and she is in the house with us. Doors will open slowly and close slowly. Her chair rocks and no one is in it. We can Sense her in the hall way,the kitchen and in the door way of her room. Not scary just mom.. What happen to you is scary. Remember who they are. They won't hurt you. A Friend.

Clowmy

Answer 5

i don't find that scary. it seems like your grandfather was just trying to influence your life. did you ever learn to play the song. its weird though that your sister doesn't remember being up. she may have done the whole thing and just not remember. my little brother used to have dreams as a child and tell the family about them and weeks later the dreams would happen. he never remembered a dream after the happened in real life and when we asked him about them it was like he never knew they happened. we don't know why he doesn't remember but it could be the same reason your sister doesn't remember.

Answer 6

wow! that is scary. i know how u feel my old house was haunted too.every night i notice something moving in the dark and if i turn the lights on nothing would be there and things would be gone all the time when no ones home sounds out of no where when its quite its scary

Answer 7

It's paranormal, to be sure, but I don't think it's scary. I think it's kind of sweet. Also, if your sister was young when the thing with the fire happened and it was in the middle of the night, it's really possible to forget. But I think that it's sweeter than it is scary.

Answer 8

Yes, that is would be scary. I think it was your Grandfather's spirit. I just don't know who would be the little girl by the fire, unless there was a regression in time, and it was your mother or one of her sisters?

Answer 9

I would be freaked out if this happened to me. You should write a screenplay. This is a great plot for a movie. Maybe your grandfather wants you to listen to Mozart!!

Answer 10

Given your age at the time, I can see how it would be scary. But after reading through your story I think it is obvious that you were young, your parents weren't home and your grandpa was just watching over you.