I will let you know that these things actually happened to a family in a small white house in the suburb of New york city. If you are easley freaked out by paranormal activity. Do not read this. Notes found in scary stories 3. By Alvin schwartz.
The Trouble.
Monday, February 3. Tom Lombardo and his sister had just come home from school. Tom was going to go do his homework when POP! In the kitchen. A cork had been pulled off a soda. It turns out that the cap of a bottle had been somehow unscrewed. And then the bottle had been tipped over and spilled. Then bottles all over the house where popping. Bottles of nail polish remover, shampoo, bleach, rubbing alcohol, even a bottle of holy water. Each had a screw cap that took two or three full turns to open. But each had opened by itself. Without any human help. Then had fallon over and spilled.
Thursday, february 6. Just after tom and nancy got home from school, Six more bottles had opened and spilled. The next day about the same time. 6 more did.
Sunday, February 9. At eleven o clock that mourning tom was in the bathroom brushing his teeth. His father was standing in the door way. All of a sudden a bottle of medicine began to move across the vanity by itself and fell into the sink. At the same time a bottle of shampoo moved to the edge of the vanity and crashed to the floor. They watched. Speechless.
That afternoon a patrolman interview ed the family as bottles popped in the bathroom. The police assigned a detective named Joseph Briggs to the case. Briggs was a practical man. When something moved. He believed a human or a animal had moved it. In other words. He did not believe in ghosts. When the Lombardo's said they weren't doing anything, he thought one of them was lying. He wanted to examine the house. Then he wanted to talk to some experts to see what they think. (The ghost busters where not invented at the time)
Tuesday, February 11. The bottle of holy water that had been opened a week ago. Spilled. When they set it back up. It spilled again.
Saturday, February 15. Tom, nancy, and a relative where watching tv (maby Saturday night live) when a small porcelain statue rose up from a table. It flew three feet through the air. Then fell to the rug breaking.
Monday, February 17. A priest blessed the Lombardo's house to protect it against whatever was causing the trouble.
Thursday, February 20. While Tom was doing his homework at one end of the dinning room table when a sugar bowl at the other end flew into a the hall and crashed. Detective Briggs saw it happen. Later a bottle of ink on the table flew into a wall and broke. Then another porcelain statue took off. It traveled twelve feet and smashed into a desk.
Friday, February 21. To get some peace, the Lombardo's went to a relatives house. While they where gone. Everything at home was normal.
Sunday, february 23. When the Lombardo's returned, another sugar bowl took off. It flew into a wall and smashed to smithereens. Later a heavy bureau in Tom's room room toppled over. But no one was on the room when it happened.
By now Detective Briggs had talked to an engineer, a chemist, a physicist, and others. Some thought that vibrations in the house where causing the trouble. These could come from underground water, or high frequency radio waves, or from sonic booms caused by airplanes. Others said that the electrical system was the cause, or downdrafts coming through the chimney. The popping bottles was blamed on chemicals the bottle contained.
Tests showed that there where no vibrations in the house, there was nothing wrong with the electrical system, and there where no chemicals in the bottles that would make them pop.
Then what was causing the trouble? None of the experts knew. But every day the Lombardo's received dozens of letters and phone calls from people who thought they knew. Many believed that the house was haunted. They thought that a poltergeist was on the loose. The noisy ghost that is blamed when things move around on there own.
No one has proved that poltergeists exist. But people have been telling stories about them for a while.
Detective Briggs did not believe in poltergeists. He had begun to believe that Tom Lombardo might be to blame. Whenever something happens. Tom was usually in the room. When he accused Tom of causing the trouble. He denied it. " I don't know what's going on. All I know is that it scares me." Tom had said. He believed tom. Only now he didn't know what to think.
Tuesday, February 25. A news paper reporter came to the house. All that happened was a bottle of bleach popping and tipping over.
Wednesday, February 26. In the mourning a small plastic statue of the virgin mary rose up from a dresser. Crashing to the floor. That night. While Tom was doing his homework, a ten pound record player took off from a table. Flew fifteen feet, then crashed to the floor as well.
Friday, February 28.Two scientists arrived from duke university in North Carolina. They spent lots if days talking to the family and examining the house, trying to understand what was going on and what was causing it. One night a bottle of bleach popped its top, again, but that was all that happened durning there visit.
Monday. March 3. The parapsychologis said that they would prepare a report on what they had learned.
Tuesday. March 4. In the afternoon a bowl of flowers flew off the dining room table and smashed into a cupboard. Then a bottle of bleach jumped out of a cupboard. Then a bottle popped its top. Then a bookcase filled with encyclopedias fell over and wedged itself between a radiator and a wall. Then a flashlight bulb on a table rose up and hit a wall twelve feet away. Finally, four knocks where heard coming from the kitchen when nobody was in that room.
Wednesday, March 5. While mrs. Lombardo was making breakfast, she heard a load crash coming from the living room. When she git there. A chair was flipped over. And from that day on. Not one more thing happened.
In August the parapsychologists gave there report. They said that the never imagined it. That it was all real. And they did say that it was a real poltergeist. But it could have been a lot worse.
