I was a live-in nanny for a couple that lived in a beautiful house in the Herron-Morton area downtown. They were renovating the house, which had been split into several apartments. I lived in what had been the maids quarters on the 3rd floor.

I had lived with the family for about 3 months when I began to hear things. At first, I would hear the sound of children whispering and giggling in the hallway. I thought it might be the boys I was caring for, but they would always be fast asleep when I checked. The next thing I heard was the sound of someone opening the side door and walking downstairs. When I would check, no one would be there. The mother also heard this, so we would make sure we identified ourselves when we came in so the other would not be freaked out. The father (being a HUGE skeptic) thought we were weird. This went on until it happened to him. He heard someone come in, walk around the downstairs and then stop. He thought I had come back for something, but I was at the zoo with the boys.

I would also be woken up by the sound of a baby crying. The youngest was about 3 months old when I started working for the family, so at first I thought it was him. I found out that it wasn't always him when the family went on vacation. I woke up to the sound of the baby crying and couldn't figure out why the Mom and Dad weren't getting up. I then got out of bed and started downstairs when it hit me that the family was in Texas and not even home. It was then that the baby's cries stopped. This happened off and on every time the family went out of town.

The Mother reported the most chilling event. She had come home from a business trip. When she opened the door, she heard a child's voice yell from upstairs "Mommy's home!" She went running upstairs only to discover that no one was home.

The house caught fire the weekend after I moved out. The fire Department said that it looked like the fire had smoldered for a long time. It broke out about 20 minutes after the Mother left to run errands. If I had still been living with the family, the youngest child would have been napping at the time the fire broke. He would have been in his room at the back of the house and I would have either been in the kitchen under him or the living room at the front of the house. The fire would have cut me off from getting to him. As it was, he was safe in day care and I was his teacher, having only gotten the job a week before. The family moved out of the house and sold it. I don't know the new owners, so I don't know if they have heard "my kids" as I called them.

Sarah Kennedy
 

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