Spending the night at a haunted house

     I recently spent the night in a haunted house in Upland, California. The house was built in 1902 and has a long history of tragic deaths, which has given it a reputation for being haunted. One of the most well-known spirits in the house is that of a beautiful woman who suffered from a terrible disease that distorted her appearance before eventually causing her death. According to the owners, this is the ghost that is most active. People have reported hearing the sound of glass breaking, loud footsteps on the stairs, and strange, knocking with no clear source. One of the eeriest phenomena is the occasional appearance of a mysterious gray liquid dripping from the ceiling, though it never hits the floor, and no one has been able to explain where it comes from.

     The current residents have their own stories to tell. One woman claimed to have seen an apparition while turning a corner in the house; it was only the lower half of a body, which makes it even more unsettling. She has also woken up to see the ghost of a man standing at the foot of her bed on more than one occasion. There’s a constant feeling of unease that seems to hang in the air.

     As much as I felt that discomfort, I didn’t witness any ghostly activity that night. I took plenty of photos, but there were no strange anomalies or orbs. Still, I don’t doubt the house is haunted yet this time, the spirits were quiet.

     Even though I didn’t get any concrete evidence during this visit, I might return to try using EVP or other ghost-hunting tools to communicate with the spirits. Something about the house makes it impossible to dismiss its haunted reputation. For now, I believe it’s haunted, even if I didn’t capture proof that night.

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The sound I searched many years to find.

                                      

     Once upon a time... in the nineties, I had somehow found a Halloween cassette that I found myself really liking and I liked it so much that I continued to play it all year long. (This Halloween tape was the kind that had music and sound effects on it to create background for a haunted house or a Halloween party). I loved the atmosphere that it created as I played it in the background as I went about my everyday business of chores and homework and what not. 

     Unfortunately, I lost that tape and could not remember the name or where I had gotten it in order to replace it. For years, I would buy Halloween tapes hoping that I would come across a tape like the one I had loved so much. I even remember one of my dear friends lovingly teasing me for listening to such "cheesy" or "cringe" music. 

     Well, twenty years later I finally found the sound I was looking for. I had long given up on trying to find a great Halloween cd until I saw one called Midnight Syndicate 13th hour. Taking a quick look at the back of the cd, I had a good feeling that this could possibly be the sound I was looking for. The moment I played it I was so excited. It was indeed what I was looking for all those years. in fact, the album was really very good and I was so happy that I had went with my intuition and bought it. 

     With the name of the cd I went online and researched and found a few other albums that had this kinda Halloween atmospheric sound. I discovered that it is called a few things but I think that the most common ones I saw were dark neoclassical, neoclassical ambient wave, dark ambient, or neoclassical dark wave. 

     I have started listening to these albums and I find this music so relaxing and interesting. I think that I will have a collection of this music in no time. 

     I am including a list of the groups I really like that I have found for anyone who may be interested. I am including albums I think are Neoclassical dark wave and Neoclassical ambient wave . However, my apologies if I have put any of these bands/groups in the wrong genres.

 

Midnight Sanctuary

Nox Arcana

Lustmord

 Danzig- Black Aria (this album specifically)

 

Update : I found the name of the cassette. It is the 1990 version of Pumpkin Time's Chamber of Horrors sold by Kmart in the 1990s. There is supposedly a CD version of this recording but the running times don't match. I think I'm going to try to get a hold of one and see if its the same. There is more information about this cassette on my Recommended links page. Scroll to the bottom to check out the links.