House In Dothan

I believe in ghosts and I have seen a few and I would like to share what I have seen.

I lived in Dothan Alabama for quite a few years before I finally escaped and moved to Maryland. My wife and I owned our house in Dothan and we loved it but it was I believe haunted. I won't say the exact address but it was on a street called Chadwick Cr. We purchased it around 2004 and lived there for two years. The lady we purchased it from was quite old and her daughter met us at the closing. We all drove over to the house and her mother was there to say goodbye to her neighbors. She was very kind and spoke with me about how she loved the house but could not walk up the stairs anymore and how she was glad that a family would be moving in. We have two boys and so the house was perfect for us. While she was speaking to me she started to mention her deceased husband and how he had died in the house, which is more common than not and did not freak us out really. She said "He was a Fred", by which she meant his name was of course Fred but it was an old southern lady speaking and sometimes they have a different way of saying things.

So we move in and get unpacked and we are really happy, the house originally had a sunroom in the back but they built a garage and connected it to the house. There was also a storage/workshop inside the garage which I liked since I could put all my tools and stuff in there. The family had left several items hanging on the walls and some of them were military in nature so I decided to honor that and leave them up.

Well so here is the freaky part, I was unable to get to sleep one night soon after we moved in and I decided to organize my junk in the storage room. The odd thing was it was super cold in there, anyone who has even passed through Dothan knows how crazy hot it is and it was summer and this night was no exception. Now I was in the storage room like I said and I could look into the house from where I was because the back door was open. The glass from the sun room was tinted which was the room the back door was connected to. So if you have the back door open you can see in but the sun room is blocked by the glass. Ok so I am looking in the direction of the back door and all of the sudden this tall old man walks right past the door and behind the glass that is tinted. My first thought is HOLY CRAP someone is in my house and he is tall and just should not be there.

I grabbed an aluminum softball bat and ran in the house looking for this joker. He was not in the sunroom which was weird. He was nowhere down stairs and the windows and doors were locked and closed and I rushed up stairs to check the kids rooms and nothing! So I go back down stairs and lock the back door and go out the front to look around outside and no one was there. That's when I remembered Fred! I got a little spooked so I went back inside and went to bed. I told my wife the next morning and after she calmed down we both decided it must have been him.

We have since come to the conclusion that he was just giving us a once over and telling us he accepted us because we never saw him again but I never got a bad feeling in that house but you knew something was there. Eventually the storage room stopped being cold and returned to normal, maybe he finished his honey-do list. Anyways we did see and hear a few other things but I don't think it was him. I will have to share that some other time.

Thanks for reading!