The Dead Room


by: Ron Sandler (RSandler@megaweb.com)

I've told this one several times, and it is true. It is partially folklore, and partially a personal experience for I have witnessed the paranormal phenomena.

So here it is.

Amhurstberg, Ontario is a love, sleepy, old community on the Detroit River. An hour away from a large metropolitan area, and it still seems to be caught in an era from a previous century.

One of my best friends at the time, Patti H., still lived with her parents while she was attending the University of Windsor. Her parents bought an old, turn-of-the-century farm house with a store front to house her father's jewelry shop. Patti owned two very large sheep dogs and the move to a large house in the country was welcomed by all of them.

At first, the phenomena was viewed as an annoynance. There was a back bedroom that was always cold. No matter an addition space heater was added, the room remained bone-chilling cold.

Then, Patti noticed that neither one of her sheep dogs would enter the room. When forced, they would growl, put their ears back and leave as soon as allowed.

I was over, once, for dinner and they asked me, without explaining why, to enter the bedroom and tell me what I thought of the room(I had been part of a psychic experiment at Wayne State University in Detroit, and had been considered somewhat sensitive. I am an identical twin with an empathic link to my twin and have experienced visions on occasions). I obliged them, and was, "on edge" after I entered the room. I was chilled, and felt sad. I reported this to Patti and she reponded that was how they ALL felt about the bedroom. No one wanted to sleep in the room, or if they did, they had nightmares of a terrifying death.

Sparked by curiosity, we contacted the local Historical Society and found out that a woman had been brutally murdered, knifed to death by her jealous husband in that room, before he cut his wrists and bled to death on the floor!

Needless to say, after that, if the dogs didn't want to go into that bedroom, they didn't have to.

The room is now being used for storage.

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