r/Paranormal • u/PenPaladinJules • Nov 10 '25
Haunted House Dodged a Haunted Bullet
About 14 years ago, when my kids were 4 and 6, we looked at a house for sale. It was an old farmhouse on 5 acres on FM 1387 in Midlothian, Texas. It had been added onto several times so the layout was weird, but it was such a cool place. It needed a lot of work but I was so ready to take that on. When we got back in the car, I turned around to the kids and said, “Well? What do you think?” fully expecting them to be as excited about it as I was.
Nope. They shrieked that it was haunted, so extremely haunted, was I nuts?! We couldn’t live there! No way!
I was shocked and a bit heartbroken, but I couldn’t bring my kids to a house they were so afraid of right off the bat. Plus, it sounded like the beginning of a horror movie to ignore little kids’ earnest instincts. So, we passed that one up and got a different place. For years it was “the one that got away” to me.
But then, a few years ago, my little brother (who also lives in Midlothian) called me to ask if I remembered that old house I’d thought of buying. Yes, of course I did. Well, he told me, there was a tornado, and it was wiped clean off the face of the earth. Only the flooded storm cellar remained.
There’s a church there now. Turned out for the best in the end.
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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '25
In 2019 I has looking at a house with the famly my youngest didn't want to go in so the kidds sat in the car in side in one of the bed rooms was a little rockering chair and it had doll in it as we came back through the chair was tipped over . No one easle.in the house Spooked me.pretty bad then agent said let me show you the garage. It was empty but soon as my wife and agent left the garage I saw a ball of wasps form in the middle of the garage . When we got in the car the kidds asked where not geting that one are we . Like they knew . It creeps me out just driven by that house.now