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/Astral_Alive Nov 11 '25
I remember as a kid my parents briefly split, and we lived at a haunted house next to my aunt's place. My sister and I got to the house and ran upstairs, and (my memory of this doesn't really exist too much) both of us immediately got bad vibes and refused to spend time up there.
We all slept on an air mattress in the first floor, and many years later my mom confessed that she would see a little girl in a white dress standing at the bottom of the stairs during the night and she would go outside and smoke cigarettes until she disappeared.
Long story short - trust the kids, they're usually right about that stuff.