A haunted house, tales of the betwixt & between

This story starts with an old empty (not entirely abandoned) house, which happens to be my next door neighbor of sorts. I believe the house in question has been vacant for over 15 years and was last occupied by an elderly woman before she became too old to live by herself and was moved to an assisted living home before she passed away. I look at this house frequently throughout the days and have sensed a watchfulness coming from it, a feeling of curiosity coming from behind the blinds.

Jump to October 20th, 2022 when my husband and I woke up at around 3am for a feeding and diaper change for our infant son. My husband’s side of the bedroom happens to faces the empty old house and he was the one to first notice and point out to me that there was a light on in the upstairs left window. A flickering light that neither of us had ever seen on in the house before. The best way to describe the pattern of the light looked as thought it was coming from an old black and white tv set. With our babe snug in my arms, we both stared out our bedroom window hypnotized by this mysterious and spooky flickering light. After we completed our late night baby routine and got ready to go back to sleep, my husband quickly took notice that the light was once again off.

While this spooky light is one I’ve looked for many times since, especially when we were still getting up at all hours of the night with our babe, I never saw it on again. I’ve been incredibly curious about the event since, pondering why it was on that night, even having shared the story with a variety of metaphysical folks to see if they could pick up anything around the house. It wasn’t until I found a moment to share the story with a member of the family who is now in the process of restoring the home and plans to live there himself, that I finally got clarity on what we witnessed. I learned the room we saw the flickering light coming from is completely empty, which came as no real surprise to me. However, it was formerly grandpa’s room, which he used to build and repair old televisions! I also learned at the end of his life both of his legs were amputated due to diabetes and he spent a significant amount of time in that room watching tv. While it wasn’t known by his grandson who provided me with this intel if his grandfather died in that house, it appears it is his spirit that I’ve been feeling watching me and let his presence be known that October. I’ve also learned from another neighbor down the street that she also saw a light on upstairs late one night. I’m curious what I’ll see this coming October and if the spirit will want to make itself known again. As the veil gets thinner with each day leading up to October 31st, it’s much easier for spirits to communicate and connect with us in the living world.

I hope you enjoyed this tale of the betwixt and between with the added confirmation that there’s more to life than meets the eye!

*Betwixt and between is not fully one thing or another, but rather the middle or in between. This liminal middle space is where we can connect to magick and the spirit realm.