True Ghost Stories

The witch house

July 6, 2014 |  8 comments
Image Credit: CC BY 2.0 Thomas Geersing Back in 1994 I was working with a seismograph crew in North Central Texas about 30 miles to the northeast of Midland Texas. The job would take us walking for miles through the countryside laying out cables and equipment. One day we came across an abandoned farm house out in the middle of nowhere. The house was a one story stucco with a long front porch, broken windows and several oak trees. In the oak trees hung small dried animal carcasses of reptiles and rodents that are found in the area.The strangest thing about the building however was the paintings that covered it. The paintings were a graffiti of strange symbols and writings that I did not recognize or understand and had never seen before. Even though we could see that the building was only a hollow shell, none of us would dare go in. One of the workers had a camera and took a picture of the house.

Shortly after that I left Texas and didn't see any of those workers for a long time and never really thought of that house. Two years later I was working in Gillette WY, when I met the worker that had taken the picture. After work I went to visit him in his motel room. He took a bunch of pictures out of the work we did in Texas. At one point of going through the pictures, he asked if I remembered the old witch house I came across. I told him I did and he pulled it out and showed it to me. I couldn't believe or understand what I saw. The house and trees were in the picture, but the strange paintings that covered the house were not there. All I saw was an old tan stucco house.

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