Angela Rhodes doesn't care if you believe in ghosts or not . . . There's no way you'll get her to stay alone in the 1,300-square-foot house she recently inherited from her parents.
"It's an odd feeling," she tells KHOU reporter Sherry Williams. "If I come in here I can be doing something and it's like something's just following me."
"It's like something's just following me."
Neighbors and relatives long have agreed that all is not right in the small 1950s bungalow near Wayside and the North Loop. "When my sister moved out she said she always heard kids running in this hallway," Rhodes explains, adding that no children lived in or near the house at the time.
In the den, an unknown entity seems to draw people's attention to a particular window. In the bathroom, odd flames have been spotted. They leave an odor but do not appear to burn anything in the room. Recent visitors have reported seeing a tea cup fly from the kitchen microwave to a nearby sink.
After a series of blessings from a local preacher, the unexplained phenomena persisted.
Ghostbusters Jump In
Enter area ghost hunters John O'Dell and Yvonne Tallman, who respectively operate the non-profits groups Other Side Paranormal Investigations and Pasadena Ghost Research Society. The current tenants were asked to leave the home for an evening, while the pair attempted to capture hard evidence or debunk the claims.
O'Dell and Tallman's free-of-charge investigations are meant to help families better understand their home environments and quell any fears.
"We had 23 EVP recordings [mysterious disembodied voices] after just three hours," O'Dell tells CultureMap. "It was such an active site and there was absolutely no one else around except us."
He says the night's most memorable event happened as they stepped out of the house to take pictures of an adjacent vacant lot, which neighborhood residents also suspect to be haunted.
"All of a sudden, inside the house we heard those noisy springs of the attic door — and then thump-thump-thump-thump. The ladder had come down and it really sounded like someone was climbing on it. We were lucky enough to capture it on two different audio recorders."
Rhodes says she still feels uncomfortable in the home, but remains optimistic that the strange activity will slow or stop. O'Dell notes that he and Tallman remain committed to the project.
Whether you believe in ghosts or not, check out the full KHOU Ch. 11 report . . . It's awesome:
Homeowner Angela Rhodes
