When I had first started dating my husband his grandparents were still alive. His parents had remodeled the one room house that had belonged to his deceased uncle so that they could move his grandparents in instead of sending them to a nursing home.

A good point to keep in mind right now is that during the time the house was being added on to my husband forgot to re-attach the grounding rod to the house and the house which was made with concrete blocks was struck by lightning. (Ghosts are typically made up of electrical fields and use the electrical fields to be active.) I'm thinking that this accident of his must have given our house an electrical charge.

After his grandparents had died everything seemed normal. Shortly afterwards he moved into the house. A few months later the activity started. It began with hearing doors slam while they were shut, and the times while he was in the bed he heard someone walking around. He assumed it was his parents in the kitchen playing cards since they hadn't stopped using our house for their daily game yet. They claimed they had never been over during those times.

On one particular day during the summer the thermostat had gotten turned way up. We couldn't figure out why it was so hot until we had seen it. Other physically odd occurrences include the night that the portable phone that has a caller id display was constantly having the number 8 pressed and the time that my husband's watch was thrown at me.

My mother-in-law had heard noises in the attic that stopped when my father-in-law was around and started back when he went away. It was during that time period that she had discovered that it was my husband's grandmother haunting our house. When she asked, "Maw is that you?" The noises stopped completely. She took that as a yes.

Her presence has been felt in several rooms. The wall where her bed was seems to have a highly electric feel to it. I try to stay away from it. When my husband had our bed by that wall I refused to sleep on the side closest to the wall.

Everyone that has stayed over night at our house has experienced the ghost when we all went to bed. A friend of mine who had stayed at my house during the day was bothered by terrifying loud noises starting at the back of my house and making its way forward.

Throughout all of this we have discovered that she has come back to protect us. From a towel left on a burner that was left on while my husband was asleep that should have caught on fire to the fire that was right beside my house that we slept through that was close enough to hit our house she was the one who protected us. She also watches over my goddaughter when she is staying with me.

Also, when my goddaughter stays with me she usually becomes very fussy when its bed time. She stares at the wall where Maw's bed was and starts pointing and jabbering at it. About that time the cat goes crazy all over the room. I believe my cat also sees her.

I've gotten used to her and enjoyed her company since she is such a pleasant ghost to be around. Knowing that she's been protecting us has always been a plus. I'm sad now in a way because it feels like she's in the middle of moving on from our house now.