I know spirits do exist! This is going to be long, but sorry, this IS TRUE!
Back in 1979-80 I was about 19 years old, my wife, (ex now), her sister, her sisters husband and I went to the brother in-laws friends house he worked with in False River La on a Saturday as they were having a cooking out. His friends wife has always burnt food when cooking and would even burn water over the years I knew them! They had rented and moved into this house, (which was built sometime in the 1930's I am guessing), a couple of months before we went there for the cookout. From the road you could not see the house as it had a lot of trees and shrubries all around the house especially in front if it and tall trees.
As we hung out drang beer and partied a little, (not getting hammered just lightly drinking), me and the guys were outside just hanging out and Danny, (my brother-in-law), asked his buddy when he was going to start cooking. His buddy said his wife was going to cook inside and of course both Danny and I looked at him and commented that the food will be burnt! Well, Jessie commented on since they moved in the house, his wife cooks and nothing gets burned adn he didn't have to help out or watch over his wife. Danny and I commented how did she all of a sudden learn how to cook all of a sudden? Jessie said that his wife still even forgets to turn the stove or oven off or take food out when it was done cooking and all of a sudden remember the food would probably be burnt and run in the kitchen.
His wife would come back in the kitchen and find the stove or oven off and the food was never taken out or burned. His wife even went to him and asked if he had turned the stove off the first time it happened because he was home when it happened. He stated no he was outside. Figuring he was playing a joke on her she blew if off. It wasn't until most of the time she was the only one in the house cooking and Jessie would be gone at work or somewhere and she would remember food being cooked and come running back in the kitchen and find all the knobs on the oven and stove turned off and the food cooked just right.
As we, (the guys), were walking around the yard drinking beer, I noticed a well on the side of the house at the end of the yard and it was full of dirt wiith grass growing on it nad commented to Jessie he needed to cut the grass on the well as it was pretty high with a 3 foot brick round wall around the well. I asked Jessie about the well and of course he commented that the previous owner or someone probablt filled it up because they went to a well with an electric pump to get the water out of the ground when electric water pumps were made available for well water.
Jessie even commented that in the middle of the night since they moved in they would hear a rocking chair sound, (they did not own a rocking chair), or lights going off and on and different times of the night when they were sleeping, footsteps, doors close and such. I didn't think much of it and I was sort of in disbelief of what Jessie was saying. Jessie had told me and Danny that after a month of living there and the strange things happening he and his wife just got used to it and he later inquired of older people, (who could be grandparents to some at the time who lived near by in the time the house was built and who lived near it), who lived around that house for many years at the time. Jessie later learned the owner of the house was a distant relative of the previous owner, who he and his family just disappeared one day summer day.
Jessie said he was told by an old woman, (in her 80's), that still lived about a mile away from the house that she stated to him she was born in her house that she still lived in at the time. The old woman told Jessie that sometime during the late 1930's a family who lived there just disappeared. Back then neighbors would sometimes go visit neighbors down the road, (as many neighbors owned a lot of land and the closest neighbor could be anywhere from 1-2 miles apart), just to get out of the house, do some socializing, or borrow something. When one of the neighbors went to the house one day he didn't see or could find his friend, (the man, his wife, and his 2 children), and walked the property calling out the husbands name and to no avail got no answer. The husbands car was still in the driveway and it was their only mode of transportation.
Then the man saw that the wood door was open to the house knocked and when no answer came he opened the screen door and walked in and saw no sign of no one but saw food on the stove that was cooking, (like someone was preparing dinner as some of the stew ingrediants were still on the counter), but the burners were turned off. Things in the house looked like the family just walked out. The dinner plates were on the table and the radio was on and kids toys were about. According to the story the old woman told Jessie it was like one minute the family was there, dropped everything adn then just disappear.
Thinking the worse, the man called the police and the Sherriff and a couple of his deputies came out and investigated and of course hours later other neighbors, (when news got around), they all formed a search party to look for the family. For the next day or two no one heard or knew anything that happened to the family, much less the Sherriffs finding any evidence of foul play. Weeks went by and still no signs of the family. Some of the relatives that got word that lived in the areas of Baton Rouge and Lafayette and other parts not far. Came to the house.
One of the neighbors that used to frequent the family noticed that the well was fully covered with dirt. Nieghbors who had frequently visited the family prior stated that the man, (husband), had talked about filling up the well with dirt to prevent his children from falling in it and getting hurt as they were not using the well anymore. Nothing was ever mentioned about digging out the dirt being several neighbors mentioned the husband was going to fill it in. So everyone just blew it off.
Well, I was still in disbelief about the whole story until that night after we ate dinner and a couple of days afterwards!
Here is WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO ME! Later after dinner, we sat in the living room, (as it was already dark outside), and talked and hung out so to speak. I got up to go to the bathroom and when I got about halfway across the living room something grabbed me around my neck and was choking me and I could not see anything but darkness as if my eyes were closed. I was grabbing whatever was wrapped around my neck trying to break whatever loose and then all of a sudden it released and I was able to see and standing in the middle of the living room. Everyone sitting in the living room had this shocked look on their faces, (when I was able to see), and asked what the F happened. I told them something stopped me and was choking me! Danny made a joking comment maybe it was the beer nad laughed about it. They thought I was playing around!
My attitude changed really quick and I said I was serious something was choking me. I didn't even go to the bathroom as I was in shock of what the heck happened. I insisted we leave. After within 30 minutes I did not feel right and I told my wife and in-laws I was ready to leave now and did not want to be there. They wanted to stay but I insisted and we left.
Then that night I could not sleep thinking about what happened earlier. Then 2 days later my wife and I with her sister went to pick up Jessies wife to go to New Roads and do some shopping. My sister-in-law drove as we went to pick up Jessies wife at her house.
We went to the Dollar General store and when we went to go check out, the sister-in-law and Jessies wife was in front of me and my wife. Of course I was standing behind my wife, when all of a sudden, something grabbed me around my neck and was choking me again and my eyes went black and I couldn't see anything. I was going off balance and reaching out to grab ahold of my wife to keep my balance calling her, and I was about to fall and I grabbed on to my wife, (so I thought), and then something released the grasp of my neck and I was able to see and I found I had grabbed onto a black boy in his teens that was behind me and he had this shock look on his face like I had been possessed and didn't know what to think! My wife had turned around just before I was let free of whatever it was that had me as she heard me calling for her. And of course she had the same expression on her face as she did the couple of nights before when we were at Jessies house.
My wife told her sister and Jessies wife about what happened again as we walked out of the store and my sister-in-law made the comment maybe I was having a siezure that I may need to go see a doctor. I told her it was no siezure and after we dropped of Jessies wife, I NEVER went to that house again, much less went around Jessie and his wife even if they came over to my brother-in-laws house. I would always leave if I knew they were coming over.
That was the only time something like that happened to me my entire life. I was 19 years old then and I remember it today like it was yesterday.
In the past 20 years I would think about it and about 18 years ago I was going to Baton Rouge and I made a detour to go through New Roads and False River and tried finding the old house and never could find it as the scenery had changed.
About 8 years ago I tried going to Google Earth and locate the house and property and all I can find is some new houses built in that area that the old house must have been torn down, and a new one put up, and trees and shrubs cleared out. I even tried locating property where the well would have been and to no avail. I belive whoever bought the property probably tore down the brick wall outlining the well and leveled the dirt.
My gut feeling over all those years and remembering what Jessie said he found out about the property, I kept thinking about the well. I kept thinking that maybe the man killed his wife and kids and threw them in the well, or whomever killed the man and his family and threw them in the well and filled it in with dirt, disappeared, and the spirits still lingured on the property.
I don't know!
I know there must have been some sort of violence on that property!