Let's try this again
Although she was a hoarder I learned from the neighbors that she was also very kind to them. She gave candy to the kids and baked pies and cakes as well which is actually kind of gross since the place was infected with roaches and mice. YUCK!!!!
My DH and I went back many times over the next few weeks cleaning, meeting antique dealers, and also talking to the neighbors. They told me that a few years earlier her home was broken into and she was tied up by these robbers and they ransacked the place. One of the neighbors found her tied to a chair in her living room the following day her little dog sitting at her feet crying. After that, she hired someone to board up all of her windows for safety. How sad...
We talked about how we could "feel" someone watching over us as we continues to clean and empty out the house. This was not a bad feeling but it felt like she was just watching us as we worked.
After about a month or so we had things just about cleaned up but I kept having this nagging feeling like we had missed something. I was drawn to the staircase that went up to the apartment. I really cannot explain this feeling but I took a ladder and decided to look in a little open space above the first landing but didn't find anything. DH found me on the ladder and asked if I was crazy or just trying to break my neck. I told him about this "feeling" and he said that he would take a look. He found a small jewelry box with a DIAMOND RING tucked up inside this opening that I had been drawn to. We took it home and I showed my mom and she looked shocked and ask where I had got it from. I told her we found it hidden @ "J" house.
She then told me it was the engagement ring that my GF had given "J" when he asked her to marry him!!!!
On the final day we were there, I had an antique appliance dealer come out to pick up 2 really cool stoves. They looked like the ones that are on Rachel Ray and Everyone Love Raymondreally cool and from the 1930's. The dealer quickly took the one in the main kitchen and then when upstairs with DH to the apartment to remove the other. After a few minutes, they both came back down looking
REALLY PALE! The dealer quickly left (MORE LIKE RAN) and said he wasn't interested in the other stove and my DH really looked shook up. He would not talk about what happened upstairs and said that he was ready to leave and would
NEVER go back! Believe me
he is NOT a chicken or a wimp but something in the apartment scared the Cr@p out of them. The only thing he has ever said about it was that something evil was up there with them and they were NOT happy that their space was being disturbed.
We never did go back. My mom sold the place AS IS. DH has talked about the feeling that he got when he was upstairs a few times since then. I even heard him tell his buddy while sitting around a bon fire how creeped out he was. For a long time after all of this happened, I swear that I would feel "J" around me. At first it was quite a bit but as time when on it become less and less.
****Like I said in the beginning of this story~~~I am not a wack job! I swear that this really happened and if you really knew me and my DH you would know that it is entirely true!