BellGabbers Own Ghost Stories

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Bought a little 2 bedroom house in Balmorhea, TX around 1999, on the lake road. After answering a knock on my door a few times with nobody there, I thought I was a victim of pranks. I asked a local what she knew about my place after explaining what happened, and she said the former owner, a retired border patrol agent, used to visit her office and look out the window trying to "catch the little bastards that were banging on his doors and walls". He was so determined to stop them, he built a 6.5' high wood fence around the whole property that a jack rabbit couldn't get through and piled small river rocks 2' high around the foundation to keep them from getting under the house. He finally just bailed and sold the place for the outstanding price of $17,000!...to me. Found another local, Maggie, whose late mother lived there for decades. She would call and have her daughter come over because she thought somebody was trying to get in, nobody was ever seen. So I went on one of the Google forums and was contacted by a medium who told me my house was haunted by 3 ghosts, a slender Hispanic man in his late 50's, a little girl who hung around the bathroom and a cat. She said that they harassed the previous owner because of how much it bothered him, but they liked me because I always did my dishes....OooooKaaaaayy.. So I asked Maggie and she said the Hispanic man had to be her uncle, another former resident and that the knocking can sometimes occur because of the fact money could be buried there, which her uncle did with coffee cans full of change. My cousins visited 1 weekend with their dogs and complained about my obnoxious neighbors that were knocking on their bedroom window last night... I asked, since the dogs were outside all night, if the dogs would have barked? They replied that the dogs, pit bulls, would have left a mark and barked like mad. Told them the place was haunted and they immediately left. We peacefully coexisted for almost a decade before I sold this great little place in a town, with great people,  I adored. Only time I put my foot down was when something sat on the bed next to me....that was too much, and after I asked that to stop, it never happened again. Not all hauntings have to be complained about......