My ghost story is actually three stories that happened over a fifteen year period, I am a big fan of the Scifi channel's "Ghost Hunters" I haven't missed a wednesday night for three years. The first time I saw a ghost I was about twelve, I was spending some time at a friends house and helping his stepfather work on a house they recently purchased and had moved about a mile from its original location. The home originally sat on a corner of a county road and IH35 in my hometown of Round Rock, Texas.

This area is completely different today than it was 33 years ago, today that area is a major toll road but amazingly enough the house that was moved remains. My friend and I had left the house his stepfather was renovating and walked back to his house which was directly across the road, the houses were separated by about 300 yards. My friends mother made us lunch and we were walking back when we saw the ghost. This was broad daylight and the middle of the summer and as we approached the house we could clearly see a woman in the attic area of the house cleaning a small window, as we got closer we could see her wave at us.

When we reached the house we told my friends stepfather we were going to help my friends mom in the attic cleaning the windows, he informed us that his mom wasn't at the house she was at their house! That's when it hit us that we had left his mother in the other house cleaning the kitchen, we all kind of looked at each other and went up the stairs, when we got into the attic that little window was dirty!A little more about this house in a bit.

When I was a senior in High School my parents left me alone at our house for a week while they went on a little vacation, I am the youngest of four children and all my siblings had moved out several years before. The closest sibling I had in the area was about 60 miles away attending college so I was really alone. The home I grew up in was built new for our family and was pretty large (about 4000 sq ft) it had five bedrooms and three bathrooms and sat on about 3 acres. My parents told me to have anybody I wanted to spend the week with me so I asked a couple of friends to spend the week.

My friend Jeff was the only one who could stay all week so we spent a lot of time in town hanging out with other friends. My parents were very adamant as I was growing up about making sure all the lights were off when we would leave the house, So every time we left I made the rounds to make sure they were off, but every time we came home at least one light would be on. This happened every time we went to town, I called my sister to see if she had come home and she said she hadn't, my two brothers were not even in the State so I know it wasn't them.

These things had never happened before so we just figured the other was playing a trick. This led to us telling each other ghost stories, I told Jeff about the window cleaning ghost and naturally he said Bullshit! Well we managed to scare each other pretty good and decided to sleep in the same room that night. After this week was over I never again had these light problems and if Jeff was the culprit he never admitted it.

About six years later I am a Police Officer going through my first divorce, I have a son who is 18 months and I have custody of him temporarily. I decided that I would get with my buddy Jeff who also happens to be a Police Officer for a different Department and go out! I ask my Patrol Sgt who is a female if she knows anybody who would be willing to babysit my boy, she gives me the number of her sons high school girlfriend and I make arrangements to drop him off at her parents house.

So Jeff, my son and I head over to the babysitters house. From the directions I was given I knew I was in the same area of the house with the window cleaning ghost but I never thought it would be the same house, but it was! As we are pulling up the long driveway I tell Jeff that this was the house with the ghost that I had told him about, he kinda nods a whatever nod. We go up to the door and I am talking with the parents of the young lady about when I will pick my son up, Jeff comes over and asks them if they have ever seen anything strange in the house, they both immediately reply "Oh yeah all the time!"

I ask them what they have seen and they both say at about the same time "well, we have a woman who likes to clean the upstairs window!"I must have looked pretty stupid standing there with my mouth open but not as stupid as Jeff who looked like he had just seen a ghost! Needless to say I asked if it would be OK if their daughter watched my son at my house!

Now this last story is a little odd and I still wonder exactly what I had in my home, I had remarried and my new wife was about 5 years younger than my 28. I never really got to know my new wife that well before we got married, I found out later that she had some severe problems. We moved into a new apartment and immediately strange things started to occur, once I came into the living room after taking a shower and I heard my wife saying something so I walked in to the kitchen and asked her what she had said she responded "I'm not talking to you!"

Ok cue the theme for the twilight zone!

I asked her who else was there to talk to? She said I was talking to myself, Okaaaaaay!

By this time my 1st wife had custody of my son and he would come stay with us every weekend. We set him up his own little room with all the stuff he liked but no matter what he would not play in there or sleep in there, every time I asked him why he wouldn't stay he said "the lady daddy, the lady!" One night I was watching TV in my recliner it was just my wife and I there, I saw a shadow on the wall to my right in the perfect outline of a woman and heard a woman's voice say something, thinking it was my wife I turned to look at her and their was nobody there, I checked on my wife and she was sound asleep in our bedroom.

We separated not too long after that and I was never so glad to get rid of her and her friend in that house, I have lived ghost free since then but I still every once in a while go by the house with the window cleaning ghost, but I haven't seen her in 33 years, and actually I haven't missed her or that second wife too much!