“No! I don’t want to sleep in the spare bedroom! Little Ike’s in there!” I’m getting the feeling that you are fairly confused right now. Allow me to explain later on. Haunted Houses are fun things to go to maybe once or twice a year, but almost every month for about five days a month? You gotta be kidding me! It scared my socks off as a little kid. Para-normalcy can definitely affect anyone’s life pretty easily.
Now is the time to explain about our little friend that lived in my grandma’s house for as long as the mirror stayed in there. His proper name would be Little Ike. The family that lived in the house before my grandparents bought it was called the Ikenberries. They were a family of three with about a five-year-old boy. Now one day this boy fell down the stairs, broke his neck and died. His ghost forever haunts that staircase, and the room right by it, the spare bedroom.
Stories my Uncle Phil and grandma have said include ones like Ike was obsessed with the mirror in the spare bedroom and sometimes would just sit there for hours and stare at it. Thus is the reason that I never wanted to sleep in the spare bedroom due to the fact that the entire room was haunted. My cousins and I would play games in that room just to make it more scary. Which of course I hated it since I was still afraid of the dark and the extra creepiness of the room just added to the wetting of my pants. Just kidding, I never wet my pants as a child. Anyway, this room was just one of the things that tormented my childhood at grandma’s.
The second thing I loved and hated at the same time was the Stoneking Cemetery. This Cemetery is a tourist attraction that people go to visit because it is haunted. I have gone once at night and once during the day. The night visit might have been my scariest experience I have ever been apart of. As we drove to the cemetery in Williamson, Iowa, we made our stops at the many different parts of this attraction. The first stop was a schoolhouse which was abandoned. Rumors have been told that say on Friday the 13th, the schoolhouse gets flipped upside down. As my uncle, brother and I walked through the gate, we suddenly felt a chill. The swings on the swing-set were swaying back and forth. The next few parts are not important so I will skip ahead to the cemetery part.
The cemetery is fairly small, only about thirty tombs. The largest tomb is owned by the infamous Joseph Stoneking. According to my uncle Tom, Joseph was supposedly a worshiper of the devil and murdered numerous people who believed in God. Joseph has haunted the cemetery ever since he died. When I went there, my uncle told me that if a stood in this certain spot right above where Joseph was buried, aka the cursed ground, I would become delirious and begin to see the devil and become hypnotized. So of course I wanted nothing to do with that so I told my uncle no way. This experience was very frightening and I wanted nothing to do with it ever again.
Some people don’t believe in paranormal activity, but I definitely do. Ever since these stories have been tormenting my life, I have believed and feared with all my heart. Going to Stoneking has always been a tradition for my mom’s side of the family and has always been a fun one. Also the Little Ike mirror is very famous among my family and always will be. The mirror got moved to our house since my grandma moved in. So beware the next time you come to my house. Little Ike may just come out and scare you just like he did at my grandma’s house in Iowa.
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