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Kristi's Crypt

•  True Tales from The Mortuary by David A. Sitbon

   ©2003  Word Count: 1,200

  
  
  I am a PA licensed funeral director and embalmer. Here is my true story:
  When I was a full-time practicing funeral director, I worked in an old home that was built in the early 1800's. It was originally a grocery store which became a funeral home in the 1950's. Many times I would be asked to stay behind to mind the funeral home while the owners were out to answer the door and telphone.
  
  Manytimes, on the 2nd floor (their personal living quarters), as I was watching TV, I would see a person wearing beige clothes on the top of the steps in the corner of my eye. As quickly as I could turn my head and focus my eyes, the person would be gone...without a sound. Similarily, as I'm working in the office (in the basement) by myself at night with no one else in the entire funeral home (with the exception of perhaps some c), I would hear many footsteps above me, as if there were 20 or more people walking around with shoes on. I would quickly run up the stairs and shout "Hello!", never getting a response. I'd run into the viewing room which is directly above the basement office and it would be completely empty! After a few months of this happening, I approached the funeral home supervisor's wife and co-owner of the funeral home about these occurences. She said that they've experienced them too and agreed that it "just wasn't the old house settling". She said none of the images in their peripheral vision nor the noises ever acted in a threatening manner and never caused any harm, so they learned to live with them.


~The End~

Please do not republish without permission. Email the author:

Dave Sitbon, PA licensed Funeral Director

and visit his website:

http://www.geocities.com/nobtis5/Nobtis.html




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