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Sherry sent me a message in 2016 telling me that she believed she and other family members had lived in a haunted house, and she wanted to know if I had ever heard anything about it. I hadn\u2019t. However, the little bit of info she gave me piqued my interest, and we eventually spoke on the telephone in 2017. I made copious notes, took photos of the house in question and then…got sidetracked with other stories for this website<\/p>\n
Now, though, it\u2019s time to tell her story.<\/p>\n
Sherry says the story began with her grandpa, Carl Hodges, who bought the house. Although Sherry wasn’t sure of the exact year, she\u2019s pretty sure her grandparents were already living there when she was born in 1964.<\/p>\n
Grandpa Hodges\u2019 first eerie experience in the house occurred while he was doing electrical work in a closet and glimpsed a woman with long, dark hair. He thought it was his granddaughter, Debra Boothe, and began talking to her. However, when he turned around, the woman was gone.\u00a0 He nicknamed this ghost Lucy, and that\u2019s the name the rest of the family ended up using.<\/p>\n
Sherry said that over the years her grandmother occasionally heard the sound of their piano and would say out loud, \u201cLucy, stop!\u201d The piano would then go silent.<\/p>\n
Around 1972, after her grandparents moved out, Sherry and her family moved into the upstairs of the house while a great aunt lived downstairs. When her great aunt later moved out, Sherry\u2019s family had the run of the whole house.<\/p>\n
During that time she lived there, Sherry heard the sound of footsteps on the stairs and experienced lights turning themselves off and on.<\/p>\n
She also heard tapping on the walls. Sometimes, Sherry even responded to the noises:<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say something like, \u2018Tap on the ceiling.\u2019 And then there would be a tap, tap, tap<\/em>. And then I would say, \u2018Okay, now stop.\u2019 It would stop.\u201d<\/p>\n She said she was never particularly scared of Lucy, but she also admitted that, unlike her grandpa, she never actually saw the ghost either.<\/p>\n Other family members heard noises as well. Her mother, for example, also heard the sound of footsteps going up and down the stairs. When I asked her about her dad, she said that he saw things, too, but was a bit more skeptical and generally unwilling to ascribe their experiences in the house to the supernatural.<\/p>\n When Sherry and her family moved out of the house around 1977, her aunt and uncle, Bill and Loretta Markley, moved in with their growing family. They, too, had disconcerting experiences in the house. Loretta said that she was once taking a bath and afterwards couldn\u2019t leave the bathroom because some mysterious power was keeping the door locked. Another time, one of Loretta and Bill\u2019s daughters, Elizabeth \u201cMissy\u201d Ward, saw something fly off of the wall.<\/p>\n The Markleys moved out in \u201885 or \u201886. Since the new occupants weren\u2019t part of Sherry\u2019s family, she stopped hearing stories about the house.<\/p>\n According to family lore, the house, which was built in 1900, caught on fire at one point and a woman died. This was why Sherry had contacted me; she wanted to know if I was familiar with such a story.\u00a0 However, I was unable to find any records of an incident like this.<\/p>\n Sherry left Marion in 1988 and moved down to the Piketon area and then on to Columbus, which is where she resides today.<\/p>\n She hasn\u2019t been in Marion in years since she has few relatives still living here. All Sherry has are her memories. Of her family. Of the house on Scranton Avenue. And of Lucy.<\/p>\n ~Josh Simpkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Your past stays with you, for better or for worse. Every now and then, a memory flits through Sherry Mullins\u2019 mind. Like the creak of a floorboard in the middle of the night, the memory is unexpected and perhaps not always welcome. Memories of the house. The house on Scranton Avenue where she lived as […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-ghosts-and-hauntings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2758,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}