{"id":37468,"date":"2023-10-29T23:14:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T04:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=37468"},"modified":"2023-10-29T23:14:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T04:14:16","slug":"what-really-caused-me-to-run-from-a-haunted-house-long-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=37468","title":{"rendered":"What really caused me to run from a \u2018haunted house\u2019 long ago?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Hill-House.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37469\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Hill-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Hill-House.jpg 920w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Hill-House-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Hill-House-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a story that I didn\u2019t talk about for years, because I\u2019m a rational person who\u2019s never been inclined to believe in anything so inexplicably supernatural. Anything that happened had to have a natural explanation \u2014 or so I thought until I lived in this house.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a slightly longer version of this story here about 10 years ago, but I still don\u2019t understand what happened. I thought it was an appropriate \u201cghost story\u201d for Halloween \u2014 since it really happened to me.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, there were a couple of flies buzzing around while I was recording this, so if you think you see or hear something with wings during this video, I can assure you that you\u2019re not imagining that.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WLAU7A5qsAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video on YouTube<\/a> or you can watch the embedded version below.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WLAU7A5qsAA?si=rNmEKDFuJ48vOvM_\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a story that I didn\u2019t talk about for years, because I\u2019m a rational person who\u2019s never been inclined to believe in anything so inexplicably supernatural. Anything that happened had to have a natural explanation \u2014 or so I thought until I lived in this house. I wrote a slightly longer version of this <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=37468\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-9Kk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37472,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37468\/revisions\/37472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}