Ten years ago my husband and I purchased a building in Honesdale, Pennsylvania with plans on opening a restaurant.

We were able to get an excellent bargain on the building as it had been the recent site of a murder of a well-liked area man.  After closing the deal, we had lots of work to do before we could even begin to think about a restaurant.  The bullet holes were still in the walls, blood stains remained on the carpets.

Finally, completing the restoration, the building housed both the restaurant and an apartment where we lived with our two young sons, ages 4 and 6 at the time.

After we opened the restaurant, I began to see a black silhouette in the apartment.  This is where the young man was murdered.  Other things also began to occur.  Often, when employees would ask my boys what they were doing, the pair would respond that they were talking to a friend.  However, there was no one there.  Employees began to report that their names were called out in a loud male voice in the banquet hall when they were closing up for the night.  We have had our hair pulled, televisions turning on by themselves, wafts of cold air floating through the building, and the constant feeling of being watched.   

Other employees also started to see the black silhouette, our security system is tripped and nothing appears on the security tapes, bartenders straighten the bar stools only to find that they have been moved again, and our dogs bark and stare at something that none of us can see.

We had the building blessed, but still the odd happenings continue to occur.  We finally got a little too frightened and moved our children to another home.

However, we still love the restaurant and now we just chuckle when the ghosts play pranks on us.  Their practical jokes are never malicious and we have since begun to feel as if the ghost of the young man is watching over us.