The Room Upstairs

A couple has recently moved. The wife is in early pregnancy. They have moved to England since the company he works for has posted him there.

The title. The house they are living in is over 200 years old. She makes a phone call after her husband has gone to the office.

He goes into a 'simple sewing room.'

He gets home and something is wrong with his wife. She seems to be asking her mother not to scream or else she may be taken away.

A psychiatrist had put her under hypnosis. He tells the husband the wife is 'living in terror.' She's afraid the baby may be 'tainted' with insanity. She's also worried that she herself might go insane.

She says she doesn't want the baby. She explains what happened to her mother. She's also worried she might hurt the baby.

She hears something strange during the night.

She opens the door to the sewing room and sees a young child in a crib. The sound stops and the child disappears and the room is back to normal.

She tells her husband that she's starting to go insane. She tells him she saw a little girl that was deathly ill in the room. She hears the voice again. He's really very understanding towards her.

Then she hears something going on downstairs. This time the husband actually sees and hears what is going on.

They go to see the real estate person who thinks they just want to get out of their lease but the husband says they don't want their money back. The rat fink estate person then calls the people who own the house and tell them what the couple had said.

The couple gets home and the people who own the house are there. One thing that makes this really odd is that the owners are alive, not dead, so the husband and wife were not seeing ghosts but some kind of a break in time or something. Then things get even stranger as they all hear the cry of the child from the upstairs room.

The girl's father admits that one night he 'forgot' to give the medicine the girl needed to stay alive.

The older couple was tried but not sentenced, the judge saying they had suffered enough. Newland says that one theory is that houses can basically absorb the aura of strong emotional events. From my own studies on the subject I think that is something that can happen.

For example. When a person goes into a church they often feel a peaceful atmosphere. This could be the accumulated peaceful feelings of hundreds or thousands of people over the years in that building. Likewise, it's possible to be looking at a house, perhaps for rent or purchase, and get a negative feeling about the house (or a positive feeling.) This could also explain the sightings of ghosts and hearing of sounds that have been seen and heard on battlefields such as Civil War battlefields where the emotions and suffering were extremely high.

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