Life Stories By Shel

To quote one of my favorite song lyrics:   " Let 's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start " The Sound of Music and the Song "These Are a Few Of My Favorite Thing's" are true favorites of mine.   One of my personal favorite things is being a storyteller.   Let me weave a true but ghostly tale for you. It also happens to be the very beginning of my paranormal journey. I grew up in an old dilapidated farmhouse in the Midwestern state of Ohio, USA.    F airfield County was a farming community and our family lived upon a small corner of a larger working dairy farm owned by my father 's employer .   Our home was well over 150 years old.   Over the years, the original footprint of the home was changed to suit a growing family, a top floor and extra rooms were eventually added on to make a small three-bedroom home. My room was the only bedroom on the lower level.   A set of stairs that lead up to the secon...