purchased a cute little embroidered boudoir stool and placed it in front of the dresser. It was now complete.”
The following weekend her daughter came to visit from Phoenix and spent the night in the guest room. During the night, the daughter said that she was awakened by a noise in the room. She slowly opened her eyes and saw sitting at the dresser, a strange blonde haired woman. The woman who was busy brushing her hair, noticed that the neighbors daughter was watching her and turned to face her. In a split second, the blonde-haired woman was standing at the side of her bed.
Her daughter was shocked to see this stranger in her room. She watched as this ghostly woman violently waved her arms above her head. The daughter noticed that the ghost woman was opening her mouth wide, and making facial gestures which gave the impression that the ghost was screaming with hatred or pain but, strangely, made no sounds.
Soon the daughter found the courage to grab her pillow, which she threw at the ghost. Immediately, this made the image of the ghost woman disappear. With tear filled eyes, the daughter turned on the lights and sat on the side of the bed trying to compose herself. She was not sure what had taken place. Did she dream it, or was she visited by an actual ghost? She soon grew tired and leaving the bedroom light on, crawled under the covers and fell back to sleep.
In the morning the daughter told her mother about what she experienced the night before, describing it as a nightmare. Our neighbor told us that she was fascinated by her daughter’s story, but skeptical. However, our neighbor’s skepticism soon ended
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when they both went up to the dresser and discovered that on the new brush and comb set, were several strands of blond hair! Since they are Chinese, our neighbor, her husband, and daughter all have quite dark hair. Who’s hair was on the brush?
Our neighbor lifted up the brush with the blonde hair strands, and showed her daughter. The daughter, very apprehensively stated, “Well see, now you have the evidence in your hand. I told you there was a woman in this room with me.” Our neighbor needed no further explanations. Immediately she and her daughter removed the dresser from the guest bedroom and placed it in the garage where it now remains, covered with an old carpet. The brush with the blond hair was wrapped within paper towels, placed in a plastic bag and disposed of in the trash.
Since then, they have not been visited by the ghost, but now the neighbor wanted to know if mother LePorte wanted to buy back her antique dresser. Marcus’ mother said she would, and arrangements were made to place the dresser back in storage. Not once did mother LePorte add anything to the neighbor’s story. In fact, mother just sat quietly in her chair listening to the conversation.
After the neighbor left our house that evening, Marcus’s mother surprised us by telling us that she had a similar visit from the strange blond haired woman, when the dresser was in her own bedroom several years ago in New Orleans. She purchased the dresser from an elderly African-American gentleman. He explained to her that the dresser, among other furniture he was selling at the time, was from an estate sale. Apparently, the furniture and the few other items he was selling were all that remained of a disastrous house fire. Several family
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