The Floating Woman
Welcome to Real Creepy Estate, where we delve into the unexplained, the mysterious, and the downright eerie. I'm your host, Jarrett Lies, a real estate agent who's been inside thousands of houses over the years. In my time on the job, I've encountered more than just impressive layouts and stylish decor. I've had my fair share of strange experiences and have listened to countless stories from homeowners about their own. Own.
Jarrett:I was once a bit skeptical myself, but after hearing so many accounts from the most unsuspecting sources, I couldn't deny it any longer. There's something more to this world than meets the eye. Join me as we explore the paranormal one house at a time. Welcome. This is the first podcast I have ever recorded, so I thought I would start it off with a personal account of something that happened to me one day while I was working.
Jarrett:I do think I am a person who has had more paranormal experiences than most, but I would never seek them out. Like, I went on a ghost tour in Savannah last year, and I was even hesitant to do that. It was all outdoors, and we stopped in front of some haunted buildings, and the tour guide said that we could go into some of them during the day. And all I could think was, yeah. I'll pass.
Jarrett:Thanks. It's not that I wouldn't go into a place that is supposedly haunted. It's just that I would never actively seek out a ghost. I'm just way too scared. I'm a chicken.
Jarrett:Even just filming the intro to this podcast series the other day, I was up until 3AM working on it. And when I finally got in the bed, I laid down, and I could have sworn the noise on my sound machine changed. So I was about to get up to turn it off, and then I thought I felt hands on my legs, but it was just a bunched up blanket at the bottom of the bed. But I hopped out of bed so fast. Nothing was there, obviously.
Jarrett:I'm sure I was even just imagining the sound machine changing noises. Like, no ghost or anything, but even working on the intro to my podcast that I wrote just because it was about haunted homes and it was right before I went to bed, that was enough to make me freak myself out. I would never be able to listen to a scary podcast or watch a scary show at night ever, unless maybe I was gonna be sleeping next to someone maybe. Years ago, I lived down the street from my friends who were a married couple, and they would come over to my house for dinner all the time. At night, we would sometimes watch TV.
Jarrett:And anytime they wanted to watch a scary movie, I would be like, fine, but only if you guys spend the night, and they would. That's how scared I would get. I would force my married friends to sleep over at my house if they wanted to watch a scary movie. Like a husband and wife, I would be like, guys, you're sleeping over in my guest room if we're watching this movie. Anyway, all of this to say, I really avoid having strange experiences, but for some reason, sometimes strange things do seem to happen to me.
Jarrett:So let's get into the story of something that happened to me one day while I was at work. This was about five years ago in Lawrence, Kansas, and it was in the morning. It was about 10AM. I was going to a house to meet my clients. They had purchased a home and wanted to go back to measure for some furniture that they were gonna be moving in, But the closing wasn't for a couple more weeks.
Jarrett:At this point, they were just going to look at the house to measure some things. So I had parked down the street from the house, and I remember walking up with my coffee, and I stopped at the base of this really large oak tree. It was huge. This is completely random, and I have no idea if it has anything to do with what happened later. But I do remember stopping at the base of it and looking up and thinking, there's something ominous about this tree.
Jarrett:Like, it stopped me in my tracks. And I noticed it because one, trees can cause a lot of damage to houses, but this one was not on their property, so I didn't really think about it all that much. And two, it just had a weird energy. That's really all I can say about it. It just creeped me out.
Jarrett:Even though it was just a tree, and it was the morning, it just it felt weird. So I finally get up to the house. It's cute, a little one story, not scary in the least. I go inside, I meet my clients, and I decided to give them a little space while they're doing everything that they need to do. So I go into the backyard, and I'm looking at the house.
Jarrett:I'm facing the house at this point, and I think that I hear someone come outside from the house behind me. The house behind me was a two story house and the backyard backed up to the yard that I'm standing in. So I think I hear someone coming out, and that happens a lot when I'm selling houses. Like, the neighbors wanna come out and introduce themselves, so I didn't think anything of it. I just turn around expecting to talk to the neighbors and maybe introduce them to my clients, something like that.
Jarrett:So I turn around, and it is not the neighbors coming out of the house. It is a woman levitating in the air, probably about 15 or 20 feet in the air, I'd say, because I remember she was at about the second story of the house behind me floating that high. And she was not see through, but not like a person either. The best way I can describe her is that her body was, like, looking through parchment paper, which sounds weird, but it's kind of like I could tell that she wasn't fully formed, but I also couldn't see right through her. And it was a brunette woman, probably in her forties, with long brown hair and a buttercream yellow dress, and she just floated right up and into the air away, like, a blur.
Jarrett:It almost felt as though I wasn't supposed to see her, like maybe I had caught her in the act, and she was gone just as quickly as I saw her. She didn't make any noise. Her presence was so real though that I had assumed a person was in the yard with me, and that's why I had turned around. I had felt that there was someone behind me. So part of me thinks that, yeah, she was surprised that I saw her, and she floated away really fast in the blink of an eye, basically.
Jarrett:And the first thing I do is wanna throw up because what the hell did I just see? I was freaking out because I had had paranormal experiences in the past, but this is the first time I had ever seen an apparition or a ghost or a being like that. So I immediately called my mom because I thought, you know, it sounds crazy, but she'll probably believe me. So I call her and say, I just saw a ghost. Oh my gosh.
Jarrett:I'm freaking out. And she was like, what? And I said, yeah. I don't know what to do, but my clients are inside, so I'm just going to go inside. So I hang up the phone, and I go inside.
Jarrett:And internally, I'm still freaking out because I have no clue what to do or say. Like, should I say something? But I also know that I'm gonna sound like a crazy person if I do, so then I think I probably just shouldn't say anything. I don't really know these people, and it sounds insane, so I just do nothing because I don't know what to do. So I don't say anything.
Jarrett:I just act normal. I just do the best job I can acting normal at that point. So we part ways. Life goes on. I don't think about it much more except I do start to feel guilt about the fact that my clients will be buying a haunted house.
Jarrett:I'm going through a moral dilemma wondering what I should do or if I should say something to them. Then about a week later, I have to go back to the house with my clients, and I'm going back because in a few days, we're supposed to have the closing on the house, and this house needed a ton of repairs. I'm talking like a quarter of the price of the house in repairs because it had some major things wrong. And I just wanted to go and make sure that the sellers had done the things that they said they were gonna do because if my buyers were buying that house without the repairs being done, then it was gonna be on them to fix everything. And I was sure that they didn't want to spend tons of money on a house that they just bought, of course.
Jarrett:So we went to make sure everything had been done. And in retrospect, I guess it was kind of weird because the sellers of that house had moved only a few blocks away is what I had been told, but they left so much of their stuff, which happens sometimes. But obviously, you're supposed to move your stuff out when you sell your house. But this was kind of weird, like almost that they had moved in a hurry. I remember in one of the bathroom drawers, I had opened it, and there was underwear in there.
Jarrett:Things like that. Just personal effects that you don't leave in a house. So I did think that was weird, but at the time, I guess I didn't think too much of it because sometimes people do just leave stuff behind. But now I'm starting to wonder if maybe that was because there was something happening at that house and they just left in a hurry and never came back. And when I say they never came back, I mean, they never came back because they didn't even come back to do the repairs.
Jarrett:They didn't even send a contractor out to do them. Nothing. So I get there, and I'm like, this is a massive problem. I mean, these repairs aren't done. You can't close on this house unless you want to be the one to fix them, and my buyers start freaking out.
Jarrett:The wife is just yelling at me about how it's all my fault that those things aren't done. I'm thinking, lady, I'm helping you. This is for your benefit. I could have just gone to closing, and you would have had to deal with this house and all the stuff that needed to be done, and you would have had to pay for it. So she was just going off on me.
Jarrett:And even her friend was there and said, come on now. Jared is helping you. But she was just so emotional. And finally, she just said, that's it. I guess we're canceling.
Jarrett:I don't wanna work with you. And I was like, thank goodness because I don't wanna work with you either, you psychopath. Like, where do I sign? I'm gonna send you the cancellation immediately, and we're canceling this deal, and I hope I never see you again. That's what I thought.
Jarrett:I had been suffering with the guilt about knowing that these people were gonna be buying a haunted house. So, honestly, when we canceled, it was such a huge relief to me because even though they were so upset, I knew that they wouldn't have to live in a haunted house, and I also knew that the house was gonna be financially draining if the work on it didn't get done. So there was that part of it too, the reality of the actual cost of repairs that still needed done. So overall, it was just a huge weight off, and it was really for the best. So that was that.
Jarrett:I was like, thank goodness. I'm done with that situation, and I move on. I don't think about it much more at all. And then a few weeks later, I'm at my personal house, and I'm packing up to move because I was selling it. The house I was living in in at that time was much older than the house I had seen the ghost at, but not really scary or anything like that.
Jarrett:So there's a guy there helping me move, and I remember that the mailman comes and puts mail in the mailbox that's mounted on my house, and the mover jumps and says, is this house haunted? And I'm like, no. That was just the mailman. So he says, oh, okay. Because I've been on edge.
Jarrett:I had my first paranormal experience recently, and I'm just I'm just on edge. And I said, what happened? And he said, I was at a house that was for sale, and I was there with my wife and my realtor. And we had just gone into the house, and we hear a knock on the front door. So we open it, and no one was there, and no one was around.
Jarrett:We answered it really quickly. It would have been really hard for someone to run away, but even if they had, I would have seen it. It was that quick. So, of course, we just left because we were all scared and we didn't wanna buy that house because there was something weird there. And I say, oh my gosh.
Jarrett:I just had a paranormal experience too. That sounds really scary. I'm sorry that happened to you. And I asked him, was the house kind of near here? And he said, yeah.
Jarrett:And I wasn't gonna make him tell me the house that it was because, I don't know, it's it's his story to tell. But I did have an inkling that maybe it was the same house that I had had my experience at because what are the chances? Two paranormal experiences at a house that's for sale? Like, that just seemed unlikely to happen at two different houses. So I didn't end up having to ask him because he looked up the house on his phone and showed it to me, and sure enough, it was the exact same house that I had seen the ghost at.
Jarrett:So at that time, I was just I don't know. I think I wanted to hug him because I felt validated, but I just I think we high fived because I was so excited that I was no longer alone in this, that other people had had an experience at this house and that I wasn't the only one. And yeah. So I moved on, moved out of that house, and just back to normal. And probably a few weeks or a month later, I don't know the timeline anymore, I find out that the people who had originally been the people who wanted to buy the house with me ended up buying the same house with a different agent.
Jarrett:Were the repairs made? I have no idea. I don't really care at all. I I don't know. I just know that eventually they ended up buying that house.
Jarrett:And I just laughed when I found that out because all I could think was that they were so mean to me at that time and now they live in this house. And, yeah, I laughed because I thought, I bet that woman is haunting the shit out of them, and I hope they enjoy their money pit of a house that is also haunted. So, yeah, I didn't feel bad for them. In fact, I thought it was kinda funny because the entire time I had struggled with the guilt I had over not telling them about the ghost. And I guess at the end, they didn't really like me anyway, so maybe it would have been best had I just told them.
Jarrett:I don't know. It was all just such a bizarre experience. I honestly hate thinking about it, and I never drive down that street anymore. Not because I'm scared of seeing the ghost, but because I just wanna forget that any of it ever happened. I sometimes wonder about the feeling I got standing under that big oak tree.
Jarrett:Did that tree feel dark because it had something to do with the woman's death? I have no idea, and I will probably never know. All I do know is that if that house ever goes for sale again, or really any house even in close enough proximity to see that house, I'm not showing it. I'll have another agent do it for me or something. I don't know for sure.
Jarrett:All I know is that I just can't handle it. So, yeah, that's my story. That concludes this episode of Real Creepy Estate. Thanks for listening. Talk to you next time.
