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This haunted site is a house of which my friend, Veronica lived in. The house is located in New Milford Connecticut and was built in the early
1700's. It is old style New England farmhouse home, and even has a slave/servant quarters where they brought the food from the kitchen to the
dining room. There is also a cottage, and a barn on the property. The strangest thing of all is a gravestone they found in the basement for a
child.

New owners now own the house, so I will not mention the address, and I don't even know if the current owners know there house is haunted.
One of the first experiences in the house I know of is from a man that previously owned the home, and I will not mention his name for
confidentiality. It happened about ten years ago when he was in this study room. He was reading a book, them looked up because he felt a
presence in the room. Standing in the doorway about ten feet away from him stood this man in an old Yankee uniform with his hands at his
side, just staring through him. The man remained motionless. The presence never moved and slowly dissipated after about two minutes. He first
thought that he was seeing things, but he also had a few other experiences where he felt that he wasn't alone, and would hear noises in different
places of his home. He actually saw another ghost while he was mowing his lawn. For some reason he felt a presence in his house while he
was in his backyard and he looked toward the house, and on his deck there was a woman in Victorian style garb staring at him. He thought
someone was in his home, he looked down and turned off his mower, and by the time he looked up the woman was gone in a matter of
seconds.

The next experience is from my friend mother who did not believe in ghosts until she lived in this house. She was working on dinner in the
pantry/slaves quarters. She had a metal rack hanging from the ceiling that held her pots and pans for cooking. She had her back to the pots and
pans, when she heard them rattling so she turned around. A couple of the pots were moving and then the metal rack started slowly spinning,
she was to afraid to move. I see her as a credible witness because she is a military woman, and was skeptical till that day.

I would have to say the strangest thing about this home is that they found a gravestone in the basement when they moved in of a child. The
child died in the late eighteen hundreds, but unfortunately I did not copy down the name, or what her gravestone read before the Swain's moved.
The stone was put to the side in the entrance to the basement. We don't know if the girl was buried in the yard, or if the girl was buried in the
basement because she died in the winter, and then never was removed in spring (this was common in New England during the winter). A few
days before she moved I was able to get a few pictures of the stone and there is a very distinct orb floating in the picture above her gravestone.