This Old House

I never really thought about my house having history, but after chatting in the blog a couple days ago about my findings of a skeleton key I realize it does. I knew about all these little things inside it, but never thought about them all at once. The house was built in the mid 30's, but had a face lift about 15 years ago. The basement was done first, thank goodness! The stairs going down were dark, and creeky, the old worn carpeted kind. When you neared the bottom you could hear the growl of the furnace. I dared not look towards it, the fiery glow in its throat would cast spooky shadows on the wall. Making the normal household objects almost come to life. I felt like they would nearly be able to reach out and grab me, sucking my in to the shadows with it. It would send shivers down my spine, and I would turn around and go running back up the stairs. Next to get done was my bedroom, which is now the living room. A door from the dining room swung in to a platform, and three steps going down. It was massive! I loved it, my own little house. Under the stairs were my treasures, which at 5 was a plush Popples, my doll freckles, and some other random toys I thought were grand. When we took apart the walls, it made sense as to why this room was so long and narrow. The wall that face the end of the drive way was not a wall, but barn doors, I actually had been living in the previous owners garage. They still had the hinges and could be swung out on the the driveway.
The wall paper in the living room, in my opinion, belonged downstairs with the creepy furnace. The patterns were done in silver, and when you looked closely they looked like hundreds of devil faces each about the size of a small hand. I tried to find a picture of one, but no such luck.
Off the living room was the front entry, when we took it apart, the secrets of the house started to be told. Between the walls of the door was an old envelope addressed to a previous owner, in it was an old Christmas card. Beneath the floor of the porch was a hollow space, and when we opened it up we found a key. I loved this part, it was a skeleton key! Somewhat spooky lying in the bottom of a deep hole, but so many stories could lie with it.
Another odd object was found in the cabinet the fridge sat in, around back and up on the ceiling was a secret hole, in it was a small bullet. Why a single bullet was hidden up there, Im not sure. Around the side of the house, when we did some landscaping and digging, we found a hole deep down, at one time one would assume it was a well. I wondered if it was from this house, or maybe a previous house stood there. Either way, how many wished could have been made there? So many hopes and dreams could be down there.
I think the most interesting part of the house though would have to be the pillow in the wall. What on earth is a pillow doing in the wall? Well I guess my parents talked and asked around, and did some research. They found out that the pillow was put in the wall for the ghosts, so that they had somewhere to rest instead of making their way in to the house and haunting it. This was so interesting, and such a cool thing to find, so when we put the new walls together we made sure that the pillow got put back in. I don't think I would want to take my chance removing it now. Who knows how many spirits I have slumbering in my walls.