GREAT story from a party-goer in Worcester! Sometimes it really IS all smoke and…
“So, I’m not really sure if this qualifies as a ghost story, but it is kind of creepy, and it does involve someone showing up when they weren’t really there.
A friend of mine threw a huge Halloween party a few years ago- one of those ones where you invite just about everyone you know and they each bring a friend or two- that kind of huge. It was cool though. Lots of new people met lots of new people, and everyone had a really good time at the beginning.
At one point, you know the point where someone drinks just a bit too much and decides to get just a bit too honest with their feelings with someone else at the party? Yeah. That happened, I guess. I didn’t really see it go down, but I definitely saw the aftermath.
This girl had come to the party with a friend of hers, but it turns out she liked him more than a friend and was hoping that, you know, tonight was going to be THE night, type of thing. Well, don’t you know that her friend meets someone at the party and they hit it off-- like REALLY hit it off. Oh, they didn’t like, get it on at the party, I don’t think, by they were definitely into each other, you know, like, all hot and bothered at first sight.
That really didn’t go over well with this dude’s friend AT ALL. I remember her flopping down in this big chair in the corner of one of the rooms [at the party] and she just sort of slouched and glared at the new lovebirds from across the room. SO AWKWARD! A couple people, including my friend who threw the party, tried talking to her, but she wouldn’t say anything. She just glowered and either nodded or shook her head, all the while she was sending looks at this other girl- you know the kind of look- like if looks could kill, this other girl would have been dead on the floor in a heartbeat!!
So, this goes on for a while. I’m talking like, over an hour. It kind of became a bit of a party past time to go by and see if this girl was still glowering in the chair. Some folks would try to stand in front of her, you know, blocking her view and all, I mean, there were a LOT of people at this party and the room was huge, but she would stare at them until they moved. It was getting kind of uncomfortable and I remember my friend trying to figure out what to do.
Another half hour goes by, and the dude decides it’s time to leave. He goes over to the girl sitting in the chair, the one he came to the party with, and she starts screaming at him and-- here’s where it gets weirder-- it honestly looked like black smoke or something was coming out of her!! Seriously!! Not like a cartoony type thing; it wasn’t coming out of her ears and mouth, or maybe it was, it was kinda painful to watch, though you couldn’t help but stick around to see what was going to happen. Kinda like how people have to look at car accidents even when they’re not involved- that type of thing.
He leaves pretty luckily, and most people decided to either leave or move the party outside to the patio because the girl and her black smoke will not get out of the chair! The new girl, the one the guy met and liked at the party, left pretty quickly after that. I don’t blame her. She was getting the death glare and it was super creepy.
So we’re all outside and the angry girl in the chair won’t leave. No one wanted to really go back inside, even though that’s where the food and drinks were, because the air in the room was just so… I don’t know. Weird. Creepy. I mean, this girl looked seriously demented and yeah, we all felt bad for her, but c’mon. It’s not your house or your party, so pack up your anger and take it out of there.
Well, she wouldn’t. I saw my friend and her brother going back and forth from the patio to the room to the other parts of the house to back to the room. This girl wouldn’t leave. The only thing she would say was that they, I’m guessing her crush and his new interest, would be sorry. Also she wasn’t ready to leave the house.
The party really broke up then. I mean, it’s hard when one of the guests is causing such a bizarre scene. It was late though, so who knows, maybe the party would’ve broken up anyway. I asked my friend if she needed any help, and she said no, her brother had convinced this girl to take a cab home and they were going to get her out of the house. I figured this girl and her black cloud of “I want to kill you over a man” would just become one of those “hey- remember that chick” stories.
Yeah. Only… it got weirder after that.
Oh, the girl left the party. My friend told me later that she and her brother got the girl into a cab, but she was still seriously pissed off. She looked at them as she was closing the door and said something like “I left you something.” And then the cab pulled away. Creepy as hell, right?
My friend said they pretty much turned off the lights and figured they’d clan up the next day. When she went in to start cleaning up the next day, she said the corner where the girl was sitting was kind of dark and smoky and-- get this-- there was a smoky outline type thing in the chair where the girl was sitting! Not like a stain, a whole body outline! What the fuck, right? My friend aired out the room, febreezed the chair, checked for hidden candles- not sure who hides lit candles at a party, but whatever- and the smoky cloud seemed to go away. She was seriously pissed though. Who does that at a party?! You don’t go into someone house and cause a scene like that, refuse to leave, then stain the furniture! Needless to say, this girl wasn’t going to be on the guest list EVER again.
Only… she was.
Fast forward two weeks to a smallish movie watching party my friend threw. I can’t remember what movie we were going to watch because once we were all there and grabbed snacks from the kitchen, we walked into the room and SAW THAT FREAKING GIRL SITTING IN THE CHAIR!! Only- here’s the thing- she wasn’t!! When you looked right at the chair, no one was there! Three people- including me or I never would have believed it- would SWEAR they saw her sitting there- plain as grumpy freaky day! Also, the smoky cloud came back. My friend was both pissed and freaked out. We all ended up on the patio trying to figure out what we saw. I mean, shit like that happens in the movies, right, not in a nice boring little neighborhood in Worcester.
My friend turned on all the lights, sprayed the whole room, and we took turns going back and forth and peeking in to see if anything was in there. Nothing. So damn weird.
So, the night before Thanksgiving rolls around and we’re all going to pregame at my friend’s house before going out to some bar or show…I can’t remember. I do remember that the guy the angry girl liked was there with the girl from the party. Good for them, right? It’s hard to meet people, so hang on to the good ones, if he was a good one. I thought he was okay enough. Anyway, get this- that freaking angry girl is BACK IN THE CHAIR!! I swear to god I am NOT making this shit up!! The guy and girl BOTH saw her, as did my friend and her brother. They walked into the room and said she was there kinda shimmery like and looking just like she did at the party- really freaking angry and REALLY freaking pissed!
The dude yelled something like “holy shit” and then she was gone. But the black smoke was still there- and the stain on the chair- the one that never quite went away after that first party, looked darker. My friend LOST it! She started yelling at the girl to leave her house, she wasn’t welcome, and then her brother and the dude- you know- lover boy- picked up the chair and brought it out to the garage. My friend started yelling that she didn’t want it ANYWHERE in her house, so they eventually put it outside somewhere away from the house.
We were talking about it at the bar later- oh yeah- I guess we were at Ralph’s- and someone said she should have someone come in to exorcise the house, or clear it, or whatever people do to get rid of unwanted spirits and stuff. Only… this girl was still alive. Whatever was in that damned chair wasn’t a ghost, right? She was still alive. Oh- seriously pissed off I’m sure, but alive. Hell, she keeps popping up as someone I know on Facebook and I’m like, NO thank you!!
So yeah, once the chair was out, my friend called one of the psychics listed in Worcester- did you know we’ve got psychics and witches and stuff in Worcester? Oh, yeah, you probably already know that. So she called someone who gave her the name of a witch who came out and burned stuff, left some crystals, chanted some stuff and left her some spray. She also said don’t invite that girl over again. Well, no shit lady. My friend and her brother paid the lady and that was that.
Seriously though… what WAS that?
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