Followed?! Oh, God! I never considered that. But 15 years later my parents bought another country home nearby and had some scary stuff happen---voices calling their dogs and phantom footprints. Maybe it DID follow them.

Only a year, until our new house was completed. I was SO happy to move out. ;-) Yay for new homes!

Speaking of haunted houses, when we moved to the country in Ohio when I was in 8th grade, we rented an old farmhouse/mansion that was originally a sanatorium for TB patients in the 1800's. Lots of people died there. But that wasn't even the creepiest thing---the house was also an abortion clinic for rich women from Cleveland. We had our share of scary happenings there---doors opening on their own, unexplained sounds, lights flickering, massive amounts of dead flies, dogs barking at random dark corners. Hated that place and glad I don't live there now. But it sure did enhance my passion for ghost stories.