ROFF HOUSE
Location: Roff House is located on the furthest town limits of White Cliffs,
Description: White Cliffs,
Ghostly Manifestations: The Roff family has been natives of White Cliffs for
over a hundred years. Their home has stood for over a hundred years, but after
the death of Clay Roff’s wife, Ann, in 1990, he moved
his family to a much bigger house closer to town and left the family house
available to be sold. After a few tenants moved in and left, the house and
grounds was sold to Laura Vellum and her daughter, Annalisse.
Possessed of baby doll good looks and a bit
of psychic awareness, Annalisse took to the house immediately as she commenced
with restoring the old over-grown garden. In the first few days of her work
pulling weeds and cutting back bushes, she had an annoying feeling that she was
being watched. She often found herself looking up to the house and even her
bedroom on the top floor, but she never figured out why she felt she was being
watched. Sometimes, there would be a figure in her bedroom window out the
corner of her eye, but every time she looked up, the window would be empty.
Gradually, other things happened around her
that made her believe that she was living in a haunted house. She saw the
reflection of a younger blonde girl in the reflection of her mirror once as she
was brushing her teeth. The sight of her actually caused her to nearly choke on
her toothbrush. A few days later as she slept at night, she thought she felt
someone get in bed with her. She turned round to see what it was, but no one
was there. As she placed her hand to the space by her, it felt as if it was
submerged in a bucket of freezing cold water. As she told her mother that she
thought they had a ghost, her mother just smiled and humored her as if it were
a joke.
Usually alone when her mother was off to
work, Annalisse continued to see and hear things. She once heard music in the
house and traced it to a radio up in the attic. She had not yet been up there
yet since moving in to the house and she wasn’t sure how it came on. A few
times, she heard crying up there and thought it was just birds, but as they
seemed to be more human, she tried to find out who it was. As she entered the
attic, she saw the brief image of the blonde girl before her once more, but
then she vanished and passed through Annalisse as she fled downstairs.
Annalisse was then struck with a name, “Mary.” She then did some research and
recalled that Mary was the daughter of Clay Roff who
had vanished after her mother died. Annalisse started wondering: if she was
haunting the house, maybe she hadn’t run off after all.
Mary’s ghost seemed to become curious about
Annalisse. Annalisse woke up several times during a week feeling that Mary was
had been in the room watch her sleep. She started feeling she was seeing Mary a
bit more often than usual around the house and grounds.
As Annalisse and her mother stayed in the
house, other things occurred. Annalisse started sleepwalking. She had never
done it before as she started wondering if Mary was using her to explore the
boundaries beyond the house. In one such state, she actually walked to the Roff’s property in town and took Mary’s old horse for a
ride through town. Remembering nothing of the experience later, Annalisse later
learned that Mary’s horse had never let anyone else but Mary ride it.
History: Roff House is believed to have been built
sometime in the early Nineteenth century.
Ten to twelve generations of the Roffs lived
there until 1990 when Ann Roff stumbled and fell to
her death from the cliffs on the property. Her daughter, Mary, vanished soon
after. Clay Roff married his second wife, Danielle,
shortly thereafter and they had a new baby girl before another year passed. Danielle
had been Mary’s doctor.
Laura Vellum with her daughter Annalisse purchased the house in March 1996.
Identity of Ghosts: Annalisse believes the ghost
is that of Mary Roff and that she may be buried
somewhere on the property. Sometimes her spirit acts a bit bi-polar with two
different personalities, one friendly, and another dangerous. This is very
typical for Mary because at the time she supposedly vanished, she was taking
drugs to help her deal with her mother’s death.
Comments: “Buried Secrets” (1996), Loosely based on
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