A Haunted Farmhouse

Brandon Geer has never seen a ghost, but his family has had plenty of strange experiences at his family’s farm in Belle Plain, Kansas.

The farmhouse was built in the late 1920s, and Geer knows of at least one death in the home — his grandmother’s little sister died in the farmhouse as a young child.

Geer said his mother, aunt and other relatives were always scared to spend the night at the farmhouse, and regularly heard the sound of chains dragging across the attic floor. Brandon and his sisters were scared to sleep alone in the house, so they would all spread out sleeping bags at the foot of their grandparents’ bed.

Geer said his dog, Reuben, was spooked by the place. He took Reuben out to the farm to get “some country time,” and because he didn’t want to be in the farmhouse alone. While filling Reuben’s bowl, the dog suddenly whipped his head around and looked upward with large, scared eyes.

More recently, Geer’s aunt went to check on the empty house and water the plants. When she was getting back in her car to leave, she felt someone watching her, and turned around to see an upstairs curtain fall back into place after being lifted by a seemingly invisible hand in a house she had just left empty.

In another incident, Geer’s cousin clearly heard somebody opening the nightstand drawer where he was stashing a handgun he took to the house for protection.

Belle Plain must be a welcoming place for ghosts, as Geer also heard a story of another man who lived on a farm about a mile south of Geer’s family farmhouse. This man saw two ghosts at the same time — both dressed in 1890s clothes. He saw one man standing on the lawn and watching him through an upstairs window. When he turned around, he then saw a woman inside the room.