Julie Still-Rolin never planned to spend over a decade living with the dead. But despite listing her haunted house on the market six times, she remained trapped with four distinct spirits in a property that refused to let her go.
- The first sign something was wrong came from an unexpected source. “My son came to me and said that he had to tell me something, but he couldn’t because his friends would be mad,” Still-Rolin recalls. “And he was only three and a half and he didn’t have friends.”
The “friends” her toddler referenced were the shadow children Still-Rolin had been seeing throughout the house. “Of course, I thought that it was just a figment of my imagination,” she explains. “And then when he said that, I think that was the confirmation. And it really freaked me out.”
Four Spirits, One Terrified Family
Still-Rolin discovered four different entities inhabiting her 1939 home. While the shadow children seemed harmless, a hostile female presence made her intentions clear. “I think she didn’t want us there,” Still-Rolin says. “And it never actually got physical with me, but I have had other people that lived in the house that had experiences with her that were more physical.”
- A protective male spirit also occupied the space, but as Still-Rolin points out, “It really doesn’t matter at the time. If you have something that’s out of the ordinary at all, it seems scary.”
The Mystery Deepens
When Still-Rolin attempted to research the property’s history, she hit a wall. “When I went to do research, all of the records from that time period had been destroyed somehow,” she reveals. The only clue came from a neighbor who remembered “police tape on the house at some time.”
Her new book, The Haunting of Pensacola Avenue, chronicles her paranormal investigations, priest blessings, and desperate attempts to understand her supernatural housemates. The book is available at Idol Reader on Nine Mile Road and Amazon.
