Sharon McKlusky, a Boise housewife and mother, was tired after a particularly stressful day. She fed her three children their supper, then drew a hot bath. Water always had a calm and soothing effect upon her. She had just settled into the tub when the bathroom light went off. A second later, the light came back on and the bath water turned ice cold!

Later, Sharon told a newspaper reporter that she had felt suspended in space, that the experience seemed unreal.

But that was only one of many "unreal" incidents in the old frame house at 200 East Idaho. It was believed to have been built in 1895 by the grandfather of the late Frank Church, who served in the United States Senate from 1956 to 1981. The elder Church and his wife, Mary, raised five children in the house. Their five-year-old son, Clair, died a tragic death here from drinking turpentine he found in the garage.

After Mr. Church died in 1922, his widow and an unmarried daughter, Evangeline, remained in the house. Eventually Evangeline inherited the house and stayed on until her death in 1953. That same year Domingo Aldecoa and his wife bought the house to use as rental property. And they had many renters; most moved out after the first month.

Sharon moved in during 1970 and stayed for three years. She knew nothing of the history of the house, but she liked its spaciousness. The children had separate bedrooms and there was plenty of room both indoors and outdoors to play. It was much better than being cooped up in a tiny city apartment. Besides, the rent was reasonable. Sharon felt extremely fortunate.

Yet, the longer she stayed the more certain she was that something was wrong with the house. Sometimes while standing between the door of a bedroom and the door to the attic she felt a tingling sensation as if an electrical current had surged through her body.

Shapeless forms moved across the walls, doors opened and closed by themselves, and radios clicked on and off and changed stations with no one near them. Sharon's children seemed no to notice anything unusual and she said nothing that might frighten them.

Then one day she heard a child's plaintive voice call out, "I'm Eddy." It had seemed to come out of the walls. One of the children who had either lived in the house or visited there at one time was named Elmer Edmond. Although the little ghost child didn't materialize, Sharon began to feel "vibrations" whenever it moved through a room. She determined not to try to communicate with it. The little boy's presence was announced by the tinkling of a tiny bell that sounded like no other bell Sharon had ever heard. The bell rang on and off for six months, then stopped. The Church family had kept a harp in the parlor. Was that what Sharon heard?

One night a voice cried out, "Help!" Sharon froze in bed and prayed that the voice would go away. It did. For six months there was no supernatural activity.