I've previously written about the haunted building I lived in when we were stationed in Germany. Well, I didn't write about it here, but it's on several other sites (here's a link to the story at a ghost stories site).

Anyway, I was curious and did a search on Google and I managed to turn up some photographs of the housing area where we lived! It's been turned over to the German government now, as many of the American military facilities in the area have been closed or very seriously downsized.

It was really kind of weird seeing the pictures. I haven't seen any photographs of the place in many years (we left Germany in 1977), but I recognized it immediately, despite some changes.

The main site I found the pictures on is about the military downsizing and the reburbishment of the housing areas (several of them) and military bases. There's a very good picture of the actual building I lived in (link opens in a new window), as well.

In the photograph, the darker tan areas are where the stairwells are, and the one on the right is the stairwell I lived in. On the second floor, just to the left of the stairwell, is the window that was my bedroom. On the far right on the basement level is where the laundry room was; the ghost was in the room to the "rear" of the building, directly across from the laundry room (not visible in the picture, obviously, since it's on the other side). The ghost was tied to that other room, but would often stand in the laundry room doorway and stare at me (and others, but you'll have to read the story if you want the details).

The whole site actually has a lot of pictures of places I recognize. It's an interesting thing to see these after so many years. It's kind of bittersweet, as I have very mixed emotions and memories of those years (well, anyone who's at all familiar with my family will know that I have mixed emotions and memories of pretty much my entire childhood), and some extremely disturbing and also positive things happened while I lived in what was then West Germany...