I was referred to Cynthia Shultes by a person who advised that Ms. Shultes was able to eliminate a ghostly presence from her home.

I had understood there was a presence in my home during the 21 years that I lived there.

We had recently moved in and were making several changes and repairs to this home, which was built in 1869. When I was about to go to sleep, the presence would pound on my door, making the door shake and raising a racket. I would suddenly wake up, and at first, I cursed. He (I refer to him as “he” as that is the way I perceived him) only pounded further. My husband was asleep in the front bedroom and didn’t hear any of this. No one was standing at the door because I could see light streaming from a night light in the hall under a large gap beneath the door. Finally, he stopped pounding, and I went to sleep.

A day or two later, on a Sunday, my husband was napping in the front bedroom. He was often tired as he worked in Philadelphia during the week. Someone started pounding on his door. He responds, “Cynthia (Cynthia is my name), I’m getting up.” The pounding continued. Again, he answered, “Cynthia, I’m getting up.” The pounding continued. Finally, my husband got up and went to the door. No one was there. He walked through the house and found no one there, and my car was gone. He now believed we had a ghost.

I felt that my husband needed his sleep, so I decided to have a “talk” with the ghost. I told him that he was welcome in the house. I asked him not to wake up my husband, as he needed his sleep. I told him that if he had to wake someone up, he could wake me, as I can go back to sleep, but my husband couldn’t. I told him the changes that we were making in the house were necessary to the preservation of the house. We didn’t want to change the house but only preserve it. After my “talk,” we had no more pounding on the doors. Once in a while, I would look to the door of the bedroom and think someone was looking at me.

I knew he was not gone, just quiet. My stepdaughter was sleeping in the front bedroom and woke to find a “man” looking at her. He wasn’t tall, had hair that appeared unkempt and long, and was wearing workman’s clothes that seemed to be dirty and well-worn. That was the same way that he “appeared” to me. Also, after we had any work performed in the house, he would make himself known. Greg would ask me if I called his name when I hadn’t. I would wake to the feeling that someone was looking at me from the bedroom door. There would be odd sounds that we couldn’t explain.

This home is in Lambertville, a small tourist town of 4000 people and fewer homes. We were trying to sell it when mortgage rates were most reasonable, there was a dearth of homes available, and real estate was flying off the market. I used a well-known and ambitious realtor. This home was desirable as it had three bedrooms, a huge kitchen, two office spaces on the third floor that looked out on a beautiful garden, parking for five cars, and an outdoor roofed deck. It was “in town” and walking distance to restaurants and nightlife. We were warned to find our next home before we put it on the market because homes were selling the first day they were online. This house sat on the market for eight months with no offers. Finally, we got an offer, and the would-be buyers backed out.

Stunned, I rethought what prospective buyers may be seeing that my realtor and I could not. I knew that home had a ghost, so I contacted Cynthia Shultes.

Ms. Shultes found that the home had a male presence who initially refused her help. She located the presence of a young male child who was frightened and wanted her help. She assisted him by contacting presences on the “other side,” and they swept in and guided this child to where he needed to go, but not before thanking Ms. Shultes.

Ms. Shultes waited a day and asked the male presence again if she could help him. This time, he agreed to accept her help. Ms. Shultes asked her contacts on the “other side” for assistance, and friends and relatives of the male came and guided him to where he needed to go.

A single woman showed interest in the home after I contacted Ms. Shultes. The woman was not sold on the house and wanted to take some time to think about it. 

[On the Saturday on which Ms. Shultes performed the clearing, she] told me of the above [services she performed] on the previous Thursday; we received the offer the next day, on a Friday. At this point, this very nice home had been on the market for nine months.

These are the facts of what occurred, as best I can recall and relate them to you. 

I believe Ms. Shulte’s work was instrumental in selling our house.

Cynthia R. Richards, Esq.

Note: edited for clarity