Center City House
Approximately 7 or 8 years ago, a friend of mine was
renting a make-shift apartment in Center City
Philadelphia. The apartment was on the 2nd floor of a 3
story row-house. The man who owned the house
was a little eccentric and had gates that once stood in an
old English cemetery adorning his kitchen doorway. Well
the owner had a sister who died of cancer while living on
the 3rd floor of this house. Then after she died there was
a mysterious fire that destroyed the 3rd floor. It was
while he was renovating this area that my friend Matt was
living in the house. The first time I walked up the old
wooden staircase I felt very disturbed but I was unsure
why.
I spent many nights sleeping across the hall from my
friends small apartment in what could be described as a library. It was
hard to sleep because of noises I would hear from upstairs.
Then of course, the feelings of being watched. It was
creepy. Then one night Matt’s girlfriend was downstairs
making dinner and Matt and I were on the bed watching TV.
From the bed you had a clear view of the TV and Door to the
apartment. Well, the door opened about 6 inches, then
closed again. Almost like someone was peeking in on us. It
was not Matt’s girlfriend because we were speaking to her
while she was below us in the kitchen. Well I turned to
Matt and asked if he had seen the door open and close, he
said yes and was a little nervous about it. Then one night
Matt was working and his girlfriend and I were laying on
the bed watching TV when the power went out completely. We
could not see a thing but we both clearly heard the door to
the apartment open and close again. Talk about freaked out,
we just held each other for about 2 minutes until the
lights came back on. Nothing was in the room and no one
else was in the house. Needless to say, Matt did not live
there for much longer.
Bensalem Apartment
In 1996 I lived in a nice apartment complex in Bensalem,
PA. I was only 21 and my roommate and I had a lot of
parties. I don’t recall the sequence of events that took
place but I remember being in my bedroom which was in the
back of the apartment. From my room, I had a clear view of
the hallway straight into the living room. Now at this
time, no one lived under us or on either side. It was nice,
we could be loud.
Well one night while I was home alone, I
heard the front door open and someone clearly walk into the
living room. I was in my bedroom and looked down the hall,
no one was there. I called out to my roommate and no one
answered. No one was there.
On another night, I was watching TV in the living room with my cat Mobo. He was
running around like crazy, he was always a little nuts.
Well he started jumping at the wall, so I looked over and
saw the shadow of a head on the wall, I turned and looked
towards the window and there was nothing there that could
have given off that shadow. I looked back at the wall and
the head was gone. I turned on all the lights and stayed up
until my roommate came home. Not too much else would happen
until I was moving out. I had two of my friends at the time
Sean and Sam help me clean the apartment. Well Sam fell
asleep on the couch and Sean was cleaning the kitchen. I
was scrubbing out the bathtub. Sean walks into the bathroom
and says, “there is something weird, happening in the
kitchen”. I thought he was just high, so I said, okay I
will do the kitchen, you take the bathroom. Well I started
cleaning the kitchen and opened one drawer and turned
around to do something else. Well sure enough, when I
turned back to the drawer, it would be closed. The same
thing kept happening to the cabinets. I was a little
freaked out. so we took a break. As we both sat down on the
couch that was facing the entire apartment, out of nowhere
the chandelier in the small dining area, started swaying
back and forth. Neither one of us moved it and there was no
wind in the apartment that could have made it start
swaying. Then it just stopped.
Now I have heard that places
that have a lot of activity, such as our apartment, may
still hold onto some residual energy. Perhaps that is what
could have caused all of this strange activity or perhaps
we had some friendly spirits who wanted to hang out. I
never felt threatened in any way, just a little spooked.
Thank you.
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