When I was about 13 my family moved into an old
house in the countryside. We hadn't even lived there for 6
months before my sister and I started to feel like the place
was haunted.
The first event happened during a long rainstorm. The roof
leaked, so we were all staying in the living room where no
water was coming in. Lightning struck and hit our fuse box.
My mom was worried about the house catching fire so she
made us all move to one of the rooms closer to the door.
After a few hours I had to go upstairs to check on our
hamsters. I headed into the hallway that leads to the
steps. As a bolt of lightning flashed I noticed what looked
like a man's shadow heading for the steps. It was not my
own, because the shadow crossed my path instead of following
it. This creeped me out, so I hurried upstairs and back down.
Almost a year later I was home by myself. I was upstairs
in my room. I thought I heard my mom come in the kitchen
(which was right below my room) and start going through the
pots and pans. I looked out my window and saw that her car
was not there. Whatever was down there was not my mom. So
I grabbed a pocket knife off my desk for protection and went
to investigate. I found nothing. I was spooked, so I
decided to stay downstairs and just watch TV till mom got
back.
About 30 minutes later I heard noises in my room. Again
they were like someone was searching through my stuff. I
grabbed my knife again and went back to my room. When I got
there there was no trace of anyone having been there. At
this point I had had enough and stayed upstairs until my mom
came back. I heard noises in the kitchen again, but did not
investigate anymore.
Several years later I started feeling a presence on our
staircase. The staircase was split into two sections, with
a small landing in between. I hated this landing. It always
felt like something was there. My sister also felt it. She
refused to even use the stairs unless all the lights were on.
It just happened that my sister was friends with the
daughter of a lady that worked at the real estate company
that had sold us the house. The lady said that there were
reports about the house being haunted. She herself would
not go in the house. I never was able to find out anymore
details about the haunting or the house's history. To this
day I still wonder what was there and why it was there.
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