nine_am

I've been reading quite a few entries in here and every single one have given me the chills, it was absolutely thrilling! I figured, maybe I should submit my own experience although it may not be the scariest but I guess it wouldn't hurt to contribute?

First things first though! I'm Asian and English ain't my native tongue so my command of the language may not be up to par and I'm not exactly great at story-telling but I will try my best.

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About 17 years ago (in 1995?) my whole family moved into a temporary apartment while we waited for our new house to be ready as the current owner at the time needed a couple of weeks to move out so dad got us a temporary place to put up, I remember the place being quite old and have heard things from my neighbour next door that the apartment that we're living in then was vacant for a couple of years. Now we Asian believe that if any particular places (room, office spaces, house, etc) have been left empty for a long time, spirits and such will tend to inhabit (is this the right word to use?) the place.

We didn't paid much attention to gossips though we just thought that as long as "they" (supernatural beings) doesn't bother us "we could close one eye" since we're only going to be there for a couple of months.

I was 11 at the time and for the first few days every thing was fine we all managed to settled down w/ no issues whatsoever but considering the house was empty for a few years we had a lot of cleaning to do, there were many insects such as roaches, spiders even centipedes in the kitchen's cabinet, regardless of what we do these buggers keep on appearing every couple of nights or so, it was disgusting but I disgress. Weird things started happening a month after we've moved in, I will break them down.

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jackinthebox019

Okay so I'm new here and this is my first post, my friend introduced me to this site and I decided to type up what I went through when I was younger .

Alright, so I lived in this house for 13 years, from when I was brought from the hospital after I was born until the day we decided to move out. Well, I can't remember much, or anything at all about my younger years, seeing those are the years that you are most susceptible to paranormal occurrences, and quite frankly I would rather not remember them since what happend in this house is why we moved. While growing up though, I think I had more than my fair share of experiences, as well as members of my family that had some strange occurrences, that have left an imprint in my mind. I'll start off by giving a description of my house, we lived in a valley named after us next to our grandparents out in the middle of nowhere, so nobody that didn't know us would come out there. It was a rather large house with a long corridor style hallway in which several rooms broke off to, with the half bath being at the very end of the hall, my room was next to it, while across from my room was my parent's master bedroom, also my sister's room was located a few doors down. We also had basically a "second house" in the basement, which was converted to another living arrangement for someone that wanted to stay down there, but nobody did, cause basements are creepy.

Well first off, this house for some reason after watching a movie would literally make whatever was the bad monster in a movie come to life and literally try and terrify you to death, in my case it was the movie "Gremlins," "IT," as well as "Critters." Now I know that my imagination at that age is completely off the charts, but I don't think it was just my imagination, I think whatever was in this house with us would use these fears to its advantage. For some reason, my sister's room and my room did not bother me, it was always my parent's room, and their closet that they had, along with underneath their bed, I don't know why, but I felt like something evil was there, in turn this would cause me to run up and down the hallway to the bathroom/my room and immediately lock the door. Both of my sisters had this weird feeling too, so it wasn't only me. One of my sister's had something dealing with a wolf in which it would try and get her, and it would be in my parent's room, but for my older sister who was a very Christian woman, devoted herself to God and her studies (which is why I believe the house has something in it) saw a figure in the basement bathroom to which she describes as very demon-like: horns, the normal demon stuff. The basement was huge, my sisters and myself would run from the staircase through the basement to get outside, and vice-versa cause we didn't want to be down there, it was as if there were two things in the house, one in my parent's room, and then one in the basement.

While I was getting older, I had plenty of nightmares, usually every night (which stopped after we moved), but before I would fall asleep out of the corner of my eye I would notice this figure standing in my doorway, it was dark and shadowy, and I was scared and when I would turn to look at it, it would disappear, then when I turned the other way it would appear again (I would only see it out of the corner of my eye.) My sister said it was probably just my mom or dad, but I know it wasn't them, they slept with their door closed and I would hear it if it did open, plus this figure would stay there for hours, and I only knew this because I couldn't fall asleep until I literally couldn't stay awake any longer. This went on for several years, it never tried to come near me, or talk to me, from what I remember. There was also an instance where one of those motion activated toys went off by itself, (which I already thought was creepy) so I took out the batteries, and it went off again.

Well my parents ended up getting divorced, can't recall the reason, but I blame it on the house, because every happy couple that came in after we moved out ended up getting divorced. Well when my parents became divorced I was 13, and one night we (my mother, sisters, and I) heard a loud banging in our basement garage. Now you wouldn't get into our house without us knowing, since we had our dogs outside that bark at anyone that they don't know and because our alarm system would have triggered, so this was in the house already. We decided to call our granddad to come up with a shotgun to check it out, everything was fine, but we knew something had been in there or was still in there with us, cause a few things had been moved around. That night, my sisters and I told our mom what we had been going on for the last I would say 10 years, the next day or so we decided to move into an apartment complex until we could get the house sold. When I was about I would say 17 I ended up seeing that same strange figure after leaving my sister's house (which wasn't located anywhere near my old house), it just stared at me while we drove out of the driveway, I'm 21 now, and I haven't seen it since then. So I have no clue what happened to it or I should rather say I don't care what happend to it, or what is going on in that old house, but I would like to go back to it in the daytime to see if it still brings chills to me. 

So I'm not really sure what was in that house, but I feel that it wasn't good, and I'm glad that my family and I left the house, cause I think it could only have gotten worse.