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I currently live in a house that, for one reason or another, is rampant with paranormal activity. We believe there were 3 when we moved in, but now there are only 2 due to smudging and purification, but I’ll get to that later.

When we came to see the house, we were in the kitchen with the Realtor when we heard a loud thud upstairs. We all pause, but nobody’s home so surely it’s the wind or something outside. No big deal.

Then, we hear a toy in an upstairs bedroom start playing music out of nowhere. Again, no big deal, kids toys are obnoxious. It stops suddenly. Over the next half an hour or so, it plays 2 more times. We move in anyways, and notice activity almost immediately. Here are some of the things that have happened to me:

• The smell of stale, burnt coffee in strange places, only for a few seconds at a time. I would’ve thought I was having a stroke, but other people smell it too. Nobody in the house drinks coffee, and our neighbors are too far away for the smell to be from them.

• doors swinging open and slamming closed. Cabinets open or close on their own. The first few times it happened, I would’ve sworn it was someone just trying to freak me out. The very first time, it was the door to the spare bedroom. I had literally just turned a corner, so it had just come into sight and was in full view. It swung open slowly, deliberately, and then slammed shut violently. It became more frequent. Cabinets will open or close when you aren’t looking at them.

• Scratch marks in the carpet in places and directions they shouldn’t be. I don’t really know how to explain this, but there were scratch marks leading to/through walls/shut doors that were clearly made by hands too big to be any of us.

• We’ve all been scratched, grabbed, and pushed. I received the least, but this could be because I am naturally cautious about the paranormal. My dad has had a hand grab his ankle while he was on the stairs. These assaults and the scratches in the carpet have stopped since I’ve smudged and asked the darker entities to leave. Like I said, we started with 3, and now have 2. At least one of these was very, very mean.

• Hearing whispers and footsteps. This usually happens when we are in the basement, we hear people above us. It is so vivid it has sent us running upstairs with baseball bats thinking we were being robbed, but nobody was there. The other day, I vacuumed and forgot to replace the salt crystals I keep by my door. That night, I was awoken by the sound of sobbing. I was the only one home.

• We feel people just over our shoulder. It’s hard to explain, but it’s a common occurrence in our household to be talking to someone and have them suddenly whip around, expecting someone to be there.

The scariest occurrence I’ve had happened one night while I was cleaning after dinner. I was alone in the house with our elderly dog, while the rest of my family was walking the puppy. The old dog, who has awful cataracts and can’t really see or hear, bristles and growls. I turn to see what he’s looking at and I see a man walk by, very casually, in the dining room.

He had no face and looked like a shadow, but was there and physical and real. He passed the entrance to the kitchen, turning his head to look at me as he did. I freaked out and called my dad, who ran home and found no one there.

I was very upset, but thought maybe it was the shadow of someone outside? Somehow? Until I looked over my shoulder later that evening and saw him standing there staring at me. I freaked out and burnt sage, and haven’t seen him since. But I know he’s here. We don’t talk about these things out loud because every time we do, it gets worse.

Edit: I should mention, our house is built on land that was once the site of civil war battles.

#Unexplained/Paranormal #Animal/Dog #Sounds/Footsteps #Visual/Shadow #Visual/Scratch_Marks #Smell