I Did Not Believe In Ghosts
I did not believe in ghosts. Sure, I was entertained by the notion, but anyone who came out and stated that they believed in ghosts, I dismissed as New Age hippies or whatever.
And then I lived in a haunted house.
It started out as little things. The bathroom door would open violently if anyone ever closed the latch, so often that we came to count on it. I asked my roommate if he ever noticed a red light in the spare bedroom (as I always did) when walking up the stairs in the dark. He did. I'd always go in the spare room to investigate, but could never find the source of the light.
These things, I could explain away. Then weirder things started to happen.
One night, I was sitting in the living room with my gf and my roommate, when I noticed the shape of a woman's face appear /in the pane of glass/ of the window in the other room. We all witnessed this. Even then, I tried to explain it away as a trick of the light.
What finally convinced me that something was happening was one time when I was brushing my teeth, something tugged insistently on my sleeve, and I'm 100% sure that I didn't catch it on anything (I was in the middle of the bathroom). Have you ever been fishing? It was like a fish was nibbling on the line, except on my t-shirt sleeve.
That freaked me out.
Still, stranger things happened. We'd hear footsteps upstairs while home alone. I often saw shadows out of the corner of my eye - one time, I even saw a shadow while looking right at it, /in the middle of the room/ - not up against a wall (I moved around to make sure) - for 5 minutes or so. Twice, while heading up the stairs to my room for bed, I heard a woman's voice say "goodnight" to me, over my shoulder.
The strangest thing that happened was New Years Eve, 3 years ago. My roommate and I were hosting a party, and waiting for people to show up, sitting in the living room. Suddenly, I felt something brush against my arm, and the lightbulb in the lamp I was sitting beside /exploded/.
There were a few other things that happened, and some I'm forgetting, I'm sure, but the fact is that too many strange things happened for it to be a coincidence. I have since moved out of the house, but the belief remains - somethings strange was happening there.
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