In Russia

Actually it was a series of weird events rather than one. I was just married to my now ex wife and we went to stay at her parents for a few days and she was super nervous about this. I tried to calm her down telling her not to worry, as even though I did not know her parents so well, they seemed to be nice people. But then she said it was not about her parents, but about the apartment where they lived. She said when she was younger weird stuff happened in the apartment, but she really did not want to talk much about this, she just said that when she was alone, she could not turn the lights on, despite clicking the tumbler, and there were strange noises in the night. I was young, an atheist, loved science and always laughed at any ghost stories and other mumbo jumbo esotheric shit, so with a smile on my face, I tried to tell her that everything has a scientific explanation and there's nothing supernatural. Oh boy... I still get shivers when I type this, 22 years later.

So we went to her parents, their two bedroom apartment was nice and clean, they both were minimum wage people, but they were not alcoholics or anything. On the first night nothing happened. So the next day I told her something like "see, it's all your childhood fears" and immediately we were covered with a cloud of terrible smell. It smelled like rotten onions, blood and meat and garlic at the same time. Not something that makes you throw up immediately, but rather something that makes you feel extremely uncomfortable. She freaked out and ran out of the room. I got up and made a step to the exit and then suddenly the smell was gone. I looked around and made a step back and this terrible and strong smell was there. I did some research and found out that the smell "pillar" was about 5 feed wide and it was in the center of this room only, not spreading to the corners. That puzzled me. A lot. But as I said, I thought there must be an explanation to everything. So I tried to explain this with how air moves, and this must be some bad smell from the sewer pipes, etc, to my wife who was standing in the door way. And then suddenly the smell was gone.

But the worst thing happened in the night. I woke up because my wife was pushing me, and I immediately heard some one running in our bedroom. Someone little, like a small kid, barefoot, their tiny feet slapping against the floor. It was running from one wall to another and back, past our bed and I have not only heard this, I also could feel the air moving when it passed the bed. I was terrified and looked to where it should be running, but there was nothing there.

I said a very stupid thing "Who's there?!" and the sounds and air movement stopped. And then a corner of the carpet raised in the air and dropped to the floor with a very loud slapping sound. My wife was trembling and crying, sitting on the bed, and the carpet corner slapped again, and again, and again.

I am not a brave person, but I just did not know what to do, so I ran to the light switch and turned the lights on. And everything stopped. I looked at the clock and it was 10 minutes past 4 AM. We could not sleep for the rest of the night. When her parents woke up, I told them about what happened and they said something like "we are sorry, we hoped this won't happen, as it happens rarely". Her dad said that he saw this thing when he woke and it was sitting on his chest. He said it looked like a small being with fur on it's face, remotely resembling both a humanoid cat and owl with big eyes. I could not believe in what he said back then and I still cant believe it now.

They said while the sounds and smells happen, they're mostly harmful, except for the discomfort. But they don't do any physical harm.

My wife was terrified as she remembered a lot of such things from her childhood, which she made herself to forget and she begged me to leave immediately.

So we have packed our stuff and headed to the exit, as a plant pot flew off a cabinet, flew about 5 feet to our side and crashed before us. We literally ran to the exit and we never ever visited this place and avoided talking about this.

I am still an atheist, I don't believe in supernatural things, UFOs or Sasquatch or anything like that. But I can't explain this to myself to this day.

After we divorced, she once called me to talk about some documents and mentioned that this thing has gone from her parents apartment.

All these weird things happened in the span from 1992 (approx) to 2001. I have heard similar stories from her two cousins who visited this apartment.

As to why they did not move to other place. All the things happened in Russia when it was very economically unstable, they're rather poor people and this apartment was all they actually owned. They could not just sell it and buy another one.

Sorry about any mistakes, English is not my first language.

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