Spirit attached to my house or something in it?
by squishycthulhu, reddit.comJuly 28, 2015
Spirit attached to my house or something in it? (self.Ghosts)
I've always suffered from what I assumed were hallucinations since I was very young. I was always an anxious kid, very concerned with demons and hell and the like, being raised very religiously. When I was younger I would hear footsteps follow me down the hallway, see faces like masks around the house (but especially in my parents' room), and figures crawling on the walls. Not really something I'd expect a kid to experience on a regular basis but it is what it was. An overactive imagination, I was told. Mom told me it was because I wasn't close enough to Jesus. My doctor said it was bipolar. So I accepted that's what it is and have lived with it for most my life.
Then I moved away from my parent's house. The hallucinations eventually stop. I was sleeping without a lamp on. I was at peace. Then life happened and I had to move back. Within days, hallucinations started back up. I chalked it up to the stress of clashing with my parents at 21 and stress of being in what seemed like a hopeless situation.
But then tonight, my sister and I were reminiscing about the past. About our sister who passed away almost a decade ago. We talked about memories. I'm 22 now, my sister is 31. Our sister that passed had Cystic Fibrosis and died a month from turning 36. She would have been 45 now I guess.
A little background: Sherry was the light of the family. She was lovely and the purest person I have ever known, even the short time I knew her. She was a beacon of warmth. When she died, our family kind of fell apart. Dad grew even more quiet, Mom grew more negative, I grew more mentally ill, and sister stopped staying with us more and more and eventually married her fiance just to get out of the house. I don't blame her. The house was so negative after Sherry died.
I've always claimed something was in that house. The constant feeling of being watched, the hallucinations that suddenly started back after I moved back in.. It didn't sit well with me.
But then my sister and I started talking tonight about the past. And we stumbled on a shared experience: the faces. The masks. With red static around them. The footsteps. The things on the walls. She assumed they were dreams. It had never come up before because they were dreams to her. It had never come up because I don't like admitting my crazy.
But we discovered we saw the exact same things down to the smallest details as children. She was a kid a decade before me. What are the chances we would share the exact same hallucinations? She has no history of mental illness. Mine persisted. She still sees faces sometimes but not like me.
Sorry this is so all over the place. I'm just.. I don't know what to do. My parents are elderly. My dad is dying. I'm worried if it's a spirit it's why he's declining so quickly. And Mom has become... very negative. And is also declining health-wise. I'm concerned whatever it is in the house is causing this. I don't know what to do about it. I don't know if this is the right sub for this. But if anyone has any advice... any experiences... please share. My sister and I are scared.
As an added note, I had a cat for a while living with me at Mom's. He was always calm at my sister's house but at Mom's he'd go insane. Climbing the walls and howling. After I moved, I couldn't afford to take him with me immediately, so my sister kept him for a while til I could afford to bring him over. He was crazy for weeks until my brother in law screamed Jesus at him. It sounds ridiculous but after that, he calmed down. That's probably my religious background bias but it's a little odd.
#Unexplained/Paranormal #Sounds/Footsteps #Emotions #Animal/Cat