My House Experiences Since Childhood

II have told you most of my Dad's stories, and now I will tell you my own from the house that I've lived in my whole life.

My house isn't that old, and my bedroom and the living room are the newest additions to the house, added more than 20 years ago, before my parents bought it. I've always had experiences in my bedroom, my step sister's bedroom (mentioned in my story Strange Experience While Sick) and the laundry room in the basement.

I'll start with my bedroom. My bedroom has its own bathroom, but you can't see the bedroom door and the bathroom door from the centre of the room. If someone goes into the bathroom, they have to walk through my room to get to it. When I was younger, there was a ghost I named Rose, I thought I saw her once when I was very young, in elementary school and the name stuck in my head. She would open and shut my door. You couldn't hear it or see it from outside the room (standing in the living room) but you could hear/see it from standing inside my bedroom. This happened all the time when I was young but stopped when I yelled at her to quit when I was 12 and hasn't happened since.

There are two times that really stick out in my mind. Once I was with my step sister, and we were up late talking and giggling, but we stopped because the door was slamming loudly. We thought it was our little brother who was about 5 or 6 at the time. So, the two of us decided to scare him, we jumped out of the door only to find that no one was there, in the only hiding place, behind the rocking chair which was next to my door. Everyone had been in the living room (the closest room to my bedroom) Dad was asleep in his chair; my brother was asleep on my mom's lap and had been for over an hour. We even asked my mother, who hadn't even heard the door slamming. She wouldn't have lied to us either, because we were both terrified. The other time that sticks out in my mind was when I told Rose to stop slamming the door. I had a friend over and we were talking in my room when the door started slamming - like it always did. It was getting really loud and rather annoying, so I shouted for her to stop and not do it again, it stopped immediately and never did it again and this was 6 years ago.

Other things that have happened in my bedroom are the bathroom doorknob turning by itself when no one was in there. My sister and I have both witnessed this. I have had my hair pulled once while I was trying to go to sleep, I tried to debunk it, but I have no headboard and my bed is in the middle of the room with nothing to grab onto my hair near it. Also, I've had by bed shaken, it doesn't last for very long but it has happened two or so times. Also I always feel like I'm being watched from two distinct locations, one corner of my room that is away from all windows and doors, and from the bathroom - so I always shut that door. (Even a friend that is sensitive was VERY freaked out by my room. Specifically the bathroom.) I live away from home, at college now but whenever I go home I feel very uncomfortable sleeping in my bedroom and I honestly don't know how I dealt with it for so long.

Now I will talk about my step sister's room. It's in the old part of the house next to my parent's room. It's very small, one door and one window and one built in closet. But you always feel watched in the room. Always. My sister was trying to sleep one night and felt something bump the bed. She turned on the light, thinking it was a mouse and she looked, amongst the tons of junk under there, there were 2 glowing eyes. She freaked, got my little brother and a flashlight, and looked again. There was nothing but a LARGE cleared space in the middle of the junk where the eyes had been. She never slept in that room alone again, and she actually started sleeping in my bedroom with me after that. We always felt we were safer together, in my room and her room.

Now I will discuss the basement. It's dark and creepy. Especially the laundry room which is not well lit. The lights would sometimes go out, mostly on me. For no apparent reason. The one time my mother admitted there was activity in the house she said it was in the basement. She said she would see things out of the corner of her eye, and the clothes on our downstairs clothesline move. She always thought it was one of us kids but there would be no one. Once I went downstairs, and I couldn't explain it, but I was terrified, panicked. I ran and got out of there. It never happened again. Also, when you go up the stairs, sometimes it feels like something is right behind you, even when no one else is in the house. I can't explain it. I avoid going down there at all costs.

My little brother is the only one that has not experienced activity in the house. If he has, he hasn't said anything. My Dad says he feels something, but doesn't know what. The only place he has experienced anything was in the living room. He was watching TV and he saw something standing in the doorway between the kitchen and living room twice. Same thing, same height, same shadow. He said it was hard to ignore but after a second it was gone.