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The Haunting Of Willows Apartments

 

I'm here to talk about my experiences as a kid in the Willows Apartments. I'm not sure why no one talks about them much, but that place is hell.

When I was just 9-10 years old, I had a very bad experience and very negative. My mom had stayed here when we moved in, I knew something was badly off. I started noticing it when mom would get angry more and easier. I knew being a single parent was bad enough and ever since I was a kid, I'm a magnet for spirits and demonic entities. It's terrifying when you're just a kid.

It started off when moms' emotions would increase, the smallest things could set her off. I could understand why maybe it was stress until... That quickly changed. Started to hear footsteps at night, knockings, slamming kitchen cabinets would wake me up. I thought it was mom, but I would get up and to find her always fast asleep.

One day a childhood friend of mine came to stay the night little did I know that was the last night we stayed there; we encountered evil. My friend and I were in the bedroom playing with toys, when all the sudden I saw a shadow dark run across the wall. I pointed at it and asking her did you see that she looked at me in fear like she saw the whole thing not just a shadow. I screamed for my mom, tears down my face, "I saw it! I saw a shadow!"

My mom saw my fear and felt it. She contacted her close friend and we cleansed what we could of out apartment and never looked back.

Later that week mom found out that the buildings were built on very bad Indian burial ground, many deaths followed, and the apartments continue to haunt the living to this day.

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rookdygin (25 stories) (4465 posts)
 
2 weeks ago (2025-08-20)
Been awhile sense I have been around but a few things in this account caught at my attention.

1st: "t started off when moms' emotions would increase, the smallest things could set her off. I could understand why maybe it was stress until... That quickly changed. Started to hear footsteps at night, knockings, slamming kitchen cabinets would wake me up. I thought it was mom, but I would get up and to find her always fast asleep."

Was wondering if this may not have been telekinetic outbursts because of your mother's stress levels? This type of activity can manifest during times of stress. Some would call this Poltergeist activity, no spirit involved, just energy outbursts from an individual. Was the activity being heard verified as coming from your apartment and not something that one of the neighbors was doing?

2nd: "One day a childhood friend of mine came to stay the night little did I know that was the last night we stayed there; we encountered evil. My friend and I were in the bedroom playing with toys, when all the sudden I saw a shadow dark run across the wall. I pointed at it and asking her did you see that she looked at me in fear like she saw the whole thing not just a shadow. I screamed for my mom, tears down my face, "I saw it! I saw a shadow!"

What about this shadow made you think it was 'evil'? Was it simply that you both saw something you did not understand, and it scared you? Did you feel anything other than fear / surprise when you both saw this figure? I am of the opinion that 'shadow figures' are not inherently 'evil' and that what we see may be the only way the spirit / entity we are seeing was able to manifest itself. Rather than a 'full figure' it only had the energy to appear as a shadow (hope that makes sense).

3rd: "Later that week mom found out that the buildings were built on very bad Indian burial ground, many deaths followed, and the apartments continue to haunt the living to this day."

'Built on very bad Indian Burial Ground'? Do you mean that it was bad the Apartments were built on a sacred site of Native Americans? Is / was there a history of Death in the area and / or within the Apartment Complex? Could you please provide the details concerning this point? Thank you for sharing, I hope you do not feel I am 'picking' on you, I am just asking questions to better understand what may have been happening.

Respectfully,

Rook
Arturo (14 posts)
 
1 month ago (2025-07-30)
Glad you guys got out of there, shadow people are not good sign
Rajine (14 stories) (1001 posts)
 
1 month ago (2025-07-28)
I can imagine how terrifying it must have been for a 10 year old kid, even more so after learning about the history of the place.
VloggerTom (2 stories) (5 posts)
 
1 month ago (2025-07-25)
I definitely believe that land as well as buildings can definitely hold energy and spirits, experienced some of that myself living in North Carolina.

Definitely good that you guys were able to move and never look back, and get out of there. Can not imagine how bad that must of felt to experience at that age.

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