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I grew up in an old house, address (and I sh*t you not) was 666 Pickford Street. One night I woke up from a nightmare and went to my parents room to sleep in their bed. I crawled into bed, looked up at the doorway and saw this shadowy figure just staring at me. Barely could make out any features, but I knew it was a woman. I also just... felt that she meant me no harm. In fact, a wave of calm kinda came over me. I curled up and went right to sleep. I never told my parents until years later when they watch an episode of Unsolved Mysteries. They asked me if I ever saw a ghost at Pickford (we had moved houses by then). I said yeah and told them my tale. They looked at each other and got a little freaked. Turns out two housesitters at different times had seen the exact same thing as me in the same room. My parents never told us kids when we lived there because they didn't want us to be scared. (P.S. My sister has claimed that a picture winked at her... but no one believes her.)

I lived in a haunted house as a child. We saw several things happen. We would lock the back door and could stand there and watch the back door unlock itself. My mother would brush her hair and see three arms in the mirror doing the brushing. We had put my dog on the front porch one night with the doors locked. We heard her barking and then was quiet. Suddenly she walked into the living room through the kitchen. There was no way to get from the front porch to the kitchen! And once, I heard footsteps. Now the house was set up in an oval walk through pattern, enter from the back door into the kitchen, then into the dining area, then around into the living room, into my parents bedroom, into the bathroom, and back into the kitchen. My bedroom was off my parents bedroom. One night I was in bed trying to go to sleep. My parents were watching TV in the living room. Because it was quiet, I think they had fallen asleep on the couch. The dogs were all quiet. I heard a sound in the kitchen that turned into footsteps. They sounded exactly like sandals or flip-flops. The steps went through the kitchen, through the dining area, through the living room and into my parents bedroom. By this time I was hiding under the covers. I heard the steps come into my room and stop at the foot of my bed. I do not know what it was because I have either blocked it out or stayed under the covers until I went to sleep. Neither my parents or the dogs ever heard anything. It still gives me the shivers to this day.

This all happend in Dominican Republic in 1997. I was with my cousin, brother and a couple of frineds at my place. Our parents were out the city for a few days, so we all go together that day and just watch tv ate and had some fun. Around 2am everyone was tired so they all decide to leave, my cousin had his girlfrined over, so I decided that I will sleep on the couch so he can stay with his girl, my brother was already sleeping so we just left in insede the room, my cousin closed the doors and i hit the couch.
its really dark but i didn't mind that. I started to hear noises in the kitchen, I go check it out, so ti see the cabinets open, so I think to myself, "damn rats" i closed them and went back to the couch, there's again that noise, I'm starting to get annoyed by it so I go again adn the cabinets are open the same way they were before, i said to myself "what in the hell"
closed them , killed the lights and when I was walking back to the living room to the couch the noise was really loud this time and all of a sudden i felt like i just walked thru Ice, It got really cold, the place stunk of sulfur and the first thing that came to my mind was the there was something really bad in that house, so i rushed to the bedroom where my cousin and brother were at and pound on that door , my cousin opened it and i jump on my bed which it was a two story bed and my brother was sleeping at the bottom, as soon as i jump on my bed i felt something on top of me and i could not breathe at all, I manage to geet away and jumped out and jumped with my brother, I turned the tv on and the fan was on, theN "BANG" the tv goes off, Im trying to wake my cousing and brother and i get no response then again "BANG" the fan goes off, I remeber this like yesterday and i will never forget it, standing in front of our bedroom door I saw A shadow on a shadow, it was the darkest thing i've ever seen and the smell I will never forget it.

I our old home there was definately a strange entitiy of some sort. Every time my wife and I were at home we were always fighting for no reason as if somehting were agitating us. The scariest thing for me was when we would go to bed there would be a shadow in the room. It was terrifying. It looked like a person that was crouched down and it would "sneak" up to the edge of the bed and peak over. It felt like it was always watching. I know people think that this stuff is made up, but it really does happen.

The house I lived in as a teen is over 100 years old (supposedly once lived in by Daniel Boone's brother... but I dunno if that's true. Maybe just the real estate agent telling stories), and all sorts of spooky stuff went on there every now and again. Several stories of note...

- Typing on the computer one night around 2 in the morning, I heard a voice in the other room when nobody was home saying plain as day "Can I help you out, please?". Well, that freaked me out like you wouldn't believe.
- My father saw a woman in a yellow dress standing at the foot of his bed one night.
- Shadows of people are reflected walking against the hallway wall when the light in the dining room is on, sometimes even coming into the living room!
- A black figure is seen curiously peeking it's head around the wall next to the stairs, as if looking into the living room.

But the most notable story was when I was once again typing one night on the computer. The air just felt... off... for some reason. I paid it no mind (a thunderstorm was coming in at the time, so I chalked it up to humidity), and kept on working when all of the sudden, a real tiny pinprick ball of light seemed to come out of the computer tower. I sat in amazement, staring at it as it rose from the tower, and up, up, up, into the ceiling where it disappeared. I couldn't figure it out for the life of me.
A few minutes later, I heard my father get up from bed and go into the bathroom. No biggie, small bladder I told myself. When I finished up typing a little while after, I went to my bedroom. Hearing my parents talking in the room next to mine, I said goodnight, then shut the door, and went to sleep.
The next morning, I told my mom the "freaky sight" I saw, figuring she would chalk it up to being overtired, or my mind playing tricks on me. She sat listening, and when I finished, she asked "What time was this?" I told her about 1 in the morning or so... "right before dad went to the bathroom". She looked at me oddly, then said "That's weird. He told me right before he went into the bathroom, he saw a small boy standing in the corner of the room in dirty pajamas, crying, and holding out his arms to him." *cue scary music*
I guess my dad was so affected by seeing this, he began to cry (my father NEVER cries without reason), and my mom told me he got really depressed afterwards, and after he went to the bathroom to wash his face, desperately needed to talk. To this day, he still gets somewhat saddened when he speaks about what he saw that night.

My folks still live in that house, and continue to tell me other odd occurances that take place there.

Happy Halloween!

I rented this old house and it was haunted. The whole house was refurbished except the closed in one bedroom. This is where there was the most activity. The dog would not even go in there. The room would be much colder than any other part of the house. The lights and tv in that room would turn on and off by themselves. Once I seen a man going up the stairs and when I asked him who he was he said his name was Joe and he was going to his room. Then I heard the door of that room open and shut. I was glad to move out of there.

I grew up in a house that odd things would often occur. My parents thought me and my brother were making up all these things that were scaring the heck out of us. We would hear someone walking back and forth past the window. It went on every night. You could just feel that something was in this house. Then doors would slam for no reason and we could sometimes see a light shape in the doorway. We were terrified. One night my parents were sleeping and my Dad woke up and said he saw a ghost standing over him. Everything would stop for awhile but continue months later, such as lightbulbs exploding and hearing things. Years later my husband could feel that the house was evil when he stayed there. One of the scariest things I experienced was I woke up one night and there were freaking red eyes staring at me. It felt like it was sitting on my chest and I could not breathe. I hate that house!

One night I was laying in bed. My eyes were heavy and I knew it was time for sleep. Every ounce of my body ached for slumber. I drifted off and thought I had been in a deep sleep, then it felt like some grabbed my toes. No one else was in the house, so I know something was there. Then on another night, I was again laying in bed and a loud pitched scream seemed to come from the hallway. I jumped from my bed. Again, no one there and the television was completely off. Creepy to me.