A CHICAGO HAUNTING
(Sara)
I live in a mini mansion built around the 1910's in a north suburb of Chicago. I don't really know the history of the house or anything like that and as far as I know, neither do my parents. Both my sister and I have experienced strange things in that house. From time to time, my parents say it's just all in our heads. They don't believe in that kind of stuff at all. There are three levels on the north part of the house, the first floor, second floor and attic. Then four levels on another part of the house, the first floor, second floor, third floor and attic (not including basement.). About 5 months ago I was home alone, baby sitting my two cousins. One is 5 years old and the other is 7 years old. I just put them down for a nap on the second floor, on the north side of the house. I went to my room; which is also on the second floor, only on the south end part of the house with a third floor above me, then the attic. The floor above me is basically one huge room with a television, computer, pool table etc. Now there is no way of getting to the third floor above my room without passing by my bedroom door to get to the stair case that leads upstairs. I was laying on my bed talking on my cell phone. I could see my bedroom door from where I was laying. Then I heard what sounded like something rolling on the floor above me. It was like someone was rolling a toy car, a skate, a skate board or something heavy, with big wheels. Now, we have a skate board and skates but those are all in the garage. And it didn't sound like it just slowly rolled from one corner of the room to another it sounded like someone rolled the toy , skate whatever back and fourth really fast. Now what is really funny about this is that part of the house has carpet, not wood floors. It just wouldn't make the same sound. Right away I got up to go check on my cousins. They are dead asleep. I told my friend what I heard and she told me it was probably just in my head. So, I went back to my room. A few minutes later, I heard it again. Even though I've experienced things in that house before this all happened, I was still scared. I begged my friend to come over. She finally did. When she got to my home, I took her to my room and we just sat there talking. I sat there, hoping it would happen so she would see it weren't all in my head, but one the same hand, not wanting it to happen again, because it scared me. After being in my room for about five minutes, it happened again. She just looked at me like, "Did you just hear that?"…I just stared at her like "I told you so". We went upstairs to check it out, even though I was very hesitant to…not knowing what to expect. By the time we got upstairs, she was squeezing my hand. We turned on the lights, looked around, no one was there. We both turned the lights off and ran downstairs. I picked up one of my cousins and she picked up the other one. We went to the family room on the first floor and stay there the rest of the day. After that day, I never really went up to the third floor except when I had a large group of people over. One night it was just my sister and I, watching a movie. We were both lying on the same big oversized couch watching tv. We couldn't really see anything, except what was in front of us. Were sitting there watching a movie when we heard a knock. It wasn't loud at all…it was very faint. I didn't think anything of it. Then we both heard it again and just we looked at each other. We kind of just signaled to each other to try and ignore it. Then we heard it again, only this time, we heard 3 knocks in a row. It sounded like the first knock was on the column farthest from us, separating the hall way from the family room. The second was on one of the middle columns and the third on the column closest to us. Then it happened again, only this time, there were five knocks going from the farthest column to closest, then back to farthest. My sister looked at me with tears in her eyes. We were both scared to death. Now there's NO WAY anyone could have come into the house because we would have seen them run between the four feet that separate each column, not to mention we would have heard them enter through one of the doors. I swear I thought I was going to have a heart attack. Then suddenly, it just stopped. My sister and I didn't move until our parents got home. To this day, my sister and I often hear footsteps…not just walking…it's more like someone is running. And not just above us, sometimes on the same level of the house we're in. From time to time when I get home from school, I find my radio or cd player turned on and the volume is set very low. I'll turn it off and come back later, to find it on again. My sister has a bunk bed. She always keeps this certain brush on top of her dresser, yet sometimes, even after checking to make sure it's on the dresser, she will find it on her bed. On another occasion, we had family over visiting. I was in the pool with my cousins and got out for a minute to use the bathroom. I had been in and out of the house in a matter of minutes. When I got outside, my mother shouted at me about opening one of the windows while the air is on. I was puzzled because I hadn't opened any windows, yet she swears she saw one of the windows open while I was inside the house. I know for a fact this house is haunted. Nothing violent has ever occurred….I guess they just want us to know that they're around.
BICKERING
(Jen)
The first ones happened about 7 years ago. I was still in high school, and I would come home and be alone until the evening when my parents would come home from work. On one particular day, I was reading an english assignment on the chair in our living room, when 10 feet away from me, I heard in the doorway to the kitchen, the sound of a man and woman bickering at each other. I couldn't make out what they were saying, just that it was very intense. My dog Petey even noticed and growled looking at the same area. I checked all over the house thinking maybe a tv or radio was on but none were.
DAD DID YOU FORGET SOMETHING?
(Jen)
My dad switched to second shift and had just left for work. I was alone, in my bedroom with the door open getting something out of my closet. Suddenly I heard what sounded like my father's work boots walking heavily down the hallway towards my room but descended into the den next to mine. After they went in there, the door slammed shut. I shouted "Dad did you forget something?" But I got no response. I was a little spooked and opened the door to find no one there. There was no window open so I had to rule out the door slamming shut from a heavy wind drift through the window.
CLEANING A HOUSE
THAT NEEDS CLEANSING
(Jen)
After I moved out of my parents I lived in a small apartment about 35 miles away and was working as a maid, cleaning homes all day. There was one home in particular that really spooked me out. An older man lived there and his wife had passed away a few years prior. The first time I cleaned his house, I was vacuuming when I had the strange sensation that someone was watching me and following me. Thinkng maybe it was my cleaning partner, I called her name and she was on the other side of the house cleaning the bathroom. I shrugged it off and continued to clean. Suddenly I felt a rush of cold air brush past me and that eerie feeling of being watched again. It followed me into each room I went into and I felt as if I wasn't welcome. I asked my partner later that day if she ever got an eerie feeling in that home and she said she never has. The next time I came back there, I was cleaning the bathroom, when the exact same eerie feeling followed me. It followed me from one bathroom to the next and was very scary. After that, I requested to never clean that home again, because whatever it was did not like me out of all the maids that have been there.
IT'S PLAYING TRICKS ON US
(Jen)
My fiance and I just moved into our home. I had a day off work, and I was laying down to take a nap, since my recent pregnancy has made me very very tired lately. I was just drifting off to sleep when I heard a car pull up in the driveway and our side door open and footsteps walking in our kitchen. I sat frozen since my fiance doesn't have a car and was at work, so there was no way it was him. I finally got up and grabbed something to strike with. I went into the kitchen to find no one there and no car present in our driveway except mine. I went back to bed, and thesame thing happened, only this time the footsteps went all the way up to my bedroom doorway. I was so scared I didn't move. I looked over at the doorway expecting to see someone and didn't. Then our cat came running into the hallway and looked intently at our bathroom wall for a long time. Its eyes were just glued to the wall and unmoving. My fiance has lived here for a few years and said that he has had eerie feelings like someone watching him behind his shoulder and lightbulbs blowing up right after he would replace them. Also he told me of a dark figure that he would catch out of the corner of his eye.
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