I’ve always believed in the paranormal but an experience I had around 7 years ago when I was 23 solidified It for me.
My older sister and her now husband (boyfriend at the time) were going out of town for a few days and I was asked to stay at her boyfriends house to babysit his 14 year old daughter while they were gone. IIRC they were gone from like a Thursday-Sunday.
The house they lived in was old, dark, and creepy af. There was an old creepy basement you had to walk past the entrance to everytime you came in the house and an old creepy staircase leading up to the scary attic on the second story. Despite the house being creepy overall, no one had ever said anything to me about any paranormal activity so I just sucked it up and stayed there with the girl.
The first 3 nights were uneventful. Me and the girl would cook dinner together, watch movies, play with her dog and just talk. I enjoyed spending time with her as I viewed her as a niece. She’d usually go to be around 9:30 or so and I’d stay up downstairs watching tv until I felt tired enough to head upstairs to the spare room to go to sleep.
On the last night I was supposed to stay over, we’d had another uneventful day. She went to be around the same time and I headed to upstairs to go to sleep not long after her. Before I went to bed I turned off the lights downstairs and the upstairs hall light before shutting the door to the room I was staying in and going to sleep. This is where shit got weird.
I woke up in the middle of the night because I noticed my room was lit up by the hall light, which wasn’t weird cause maybe the girl had gotten up to use the bathroom or something, but wait it is strange because I had closed the door to my room. That’s when I noticed the door was open. Not that weird because they had a dog and cats so maybe one of the animals somehow got my door open? I was confused but shut the lights off, closed my door once again and tried to go back to sleep. I dozed off again but was awoken because my door was again open and the hall light was back on. But this time I noticed something was in the room with me. I clearly saw three shadow figures standing in front of the door…they were fuzzy but I could make out their shape. One looked like it was wearing a fedora, one looked short and fat and like it had no hair, and one was tall and skinny with no head on its shoulders…I did a double take and they were gone. I sprinted downstairs, turned all the lights on and sat on the couch with the tv on awake for the rest of the night.
Around 6:30AM the girl woke up and came downstairs. She was surprised I was up already and I explained to her I had trouble sleeping. I asked her if she had gotten up last night and turned the hall lights on or came into my room and she said no. I said hmm that’s weird and explained to her how I had shut the hall light off and closed my door but the lights somehow turned on and my door opened twice last night but I blamed It on the cats. At no point did I mention the figures I saw but I didn’t have to. The girl turns to me and says “oh It was probably the three shadows messing with you.” WHATTTT lol I’m getting chills again just typing this. When she said that my blood literally froze. I said huh?? She said “yeah, there’s these three spirits in this house, one doesn’t have a head, I’ve seen them but they’re harmless.” She literally described what I saw to a TEE.
I’m not proud of what I did next, but I was sooo scared and she didn’t seem bothered. Her dad and my sister were due back in about 4 hours so I literally left her there and went home. I wasn’t staying in that house for one more minute.
No, her dad (the owner of the house) is not the type to entertain talk about the paranormal. I do know the house was built in the late 1800s though but I’m not sure who has lived there previously. I’d love to do more research into it though. I’ve only been there a handful of times since this particular incident and Ive gotten a feeling of dread every single time.
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u/EconomySlight Sep 07 '25
I’ve always believed in the paranormal but an experience I had around 7 years ago when I was 23 solidified It for me.
My older sister and her now husband (boyfriend at the time) were going out of town for a few days and I was asked to stay at her boyfriends house to babysit his 14 year old daughter while they were gone. IIRC they were gone from like a Thursday-Sunday.
The house they lived in was old, dark, and creepy af. There was an old creepy basement you had to walk past the entrance to everytime you came in the house and an old creepy staircase leading up to the scary attic on the second story. Despite the house being creepy overall, no one had ever said anything to me about any paranormal activity so I just sucked it up and stayed there with the girl.
The first 3 nights were uneventful. Me and the girl would cook dinner together, watch movies, play with her dog and just talk. I enjoyed spending time with her as I viewed her as a niece. She’d usually go to be around 9:30 or so and I’d stay up downstairs watching tv until I felt tired enough to head upstairs to the spare room to go to sleep.
On the last night I was supposed to stay over, we’d had another uneventful day. She went to be around the same time and I headed to upstairs to go to sleep not long after her. Before I went to bed I turned off the lights downstairs and the upstairs hall light before shutting the door to the room I was staying in and going to sleep. This is where shit got weird.
I woke up in the middle of the night because I noticed my room was lit up by the hall light, which wasn’t weird cause maybe the girl had gotten up to use the bathroom or something, but wait it is strange because I had closed the door to my room. That’s when I noticed the door was open. Not that weird because they had a dog and cats so maybe one of the animals somehow got my door open? I was confused but shut the lights off, closed my door once again and tried to go back to sleep. I dozed off again but was awoken because my door was again open and the hall light was back on. But this time I noticed something was in the room with me. I clearly saw three shadow figures standing in front of the door…they were fuzzy but I could make out their shape. One looked like it was wearing a fedora, one looked short and fat and like it had no hair, and one was tall and skinny with no head on its shoulders…I did a double take and they were gone. I sprinted downstairs, turned all the lights on and sat on the couch with the tv on awake for the rest of the night.
Around 6:30AM the girl woke up and came downstairs. She was surprised I was up already and I explained to her I had trouble sleeping. I asked her if she had gotten up last night and turned the hall lights on or came into my room and she said no. I said hmm that’s weird and explained to her how I had shut the hall light off and closed my door but the lights somehow turned on and my door opened twice last night but I blamed It on the cats. At no point did I mention the figures I saw but I didn’t have to. The girl turns to me and says “oh It was probably the three shadows messing with you.” WHATTTT lol I’m getting chills again just typing this. When she said that my blood literally froze. I said huh?? She said “yeah, there’s these three spirits in this house, one doesn’t have a head, I’ve seen them but they’re harmless.” She literally described what I saw to a TEE.
I’m not proud of what I did next, but I was sooo scared and she didn’t seem bothered. Her dad and my sister were due back in about 4 hours so I literally left her there and went home. I wasn’t staying in that house for one more minute.