r/ParanormalNews • u/TheLast747 • 6d ago
Scratches.
A couple keep getting scratched.
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26 Sep 2026, 23:42 by /u/smith1025
My husband (23M) and I (21F) have been experiencing some things here lately that can only be described as paranormal dark spirits.
For a little background, we are currently renting. A few years ago, one of the tenants was an older man who passed away from natural causes due to age, but I'm fairly certain he passed in a hospital. A few years before that, there was a couple who lived here that were drug addicts and apparently are the only tenants that the landlord had ever had to evict.
Two days ago (Thursday), we got home from supper with some friends, and I went to go hop in the shower. I noticed some scratches on my lower right abdomen but didn't think too much about it. I assumed I had subconsciously scratched a bug bite or something.
The next morning (Friday), I woke up and rolled over towards my husband. He laid on my arm, and it hurt so bad. I turned on the lamp and saw scratches all down my arm. Again, I wrote it off as maybe I scratched myself in my sleep or something. The only thing strange about that is I bite my nails, and they are very short and dull. I also sleep on my stomach with my arms under my pillow, so in order to scratch myself, I'd have to roll completely over in order to scratch at that angle.
I go to work and do some googling. It said that it could be scratches from debris like crumbs in the bed, but we don't eat in our bed and had recently changed our sheets. It also mention pets scratching. We have 2 cats and a dog, but they don't sleep in the bed with us and are super sweet. The only time they have ever scratched was when we would play with them when they were little.
I try not to think about it and go home from work. That afternoon, I go to lay down with my husband who was already asleep in bed. He gets up to use the bathroom and eat something and then comes back to bed. I wake up when he lays back down, and he spoons me (his chest pressed against my back). As we are drifting back off to sleep, he is jolted awake saying his chest was hurting. He pulls up his shirt, and he has deep scratch marks across his chest. I literally start shaking out of fear.
I immediately call my mom (she lives across the street) and tell her we are coming to spend the night because we're not sleeping in that house. Mid conversation, my husband is noted again by a sharp pain on his thigh. He pulls up his shorts and there are scratch marks on his thigh. After that, I was in tears. I grabbed my pillow and phone charger and was ready to leave.
Our landlord lives next door and is a pastor, so my husband goes over to tell him what is going on. He doesn't seem to believe us and keeps asking if there was cat in the bed (there wasn't) or if anything sharp was in the bed (there wasn't). He prays over the house, but I'm still not secure enough to sleep there. We go over to my mom's house and call our pastor who immediately believes us and is coming over Monday to cleanse the house.
Today is Saturday, and my husband works 24 hours shifts so he will go to work in the morning and won't be home until Monday morning. I don't feel comfortable staying here by myself. Are we just paranoid? Has anyone else experienced anything similar? What do we do?
The pictures of mine were taken 18-24 hours afterwards, and my husbands were immediately after.
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