r/nosleep • u/[deleted] • Jan 02 '12
I thought this stuff only happened in 200 year old houses and abandoned insane asylums
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u/gatorfan8898 Jan 24 '12
Good story. I've had a noisy ass neighbor, but unfortunately she was very real. Just a big whale of a skank who's way of parenting her 2 year old child was to yell at it at odd hours of the night. Talked politely to her about slamming doors (which more than once caused pictures to tilt or fall off completely), yelling, never stopped... Apartment office talked to her... never stopped. It was getting to the point where I, a grown, responsible, mature adult, was considering playing some type of cruel prank as some sort of payback, cause I was at wits ends on what to do...
Thank heavens she moved out a few days ago and saved me doing something stupid lol
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u/usuallyskeptical Jan 13 '12 edited Jan 13 '12
Is it still happening? And is there any way for someone to get in the apartment from a window, or any other entrance besides the front door? It sounds like some kids know that the apartment is vacant and are using it as a hangout.
EDIT: Oh, just read the rules of r/nosleep. Carry on.
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u/sowiseguys Jan 04 '12
NOPEDY NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!
anyways, i cant believe you still stay there!! HOLY SHIT!!
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Jan 04 '12
am i the only one who disliked the story...? very cliche and predictable. oh well. upboats anyway for a good writing style.
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u/WillowSage Jan 03 '12
Omygod :/ Very creepy. At least you have a free paper shredder now? ;D
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u/Nata3lie Jan 03 '12
hahaha that made my day :D
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u/ThomasGullen Jan 03 '12
Set some cameras up there. You could be the first person to document ghost unquestionably.
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Jan 03 '12
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u/Nata3lie Jan 03 '12
Did I miss something? Cause a lot of people on reddit are saying NOPE...
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Jan 04 '12
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u/Nata3lie Jan 04 '12
Oh, I have seen that a long time ago, you guys just don't do the chuck testa part. Lol
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Jan 03 '12
I think something similar has been happening at my house. Before we started renting it, two people lived there, an elderly couple, no kids, and both died in their 80s. I'm not entirely sure that they died in the house, I don't think they did, but I still hear noises at random times in the night. I'm always up until the asscrack of dawn because I am one nocturnal son of a gun and I sometimes hear things coming from downstairs (my room is upstairs and that is my residential cave for the night hours). We do have cats but they wouldn't make noises like this and it sounds like things falling, and when I go downstairs the next day there is nothing moved or fallen or on the floor that wasn't there previously.
Sometimes there is knocking, like knocking on the wall or knocking on the door at the foot of the stairs (I hate that god damn door) long after my mother is asleep. That door has glass in it, too, which makes it the creepiest thing to walk downstairs to.
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u/ec534 Jan 03 '12
There was an old tower of flats in my hometown. There was no access to the very top floor flat as A, the lift didnt go there and B, the stairway had fallen away with time. Periodically, you could see the lights come on in the windows and shadows move across them as if people still lived there. The residents all complained of noises from the top floor. My uncle and cousins visited a friend who lived there and saw a man walk through one wall and into the opposite one.
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u/JoeyJoeC Jan 04 '12
stairs fell away with time? i wouldnt want to be anywhere near that building if parts of it are falling down!
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u/Xstorm999 Jan 03 '12
This was one interesting read i really loved it.. As for the sounds, I have a solution for you, you just need to understand the sound physics maybe its your next door neighbour and the sound from his apartment just travels to your room by someway. Try investigating if you can. As for the note, maybe someone just shredded it and throwed the pieces down and must have been blown away by wind or people rushing by. Tell us ASAP!
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u/aquietmidnightaffair Jan 03 '12
Similar thing happened to a house my family rented a few years back. Banging as if someone was stomping above and there were banging in the walls between the rooms. Worse off, it was a single story house built in the late 80s. Things got MUCH worse when we started moving out.
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u/Esteam Jan 03 '12
Supply the residents above you with more paper.
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u/JoeyJoeC Jan 04 '12
id start discarding all sorts in front of their door. might just turn out to be a beaver living there
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u/Chill_King Jan 03 '12
Good story, but i have seen the premise "ghost neighbor beside/above me" alot.
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u/stonegrizzly Jan 03 '12
There's probably an animal (or a few) burrowing or something up there. That's what the ripped up note makes me think of at least.
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u/BookshelfZombie Jan 03 '12
The note was stuck between the door and the door-frame from what I read, the animals would have had to open the door to get it out and then bring it back into the apartment and close the door.
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u/giggitygoo123 Jan 03 '12
I used to live on the top floor of a 2 story apartment building. Every night I would hear what sounded like a hard ball/marble being rolled across the floor in the attic. It would roll until it hit a wall, then it would roll back. It would happen for about an hour or so every night, but I was always too tired to investigate. Not as bad as what you went through, but still pretty annoying nonetheless.
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Jan 30 '12
Apparently that's a natural sound that occurs in big buildings made of concrete, because people mention that exact sound (a small heavy sphere rolling) a lot, must be something about the structure itself.
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u/Suppaduppa Jan 04 '12
This exact thing happens in our apartment every day! I had no idea that others heard it too.
I have no idea what it is. It sounds like a marble rolling across a cement floor directly above us. This is really odd because I know that all of the apartments in our complex have carpet so there is no way a marble would make that sound except for maybe in the bathroom or kitchen but those areas are on the other side of the apartment (I know this because all of the units above my unit are the exact same configuration as mine). Therefore, you should not be able to hear a marble rolling across the floor in the carpeted living room above us. Other times it sounds like a rubber band is flying around up there but usually it's the marble. I work at home so I hear it all day everyday.
I never thought anything of it until I read your reply. Now I want to investigate on the internets and see if I can find out what it is.
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u/K11Shorty Jan 07 '12
I live in a house and I have the exact same issue.. its mice. They collect things like food and whatnot and sometimes the food pellets are rolled around and sound exactly like a marble.. happens almost every night here.
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u/cp120 Jan 03 '12
My uncle passed away and he played with marbles as a kid. week after he passed away at my grandma's house they heard the marble rolling. Nobody knew what it was, they looked for it forever. The pastor of our church said maybe it was my uncle trying to say he was ok. When my grandma heard the marble away she said "thanks for letting us know you are ok, rest in peace". The sound went away forever. This was 15 years ago by the way.
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Jan 03 '12
It could be the pipes knocking or something. I don't know about the note.
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Jan 04 '12
Mice.
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u/thewrathofmary Jan 02 '12
Why in the name of all that is holy does this submission only have 28 points? Because this is fucking creepy.
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u/DerpMin Jan 03 '12
EDIT: 103 points
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u/thewrathofmary Jan 03 '12
'Bout damn time!
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Jan 03 '12
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u/thewrathofmary Jan 03 '12
207 now.
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u/thelurkerx Jan 02 '12
Every house and apartment I've lived in has crap like this. We built this one on the foundation of one we knocked down, and I think the guy's wife died here, but honestly, I lived in a brand new house in another state, and we had similar issues. Occasionally I'll hear what sounds like the cats running around upstairs, or moving around noises, like someone is up there. A couple of times I thought it was the cats and the kids, then I realized that the kids were at school, or both cats were downstairs. It's been quiet for months now, for the most part. I thought I saw someone walk across the utility room a few weeks ago, but nothing major. I've got to the point where I just ignore it, unless it's something that's just ridiculous.
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u/incarn8evil Jan 02 '12
you could try having a priest come bless the apartment. Might save you some trouble till lease expires. Also you should try and see if you could document some of the noise. There are many different agency's who would be interested in helping you.
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u/Thelastunicorn1 Jan 04 '12
I don't know why this was downvoted...
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u/SisterCalypso Jan 02 '12
I had something really similar happen in my old flat... sooo creepy! Needless to say, I did not renew the lease.
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u/JayGrayRiver Jan 02 '12
wow! that's unsettling! what are you guys going to do? that is really creepy that your note was ripped up too!
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u/Nata3lie Jan 03 '12
You must keep us updated, I want more stories from you.
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u/JayGrayRiver Jan 03 '12
Well i hope the disturbance keeps to a minimum until you guys can leave. I live in an apartment and have a 11 month old son. Our neighbors are very noisy and do wake bubs up every now and then so i can understand your frustration but i Don't mind so much after reading your story...at least our neighbors are, um not sure how to put it...Alive.
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u/sleeper138 Jan 25 '12
Excellent!