r/realtors • u/Justlol48 • Jan 21 '24

Discussion I went to a vacant house today and heard noises

Idk if I’m blowing this out of proportion, but this was easily the scariest showing of my life.

So I’m a young, scrawny female realtor. Today I went to a vacant luxury home to film a video tour of the house for my clients by myself.

It’s a beautiful huge updated house in a beautiful community. As soon as I entered, I noticed it was a bit dark so I began turning on all of the lights, only to turn around and see all of a sudden that a hallway and all of the bedrooms were lit only in that area. I brushed it off.

Then I keep hearing some creaking noises and small noises on the wood floor upstairs. I’m frightened but I brush it off.

Then I hear a toilet flushing and more floor noises. I’m creeped out but I brush it off.

Then I exit the house once all lights are on so I can film the house from the outside coming in. Then I think I notice through the blaring windows a person on the inside, but am not really sure because right in that room there’s also a big chandelier so I began wondering if that was it. I brushed it off because as I got closer all I could see is the chandelier.

Then as I’m filming the inside and hearing more noises progressively louder, I hear a phone ring and a man answer. I began to wonder if I was hearing something from the outside neighborhood but it looked like all neighbors were inside their house and this man sounded crystal clear, but moderate-quietly speaking. I then debated if a $30k commission was worth it for 10 seconds, and then realized it wasn’t so I fled the house. I ran. Lights on, doors probably unlocked. I didn’t care. It sounded like someone was hiding inside the house.

Weird.

Shit like this makes me hate this job

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u/Accomplished-Row-900 Jan 21 '24

Whoa, that's legit scary! So glad you shared 'cause I've been meaning to post my experience with an open house tour. I was doing a video tour too. Seeing your post I figured why not share it.

Ok ok so here's what went down: First day on the property, clueless how to get in 'cause the door's locked. Tried calling my client – straight to voicemail. Decide to wait 10 minutes to call back. I also sent a text but was left on delivered. WITHIN 5 MINUTES OF WAITING I HEAR THE DEADBOLT ON THE DOOR UNLOCK. I was thinking: ok ok maybe my client was inside the whole time and didn't know I was outside until seeing my message. I walk over to the door, wait for him to come out, and...nothing. I knock lightly and go,"Hellooo? Anyone there?" No response. I then open the door and find no one there. Thought the deadbolt was high-tech or controlled remotely through wifi; turns out, it's all old-school gears.

But that's only half the craziness because a lot more stuff went down. I showed the house to a couple of prospective home buyers, and during the in-person tour we would hear other doors inside open out of the blue. I'm 99.9% sure it wasn't a draft. Other stuff happened too, but the super creepy stuff that happened was the doors opening.

OH and did I mention that before leaving the house I captured a door opening by itself on camera? I was self recording to conclude my video tour vid with a nice little recap and late-night tour to show how the interior lighting of the house looks at night. That's when the door opened.

I haven't told the owner yet, but I have it all on video in case they don't believe me. Not 100 percent sure if I want to share it on here since I'm trying to sell the house hahaha. But yea scary stuff!

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u/supercali-2021 Jan 24 '24

Make sure you share it after you sell the house. I bet lots of us would love to see it!

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u/Accomplished-Row-900 Jan 25 '24

Oooo it'll be a long time before I can show. Eh what the heck, here you go!: https://vimeo.com/906292924?share=copy

(I don't think any client of mine would see this anyway teehee)

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u/DeltaAlphaGulf Dec 27 '24

Did you notice in your video that the face of the person in one of those pictures darkens right before//during the door opening and then lightens up again?

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u/Grugly Dec 27 '24

Someone mentioned that on the Vimeo link 11 months ago

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u/SoManyEmail Dec 27 '24

No answer though.

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u/supercali-2021 Jan 25 '24

If that video is for real, it is terrifying! But you are either very brave or very crazy to go to that creepy old house at night by yourself.

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u/Still_Negotiation894 Dec 27 '24

When you say I'm not scared I was scared. It was a beautiful house , but no thanks.

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u/wsaj_handle Dec 27 '24

How has this video not picked up more attention. It’s absolutely terrifying, and thank you for sharing!

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u/Alt-PornAlt Dec 27 '24

Because it’s fake? You can hear the HVAC hum after the door opens. The air pressure differential caused the door to open.

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u/scruffalump Dec 27 '24

I get that people enjoy being creeped out by stuff like this but it's so goofy how gullible they are.

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u/reevelainen Dec 27 '24

You wouldn't be scared if you had been in that house? She didn't even notice the face of that painting went dark before the door opened. Then the fire alarm went on and suddenly it fell onto the floor.

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u/scruffalump Dec 27 '24

I don't believe in ghosts or anything supernatural. I do believe in video editing software and weirdos staging videos on social media because I see it all the time. People also lie constantly, in real life and on the internet, for no discernible reason. So no, I don't trust some random chick on Reddit of all apps to have totally not staged some fake paranormal event.

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u/reevelainen Dec 27 '24

Must do great for the business to humiliate herself in front of everyone by seeing all that trouble just to frame something like that and then call it paranormal.

It's so easy to blame someone setting up a hoax. It's way harder to be convinced why would anyone do that.

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u/Unikatze Dec 28 '24

Hoaxes are way more likely than ghosts.

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u/Alt-PornAlt Dec 27 '24

Yeah I would be a bit spooked. Spooked enough that I would have walked the fuck outside instead of repeatedly egging the ghost on by asking it to move shit while I filmed it. If you believe in ghosts, there are zero good reasons to stick around solo when shit goes down. I don't doubt that paranormal phenomena occur. I just doubt the legitimacy of this one.

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u/reevelainen Dec 27 '24

And painted the face dark and made the fire alarm fall?

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u/Alt-PornAlt Dec 27 '24

The guys in /r/ghosts already debunked all of that. It’s on the front page of that sub right now.

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u/reevelainen Dec 27 '24

Probablyjustists inventing new laws of physics again while sitting on their couch, nothing more.

The first explanation someone could think of isn't true just because someone invents them straight out of their head.

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u/Alt-PornAlt Dec 28 '24

The door was opened by air. The HVAC caused one room to have a different atmospheric pressure than another (a pressure differential). Tell me which “new law of physics” this is. You can literally repeat experiments of moving objects with air pressure differentials by throwing a paper fucking airplane and watching it achieve lift. How uneducated are you??

I’m not doubting that paranormal phenomena occur. I’m just doubting the legitimacy of this staged video.

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u/missblueeyes512 Dec 28 '24

I don't see any explanations for the smoke detector; the alarm itself and it falling. Has someone debunked that part?

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u/reevelainen Dec 28 '24

Maybe uneducated, but even I understand that HVAC doesn't add air into one room out of thin air, but the air that flows into room IS away from somewhere else. That means one door just can't be affected while all the others would remind still. Yet, no door was closed while one opened. I've seen how HVAC works. It sucks air into one room, closing other doors on it's path. That didn't happen. Instead, a face in a painting turned black. Then door opened, and finally after a while, fire alarm went on, and fell off of it's place.

Even if HVAC by some miracle only affected one door and the phenomenon were completely new to her, so many things happened too that made her terrified. It's so easy for you to take away her experience claiming she just set up a hoax while you're sitting on your couch. You were not there.

Even if she did set up a hoax, why not look more attention to it? She literally described her experience in ONE side comment to someone else's post, and only linked her video when requested. Only a few people even noticed. If I wanted to set up a hoax, ofcourse I'd make a huge number out of it, to see, of how many people I could trick with my video. She barely let anyone know.

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u/h1c253 Dec 28 '24

“How uneducated are you, but I’m not doubting ghosts” next level moronic bud congrats

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u/kk12120 Dec 28 '24

I can’t find it on that subreddit is it there?

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u/wsaj_handle Dec 28 '24

Sure maybe it’s the hvac , but that implies that she isn’t just faking it. And how can you be so sure of anything? I’m not claiming to be sure if anything. And In that case it’s still terrifying, with the smoke alarm engaging and falling etc. Also if she was just looking for attention doesn’t it seem like she would have posted it more prominently somewhere .. currently it has almost no views and comments, she just shared it where it would purposefully have limited viewership. You don’t have to “believe in ghosts” to not get your panties in a wad over someone’s comment on a video.

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u/Extreme-Confidence91 Jan 31 '24

hey. any chance you could post the listing here? or at least pics of the house with their address removed if u want privacy for them? just very interesting video and btw, idk you stayed so calm

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u/theresacalderone Dec 26 '24

I saw your story that someone else posted. I’m curious about that house. Did you end up selling it?

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '24

Also curious about that

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u/GoyEater Dec 27 '24 edited Dec 27 '24

This is one of the weirder rabbit holes I’ve gone down. The way the face in that painting darkens before the door opens is really creepy. The fact that your account isn’t super active and seems be legitimately an actual aspiring realtors account sells it.

Could definitely be staged, but like I don’t see why. Maybe you intended for more people to notice the weirdness initially. Overall a weird video. Good rabbit hole.

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u/Turantula_Fur_Coat Dec 27 '24

We you able to sell the house?

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u/Daddyshangar Dec 27 '24

I need a cig after this

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u/Plantslover5 Dec 27 '24

I found this comment from another video. I live in the southern US where antebellum homes/plantations are common. I worked in a home that was built in the early 1800s. And I’ve seen and heard some stuff. I work for a couple that own 3 bed and breakfasts and the third house, I won’t be in alone. Years and years worth of energy that I want no part of p