My house is haunted (please read I need advice on wtf to do)
This is a bit of a long shot, but I genuinely believe my house is haunted. Growing up, strange things were always happening around me. My mother would often find me awake in the middle of the night, sitting in the same spot, talking to the wall as if someone was there listening.
As I got older, the experiences became harder and harder to explain.
The first thing I can remember is my basement. Ever since I was little, I’ve been absolutely petrified of it. There’s a heavy, evil feeling down there that I can’t properly describe. Sometimes things would randomly fall over for no reason, and other times I’d catch glimpses of something sprinting past me out of the corner of my eye, only for there to be nothing there when I looked.
Another time, I was falling asleep on the couch with a friend when I suddenly felt someone lifting and lightly tugging my hair. I spun around instantly, convinced someone was standing behind me. Nothing was there.
I’ve also seen what I can only describe as “shadow figures” for most of my life. For years, I tried convincing myself it was just my imagination, but as I got older, the figure never changed. It was always the same thing, appearing in different parts of the house.
I still remember the first time I saw it clearly. I was lying in bed one night when I looked past my bedroom door. Across the hall, beside the other doorway, stood a massive shadow. It was tall and unnaturally thin, so tall it looked like it had to bend itself just to fit beneath the ceiling. I remember telling my dad about it the next morning. He doesn’t believe in ghosts, spirits, or anything paranormal at all… but after I described it, he went quiet and admitted he had seen the exact same figure before (he believes it’s just a trick of the light, it isn’t).
There have been other encounters too. One night, I walked into my dark bedroom and saw something black and crawling dart across my floor. At first, I assumed it was one of my dogs, but then it disappeared underneath my bed. My dogs are huge, they physically cannot fit under there. I called for them anyway, and both of them came running from the living room.
The most terrifying experience happened when my sister and I were home alone. She kept nervously walking into the kitchen, and when I asked what was wrong, she told me she could hear footsteps slowly coming toward the stairs. I didn’t believe her at first, so I went to listen for myself.
Then I heard it.
Heavy footsteps. Loud banging. Slowly climbing the stairs directly toward us.
It sounded so real that I genuinely believed someone had broken into the house. Panicking, I grabbed a knife, and my sister and I locked ourselves in the bathroom while we listened to whatever it was pacing back and forth through the hallway outside. We stayed there, frozen, until we finally heard the front door slam shut.
Certain the intruder had left, we called our grandmother to come over. When she knocked on the front door, both of us just stared at each other in confusion, because we had already heard someone leave.
When we finally came out of the bathroom, both doors to the house were still locked.
No one else had a key.
Whatever we heard inside that house… wasn’t human.
The reason I’m writing this now is because of what happened yesterday. I was hanging out with a friend in my room when we both started noticing shadows moving outside my bedroom door. It wasn’t my family, and it wasn’t my animals. At certain points, whatever it was even seemed to react when we spoke to it.
The part that scares me the most is that I think I may have caused this to get worse. A few months ago, out of curiosity, I downloaded one of those “spirit communication” apps. I didn’t believe in any of it at the time, but some of the responses I got felt disturbingly real. Ever since then, the atmosphere in the house has changed. The energy feels heavier now, almost angry, like something has become stronger.
I don’t know what’s happening, but it genuinely feels like something in this house is watching me.
Edit: I forgot to mention, as well, last night, me and my friend were snuggling, (they were on top of me no wear near the cords) and suddenly the Alexa we had playing unplugged and the door pushed open like very loudly. There’s no way either of us could’ve done it.
Edit 2: I forgot to mention (I mentioned this in a comment but thought I should put it here) that while cleaning out the front hall closet in my house, I found an image burned in the wall, it appears as if there is an child going a cord and following the length of the cord downwards, another entity is holding it as-well, I will try and get a picture but I’m kinda chicken shit lol, it scares me.