The strange house, a tale of ghostly happenings
This is 100% true
Once I lived in an old house that had been turned into several bedsits.
Most tenants only lasted a max of 6 months.
I stayed there a bloody unbelievable 5 years.
For about 3 years I was the only tenant.
But the police often visited to follow up on a complaint that passers by had seen a naked person standing in the window of the empty room next to mine.
A few weeks after I moved in I got a kitten, pets werent allowed but I found it in a bin crying under a pile of rubbish and took it home.
So one night I'm sitting on my bed in the dark watching TV, kitten by my feet.
Kitten goes mental, back arched, hissing and spitting fury.
I look towards where it is looking and see the shadowy outline of a person standing just inside my door.
There was one other tenant then, so I gritted my teeth, closed my eyes and ran through it, out of the door into the dark corridor and yelling for help.
When we both got back, there was nothing.
A few days later the landlord came round to collect the rent, I asked him if the house was haunted, he said no.
Then continued to elaborate by saying an exorcism had been done before they rented it out as the house had a 'history'
I snorted and told him it hadnt worked.
He looked at me and then without saying anything else went and stood just by my door, adopting the pose of the thing I'd seen.
'Did you see this?"
Me, 'yep thats it '
Him,. oh :(

Then there was the BF who stayed over a few times but refused to ever spend time there again after one night of severe ghostly interuptance.
He wakes to find someone sitting on his chest, long hair dangling over his face, hands squeezing around his neck, her breath rasping in his face.
I wake to find him yelling for me to stop.
WTF?
After an argument that I hadnt done anything and he was probably having a nightmare we go back to sleep.
Then I wake later in a panic , facing towards the wall, my back to my BF. seeing flickering lights and feeling a struggle next to me.
I turn and see a shadow over my BF, I yell and lash out and it vanishes out towards the window.
BF gets up, gets dressed and leaves in terror vowing never to spend a night there again.
There were 2 areas in that house you just never went into after dark.
As a long time tenant I learned to never leave my room at night and ignore the flickerings inside my room.
I found that when some youngster moved in, they nearly always came to me when something odd happened, then shortly after they moved out.
If I related everything that happened in that house, and believe me, every occupant had a story, this post would be enormous.
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Mon 27 Jul 2009, 2:52, 11 replies)

You're a cnut
I'm downstairs all alone. I have to turn all the lights off and go to bed. Now I've read that, I don't want to leave my chair in the well lit dining room.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 27 Jul 2009, 3:20, closed)

Sorry
*evil grin*
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Mon 27 Jul 2009, 15:45, closed)

why on earth did you stay there?
that's mentalist
(foxy01, Mon 27 Jul 2009, 5:36, closed)

I'm guessing
The rent was pretty cheap.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Mon 27 Jul 2009, 7:52, closed)

why not?
It was cheap, I got used to everything and had the house to myself for long periods
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Mon 27 Jul 2009, 15:46, closed)

Oh do fuck off
You credulous fool
(thefuckestuppest cheapened this, on, Mon 27 Jul 2009, 8:38, closed)

Hmmm.
Feeling something pressing on your chest in bed is a very common theme in ghost stories. It's also a symptom of petit-mal epilepsy. As are seeing flickering lights. Add a dodgy dream, a bit of imagination and you've got a scary ghost.
(robbersdog, Mon 27 Jul 2009, 12:32, closed)

Thats very true
But there were many other things that couldnt be explained, cold spots, balls of light, objects moving etc.
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Mon 27 Jul 2009, 15:49, closed)

A mare.
Its where the word nightmare comes from, the mare being an evil spirit that sits on a sleepers chest causing paralysis. The true cause is the dive reflex, a natural mechanism that freezes the body during REM sleep so we don't act out our dreams. If your sleep is interrupted for instance by a draft, you can experience the sensation of being conscious but unable to move.

EDIT: the mare is usually depicted as a long haired woman or troll like demon, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 27 Jul 2009, 20:26, closed)

I wanna know
what kind of cunt calls the police when they see a naked person standing at a bedroom window. Now if it was because I was in the bushes with my binoculars, fair enough.......
(Rsoles, Tue 28 Jul 2009, 20:19, closed)

LOL
Funnily enough, the police turned up one morning to ask if i'd seen or heard anything suspicious the previous night.
Well apart from not being able to get into the bathroom at all because it seemed someone had locked themselves in all night, no not really.
Turns out I'd spent the night alone with a guy who raped a girl in the park across the road and who used an absent tenants front door key to get in.
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Tue 28 Jul 2009, 21:49, closed)