[Music] [Music] I was in high school and stayed with my mom in a small apartment on the third floor the apartment had only one bedroom so my mom used it and I slept in the living room there wasn't much space but we made it work every morning I woke up at 6:00 a. m. to get ready for school and my mom always got up at 5:00 a.
m. so she had enough time to shower prepare breakfast and pack my lunch after breakfast she dropped me off at school before heading to her job but that morning I woke up and noticed all the lights in the apartment were on every every single one I reached for my phone but it wasn't there I walked to the bathroom and saw that all the drawers and cabinet doors in the apartment were wide open it made no sense and I felt really confused just then my mom came out of the bathroom and asked me what on Earth I had been doing I told her I had no idea what she was talking about and asked if she had done it since she always woke up earlier than me I also asked if she had seen my phone because I couldn't find it she didn't answer right away instead I saw something change in her green eyes it was like she suddenly understood what was going on fear spread across her face as everything seemed to click in her mind without saying a word she rushed to the kitchen and I followed her the kitchen window was wide open and on the floor a kitchen knife was lying there like it had been dropped in a hurry she looked closer and pointed at the dusty fingerprints on the wall near the window it was clear someone had pushed against the wall to climb inside that's when it finally hit me someone had climbed up to our balcony gotten into our apartment and stolen from us they did all this while I was asleep on the couch in the living room just a few steps away and the thought made my skin crawl my mom rushed over and hugged me tightly she asked if I was okay and I told her I hadn't heard anything not the lights being turned on not the drawers opening not even the person moving around the apartment it felt strange to think someone had been so close to me while I slept and I didn't even notice my mind raced as I tried to remember anything unusual from the night before but nothing came to me it was like the whole thing happened in in a dream except it was terrifyingly real it was so strange because I've always been a light sleeper even as a kid and I still am now but somehow I didn't wake up that night the person didn't open my mom's bedroom door so she didn't notice anything either my grandma says an angel must have protected me while I was asleep but I don't believe in those things I also don't think the robber knew I was there in the living room the police never found out who did it after that we put steel bars on the kitchen window to feel safer even so we decided to move to a new place not long after this happened back when I was in high school about 6 years ago now I'm older and living with my boyfriend but I'm still paranoid about it I keep wondering why I didn't wake up that night but at the same time I feel grateful that I [Music] didn't my brother says he sees ghost in our apartment and it's starting to scare me it all started 2 years ago when he was five the first time it happened he was sleeping in our mom's room he usually sleeps in my room but that night he wanted wanted to stay with her so I had the bed all to myself that night which I was happy about after I fell asleep I woke up around 4:15 a. m.
I had to get up in 2 hours to get ready for school so I just lay back down to try to sleep about 30 seconds after I lay down my whole body started to shake and when I tried to sit up and move I couldn't that's when I realized I was having sleep paralysis I couldn't speak or move and I felt completely stuck about 10 seconds into this I heard someone talking behind my bed right above my head the voice sounded so close like it was just inches away from me I was laying on my side so my head was turned that way I felt like if I could turn my head to look straight up I would have been looking right at whatever was talking it sounded like it could have been a man or a woman but I couldn't tell they were speaking in English but I couldn't understand what they were saying after what felt like a minute I was able to move again and the talking stopped the feeling of my body still vibrating was there but I could move now the strange thing was I didn't feel scared in danger or threatened at all after I calmed down down I just laid back down and went to sleep but my brother went through something much scarier than me I think a little before I had my experience he woke up in the middle of the night he turned toward our mom's side of the bed and saw something he told me he saw a long woman like someone really tall walking toward our mom's side of the bed she just stood there staring at our mom he said It felt strange like the woman woman wasn't really there but he could still see her I asked him what the woman looked like besides being long and he said he couldn't remember he quickly hid under the covers before he could get a good look at her but he did say she had really long hair though he couldn't remember the color then a few weeks later my brother had another strange experience he was playing alone in the living room while my mom and I were busy doing our own things then then suddenly my brother came to us and said that Dad came up behind him and hugged him now my mom and dad were having a big fight and weren't talking at that time so my mom had taken his apartment key away this means there was no way he could have come in without us noticing especially since he wasn't supposed to be around there were a few other strange things that happened but they aren't really important to go into detail about like we'd feel someone walking behind us even though no one was there or things would go missing and then show up in the most obvious places like right in front of us but when our grandma came over with some Sage The Strange activity stopped and everything went back to [Music] normal I'm a 24-year-old female and I I recently started living in an apartment in the city after moving from my parents' home in the suburbs at home I always used the garage keypad to get inside so I never got used to locking the front door and I didn't think much about it until One Summer Night When a Stranger walked into my apartment now I need to explain a bit how the entrance to my apartment works because it's important my roommate and I live in a basement unit under the main building and our windows face an alley with dumpsters and there are often creepy people in the alley doing weird things our front door is behind a heavy main door that stays locked this door leads to the fire escape and other apartments which are also locked however the fire escape is easy to get to by climbing and that makes our front door easy to reach too then one weekend this summer I had some friends over for drinks before we went out to the bars when one of one of my friends told me that a strange hazyl looking older man had walked into our hallway looked around and left through the heavy back door now we thought he was just a drunk guest who got confused and couldn't find his way out it seemed odd though because if you're on the fire escape it's pretty clear Which Way leads outside now that same night I woke up around 4:00 a. m. because my kitten and the Jack Russell puppy I was watching for the weekend were playing in my room I stayed in bed for about 10 minutes listening to them when I suddenly heard my door open my roommate wasn't home so I was alone with a 7-month-old puppy and a six-month-old kitten who couldn't really help me I heard Footsteps in my hallway my bedroom door was wide open and my windows had bars on them so I quickly realized I didn't have a way to escape whoever it was didn't seem confused Since my apartment looks very different from the others and it would be clear they were in the wrong place then the puppy started growling and barking from my room I'm probably lucky the puppy stayed in my room if she hadn't the person might have quickly realized she wasn't a real threat he shut the door behind him and I heard him leave through the heavy door in a hurry I might have thought it was an accident if my door wasn't the only one on that floor or if I had heard noise on the fire escape before he came in but he entered so quietly the fact that it happened twice in one night makes me think someone knew my door might be unlocked of all nights to be babysitting a dog I'm so thankful it was that one I'm also glad I was awake and paying attention I'll never know what could have happened it could have ended very badly now I always remember to lock my door lesson [Music] learned I'm a person of science so I've never believe in anything paranormal but currently I'm having some experiences I just can't explain so my girl girlfriend and I recently bought an apartment it's small and old but it's close to our jobs and was surprisingly cheap we figured the price made it worth it but after we moved in we noticed an issue we hadn't faced before like our cat began behaving really strangely and we kept finding things tipped over in the living room like books picture frames and even small decorations and at night we often heard thuds and bangs that made us both uneasy now our cat who is usually calm and well behaved had never acted like this before she would Dart around the apartment meowing loudly and staring at empty Corners as if she saw something we couldn't at first I thought it was just because of the move maybe she was nervous and needed time to get used to the smaller space so I kept telling myself it was normal and hoped she would settle down soon then one evening as my girlfriend and I lay in bed watching a movie on her laptop a loud crash echoed through the apartment it sounded like glass breaking in the living room I got up to see what had happened and found a flower vase shattered on the floor the pieces were scattered everywhere and water was Drpping onto the carpet I sighed and said looks like cupcakes got a bit too wild but when I turned to my girlfriend she was standing at the doorway holding cupcake in her arms she shook her head and said no she didn't cupcake has been in the bedroom with us the whole time maybe there's a mouse hiding somewhere or maybe the wind is blowing in through a crack or the building isn't completely even making things fall even when we found a chair tipped over I tried to tell myself it was nothing but sure it's hard to believe a cat or Mouse could do that but who knows then last weekend something even stranger happened my girlfriend took cupcake and went to her parents place for a few days so I was alone in the apartment but the place felt unusually quiet without them I was making breakfast in the kitchen just getting the pan ready when I suddenly heard a loud bang from the fridge it sounded like someone had hit it really hard almost like a punch I froze for a second wondering if something had fallen inside I went over and opened the fridge door but nothing had moved I thought maybe the fridge was malfunctioning but I couldn't find any explanation that made sense and the noise was too loud and clear to just ignore later the same day one of the weirdest things happened we always keep a candle on the living room table but when I got home from work it wasn't there instead I found it broken in two across the room it looked like someone had slapped it all the way over there I know for sure it was on the table when I left that morning and no one had been in the apartment all day I know these things might not seem like a big deal on their own but together it's starting to creep me out [Music] last Sunday evening around 7:30 I was in the rear bedroom of my apartment focused on assembling a new dresser I had recently bought the door to the bedroom was open allowing me to see straight down the hallway into the living room and my fiance was there with the kids who were busy playing when suddenly there was a knock at the door my six-year-old son ran to the door and opened it even though he knows he shouldn't we're still teaching him not to do that but he was excited after his birthday party and probably thought someone was coming by for him even though the party was over at the door a woman was standing and I recognized her as a neighbor from upstairs she she said she needed help and walked straight into our apartment she started talking quickly and saying confusing things she claimed she was locked out of the building even though she was inside then she said she could get into her apartment but not the building and in the next moment she said she couldn't get into her apartment she seemed very confused and kept repeating that she was really tired or exhausted she was unsteady on her feet her speech was messy and she seemed a bit dazed she kept repeating herself and talking in circles saying her parents would be very worried if she didn't check in with them even though I knew she lived alone then she kept asking us to call phone numbers for her she had her phone in her hand set to video record mode but it wasn't recording in her pocket she was rolling something around over and over it looked like a screw driver as she gave my fiance numbers to dial she couldn't remember the full numbers every number she gave was too short and not a real phone number when I told her the numbers she gave weren't long enough to be real phone numbers she would start saying a new number but stop halfway through this happened seven or eight times and I finally got frustrated she kept saying her phone wasn't working so I let her try using mine but instead of using it she just stood there holding it not dialing anything and kept talking nonsense I was very upset and uneasy by this point this woman had walked into my apartment without being invited and was acting strangely around my kids I told my fiance to take the kids to the back of the house then I tried to get the woman to leave by saying let's go check your apartment come with me and we'll see if it's open I I tried to lead her out of my apartment but she said she was so tired and needed to sit down then she just sat down on my living room couch I wasn't happy about this at all actually I was really mad but I stayed calm and reminded myself she is our neighbor and I should help her but on the other hand my fiance quietly moved behind her to make sure she couldn't go any farther into the living room or near the kids after about 5 minutes of asking her to come with me to check her apartment she finally walked slowly out I was already a few steps ahead of her telling her to follow me on the way she tried to go into two other apartments that weren't hers and each time I told her that wasn't her room now when I got to her apartment the door was wide open she hadn't caught up to me yet so I quickly looked inside the couch cushions were all over the place and the living room looked messy and upside down she caught up with me but tried again to get into another neighbor's apartment across the hall I stopped her again and got her to go inside and when she did she apologized and said I'm sorry this is how we had to meet I'm just so exhausted I told her it was okay and went back downstairs but I felt uneasy and I decided to call the police then after a while the police arrive and knocked on her door but there was no answer so they left at 4:15 a.
m.
