I believe myself to be scientific minded and quite factual, and while I may have an overactive imagination when it comes to movies, I believe that when in a real life, odd situation, my first reaction is doubt and my second reaction is always to try and find a logical explanation. To “debunk.” Once I have eliminated all logical explanations, I am left with something unexplainable; believe what you may like, these unexplained events COULD be a result of something greater then what we know first hand.
Over the years, I have had a few experiences, not just in my house but also around other places. While I have never seen a full-bodied apparition, I have seen odd shapes and shadows move without any other explanation, the oddest once being a thick, black mist that moved in front of me in an older warehouse. However, my most frequent, unexplained events have occurred in my own house.
My husband and I purchased a character home back a few years ago. It’s estimated to be about 90 years old. During the first year we were there, we had the majority of our oddities. We still have the occasional unexplained event but the majority of our experiences happened our first year.
Oddities:
Within the first few months, my husband and I were sleeping upstairs when my husband woke up to a hand pushing him on his back. When he opened his eyes, he was facing me, so it wasn’t me trying to roll him over. I suppose one could argue he was sleeping and dreamt it. Fair enough, but he is adamant he felt a full hand press firmly against his middle back. To add to that, he typically does not remember dreams and he sleeps like the dead. As you read along, you will see this will not be the last time one of us was touched.
We adopted a cat and dog the winter we moved into our house. The following spring, the events in our house seemed to escalate. Now we would watch the cat and dog’s reactions to odd sounds.
One morning I was getting ready for work, my husband was already gone. I was eating breakfast in the kitchen and the cat and dog were both with me. I heard footsteps in the attic. I know both the cat and dog heard it as well as they both were staring at the ceiling. Armed with a meat tenderizer, I walked up to the attic and looked around. There was nothing there. People try to dismiss my claim by saying it must have been the house settling, or a squirrel on the roof. This was not a standard creak. This was a weighted footstep, it sounded like when my husband walks in the attic.
Our dog’s behaviour was odd. She would repeatedly be laying in the living room and jump up and start barking at the ceiling in the foyer. Both my husband and I would be sitting there and would get up and look around. Perhaps she could hear mice, but we would stand there and not hear anything, even a human can hear a mouse in the wall. Our dog also had a few incidents where she would be laying on our bed in our bedroom and she would jump up and start not only barking but also growling at the ceiling/wall. My dog doesn’t typically growl. Something spooked her. Again we would investigate and we could not see or hear anything.
I will never forget, the afternoon of my birthday a few years back, I walked into the house/foyer and I was immediately hit with the scent of lemon, like a cleanser. I hadn’t cleaned that day. It was as if it was freshly sprayed. I didn’t think much of it, I walked into the kitchen to put a few items away. When I turned back and headed back into the foyer I smelt beer. As if, I stuck my nose into a mug of beer. My husband and I don’t drink, we don’t keep beer in the house. That struck me as really odd, I then thought about the lemon smell. Phantom smells can be associated with the paranormal.
The foyer in the house is immediately above our electrical box in the basement. Above the foyer on the second story is the hallway (this bares on what I will mention next). A few years ago, my husband bought me an EMF (Electronic Magnetic Fields) detector, the reader does not show numbers; it just shows low, medium or high. The electrical box, the light switch in the foyer and the light switch in the upstairs hallway all give off a “high” reading, where as the rest of the house reads around low to medium. High levels of EMF can cause feelings of paranoia, feelings that someone is watching you, nausea, headaches and other varying symptoms. This could be a very logical explanation for what is happening in our house. With that being said, there is also the theory of spirits and entities being able to utilize high levels of EMF to show themselves or to make their presence known. They can harness the energy to make themselves stronger.
My basement, foyer and upstairs hallway always crept me out. A few different guests told me that my basement is one of the creepiest basements they have ever been in, which is funny as it’s quite bright, clean and tidy. It has brick walls, it’s not like it’s a decrepit, old hole in the ground. It could very well be that these guests and I are just very sensitive to high EMFs which is very possible. Animals can be as well. Animals in theory can also be very sensitive to entities.
As I mentioned earlier, we had another touching incident. About a year ago, I was tapped, twice, on my shoulder while I was making the bed. They were two very distinct taps, a large firm finger. I turned around and nobody was there. There was nothing on the wall behind me; in fact, I was about a foot away from the wall at the time. I know I was touched by something and I cannot find a logical explanation for what.
After I was tapped on the shoulder, I had a conversation with the empty bedroom. I said if there are spirits here, I don’t mind living with them. I told them that I would prefer they did not show themselves to me but if they felt the need to do so that they do so when my husband was home and during the daytime. I asked that they not watch me in the shower (I don’t know if they are pervy or not, but I thought I would request it anyways.) I also asked if they were going to walk around and move things that they if they could also wait until my husband was home with me. I don’t mind them there, I just don’t want them jumping out and spooking me. I hope they are happy and not trapped. (If they are really ghosts, or else I was literally just talking to the empty room.) I haven’t been touched since.
This past summer, I got super spooked one evening. My husband was working on an afternoon shift, and I was digging in the fridge for a snack. Right behind me, I heard a man’s voice. “Hi! Hi!” I turned around, bugged eyed. It didn’t scare me per see, but I was like “WTF?” When my husband got home he talked me into believing it was our crappy kitchen window; you can hear people talking on the street, and it must echo between our house and the neighbour’s house as our kitchen is in the back. I am about 97% sure it was just somebody walking down the street but if I think about it for a long period of time, I start to doubt that theory.
We still hear hear the occasional odd sound, but thankfully, they are mostly in the daytime. We do have an odd reoccurrence where our light bulbs are loosened in the light fixtures and lamps. We tighten them back up and in a few months they are loosened again to the point that the lights flicker on and off. Whenever something goes missing, we always say, “Maybe the ghost took it.” I like to believe that if our house is actually haunted, it's a friendly spirit, who does not want to intentionally scare us.
