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My Sister's Old Apartment
by Amy B.
It all started before they ever even moved in. Her dad lived there before them and he told them that sometimes he would see some...kind of like a shadow figure...in the kitchen. She thought it was probably just his imagination. But it didn't take long after she moved in for everyone to be convinced that it hadn't just been his imagination. One night her and her boyfriend were laying in bed. They were the only ones home. My sister only had one child at that time and she was at my mom's house. Anyway, they were laying in bed...almost asleep...when her boyfriend jumped up screaming and stood in the middle of the bed. Of course, he scared my sister and she asked him what his problem was. He said that something...a hand had grabbed his toe!!! A couple nights later they were laying in bed again and right before they fell asleep, the whole bed started shaking!! They finally moved their room. I guess they were able to sleep better, but it didn't stop things from happening in the apartment. They would still see shadows of people who weren't there. They would hear voices in the middle of the night when the store upstairs was closed and there was nobody there. Not long after they moved into the apartment, my sister found out she was pregnant again. She really didn't like being there alone then. So, I stayed with her more often. One night, I was in the living room (their old bedroom). I was watching TV because I was too scared to sleep. Well, I heard my sister talking and it was really close to being time for her to have the baby. So, I muted the TV so I could make sure she wasn't going into labor. Well, when I muted the TV, I could still hear the voice. But it wasn't my sister's. I somehow got brave enough to go into my sister's room and make sure she was okay. When I got up to go in there, the voice quit talking. When I got to my sister's room, she was sound asleep. Her husband was too. It was creepy. I just went back in the living room and watched TV until I couldn't hold my eyes open anymore. After the new baby was born, more things started to happen. Like one night, my niece woke up crying. She would every night. So, my sister went into her room (the old bedroom that they made the living room was now her room). Anyway...my sister got up and went into my niece's room and laid down with her until she was back to sleep. Well, my sister was laying there and she heard someone saying "mommy". I guess they said it a couple times. Then she saw a shadow go across the wall. She felt to make sure my niece was still in the bed and she was. My nephew was only a couple months old, so it obviously wasn't him. She rolled over to get up and go back to bed and when she did...SHE SAW A MAN STANDING RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF HER, JUST STARING DOWN AT HER!!! She said she tried to scream, but she couldn't. So she ran into the bedroom to wake her boyfriend up. He swore up and down that it was a dream. My sister said she knew it wasn't a dream because she wasn't asleep! Well, a few weeks later, my sister's boyfriend was home alone. He was sitting in the living room on the couch cleaning off the table. He said he saw a man appear at one end of the table...he walked to the other end...and then he disappeared! When he told my sister about it, they both described the man they saw and from what they could tell, it was the same man. He didn't make fun of my sister anymore. Another night, a friend of my sister and her boyfriend was over visiting. Not long after he got there, he was standing in the living room next to a toy of my nephew's. It would light up and play music, but the batteries were dead and it wouldn't work. Well, their friend was standing there and all of a sudden it starts lighting up and playing the music. It scared their friend so bad that he...a grown man...screamed and jumped into my sister's boyfriend's arms!!! And he didn't even know the batteries were dead. Then, one afternoon, my sister's boyfriend was at work, the kids were in the living room (the youngest couldn't even walk or crawl yet), and my sister and I were in the kitchen. She was doing the dishes and I was just standing there talking to her. I had my back to the refrigerator and she was standing in front of me. Well, she was talking and she looked up at me and just stared behind me. I turned around just in time to see the freezer door closing. I didn't open it and nobody else could have!! I was soooo freaked out. So, other than the freezer door and the voice I heard while my sister was pregnant, I didn't really witness much myself. Until one night...my sister, her boyfriend, a couple of their close friends, my niece, and I were all sitting in the living room. My nephew was there too, but he was just a few months old. Anyway...my niece started talking about why she would wake up screaming every night. It was weird because nobody was really talking about anything to do with that. My niece was probably 2 years old...no older than 3 years old. Anyway she said that every night when she went to sleep a woman would wake her up saying her name over and over. My niece said she would tell her to be quiet because she was going to wake up her baby brother. We asked my niece if the woman ever said her brother's name or if she said anything else at all. My niece said no. She would just say her name. My sister kind of tried to throw her off a little and asked her if when she saw the woman if she got really, really hot. My niece said "No mommy, she always makes it cold". We all just kind of looked at each other, not knowing what to think. I mean, she wasn't even three years old yet. We knew she couldn't be making this up. She continued talking about how she would try to tell the woman to be quiet but she just kept saying her name. My sister asked my niece where the woman came from. My niece said she came from everywhere. Sometimes she would come out of the kitchen, sometimes out of her mommy's room, sometimes out of the closet, and sometimes out of the wall!! My sister asked her what she looked like. My niece said "She kind of looks like Amy"...that's me. I think she just meant she was kind of built the way I am. Like my body shape or whatever. My sister asked her if the woman was nice. My niece said she was, but she just didn't like her talking. Then, my niece said "She must have been a bird or a duck because she had wings." We all just got quiet. It was weird because my niece made it sound like it could have been an angel or something, but I always thought angels brought feelings of peace but my niece said this woman was the reason she cried every night. Then, what freaked me out the most was when my niece was finished telling us about the woman, she looked over at me and said "Goodbye Amy". That freaked me out so bad!! But of course, here I am, so I don't know what that was about. Just a few minutes after all of that, my sister's CD player that she had sitting on the table started opening and closing by itself over and over. We all just stared at it, we didn't know what to do. It went on like that for about 10 minutes. And then it stopped and all of the lights went out in the apartment. At first, I thought it was my sister's boyfriend, but it couldn't have been. He was in the living room with us. Everybody was. It was scary. I don't really remember anything happening after that. They didn't stay there much longer. I wish all of you could go into this house and just feel the feeling of being there. That's scary enough. I want to go back and take pictures and recordings and stuff to see if I can find anything. I know I would find something, but I can't go there now. I'm sure someone lives there. But yeah...talk about a haunted house!!!
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