3 Terrifying TRUE New Home Horror Stories — Transcript

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1. 0:12A few years ago, my 6-month pregnant
2. 0:14wife Rachel and I were fortunate enough
3. 0:16to buy our first home.
4. 0:18It wasn't big, but it was ours.
5. 0:21In an effort to cut costs and keep the
6. 0:22prices low as possible, we waived the
7. 0:25home inspection.
8. 0:26I know this isn't something that people
9. 0:28advise, but we just didn't have the
10. 0:29money.
11. 0:30We loved our new little home and moved
12. 0:32in as soon as we could.
13. 0:34Since my wife was already out of work,
14. 0:36she [music] spent the first couple of
15. 0:37days getting the house organized while I
16. 0:38was working.
17. 0:40The first day she was there alone while
18. 0:42I was working, she said that she heard
19. 0:43strange noises coming from the basement.
20. 0:46At first, she thought it was just her
21. 0:47imagination, so she ignored it.
22. 0:50By the third or fourth time she heard
23. 0:52something down there, she was
24. 0:53legitimately freaked out.
25. 0:56She opened the door and thought she
26. 0:57heard something move, so she shut the
27. 0:59door and put a chair under the doorknob
28. 1:01as a makeshift lock.
29. 1:03She told me she was too afraid to go
30. 1:04down and look.
31. 1:06Rachel has always been a textbook
32. 1:08over-thinker and an anxious person.
33. 1:09[music]
34. 1:10She told me that there was a part of her
35. 1:12that thought she was just being crazy
36. 1:13and hearing things.
37. 1:15That's why she didn't call me at work
38. 1:16and just waited for me to get home.
39. 1:19When I got home, I went into the
40. 1:20basement and looked around.
41. 1:22There was nothing down there except for
42. 1:24some random boxes of storage.
43. 1:26I told her that she was just getting
44. 1:28used to being in a new house, and that
45. 1:30she would have to get used to all the
46. 1:31weird noises that houses make.
47. 1:33She agreed.
48. 1:34That night, I woke up in the middle of
49. 1:36the night because now I thought I heard
50. 1:38something coming from the basement.
51. 1:40I jumped out of bed and just stood in
52. 1:42the bedroom and tried to listen.
53. 1:44I didn't want to wake up my wife.
54. 1:46I crept over to the vent and put my ear
55. 1:48[music] on it.
56. 1:49I didn't have to worry about waking up
57. 1:50Rachel because she was already awake.
58. 1:53She scared the crap out of me when she
59. 1:55started talking to me.
60. 1:57She told me that she had been awake for
61. 1:58about an hour.
62. 2:00She said she heard what sounded like a
63. 2:01door to creek open.
64. 2:03I asked her why she didn't wake me up
65. 2:05[music] and she told me she thought she
66. 2:06was just hearing things.
67. 2:08She figured she was just on edge from
68. 2:09earlier.
69. 2:11I left the bedroom and went downstairs.
70. 2:13Nothing looked out of place.
71. 2:15I did notice that the basement door was
72. 2:17slightly open, so I shut it.
73. 2:20I knew that I shut it earlier, so I
74. 2:21figured maybe a draft [music] of some
75. 2:23kind forced it open.
76. 2:25For the rest of the night, we both
77. 2:26tossed and [music] turned.
78. 2:28There were several times throughout the
79. 2:30night that we heard a loud noise coming
80. 2:31from the basement.
81. 2:33I called into work [music] that morning
82. 2:34so I could stay home with her.
83. 2:36We were both exhausted.
84. 2:38I tried telling myself that it's just a
85. 2:40new house and it's going to take a
86. 2:41little while to get used to all the
87. 2:43noises that unfamiliar houses make.
88. 2:45We spent that day getting more stuff
89. 2:47unpacked. [music]
90. 2:48Rachel was joking with me that we lived
91. 2:50in a real haunted house.
92. 2:52We both laughed about [music] it since
93. 2:54we were both big horror movie fans.
94. 2:56She even suggested watching Paranormal
95. 2:58Activity after dinner.
96. 3:00That night we went to bed early since
97. 3:02neither of us slept well the previous
98. 3:04night.
99. 3:05Rachel ended up waking up around
100. 3:06midnight.
101. 3:08She told me she was having a nightmare
102. 3:09that someone was hiding in the closet.
103. 3:12It scared her so badly that it woke her
104. 3:13up out of a deep sleep.
105. 3:15Once she was awake, she just laid there
106. 3:17in bed for a few minutes staring at the
107. 3:19mostly dark room.
108. 3:21Then she saw something that genuinely
109. 3:22freaked her out.
110. 3:24She said that at first she didn't think
111. 3:26much of it thinking it was just a weird
112. 3:27shadow in the doorway that resembled a
113. 3:29person.
114. 3:30Then the shadow moved out of the
115. 3:32doorway.
116. 3:34It scared Rachel so badly that she
117. 3:35actually screamed which woke me up.
118. 3:38She was crying and told me that she saw
119. 3:40[music] someone standing in the doorway.
120. 3:42I couldn't believe it.
121. 3:44I jumped out of bed and grabbed my
122. 3:45softball bat out of the closet.
123. 3:48I started walking around the house and
124. 3:49once again, I didn't see anything except
125. 3:51[music] that stupid basement door was
126. 3:53open again.
127. 3:54After searching the entire house, I shut
128. 3:56the basement door and went back to the
129. 3:58bedroom.
130. 4:00I felt terrible telling Rachel that
131. 4:01nobody was in the house [music] because
132. 4:02I didn't want her to think that I
133. 4:03thought she was crazy.
134. 4:05I did believe she saw something. I just
135. 4:07didn't know exactly what she could have
136. 4:09seen.
137. 4:10She said that she was 100% sure that the
138. 4:12shadow she saw was a person.
139. 4:15Once again, we barely slept the rest of
140. 4:17the night.
141. 4:18When we both finally were about to fall
142. 4:20asleep, we heard a loud crash come from
143. 4:22somewhere in the house.
144. 4:24Rachel was crying and I was honestly
145. 4:26scared as well.
146. 4:28I just couldn't explain what was going
147. 4:29on.
148. 4:31I locked the bedroom door and basically
149. 4:32sat there with a baseball bat until
150. 4:34morning.
151. 4:35Once it was morning, we left the
152. 4:37bedroom.
153. 4:38Rachel made coffee and I searched
154. 4:39[music] the house again.
155. 4:41When I went down into the basement, I
156. 4:43noticed that several of the boxes had
157. 4:44been knocked over.
158. 4:46I went upstairs and told Rachel what I
159. 4:48had found.
160. 4:49I asked her if it was possible that
161. 4:51animals could have knocked the stuff
162. 4:52over.
163. 4:53She didn't think that was the case.
164. 4:55I just didn't know if squirrels or
165. 4:57raccoons were capable of this kind of
166. 4:59thing.
167. 5:00I was almost hoping that we had an
168. 5:01animal of some kind in the basement. At
169. 5:03least that way we would know what was
170. 5:05making all the noise and then we could
171. 5:06properly deal with it.
172. 5:08While we were drinking our coffee and
173. 5:10talking about it, she said she wanted to
174. 5:12go downstairs and see the knocked over
175. 5:14boxes for herself.
176. 5:16Once we got down there, we looked
177. 5:17around.
178. 5:18And other than the boxes, nothing looked
179. 5:20out of place.
180. 5:22We started picking up the boxes and
181. 5:23stacking them back up neatly.
182. 5:26After I picked up the last box, I
183. 5:28noticed something weird on the ground.
184. 5:30There was some dirt that I didn't notice
185. 5:31before.
186. 5:33I looked a little closer and saw a faint
187. 5:35dirt trail that led near the furnace.
188. 5:38The dirt looked like it had been crawled
189. 5:39through instead of stepped on.
190. 5:41When I got over near the furnace,
191. 5:43I saw that there was another small patch
192. 5:45of dirt that led to a small nook behind
193. 5:47the furnace.
194. 5:48Behind the furnace in the small nook was
195. 5:51a little door.
196. 5:52I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
197. 5:55There was a small crawl space down here
198. 5:56that neither one of us knew about.
199. 5:59It was so hidden that if you didn't know
200. 6:00it was there, you would never see it.
201. 6:03You have to crawl a little bit just to
202. 6:04get to it.
203. 6:06I was going to open it, but Rachel
204. 6:07stopped me.
205. 6:09She was scared that if I opened it,
206. 6:10someone might be in there.
207. 6:12I told her that there wasn't a chance of
208. 6:14that happening, but I was secretly
209. 6:15terrified.
210. 6:17Just to be safe, Rachel went upstairs
211. 6:19and I grabbed my bat.
212. 6:21I slowly opened the door to the crawl
213. 6:23space.
214. 6:25I still can't believe what I saw when I
215. 6:26opened the door.
216. 6:28Inside the crawl space was an old, dirty
217. 6:30throw pillow, a small fleece blanket,
218. 6:33and some empty food wrappers.
219. 6:36Well, it was a lot of empty food
220. 6:37wrappers.
221. 6:39But even more disturbing and terrifying
222. 6:40than that
223. 6:42was the other thing I found in there.
224. 6:44Inside the small secret crawl space was
225. 6:46one of our family photo albums.
226. 6:49Rachel loves to take photos of
227. 6:50everything and she prints all of her
228. 6:52pictures out and puts them in photo
229. 6:53albums.
230. 6:54The photos in this album were
231. 6:55specifically from the first few years we
232. 6:57dated.
233. 6:59I grabbed the photo album and ran out of
234. 7:01there.
235. 7:02I told Rachel to get out of the house
236. 7:03and drive to her parents just in case.
237. 7:06I stayed behind and called the police.
238. 7:09When they arrived,
239. 7:10they searched the entire house and
240. 7:12didn't find anyone either.
241. 7:14I wanted Rachel to stay at her parents'
242. 7:15house that night just in case whoever
243. 7:17this was reappeared, but she insisted on
244. 7:19sleeping at home with me.
245. 7:21She slept on the couch in the living
246. 7:22room and I basically stayed awake all
247. 7:24night waiting to hear something, but for
248. 7:26the first time since moving into the
249. 7:28house, I didn't hear anything that
250. 7:30night.
251. 7:31The next day, I ended up sealing the
252. 7:33crawl space door shut, changing all the
253. 7:35locks in the house, and installing two
254. 7:37motion cameras outside.
255. 7:39We never had another incident in the
256. 7:41house after that.
257. 7:42We currently still live here and
258. 7:43Rachel's pregnant with our second child.
259. 7:46That's what made me think of the story
260. 7:47again.
261. 7:48Now that it's been several years since
262. 7:49all this, when I reflect on what I found
263. 7:51that day,
264. 7:53I can't help but come to the conclusion
265. 7:54that someone was living down there in
266. 7:55that room, at least for a few nights
267. 7:58while we were in the house.
268. 8:00I guess in hindsight, if we had that
269. 8:02home inspection,
270. 8:03maybe we would have known about the
271. 8:04room.
272. 8:06I have no idea why they had our photos
273. 8:08and I don't think I want to know.
274. 8:10One thing that freaks me out more than
275. 8:11anything is that Rachel swears that she
276. 8:13saw someone standing in the doorway that
277. 8:15night and that it wasn't her
278. 8:16imagination.
279. 8:18I don't know the reason why they decided
280. 8:20to just up and leave,
281. 8:21but I'm happy they did.
282. 8:34In the summer before going into eighth
283. 8:36grade,
284. 8:36>> [music]
285. 8:36>> I experienced one of the most horrifying
286. 8:38weekends of my life that I still can't
287. 8:40explain.
288. 8:41At that time in my life, I didn't have a
289. 8:43lot of friends.
290. 8:45I would spend most of my time with my
291. 8:46cousin Roddy. He would usually come to
292. 8:48stay overnight at my house since he
293. 8:50lived in a small apartment with my aunt.
294. 8:52He liked coming over to my house just
295. 8:54because we had a lot more freedom.
296. 8:56During that summer vacation, my aunt and
297. 8:58her fiance bought a new house.
298. 9:01Roddy was excited that he would finally
299. 9:02have a big enough space that I could
300. 9:04stay over there for once.
301. 9:06Once they moved into the new house, we
302. 9:08set up a plan for me to stay over there
303. 9:09for the entire weekend.
304. 9:11We were pumped to play video games all
305. 9:13weekend and just eat a disgusting amount
306. 9:15of food.
307. 9:16I didn't care about much else at that
308. 9:17time in my life.
309. 9:19In the late afternoon on a Friday,
310. 9:21my mom dropped me off at the house after
311. 9:23she got out of work.
312. 9:25The house was unfortunately not around
313. 9:26the corner.
314. 9:28It took about 45 minutes to get [music]
315. 9:29there, but it was awesome once I
316. 9:31arrived.
317. 9:33The house was in the middle of nowhere,
318. 9:34which I found pretty cool.
319. 9:36It was also a massive house.
320. 9:38It was older and a little run-down, but
321. 9:40still a huge house.
322. 9:42One of the things that Robbie loved
323. 9:44about the new house was how much land
324. 9:45they had.
325. 9:47The backyard [music] was a massive
326. 9:48field, and beyond the field was a bunch
327. 9:50of trees and forested land.
328. 9:52The first thing Robbie did when I got
329. 9:54there was give me the tour.
330. 9:56I'm not kidding when I say that I was
331. 9:57genuinely concerned I might get lost in
332. 9:59the house later.
333. 10:01Not only was it a huge house, but it was
334. 10:03also like a maze.
335. 10:05The house had three separate staircases
336. 10:07that led upstairs and two that led to
337. 10:08the basement.
338. 10:10It had so many rooms that I didn't even
339. 10:12bother to count them.
340. 10:14It was one of those old houses that I
341. 10:16feel like they don't even make houses
342. 10:17like that anymore.
343. 10:19I remember feeling almost jealous that
344. 10:21Robbie got to live here.
345. 10:23It was like he had his own wing of the
346. 10:24house.
347. 10:26After Robbie gave me the tour, we went
348. 10:28back into the kitchen where my mom and
349. 10:29aunt were still talking.
350. 10:31I remember hearing my aunt say to my mom
351. 10:33that they had way too much room in the
352. 10:34house for just the three of them,
353. 10:36but they couldn't pass up the deal.
354. 10:39I didn't care much for the reason, so I
355. 10:41didn't stick around to hear why it was
356. 10:42so cheap.
357. 10:43Instead, Robbie and I went outside to
358. 10:45throw the football [music] around.
359. 10:47We threw the ball around for a while and
360. 10:49then went inside when my mom was
361. 10:50leaving.
362. 10:52At the same time, my aunt's fiance was
363. 10:54getting home with pizza and wings.
364. 10:56After we ate, we went to Robbie's huge
365. 10:59bedroom and started on our video game
366. 11:00marathon.
367. 11:02We played for hours. I'm not sure of the
368. 11:04exact time, but it was late when we
369. 11:06finally decided to pass out and go to
370. 11:08sleep.
371. 11:10Robbie's room was big enough that he had
372. 11:11a bed on each side of the room, so I
373. 11:13didn't have to sleep on the floor.
374. 11:16The bed I was sleeping in was right next
375. 11:17to the closet.
376. 11:19We must have both been tired because we
377. 11:21fell asleep right away.
378. 11:23I don't know how long I was sleeping,
379. 11:24but I don't think it was very long.
380. 11:27I'm not even sure how or why I woke up,
381. 11:29but I was was
382. 11:31I sat up in bed and looked around the
383. 11:33room.
384. 11:34It was mostly dark in there.
385. 11:36He had this blue light from his computer
386. 11:37that was giving off some light and that
387. 11:39was about it.
388. 11:41When I put my head back down on the
389. 11:42pillow,
390. 11:43I noticed that the closet door was now
391. 11:45open.
392. 11:46When I got into bed originally, I was
393. 11:48sure that the door was closed or at
394. 11:50least mostly closed.
395. 11:52Now it was wide open.
396. 11:54I whispered over to Robbie to see if he
397. 11:56was awake.
398. 11:57I figured that maybe he woke up and
399. 11:59grabbed a sweatshirt or something from
400. 12:00the closet.
401. 12:02Robbie mumbled something as if he was
402. 12:03half asleep when I whispered his [music]
403. 12:05name.
404. 12:06I sat there for a few minutes unable to
405. 12:08fully relax.
406. 12:10I wasn't scared. I just felt like
407. 12:11something was off and [snorts] with the
408. 12:13door open, I didn't feel great.
409. 12:15I worked up the courage to get back up
410. 12:17and close the closet door.
411. 12:19As I was shutting the door, I swear I
412. 12:22thought I heard someone whisper, "Hey."
413. 12:25I shut the door so fast and ran back to
414. 12:27the bed.
415. 12:28I was awake for almost the rest of the
416. 12:29night.
417. 12:31I couldn't calm my nerves.
418. 12:33It didn't make any sense for somebody to
419. 12:34be in that closet.
420. 12:36It took the entire night, but I
421. 12:38convinced myself that my imagination and
422. 12:40being in the dark room just played a
423. 12:41trick on my mind.
424. 12:43In the morning, I finally fell back
425. 12:45asleep.
426. 12:46It didn't last long because Robbie woke
427. 12:48me up because his mom made breakfast.
428. 12:51While we were eating, Robbie was talking
429. 12:53about all the stuff we were going to do
430. 12:54that day.
431. 12:55I felt bad because I could barely focus
432. 12:57on what he was saying.
433. 12:59I was so tired from the previous night.
434. 13:02I will say that the tiredness didn't
435. 13:04last very long.
436. 13:05Once I ate and showered, I was starting
437. 13:07to feel like myself again.
438. 13:10Nothing of note happened during the day.
439. 13:12That night, my aunt had a few of her
440. 13:14friends over and they brought over their
441. 13:16kids who were roughly the same age as
442. 13:17us.
443. 13:19We decided to play hide and seek in the
444. 13:20big house.
445. 13:21>> [music]
446. 13:22>> I don't know if there is like an
447. 13:23official rulebook for hide and seek, but
448. 13:25we played a version of the game where
449. 13:26one person is it. And when they find
450. 13:28someone, they have to physically tag
451. 13:30them, and then that person is also it
452. 13:32until there's one survivor left.
453. 13:34It was fun, and we could only play this
454. 13:36game on nights like this when several
455. 13:38people were able to play.
456. 13:40There were seven of us playing. When we
457. 13:42started playing, I wasn't designated as
458. 13:44it, so I was able to hide.
459. 13:47The only rules we established were that
460. 13:48we had to be in the house, no hiding in
461. 13:51the living room, which is where all the
462. 13:52parents were,
463. 13:53>> [music]
464. 13:53>> and no one was allowed to hide in my
465. 13:54aunt's bedroom.
466. 13:56We shut that door so everyone couldn't
467. 13:57get confused in the big house.
468. 14:00I went into one of the unused rooms to
469. 14:01hide.
470. 14:03Inside the room was a bunch of office
471. 14:05equipment and boxes.
472. 14:06My aunt's fiance was going to make this
473. 14:08room his office.
474. 14:10I went into the closet in that room to
475. 14:11hide.
476. 14:12Hanging in that closet were several of
477. 14:14his coats.
478. 14:15I thought it was perfect because I could
479. 14:17literally hide between the coats and be
480. 14:18completely hidden.
481. 14:20I left the closet door cracked open so I
482. 14:22could peek through the opening and see
483. 14:23if anyone came into the room.
484. 14:25Several minutes passed, and no one came
485. 14:27into the room.
486. 14:29I wasn't overly concerned because the
487. 14:31house was so big. It would probably take
488. 14:33a while to look everywhere.
489. 14:35Then, I heard the office door creak
490. 14:37open.
491. 14:38I looked through the cracked door, and I
492. 14:40didn't see anyone.
493. 14:42From my vantage point, I was able to see
494. 14:44the entire room, so I couldn't figure
495. 14:45out why the door opened and nobody was
496. 14:47there.
497. 14:48I looked away, and then I heard
498. 14:50footsteps walking around the room.
499. 14:52I looked through the door opening again,
500. 14:54and still nobody was there.
501. 14:57It was the craziest thing.
502. 14:59It sounded like the footsteps were
503. 15:00coming from right outside the door.
504. 15:02I ducked back down in the closet.
505. 15:05It didn't make sense to me, but someone
506. 15:07was clearly right near the door,
507. 15:09even if I couldn't see them.
508. 15:11I backed up against the wall of the
509. 15:12closet door and tried to remain hidden.
510. 15:15I still wasn't scared.
511. 15:17Even though I couldn't explain what was
512. 15:18happening, I figured it still had to be
513. 15:20someone from the game.
514. 15:21>> [music]
515. 15:22>> I was holding my hand over my mouth
516. 15:23trying to make as little noise as
517. 15:25possible.
518. 15:26The footsteps now sounded like they were
519. 15:28directly outside the closet door.
520. 15:30Then I heard it.
521. 15:32A soft whisper from the other side of
522. 15:33the door.
523. 15:35All it said was,
524. 15:37"I see you."
525. 15:39I was completely frozen.
526. 15:41I didn't recognize that voice.
527. 15:43I just stood there waiting for the door
528. 15:44to open, but it never did.
529. 15:47I don't know how long we had the
530. 15:48standoff, but it felt like several
531. 15:50minutes at least.
532. 15:51During that time, I heard heavy
533. 15:53breathing coming from the other side of
534. 15:54the door.
535. 15:56But they never said anything else.
536. 15:58>> [panting]
537. 15:58>> You know when you can just feel someone
538. 16:00standing there?
539. 16:01That's what I felt in this moment.
540. 16:04Then, without warning, the footsteps
541. 16:06left the room fast.
542. 16:08It was like they ran away.
543. 16:10It was silent after that.
544. 16:12I didn't hear anything except my own
545. 16:14breathing.
546. 16:15I was too scared to leave.
547. 16:18While I was standing there, the closet
548. 16:19door slowly opened on its own.
549. 16:22The loud creaking sound was like nails
550. 16:24on a chalkboard for me in that moment.
551. 16:26Once the door was open, nobody was
552. 16:28there.
553. 16:29I was just standing in the doorway like
554. 16:31an idiot.
555. 16:32That's when Robbie ran by the room,
556. 16:34shouted that he saw me, and ran to tag
557. 16:36me.
558. 16:37Even after I got tagged, I still just
559. 16:39stood there trying to process what just
560. 16:41happened.
561. 16:42It didn't make any sense to me.
562. 16:45I came to my senses a moment later and
563. 16:46continued playing the game.
564. 16:48I didn't want everyone there to think
565. 16:50that I was afraid, even though I was
566. 16:51scared out of my mind now.
567. 16:53We played for a while after that, but I
568. 16:55made sure I hid in easy-to-find spots
569. 16:57that were close to other people.
570. 16:59I didn't want to be alone.
571. 17:01That night, after everyone left, Robbie
572. 17:03fell asleep right away.
573. 17:05I didn't want to go anywhere near
574. 17:07[music] the bed that was next to the
575. 17:08closet door from the night before.
576. 17:10I forced myself to stay awake and play
577. 17:12video games.
578. 17:13At like 3:20 in the morning,
579. 17:15I'll never forget that exact time.
580. 17:17I heard a creaking sound.
581. 17:19I looked over from the TV where I was
582. 17:21sitting and the closet door was just
583. 17:23opening on its own again.
584. 17:25I just sat there and watched the door
585. 17:27open.
586. 17:29Once it was fully open, I couldn't see
587. 17:31anything inside the closet other than
588. 17:32darkness.
589. 17:34Then I heard the breathing again.
590. 17:36It almost sounded intentionally loud.
591. 17:39I backed up against [music] Robbie's bed
592. 17:40which was on the other side of the room.
593. 17:43I sat there like a statue and stared
594. 17:45into that dark closet for the rest of
595. 17:46the night just waiting for something or
596. 17:48someone to jump out at me, but nothing
597. 17:50ever did.
598. 17:52On Saturday morning, I called my mom and
599. 17:54told her to come pick me up early
600. 17:56because I didn't feel well.
601. 17:58I was supposed to stay all day, but I
602. 18:00just wanted to get out of this house.
603. 18:02When my mom picked me up, she asked me
604. 18:04how the weekend was and I told her the
605. 18:06truth.
606. 18:07I told her I didn't like it there and
607. 18:09that I had this horrible feeling all
608. 18:10weekend that someone was watching me.
609. 18:13I saw my mom make a weird face.
610. 18:15She asked me if I heard my aunt or her
611. 18:17fiance talk about how they got the house
612. 18:19so cheap and I didn't.
613. 18:21She shook her head and told me never
614. 18:22mind.
615. 18:24It was years later, several years after
616. 18:26I graduated from high school, that the
617. 18:27story came up again.
618. 18:29That's when my mom told me for the first
619. 18:31time that my aunt was able to buy the
620. 18:33house so cheaply because, apparently,
621. 18:35some brutal crime involving murder
622. 18:37happened in the house 10 years before my
623. 18:39aunt bought it
624. 18:40and it had been empty ever since.
625. 18:43My mom thought that I must have
626. 18:44overheard my aunt telling someone that
627. 18:45and that gave me some vivid nightmares
628. 18:47that one weekend when I stayed there.
629. 18:50However, these experiences I had were
630. 18:52not nightmares. This was real.
631. 18:55There was no doubt in my mind that I
632. 18:56heard the voice, the breathing, and the
633. 18:58footsteps. All of it.
634. 19:00This wasn't in my head. This happened.
635. 19:03Now, as an adult [music] in my late 20s,
636. 19:06I still can't explain it.
637. 19:08I never stayed overnight at Robbie's
638. 19:09house again after that night.
639. 19:11I had been there a few times since, but
640. 19:13always went home at night.
641. 19:15To my knowledge, Robbie never
642. 19:17experienced anything like that, and if
643. 19:18he did,
644. 19:20he never shared it with me.
645. 19:33This story is weird and a bit
646. 19:35unsettling.
647. 19:36I don't even know if I would consider it
648. 19:38scary or just outright disturbing.
649. 19:41Maybe even a little sad.
650. 19:43I'll start by saying that I'm not going
651. 19:44to be using any real names in the story,
652. 19:46just to protect the privacy of certain
653. 19:48people, just in case.
654. 19:50For my entire life, my mom's best friend
655. 19:52has been a woman named Tammy.
656. 19:54She's a successful real estate agent in
657. 19:56the area.
658. 19:57She helped my parents get a great deal
659. 19:59on the house I grew up in.
660. 20:01She's like a magician when it comes to
661. 20:02real estate.
662. 20:04Fast forward to a couple of years ago,
663. 20:05and Tammy agreed to help me find my
664. 20:07first house.
665. 20:09It just so happened that she was about
666. 20:10to put a house on the market that used
667. 20:11to belong to the father of one of her
668. 20:13oldest friends.
669. 20:14He had passed away about a year before
670. 20:16this, and the house was empty for a
671. 20:17while before that.
672. 20:19He didn't die in the house or anything
673. 20:21like that, but the kids still kept the
674. 20:22house in the family while the old man
675. 20:24was in a retirement home.
676. 20:26It's just that [music] the kids don't
677. 20:27live in the state anymore, and they
678. 20:28didn't want to sell the house until he
679. 20:30officially passed.
680. 20:32Once he died and the kids finally got
681. 20:33around to selling the house, they left
682. 20:35it in Tammy's capable hands.
683. 20:37Being the woman she is, she asked if I
684. 20:39was interested in looking at the house
685. 20:40first.
686. 20:42Long story short, Tammy got a great deal
687. 20:44on the house, and not long after, I
688. 20:46officially became a first-time
689. 20:47homeowner.
690. 20:49Since it smelled old and musty in there,
691. 20:51I decided to do some renovations before
692. 20:53I officially moved in.
693. 20:54I wanted to get the essential rooms done
694. 20:56first so I could move in, and then I
695. 20:58could slowly work on the rest of the
696. 20:59house.
697. 21:01One afternoon, after fixing up the
698. 21:02kitchen, I decided to just walk around
699. 21:04the house and get a feel for the place.
700. 21:07It hadn't quite sunk in yet that I owned
701. 21:08this house.
702. 21:10One area of the house that I had barely
703. 21:11seen was the attic.
704. 21:13It was one of those drawstrings on the
705. 21:15ceiling that you pulled, and when you
706. 21:16did, a wooden ladder lowered leading to
707. 21:19a small attic.
708. 21:21I knew it was there. I just never really
709. 21:22cared to go up there since it was gross
710. 21:24and covered in cobwebs and who knows
711. 21:26what else.
712. 21:27On that afternoon, I decided to go up
713. 21:29there and see if there was any water
714. 21:31damage or any other type of issue that I
715. 21:33would need to address.
716. 21:35While I was looking around, I stepped on
717. 21:36a loose floorboard.
718. 21:38I was about to just nail it down when I
719. 21:40noticed something underneath it.
720. 21:43I pulled up the board and found a
721. 21:44notebook, some keys, and a small device
722. 21:47that I later realized was a voice
723. 21:48recorder.
724. 21:49I remember thinking that this was so
725. 21:51cool when I pulled them out. It was like
726. 21:53finding a relic from the past in the
727. 21:55house.
728. 21:56I went back to the kitchen and tried to
729. 21:57play the tape that was in the recorder,
730. 21:59but it wouldn't work.
731. 22:01It didn't take me long to realize that
732. 22:02it ran on batteries, and the batteries
733. 22:04were dead.
734. 22:06I grabbed some new ones for my truck and
735. 22:08tried to play the recording again.
736. 22:10It worked. It was the voice of an old
737. 22:12man.
738. 22:13At first, it was kind of sweet. He was
739. 22:15just recording his voice saying things
740. 22:17like his name, the date, and that he
741. 22:19wanted to hear what his voice sounded
742. 22:20like.
743. 22:21Then the recordings took a hard turn and
744. 22:23got weird.
745. 22:24He sounded frantic all of a sudden. He
746. 22:27kept saying that he doesn't know why
747. 22:28they won't just leave him alone,
748. 22:30that he was in danger, that nobody would
749. 22:32help him.
750. 22:33He kept mentioning his one daughter,
751. 22:35I'll call her Claire, and saying that
752. 22:37she wouldn't believe him.
753. 22:38He would go from crying in the recording
754. 22:40to screaming at the top of his lungs to
755. 22:42laughing uncontrollably.
756. 22:44It was unhinged.
757. 22:46I stopped recording and started to flip
758. 22:48through the notebook.
759. 22:50It was almost the same as the recording.
760. 22:52By that, I mean it started normal
761. 22:54enough.
762. 22:55It almost looked like a journal entry.
763. 22:57It had the date, the time, and then just
764. 22:58a small passage.
765. 23:00Simple things like, "Tonight I ate a
766. 23:02hamburger. It was delicious.
767. 23:05After the small passage, that's where he
768. 23:07would write a timestamp.
769. 23:09I know that seems silly, but that's
770. 23:10literally the kind of stuff it said.
771. 23:12But just like the recordings, as I
772. 23:14continued to flip through the notebook,
773. 23:16it started to get crazier.
774. 23:18One entry said, "I want to eat Justin's
775. 23:20arm." Timestamped 1:18 a.m. on November
776. 23:2316th.
777. 23:25I have no idea who Justin is or why the
778. 23:27entries started to go off the rails like
779. 23:29this.
780. 23:30I started listening to the recordings
781. 23:31again, and they just kept getting darker
782. 23:33and weirder.
783. 23:35In one of the recordings, he started
784. 23:36talking about how the evil woman comes
785. 23:38to visit him every night, and she won't
786. 23:40leave him alone.
787. 23:42After that recording, there were a lot
788. 23:44of recordings of just mumbling,
789. 23:45screaming, or laughing.
790. 23:47I started to put the pieces together in
791. 23:49my head.
792. 23:50This poor man had lost his mind, and
793. 23:52that's probably why his kids put him in
794. 23:54a home until he passed away.
795. 23:56Then I heard the final recording, and I
796. 23:58wasn't so sure anymore.
797. 24:00In the last recording, he sounded
798. 24:02defeated and out of breath.
799. 24:04He apologized for everything wrong and
800. 24:06horrible he'd done in his life.
801. 24:08He didn't give any details about that.
802. 24:10Then he said the evil woman comes every
803. 24:12night now, and she won't leave him
804. 24:14alone.
805. 24:15He then said that she can by no means
806. 24:17find out what he locked away.
807. 24:19That's what she's after.
808. 24:21I heard him jingle the keys near the
809. 24:23recorder.
810. 24:24I assumed they were the keys I found
811. 24:26under the floorboards.
812. 24:28After that, he stopped talking for a few
813. 24:29seconds, and you couldn't hear anything
814. 24:31except dead air.
815. 24:33I was just about to turn the recorder
816. 24:35off when he whispered into the device
817. 24:38that she's here now.
818. 24:39Tell my children I love them.
819. 24:42Then, right before the recorder shuts
820. 24:44off, you can hear the cackle of a woman.
821. 24:47It's only for a second or two before it
822. 24:49gets cut off,
823. 24:50but it was clear as day.
824. 24:52It was an unnerving laugh, and clearly
825. 24:54not the voice of this elderly man.
826. 24:57I listened to that last part of the
827. 24:58recording about 15 times just so I could
828. 25:00be certain that that's what I heard.
829. 25:03After listening,
830. 25:04I went to the last passage of the
831. 25:05notebook that was filled out.
832. 25:07All it said was, "Please, please, not
833. 25:10tonight."
834. 25:12Followed by the word, "No." dozens of
835. 25:14times.
836. 25:15Then it was timestamped at 3:39 a.m. on
837. 25:18December 26th.
838. 25:20I called Tammy after all of this and
839. 25:22told her what I found.
840. 25:23She came over and listened for herself.
841. 25:26It made her feel uncomfortable and
842. 25:27uneasy because she knew this man.
843. 25:30She called his daughter and told her
844. 25:31what I found in the attic, and the
845. 25:33daughter was a bit creeped out.
846. 25:35When they finally admitted him to a
847. 25:36home, she said that the father she knew
848. 25:38was barely left.
849. 25:39He didn't talk much, and when he did, it
850. 25:42was nothing indicating any of this
851. 25:43stuff.
852. 25:44She said the timestamp in the notebook
853. 25:46was especially unsettling for her
854. 25:48because it was the next day, December
855. 25:5027th, that she came home to visit for
856. 25:52the holidays with her family.
857. 25:54And that's when he was basically
858. 25:55unresponsive on the couch.
859. 25:57If you can believe it, somehow this
860. 25:59story gets even stranger.
861. 26:01After they found him unresponsive on the
862. 26:03couch, they took him to the hospital
863. 26:05assuming he had a stroke,
864. 26:07but the doctors were never able to fully
865. 26:08explain what happened to him.
866. 26:10Why he had such a cognitive decline and
867. 26:13why he basically was a shell of a man at
868. 26:15the end of his life.
869. 26:16There wasn't a medical reason why, which
870. 26:18made this harder for his family to
871. 26:19accept and understand.
872. 26:21What I didn't realize then was that
873. 26:23Tammy didn't tell her about the horrible
874. 26:25laugh that was at the end of the
875. 26:26recording.
876. 26:27She didn't want to upset her more.
877. 26:30I didn't agree. So, a few days later, I
878. 26:32called the woman back up and told her
879. 26:34about the end of the recording.
880. 26:36Well, Tammy was right.
881. 26:38This upset her so much that she flew
882. 26:40back to town and asked if she could have
883. 26:41the recordings, the notebook, and the
884. 26:43keys, which I of course handed over.
885. 26:46She thanked me for them and told me if
886. 26:47she ever found any answers, she would
887. 26:49let me know.
888. 26:50I doubt she will, and if by some chance
889. 26:52she does find answers,
890. 26:54maybe I'll write an updated version of
891. 26:55the story.
892. 26:57I know the easy answer is to just say
893. 26:59the man was clearly losing it, and this
894. 27:00was just a record of him mentally
895. 27:02declining.
896. 27:03But if you could have seen the
897. 27:04daughter's reaction to the laugh on the
898. 27:05recording, you would also have that gut
899. 27:08feeling like I do that something isn't
900. 27:09right about this situation.
901. 27:12Hopefully one day that family will get
902. 27:14the answers they desire.