Curvaliscious

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When I was a teenager I was dating a guy and we had gone to his house where he lived with his grandmother. They had gone out to deal with the cattle and I was left in the house. By way of explanation, the front door entered directly into the kitchen. Off of the kitchen there were two bedrooms, then the entry way to the living room. There was a bathroom to the right and another bedroom just beyond that. The wall of the living room to the left was a solid wall without any doors. Its important that you know that part.

So, I am standing in the kitchen getting a drink of water when I turned and leaned my back against the counter. I looked up into the living room, where there were no lights on, and saw the figure of a tall man with slouched shoulders walk from the left of the living room door, past the door and into the bathroom. Did I mention that I was alone in the house at the time and he came from nowhere because there was no place to stand to the left of the living room door and not be seen?

Later, I was telling my mother about it - but I didn't say that he was a tall, slouched man - just that a man had walked across the doorway. "Oh," she said "was he tall and slouched over? That's Jays grandfather I took care of him in the hospital before he died"

Lee was outside playing at our cottage. She was about 4 or 5 and she came in and said "mommy, the man keeps telling me not to go into the trees". I asked her what man she meant and she said "the old man with the white hair". We had no close neighbors and when I went outside there was no one to be seen. We were remote enough that someone would have had to use a car to get to our cottage, although we were on a main road. Oh, and my grandparents both died in the house... and as a child my grandfather would worry about me going too far into the trees when I played.

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When I first had Lee I lived in a small house in the country. Several things happened in that house during the year that I lived there. I would be sitting in the living room feeding Lee when I heard glass breaking. It was a very loud sound and I really thought that the kitchen window had somehow broken. Getting up immediately to investigate, there was nothing at all wrong either inside or outside of the house (my second thought being that there had been an accident on the road and I had somehow heard the glass of a windshield breaking.

Another time my mother and I were in the living room waiting for my father to come and pick her up. We both heard someone enter the house and clear their throat a couple of times. We even said "oh, there's dad". Waiting for a few minutes, we wondered what was taking him so long to come to the living room so I walked through the kitchen and into the back hallway... only to find that he was not there and the door was locked.

Once I was loading groceries from the car into the house. Mom had taken Lee to the neighbors to visit so I was alone in the house, just walking back and forth between the car and the kitchen. I had dropped a load of groceries on the floor and turned to walk out the door when I distinctly heard the sound of a woman laughing. There were no radios, no TV or baby monitors on at the time.

Another time I was lying in bed trying to fall asleep in the middle of the night when I heard a distinct, loud knocking on my bedroom window. There was no one at the window or anywhere near the house when I went to see if it was one of my friends playing a trick on me. Additionally, there were no branches or anything else near the window that could have made that noise.

My clocks, both on the wall and on my VCR randomly changed time despite fresh batteries or being set to the correct time. Those same items kept the time perfectly when I moved to another house.

In this house, the dining room closet door opens on its own even though it is securely closed. You can even pull on the door and it will not open. Now, the kitty litter is in that closet so the door remains open all of the time. The cleaning cupboard in the kitchen comes open on its own even when it is properly closed... when you close it then turn your back and look again it will be open. You will think that someone has come into the house because you hear footsteps and no one will be there (even Geek Boy has heard that).

Something that has been happening more recently is that at night after everyone is in bed, I hear what seems like a tv on with the volume on really low so you can't make out the words. Except that when you go downstairs there is nothing on, not even a radio and I don't own a baby monitor.

Lee hears knocking on various walls in the living room when she is alone downstairs at night. They will distinctly be on one wall, then another then another. Her best friend hears it as well although I haven't hear anything and the TV will randomly turn its volume down to half without anyone near it or near the remote. Oh, and it doesn't do it all the time, just on occasion.