The Haunting
Ten years ago, when I was 19, I met a girl (Lyn) at a job placement
agency, and quickly became friends. Lyn lived with another girl at
the time and continued to complain about her roommate and ended up
leaving and coming to stay with me and my family. After a few
weeks, we decided to get a place of our own, and quickly found a
nice basement apartment. Lyn was into the occult, nothing major
just tarot cards, burning candles, etc, which never bothered
me.
About a month after we moved in, the landlord (Susan) came down to
the basement one afternoon to do laundry and the three of us
somehow got onto the topic of ghosts. Susan mentioned she thought
the place was haunted by her deceased mother among others, but the
thought of ghosts never really bothered me, maybe due to a slight
disbelief.
Two weeks later at around 12am, Lyn came into my room and woke me
up. "There are ghosts in this place and they don't like you very
much, so I would watch myself if I were you" is what she said to me
at the foot of my bed, then left. Slightly disturbed and confused
by this strange announcement, I got and went into her room to find
her fast asleep. At first I though maybe she was pretending to be
asleep and it was a prank, or maybe I was crazy and imagined I
heard her saying that, but the next morning when confronted she
claimed she didn't remember saying that so I wrote it off as a
weird dream.
Then about 3 weeks later, the two of us were watching TV at night
before bed. I had to get up for work at 5am so I decided to go to
bed early. Something woke me up at about 2am, not a person but
"something" snapped me out of my sleep and I awoke to an
overwhelming uneasy feeling of not being alone. I felt the need to
get out of my bedroom, so I got up and went to the bathroom, but
still uneasy, and not comfortable enough to return to bed, went
into the living room to watch TV. About 10-15 minutes later, the
living room suddenly got very cold and I felt a rush of wind
passing my cheek, in my ear, like a window was open but all windows
and doors were closed as it was the middle of winter. Then I began
hearing an almost chattering or whispering in my ear and the
whispering continued and was circling around me, almost taunting
me. I was hearing voices but nothing was there and it got louder
and kept circling around me. I started to panic. I kept saying stop
unaware of what was happening to me, but scared to death! Was I
hallucinating?
I was so scared I did the only thing I could think of, I prayed to
god, and not being a religious person by any means I prayed
something fierce. "Please god make it stop, I'm scared. Please make
it stop!" when all of a sudden everything stopped. The
chattering/whispering in my ears and all around me, the rushing of
wind, whatever was causing this just suddenly stopped just as
mysteriously as it begun and after it stopped, I had this sudden
overwhelming sense of relief and I was actually able to get up and
go to bed and fall asleep like what I just experienced never
happened.
I woke up at 5am, rushed to get ready for work and rushed out of
the apartment, relieved to be out of there and I ended up staying
at my boyfriends, friends, parents place during the coming weeks,
too scared to sleep in the apartment, and eventually ended up moved
back home.
I still to this day can't explain what happened to me!
