17. The ceiling lady.
“At my old apartment, we had a strange series of events occur that lead us to believe that someone was living in our ceiling. We called her the ceiling lady.
In the middle of the night, we’d frequently hear kitchen cupboards opening and closing. A few times, I came home from work to find items on the counter that I didn’t buy (I was a total bachelor at the time, as was my roommate, and we’d find things like dirty cans of beans and cooking ingredients that neither of us bought). Things would go missing randomly from the kitchen.
One night in particular was really scary.
My roommate gets sleep paralysis, which is spooky in itself. But one night, he woke up, and saw a woman in raggedy clothes standing over him, just looking at him. After a few moments, she walked out of the room. The same night, my girlfriend slept over, and woke up because someone next to the bed asked her if she was thirsty and she realized there was somebody in the room. She was terrified and didn’t make a sound, she just stared at the person. I woke up about 10 seconds later because I heard the bedroom door slam and she was sitting bolt upright. We talked with my roommate about it the next day, and both of them described seeing the same person.
There was a hatch in the hallway, in the ceiling, that had been nailed shut long before we moved in. We’re convinced that she was murdered in the apartment and her body was hidden in the ceiling, and now she haunts the apartment.”