21. Lights would flick on and I’d hear two people having conversations when I was supposed to be alone.
“In one of my childhood homes, the previous owners’ son told me there was a myth that an old lady, the original owner, died in one of the bedrooms, and they found her days later. When we moved in, I chose that room as mine because if I didn’t sleep there every day, I would be afraid to enter. The floors were hardwood and original. There was an odd stain in one section of the floor. I figured someone accidentally used too much wood stain. Beyond that the room was perfectly normal.
For years, odd stuff happened in that house. I would come home alone to find every door perpendicular to its frame. Lights would flick on and I’d hear two people having conversations when I was supposed to be alone. I’d check to see if my parents came home early from whatever, only to find the room was empty and the lights turned themselves on. This happened to my other family members as well, not just me. Once my father called me at school and asked if I was at home because he heard voices, and he was the only person home. We all figured we were just going crazy.
The creepiest of all was years later, I was watching a show called Taboo, where they discuss odd jobs and stuff. One was about the guy who cleans up after crime scenes. Lo and behold he’s cleaning up the stain a body leave behind on hardwood after sitting there a while. After he was done, the floor was left with the exact same stain pattern I had in my room all along. That made everything that happened in that house a bit more unsettling.”