Hi! Sorry if this is kind of weirdly formatted-- I've never used a forum before today!
Recently my family (My mother and stepfather, my younger brother, and I) moved from a small gated community to a hundred-year old house in a medium sized town. It was fairly cheap as houses go, and it shows in the functionality of the place. Half of the appliances don't work, The walls are rotting away, ect.
Now, the real thing I'm concerned about is my basement. We've been here since late October (around Halloween) and we immediately noticed something was off about it. The walls are stone, and the floor is padded down dirt. There are exposed pipes, and cracks and wooden doors that lead to huge rooms that extend past the property line. There's another door, far in the back, that leads into a long mine shaft (We live in Pennsylvania, this isn't uncommon really) that we haven't yet explored due to the discovery of poison in the rotting pipes.
My stepfather agrees with me that there's something just.. Wrong about it. He found small hangers for baby's clothes on the rafters, and an angel figurine on a shelf that seemed to follow my parents around the room with it's eyes. We know nothing about the homes history except that the owners most likely died here, and that the house went unoccupied for 10+ years.
Please keep in mind that my stepfather is a grumpy man, Six foot four and almost fifty, who wants nothing to do with the paranormal. He doesn't believe in ghosts, or anything similar. For him to admit that there might be something here is sort of terrifying in its own right.
Now, onto whats been happening in the house:
- Things keep going missing. My brother's sippy cups, two of them, just gone. My mother's IPod, as well as it's charger. And a few other things, small stuff, pens and such.
- In the basement there are claw marks on the walls. Long and deep into the rock. It looked like it was made by something completely feral.
- Dusty footprints in front of the (Now sealed) basement door. They don't match anyone in my family.
- My cat died under mysterious circumstances. We think it was the poison in the basement, but she was totally healthy when we got here and wasn't very old.
- My little brother has started having nightmares. This wouldn't be unusual for a four year old, normally, but he has never once had any issues sleeping until we got here.
- My dog (a mix between a Labrador and Mastiff) has been acting strange. She used to be the biggest sweetheart and now she attacks any man that even comes close to her, sadly, including my little brother. This never happened before we moved here. She will sometimes stare at things that aren't there, and hide in places for no real reason. She gets anxious if she's alone.
- And finally, black masses in photos. They aren't there when you without the camera, and they tend to hide in corners. This could be attributed to shitty camera quality I guess, or bad lighting, but it still freaks me out. Pair that with the almost constantly uneasy feeling I have and it just sets off a bunch of red flags.
Am I overreacting, or could something actually be here? Thoughts?
Recently my family (My mother and stepfather, my younger brother, and I) moved from a small gated community to a hundred-year old house in a medium sized town. It was fairly cheap as houses go, and it shows in the functionality of the place. Half of the appliances don't work, The walls are rotting away, ect.
Now, the real thing I'm concerned about is my basement. We've been here since late October (around Halloween) and we immediately noticed something was off about it. The walls are stone, and the floor is padded down dirt. There are exposed pipes, and cracks and wooden doors that lead to huge rooms that extend past the property line. There's another door, far in the back, that leads into a long mine shaft (We live in Pennsylvania, this isn't uncommon really) that we haven't yet explored due to the discovery of poison in the rotting pipes.
My stepfather agrees with me that there's something just.. Wrong about it. He found small hangers for baby's clothes on the rafters, and an angel figurine on a shelf that seemed to follow my parents around the room with it's eyes. We know nothing about the homes history except that the owners most likely died here, and that the house went unoccupied for 10+ years.
Please keep in mind that my stepfather is a grumpy man, Six foot four and almost fifty, who wants nothing to do with the paranormal. He doesn't believe in ghosts, or anything similar. For him to admit that there might be something here is sort of terrifying in its own right.
Now, onto whats been happening in the house:
- Things keep going missing. My brother's sippy cups, two of them, just gone. My mother's IPod, as well as it's charger. And a few other things, small stuff, pens and such.
- In the basement there are claw marks on the walls. Long and deep into the rock. It looked like it was made by something completely feral.
- Dusty footprints in front of the (Now sealed) basement door. They don't match anyone in my family.
- My cat died under mysterious circumstances. We think it was the poison in the basement, but she was totally healthy when we got here and wasn't very old.
- My little brother has started having nightmares. This wouldn't be unusual for a four year old, normally, but he has never once had any issues sleeping until we got here.
- My dog (a mix between a Labrador and Mastiff) has been acting strange. She used to be the biggest sweetheart and now she attacks any man that even comes close to her, sadly, including my little brother. This never happened before we moved here. She will sometimes stare at things that aren't there, and hide in places for no real reason. She gets anxious if she's alone.
- And finally, black masses in photos. They aren't there when you without the camera, and they tend to hide in corners. This could be attributed to shitty camera quality I guess, or bad lighting, but it still freaks me out. Pair that with the almost constantly uneasy feeling I have and it just sets off a bunch of red flags.
Am I overreacting, or could something actually be here? Thoughts?
