June 8, 2005
My Creepy Apartment
Rate this encounter:
Nina, Amherst, Massachusetts, October or
November of 1995,
info@ghostvillage.com
I had moved into a one-bedroom in Amherst and everything about it
was "spooky." There was a dead tree right in front of my bay window --
it was rotten, yet it was still growing -- it still had leaves in the
summer time. Anyway, I moved in with my cat. Things were okay, there was
a pencil drawing on the walls that said "Jesus Saves" and "Jesus died
for our sins." I tried to get them off with soap and water but the only
thing that came off was the paint and the pencil marks got darker and
more pronounced. I was cold all of the time but I figured it was the
electric heat that I had. Then things started happening. I had a
bathroom off of my bedroom which kept on flooding for no apparent
reason. It flooded my bedroom and soaked my mattress. Then my basement
started flooding (that’s where I did my laundry).
There were power tools in the basement and one time I had a guest
over and when he checked them and turned them on, the power tools
wouldn't shut off.
I just kept saying to myself that I would unpack the rest of my stuff
when I get to six months of my stay here. More and more little strange
things were happening. I had talked to my neighbors and asked them who
was the prior tenant that had lived there and I was told that he was a
paranoid schizophrenic and was taken away by the ambulance because he
had blockaded himself in this here apartment for three days.
One night I had woken up and a large man was standing over me with a
red plaid shirt on and wearing suspenders. When I blinked my eyes, he
was gone. This happened two more times.
On another occasion, I had guests over and one of them worked for the
local Fire Department and EMT. He had said that he had been in the
apartment before. So I said, "Yeah, he was mentally ill and locked
himself in for three days." My friend said, "Try dying," and I was like,
"What?!" My friend told me that the previous tenant died and was dead
for three days. I moved out three weeks later.
