Your True Tales
June 2003 – Page 14

Our Apartment is Haunted
by arabitacma

Almost one year ago on Memorial Day, we moved into a new apartment in a large complex originally built in the 1940s. Within the past 10 years, the complex has been closed down due to uncontrolled illegal drug and prostitution-related activity, and was bought by another owner and refurbished and eventually reopened. With in a week of moving in, my daughter and I heard footsteps coming up the stairs outside our private entrance and the sound and feeling of someone walking through the apartment. The best way I can describe it is the sounds and vibrations of someone walking up the steps, coming in the door and walking briskly across the apartment into the master bedroom, followed by a thud. At times I have actually felt the breeze, as if the air is actually stirred up as someone walks by. I have only seen a vague, blurry human-like form once out of the corner of my eye, and on that night our calico cat was crying and gazing at the spot where I saw it most of the evening. The spot is right behind our entrance door. 

I don't feel frightened by this. In fact, last fall for about a month or so, my daughter and I kept hearing a bell-like sound and I would find change lying on the floor between the bedroom where our computer is and the kitchen. For a long time, I assumed it was my daughter just being careless with her leftover lunch money or something. Then one day I was home alone and every time I got up from the computer to walk to the kitchen for coffee, I found more change in the same area where I had just picked it up before. I found more than $5 that day. Also, at times things disappear, and I have searched all over for these items only to return later after giving up on the search to find the "lost item" in plain sight, exactly in the area I had seen it last and left it and the same place my daughter and I both had searched and both know that the lost items were not there. At one point my daughter was beginning to get frightened and I said some prayers and burned some incense, and had a talk to this spirit and explained that my daughter and I live here now and ARE NOT leaving. I suggested that they move on and quit disturbing my daughter. Obviously, they are still here, but things have quieted down greatly except for the daily replay of the footsteps.

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