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Scratching Poltergeist
by Nicole H.

When I was 21, and living mostly by myself at my grandparent's secondary house, I experienced a series of strange events. From the moment I started living there, I would hear what I thought was an old-fashioned big band outside my window whenever I went to bed. The kind with a clarinet, trombone, trumpet and big bass. I assumed that one of the neighbors had a band practice going on and thought nothing of it. Eventually my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to find out where the sound was coming from. But when I went outside I could not hear the music. 

Then, one night after going to bed, I heard scratching at the top of my window. Since the street lamp shone directly outside, I could easily make out the silhouette of the rose bushes and there was nobody out there. I was scared and said out loud, "Go away and leave me alone!" The scratching grew louder and was obviously slow and controlled and not an animal. I turned on my light and it stopped. This scared me, but I still felt safe inside the house until a few nights later when I heard the chinking of crystal from my Nanna's bedroom. I tried to ignore it until the crystal on my own dresser made a sound. Again I turned on my light and it stopped. 

Disturbed by these experiences, I consulted my best friend's mother who, being from Mauritius, knew about voodoo. She advised me to place grain in the corners of every room, place a straw broom at the external doors and to walk into the house backwards at night to prevent any spirits from following me home. I put grain in the bedroom corners, but I only had one broom, so I put it at the hallway door and went to bed. Later that night, I was awakened by a sound and realized that it was the dining room chairs being pulled out from the table over the wooden floor. This convinced me that I had a paranormal problem and I placed brooms at all the external doors - and had no more problems. However, when my aunty moved into the house several years later, I found out that she could hear the music too!

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