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Melbourne Poltergeist

BY NIKKI

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Strange things have been happening to me since I was about 13 years old and living in my dad's very old unit in Melbourne, Australia. The unit was very old and would have been built in the early 1960s. The bathroom light could be left on all day or night, but as soon as I would get in the bath or shower, the light would switch off.

In the middle of summer, it was always feezing cold and at night I could hear a shuffling sound in the hallway for hours. The house was comprised of a single bedroom that I would share with my father when I was a chld. When I was too old for this, my father moved me into the living room to sleep at night. This was at the front of the unit. And this I beleive is where it all started.

One night I was on sofa bed watching TV. I must have drifted off to sleep at some point. The next thing I remember is waking up with a start and not being able to move. Something was pinning me to the bed. I could not move and breathing was extremly difficult. I was trying to call out to my father, who was asleep at the back of the house. I could not get my voice to work and continued fighting with the invisible force that was holding me down. At some point it released its grip on me and I went back to sleep.

When I woke up the next morning, I felt weak and had no energy at all. I told my dad and he said similar things had been happening to him. He could hear the footsteps down the hall and had noticed the bathroom light.

Since then I have grown up and met my fiance. We met when I was 18 and moved into another old house. I was working the morning shft at the airport and had to get up at 4 a.m. This particular morning I woke up and shuffled to the toilet, which was located in the laundry -- and walked straight into a shadow figure! It was very tall and broad. I snapped to it and watched it for a second. It shrank into a corner and vanished.

Now I am 26 and am utterly terrified. We are lving in a new house and things are worse than ever. Whatever it is that's following me is now tryng to make direct contact with me.

I am a sound sleeper. Not much wakes me up, but for the last month I am being woken to things moving around the kitchen, voices talking in the hallway and my legs being held while I'm asleep. It's like when I was younger. I can't move or make a sound, but can feel my legs being raised by my ankles.

Also one night, when I was getting ready to go to sleep, I noticed a light bouncing around the room. It was almost like a bubble and just kind of floated around. It was a dull light but nonetheless was still luminous. I am also waking up on my back at exactly 4 a.m.

Now my friend is complaing that since I have stayed at her place, werid things are happening to her as well. Her smoke alarm now goes off at 2 a.m. for no reason. It may not sound like much, but I just don't understand why this thing has attached itself to me. It's been everywhere with me and I have moved around a lot. I would just like to have a decent night's sleep without this thing trying to communicate with me. All my photos taken in this house have orbs in them. If anyone has any answers, I would like to hear them.

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