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At risk of sounding mentally unstable, i will share with you some of the things myself and family experienced in our rented house in north austin, over a 2 or 3 year period beginning in 89. please feel free to be as skeptical as you want. if you have rational explanations for these events, more power to you. i do not want to believe i lived somewhere haunted, but after you read this, you'll have to decide for yourselves.
first, a word about the house-- very boring, early 70s looking. to face it, there was a garage on the right side, and inset, the main door next to very tall windows that line the wall (you enter through the dining room) and then, going left, more white stone facing (that's the corner bedroom). i was away at school when my parents moved in, and when went to visit for the first time, drove into the neighborhood, saw it and hoped to God that wasn't their house; just had a bad feeling.
I stayed in the front corner bedroom, which was always very cold. One night, when the heat was going full blast, my mom and I took turns testing the vent-- we stood on a chair with our hand to it, to see that it was blowing warm air. It was, up to about 18 inches from the wall, where it suddenly went ice cold. Very odd, but i'm not an electrician, so maybe there's a reason for that. In addition, the bathroom adjacent's light seemed to come on of its own volition, when i was sure i'd turned it off. again, maybe that can be explained, even though it happened when i was alone.
On the other side of the wall from the bedroom was the dining room, whose front wall was lined with windows. One night, i was going to bed around 11 and checking the lights when, from where i was standing in the hallway 10 ft. from the windows, i saw something very bizarre. It appeared to be a long black cloak, like a vampire's or something (for lack of a less cheesy description), hanging from the curtain rod, next to the front door. i stared at it, trying to figure out what kind of a trick of light that could be. but it was definitely too solid to be a trick, so i guessed someone must have hung their coat there (why, who could say) and i turned on the light to check. of course, there was nothing there. "What a wierd shadow," i thought, and flipped off the light. There was no shadow whatsoever this time. Years later i was in a nj library, reading a book about a woman who experienced some stuff in her home-- you can imagine the chill i had when i read that the negative entity there appeared in a long black cloak--
Another time, my dad got mad at me for making noise upstairs (creepy rec room/attic space) when i had been in bed at that time, but maybe that was mice.
Several really bad things happened in the family when living there-- deaths, financial losses, etc.
And something EXTREMELY disturbing that i won't go into because my daughter wants attention. i haven't told many people about it anyways.
Well, there you are.