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So here's the backstory.
During the whole time I lived with my parents (until about 10 years ago, and then 5 more off and on while I was in college), I and other members of my family (my sister, mother) have had what I'll call "strange occurances" at the houses we've lived.
In some cases it was a sudden and overwhelming feeling of unease, where you become acutely aware of a presence nearby where there was not on before. Kind of like when you can tell someone enters a room behind you; a feeling of difference in the air pressure in the room.
In some cases, it was hearing footsteps crunching the carpet in the room as you try to sleep, or pressure on the bed next to you, or the blanket being slowly pulled off of you. Or when you look at your digital alarm clock and realize you can only see half or less of the numbers.
Sometimes it's the feeling of being followed around. Sometimes followed uncomfortably close. On one occassion, I was chased. Sometimes you hear things -- the clicking of heels on tile, or steps on a staircase. Thumping around on above you as if someone was walking around heavily in the room above you (in 2 story houses).
Sometimes, you see it. For me, it was like seeing the air above assphalt on a hot day in reverse; A spot in the room would seem like the air was more condensed than the air around it, and it would move... walk... around. For my sister, she would see the person. Sometimes they would come in the room she was in and sit and look at her.
In both of our cases, it was seeing it not with your eyes, but with your mind's eye. Like you see your daydreams. You get the impression you see it, but you don't REALLY see it. When I was small, I could hear them in the house, saying my name ... over and over and over. It would drive me outside because I couldn't stand it.
Several years ago, there was one place that was particularly bad. People would be pushed around. It would pull on the blankets when you slept. It would poke people in the back of the neck, or pull their hair. You could hear it walking around, and slam doors.
The first day we moved into the house, my sister saw it. He introduced himself to her as Robert, and told her one of the rooms was his. We were still picking rooms so she thought it was one of my friends (they were helping me move) and thought he was joking.
I don't know anyone named Robert.
Fast forward a few years, I've moved out, my sister's moved out, gotten married and had kids. My parents have moved a bit and haven't really had many problems. I haven't had any. My sister hasn't had any.
My youngest nephew, since Christmas, has been acting oddly. I've seen it. My sister and parents have seen it. When he's at my parent's house, he sometimes says, "He isn't going to hurt me, is he?" This is something he says when he meets strangers. Normally we tell him, "No, that's a friend." or "We don't know him." or "He's a nice person."
You know, he's 3 years old. It's something he does. Anyway, he's started asking us that out of the blue. Usually we ask him who, and he'll say:
Him.
For a while each of us dismissed it. We'd say "Him who?" and he'd just say "Him". We figure he's playing or being weird. He's 3. Well, in the last month or two, that's changed.
He started saying it again. A lot. And he won't stay in a room by himself. When he stays at home, he'll play in his room alone. He'll get up in the night and go pee. He's fine. When he stays at my parents house, he won't stay alone. If he falls asleep and you put him in his own bed, away from you, he'll pee in the bed rather than get up. He's scared, all the time. And he constantly wants to know, "Will he hurt me?"
It's disconcerting. But not as disconcerting as what has been going on in the last 3 weeks.
He was at my mom's house, and was talking to my Mom, and suddenly cut off and watched something walk by. Later, he was sitting with my Mom, and did it again, but this time he watched it walk over right next to him, and looked up higher and higher, like when you watch someone walk up to you that is tall. He then got very anxious, not wanting to be alone, crying and pressing up against my Mom. He wanted to know "Is he going to hurt me?"
Finally enough people had seen enough that they started asking questions. They asked who. He said "Him." We showed him some pictures of family members who had died, and he said no and said it's not <insert family member name here>. They kept asking and he kept getting more agitated and pointed and shouted "HIM!"
This has happened regularly since then. My Mom babysits him fairly often. Sometimes he's fine for a few days, but fairly regularly he wants to know if someone who is not there will hurt him. We've told him the person isn't there. He insists he is. He can describe what he looks like. He tells us that it's not a boy, it's a tall man. My nephew gets very agitated whenever he is around.
Yesterday it happened again, and again my Mom told him there was no one there. And again he insisted he was and pointed. My Mom looked and asked who he was talking about -- no one is there. And so my nephew told her.
Robert.
We've never talked about this with my nephew. He's 3 years old. We don't want to scare him. Honestly, I haven't thought about it in a long time, usually only around halloween when people tell ghost stories. But when they told me, it was like a cold chill down my spine.
In any event, we had a family meeting to talk about it. We've all noticed the same behavior but haven't talked much about it until recently. Additionally (and I lend very little credence to this), my parents have talked to people about this before, and have been told there's something in their house.
At the time (late last year), they denied it, saying they've had no problems. Apparently they were told it was there, and that it would make itself known in time, and more than that, it's one that they've had problems with before.
So I dunno. Draw your own conclusions. To me, I don't want my nephew to go through the experiences I went through -- especially if it is the same Robert. It was terrifying at times. Not something to put a 3 year old through.
Apparently something like this happened to my Aunt when she was about the same age... an old couple, a man and a woman, followed her around. She would talk to my grandmother a lot about it, and would be told no one was there. Eventually, my grandmother got tired of it and had my aunt show her exactly where they were.
Then, my grandmother told got on "their" case and told them to leave my Aunt alone, to go away and that they were not welcome and were bothering my Aunt and were causing problems. Supposedly my Aunt never saw them again. My parents are going to try that next time my nephew sees him.
I hope whatever it is, if anything, goes away. I'd hate for them to do that and my nephew to say that it didn't. For my nephew's case, and because it's damn creepy enough as it is. My nephew is an extraordinarily honest kid. He doesn't make up stuff for attention; he's sweet and loving and very genuine. A good kid. I don't think he's making this stuff up, especially given how genuinely agitated he gets and how he will suddenly react. He can be in the middle of talking to you and something will just catch his attention that isn't there and completely cut him off, and he'll get very agitated.
Even worse, I suppose, would be if they tell Robert to go away, and he did... to my nephew's house. :|
Anyway, I know this is a very odd topic and I'm just basically curious if anyone has any insight or experience or suggestions. Even hilarious ones.
During the whole time I lived with my parents (until about 10 years ago, and then 5 more off and on while I was in college), I and other members of my family (my sister, mother) have had what I'll call "strange occurances" at the houses we've lived.
In some cases it was a sudden and overwhelming feeling of unease, where you become acutely aware of a presence nearby where there was not on before. Kind of like when you can tell someone enters a room behind you; a feeling of difference in the air pressure in the room.
In some cases, it was hearing footsteps crunching the carpet in the room as you try to sleep, or pressure on the bed next to you, or the blanket being slowly pulled off of you. Or when you look at your digital alarm clock and realize you can only see half or less of the numbers.
Sometimes it's the feeling of being followed around. Sometimes followed uncomfortably close. On one occassion, I was chased. Sometimes you hear things -- the clicking of heels on tile, or steps on a staircase. Thumping around on above you as if someone was walking around heavily in the room above you (in 2 story houses).
Sometimes, you see it. For me, it was like seeing the air above assphalt on a hot day in reverse; A spot in the room would seem like the air was more condensed than the air around it, and it would move... walk... around. For my sister, she would see the person. Sometimes they would come in the room she was in and sit and look at her.
In both of our cases, it was seeing it not with your eyes, but with your mind's eye. Like you see your daydreams. You get the impression you see it, but you don't REALLY see it. When I was small, I could hear them in the house, saying my name ... over and over and over. It would drive me outside because I couldn't stand it.
Several years ago, there was one place that was particularly bad. People would be pushed around. It would pull on the blankets when you slept. It would poke people in the back of the neck, or pull their hair. You could hear it walking around, and slam doors.
The first day we moved into the house, my sister saw it. He introduced himself to her as Robert, and told her one of the rooms was his. We were still picking rooms so she thought it was one of my friends (they were helping me move) and thought he was joking.
I don't know anyone named Robert.
Fast forward a few years, I've moved out, my sister's moved out, gotten married and had kids. My parents have moved a bit and haven't really had many problems. I haven't had any. My sister hasn't had any.
My youngest nephew, since Christmas, has been acting oddly. I've seen it. My sister and parents have seen it. When he's at my parent's house, he sometimes says, "He isn't going to hurt me, is he?" This is something he says when he meets strangers. Normally we tell him, "No, that's a friend." or "We don't know him." or "He's a nice person."
You know, he's 3 years old. It's something he does. Anyway, he's started asking us that out of the blue. Usually we ask him who, and he'll say:
Him.
For a while each of us dismissed it. We'd say "Him who?" and he'd just say "Him". We figure he's playing or being weird. He's 3. Well, in the last month or two, that's changed.
He started saying it again. A lot. And he won't stay in a room by himself. When he stays at home, he'll play in his room alone. He'll get up in the night and go pee. He's fine. When he stays at my parents house, he won't stay alone. If he falls asleep and you put him in his own bed, away from you, he'll pee in the bed rather than get up. He's scared, all the time. And he constantly wants to know, "Will he hurt me?"
It's disconcerting. But not as disconcerting as what has been going on in the last 3 weeks.
He was at my mom's house, and was talking to my Mom, and suddenly cut off and watched something walk by. Later, he was sitting with my Mom, and did it again, but this time he watched it walk over right next to him, and looked up higher and higher, like when you watch someone walk up to you that is tall. He then got very anxious, not wanting to be alone, crying and pressing up against my Mom. He wanted to know "Is he going to hurt me?"
Finally enough people had seen enough that they started asking questions. They asked who. He said "Him." We showed him some pictures of family members who had died, and he said no and said it's not <insert family member name here>. They kept asking and he kept getting more agitated and pointed and shouted "HIM!"
This has happened regularly since then. My Mom babysits him fairly often. Sometimes he's fine for a few days, but fairly regularly he wants to know if someone who is not there will hurt him. We've told him the person isn't there. He insists he is. He can describe what he looks like. He tells us that it's not a boy, it's a tall man. My nephew gets very agitated whenever he is around.
Yesterday it happened again, and again my Mom told him there was no one there. And again he insisted he was and pointed. My Mom looked and asked who he was talking about -- no one is there. And so my nephew told her.
Robert.
We've never talked about this with my nephew. He's 3 years old. We don't want to scare him. Honestly, I haven't thought about it in a long time, usually only around halloween when people tell ghost stories. But when they told me, it was like a cold chill down my spine.
In any event, we had a family meeting to talk about it. We've all noticed the same behavior but haven't talked much about it until recently. Additionally (and I lend very little credence to this), my parents have talked to people about this before, and have been told there's something in their house.
At the time (late last year), they denied it, saying they've had no problems. Apparently they were told it was there, and that it would make itself known in time, and more than that, it's one that they've had problems with before.
So I dunno. Draw your own conclusions. To me, I don't want my nephew to go through the experiences I went through -- especially if it is the same Robert. It was terrifying at times. Not something to put a 3 year old through.
Apparently something like this happened to my Aunt when she was about the same age... an old couple, a man and a woman, followed her around. She would talk to my grandmother a lot about it, and would be told no one was there. Eventually, my grandmother got tired of it and had my aunt show her exactly where they were.
Then, my grandmother told got on "their" case and told them to leave my Aunt alone, to go away and that they were not welcome and were bothering my Aunt and were causing problems. Supposedly my Aunt never saw them again. My parents are going to try that next time my nephew sees him.
I hope whatever it is, if anything, goes away. I'd hate for them to do that and my nephew to say that it didn't. For my nephew's case, and because it's damn creepy enough as it is. My nephew is an extraordinarily honest kid. He doesn't make up stuff for attention; he's sweet and loving and very genuine. A good kid. I don't think he's making this stuff up, especially given how genuinely agitated he gets and how he will suddenly react. He can be in the middle of talking to you and something will just catch his attention that isn't there and completely cut him off, and he'll get very agitated.
Even worse, I suppose, would be if they tell Robert to go away, and he did... to my nephew's house. :|
Anyway, I know this is a very odd topic and I'm just basically curious if anyone has any insight or experience or suggestions. Even hilarious ones.
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