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The original was posted on /r/paranormal by /u/DarkShadowReddits on 2025-08-05 01:00:15+00:00.
My girlfriend recently moved into her own house with a friend of hers, one morning when they were at work me and my friend were talking about how creepy the basement is, which contains things left behind by the previous tenants, and her parents as they lived there right before her. There is a weird feeling of being watched and we decided as a joke to put our ear up to the basement door to see if we could hear anything, and what we heard were footsteps sounding like they were at the bottom of the stairs. Because it’s not the best area we opened the door to make sure there wasnt an unwelcomed guest living in the basement as the house sat empty for a week or two other than what’s in the basement, and no one was there
Fast forward about an hour and we were talking about it in the living room (basement is directly below the living room, and bottom of the stairs just about line up with where we were sitting) and I stand up to go grab my phone charger, I immediately sit back down because I felt something smack the floor under me from down in the basement, followed by a knock on the basement door. We decide to give it about 20 minutes before we searched the basement, with no sign of anyone being down there uninvited, windows covered in cobwebs so we knew no one had gone through them. There was however a cup that wasn’t there before, which had something molded in the bottom quarter inch of it. He went to the corner where some of said left over items from previous tenants were and found a black hat with a hand painted pentagram on it. We decided we were going to leave it be and investigate some other time.
Her friend ended up moving out about 4 days ago the light switch at the top of the stairs to the basement has started turning itself on in the middle of the night.
The other morning I heard my dad’s voice call for me from the kitchen, he has never been to that house and the kitchen connects directly to where the basement door is.
The latest update I’ve gotten was from last night where my girlfriend was getting ready for bed and tried to turn off the hallway light with the light switch by her bedroom, it wouldn’t shut the light off so she went to the other end of the hallway to turn it off, when she got to the other switch her cat hissed at the switch by her room and took off running away from it, and the light switch flipped on its own.
If anyone knows any ways to repel something like this, please let me know because I would rather not have a ghost in her house