Short Ghost Stories

#31 Scary Student Digs

This was a house I lived in during my second year of university. A couple days after moving in we chatted to an elderly neighbour who had lived in the neighbourhood for decades and she told us that she couldn't remember anyone living in the house for more than two years, even when it was more of a residential/family neighbourhood than student housing.

The weirdness started in the kitchen. Several time when I was washing dishes I'd see someone come in out of the corner of my eye and hear their footsteps as well. Of course when I turned, there was no one there.

Not long after, one roommate started saying she kept feeling a cat jumping up on her bed and walking around at night (we did not have a cat). A friend who was visiting fell down a few stairs and said she swore she felt someone push her.

Once I was sitting with a roommate and she put her iPod down on the coffee table. I saw her do this. It was gone when she went to pick it up again. We tore apart the whole room looking for it and it had just vanished. It turned up on the couch a month later.

The creepiest incident was when I woke up one morning and my bedside table was two feet away from where it had been. I went downstairs and the first thing my roommate (whose bedroom was next to mine) said was "did you hear the footsteps last night?" She told me she'd heard me go to bed and about an hour later a second set of footsteps climbed up the stairs and into my room, before stopping. The two of us were the only ones home at the time. She never heard anyone leave my room.