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The original was posted on /r/paranormal by /u/idk_11140 on 2025-07-02 19:24:21+00:00.
Okay for some context I am 17 and my parents have been split up since I was around 4 years old. My mother lives in town right next to my school so I stay at her house during the week and go to my Dad’s house on the weekends. Now that summer has started i’m at my Dads a lot more and am starting to notice these instances happening more frequently.
To give some background, my Dad lives about 20 minutes outside of town in the middle of nowhere. Like I’m talking we are the only house on our street. He bought this house around 2 years ago and we had an interesting experience quite literally the day he moved in. The house is outside of a very small town with only one restaurant, so the day we moved in we thought to go and try it as it would be the only place to get takeout in the area.
The second we go in and sit down our waitress somehow clocks that we’re new to the area and asks what brings us to town. We told her that we had just moved in to a place nearby and gave her the road number. She immediately “Oh the old red house?” and says the address. Shocked, we tell her yes and asked how she knew. She said that she used to live in that same house a while back with her husband, but sadly he had lost his battle with depression and she had to move out. We gave our condolences and ordered our food. Later when she came back to the table, she mentioned that near the end of her husbands life (when things had gotten bad) she would leave little notes around the house to remind him that she loved him. We thought it was sweet and carried on a short conversation with her, ate our food, then left. When we got back to the house I started to look around to get used to the place and when I walked out into the shop in the back of the garage I noticed a little heart drawn on the door with the words “Jack n Jodi” written inside it. I showed my dad and he took a picture of it. We drove back to the restaurant and showed it to her and assured her that we would leave it alone and wouldn’t get rid of it. She started crying and gave my dad a hug and that was that.
After that we went back to the restaurant plenty times and quite literally never saw her again. Whether it was a chance encounter or something else I’m not sure, but that is the most tame experience to come out of moving into this house.
Now to clarify, the inside of the house isn’t the problem, it’s the outside. My dad and I have both mentioned that we feel a presence in the house, but it’s not anything scary or malicious. Matter of fact, it’s a calming presence and seems to be protective of the house. Whereas outside of the house is actually terrifying. I began to notice I would get a really bad gut feeling anytime I was out there alone during the night time (which is a lot given my dad works from 4PM to 4AM). There are 2 windows in the house that don’t have drapes and whenever i’d be near them i could feel eyes on me, but I didn’t start seriously worrying about these feelings until one day around 8PM while my dad was at work.
I was home alone watching TV with the dog like usual until she jolted up off the sofa and began barking like crazy. I followed her to see what the deal was and she ran straight to the door and started losing it, quite literally shaking and foaming at the mouth. My dog is very friendly and chill so I was really confused as to what her problem was. But then I heard knocking. Loud intentional knocking. We live in a place that is so secluded it is impossible to accidentally stumble upon our house. I was confused about who would be at our house at this hour, given my dad is never home at this time, and then I heard talking. Something that sounded exactly like me began to talk as it continued to knock on the door.
“Hey dude it’s me let me in. I don’t know where my key is man open the door.” I have never been more horrified in my entire life. Hearing my own voice call out to me shook me to my core. I stood there frozen for a solid 30 seconds before grabbing the dog and literally dragging her away from the door. I hid in my room with the volume on my TV all the way up until it stopped and even then, I didn’t leave my room.
This was just one, more severe instance. On the more tame end of things it’s common to hear tapping on windows, random thumping outside, and odd vocal sounding noises once it’s gotten dark out. It feels like whatever is out there is desperately trying to find a way inside the house. I consulted a friend of mine who works at a holistic store and she recommended I put selenite on top of each doorway that leads outside of the house and black tourmaline in all four corners of the house and I did both. I still hear things like this outside and have heard knocking on the door since then, but never anything inside the house.
Does anyone know what this might be or how to handle it?