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Richmond, Va
2016-2019
Just found this website so I have tons of stories from when I lived here that were witnessed by others.
When I first moved there, I moved in with a friend who was already living there. Whenever I visited in the past, I sensed that whatever was there didn't really like me, but when I moved in it was more tolerated for me to be there. I only lived there for a year, but my roommate was there for 3. She's a current roommate now and we don't have any experiences like this in our current apartment.
So, first our front door would swing open and closed by itself if it wasn't locked. I checked for anything that would debunk this like any wind or even the building swaying, but I've asked it to open and close and it definitely responded to it. Our bedroom doors often unlocked and opened by themselves. I've woken to my bedroom door doing this.
I had a LOT of out of body experiences here? Much more than any other place I've lived. I've had dreams of wandering around the city and noticing some people who could see me and others who were just living their life. I've had items disappear and when I asked for them back, they'd show up.
My cats would react to things there that I'd see. The main one that was terrifying was feeling like something was in the hallway and peering at me in my room. I was spending the day cleaning and both of my cats were in my bedroom with me so I had the door open. I didn't pay it much mind at first because I had felt stuff similarly, but then my cats started acting afraid and wouldn't leave my room. I got really worried that they had heard something or maybe something was happening in the hallway outside of the whole apartment, but they both started growling and my cat Pepper was on the bed when she fluffed up. My cat Ra hid under my Papasan chair.
I started getting visions of it and gore oozing from the walls, which sounds so run of the mill, but it's the only time I've ever had something like this. It was short and I don't remember exactly what it looked like anymore because it's been 5 years or so, but I remember it peeking around my doorway. I didn't see it when I looked AT the doorway, but in flashes with the walls. It was pretty terrifying and I had to call my roommates.
It was broad daylight.
I've also had my old roommates hear ME when it definitely wasn't. One instance one of them was taking a shower, heard me knock on the door and tell her that I needed to use the bathroom. She came out when she was done and knocked on my bedroom door, woke me up, and told me I could use the bathroom, to which I was obviously confused by because I was just taking a nap. She still doesn't believe that it wasn't me and thought I was messing with her.
For some reason I could never look directly into the kitchen during the night and had to shield my face when walking by. My cats would get spooked pretty often in general. Me and my roommates would often hear sounds- one time we heard our dish dryer fall and dishes break, but when we went to check nothing had happened. My cats reacted to this and we all heard it from the kitchen.
One thing to note was that there were only windows on two sides of our apartment. I was in my room, which was the corner room- it has windows on two sides and I heard NOTHING outside. It came from the kitchen. My roommate's room was right next to the kitchen and also heard nothing from outside, but from the kitchen. I checked outside just in case a car had maybe crashed and I also checked in the hallway, but there was nothing.
Me and a long distance friend did experience the same feeling one time and we were texting each other upset. We got on the phone and described what we were feeling- it felt like someone was literally dying and saying goodbye. So that was weird.
Lots of little individual accounts of hearing stuff and witnessing stuff. I try not to count those as much because I have nothing to back it up.
My cat Pepper got out one time when ALL of us were gone. I came home and was going to head up in the elevator when she ran up to me from the basement where the laundry is. I was completely horrified and this could have been a case where one of us let her out and didn't see, but I at least said goodbye to both of them when I left for work so I know it wasn't me.
Lots of deja vu, but I tend to experience that all the time anyway. I have other stories of Richmond that I'll add to other parts on the map- I think Richmond is just one of those places.
That's all I have from what I can remember!
Submitted by:
Jessica Guajardo