Heavy Footsteps
I used to live in a big six-bedroom house by myself. I was there as a hiring perk and to look after the place for my boss, who lived out of state but owned the home. It was a win-win situation.
The first couple of months were fine, but when winter came, I started hearing things coming from the second floor—I almost exclusively lived on the first floor.
It started with little bumps and bangs coming from above, where I had my computer set up, and progressed to distinct footsteps coming and going across the second floor. From time to time, I would go up to the second floor to check things out, and I knew there were unfinished areas up there.
One terrifying place always stuck out. It was an unfinished room similar to a walk-in closet for one of the upstairs bedrooms. The room was completely unlit and attached to the garage attic. When I went up to investigate the noises, I found it open, so I shut the door and locked it.
Two nights later, there were more noises—footsteps leading from the unfinished room to the bathroom—then nothing. The worst part was that the door that led to the unfinished room would not stay closed or locked. I tried everything. Eventually, I pushed the bed up against the door to keep it from opening.
That seemed to work. A few months went by without the door coming open, but I would find it unlocked all the time at the strangest hours. As time passed, it got so much worse. I would hear noises all over the house. Mostly footsteps, but the occasional THUMP with no explanation.
I cannot explain how horrifying it is to hear little taps up and down the hall from the other side of a bathroom door during your morning shower. I eventually moved out, but another employee moved in to take my place.
His stay there only lasted about a month. One morning before work, he was shaving. Then, he heard a SLAM—like someone dropped a heavy stack of books—right outside his bedroom door, followed by the heavy footsteps of someone running down the hall.
He wouldn’t stay there after that, and no one from the company would live in the house either. Story credit: Reddit / iCountFish