Someone is into my room at night
 

For the last week I have been awakened every hour on the hour by the sound of someone running into my room. Each time I look around my room and there is nobody there. Within a couple of minutes there is a strong smell of perfume. At first I thought I was dreaming or something but two nights ago it started waking my wife up as well. I'm so tired now after a week of this that I am more annoyed by it than I'm scared by it. This is really the last thing I need to deal with at this point.

Have you been under a lot of stress lately? I understand that can cause very lucid dreams.

If you think it is real, lock your door and windows and see if that stops it. Put some makeshift "alarms" like bells on strings, or tin foil, along the floor.

Did the sounds you hear wake up your wife or did you wake up your wife. If she's hearing the sounds, too, I'd suggest you conduct a thorough search of your living quarters and then set up an actual alarm system.

Set up a video camera. But only if you REALLY want to know.

Perfume eh? Well, try setting up a cot right by the door, and make sure you sleep naked on your back, and the next time this ghost runs in, bang! you have her.

Hopefully she doesn't look like Phyllis Diller, or have some otherworldly STD.

But really, I think the video camera idea is the best, although they have proven to be less than effective when trying to record paranormal events.

A sound recordeing might also be worth a shot. It wont show you what happened, but it will tell you if there is something phbysical happening. If the event happens again, and the tape is blank, it could very well be a dream issue, and I have no suggestions for you if that's the case.

Good luck,
Peace,

Pierre

If you do video it then please post it if its a ghost and if its a hot naked chick then there is always the EZ board.

Lets us know what it was or if it was nothing.

Good luck

That would freak me out beyond belief. Yeah, I'd say go with the camera.

Something tells me that a vid camera and a tape recorder aren't going to do the trick. If you believe in paranormal activity, I'd say that's your answer.

Any news on the noises frogza? Is it just you and your wife in the house/apartment? If so then I would be really freaked out by this unless of course it turns out to be a really vivid dream. Keep us posted.

It's stopped, it hasn't happened for 4 nights now. When it was happening both my wife and I heard the running sound and smelled the perfume but it seems to have stopped. Our dog wouldn't come into the room while it was going on. She would just sit by the door and wait for us, we couldn't even lure her into the room with treats. This morning though she came right in and went to sleep while we were getting ready for the day.

I did a little research hoping to uncover something(Like a death in the house or something similar) but we're only the second owners. I talked to the first owners and they hadn't had anything strange happen while they were living here. So now I have no idea what it was, why it stopped or if it will start again.

That's just too strange man. I have two words for you that would work for me though.

The first is SCOTCH.

The Second is MOVE.

Anyway, I hope that you get sme rest, and that whatever was doing whatever it was doing has finished. Good Luck.

Peace,

Pierre

I don't really remember this happening as I was only 4 years old at the time but.....

I use to live in a place called Santry in Dublin, Ireland. My Grandfather was in Hospital, dying. He was 67 years old. For the last 2 or 3 weeks I had gotten into the habit of waking up at 4:45am, going into my mothers room and telling her I needed to go pee pee. She had to stand outside the bathroom door as I had a fear of the dark(what 4 year old wasn't?) Anyway, upon returning to my bedroom and my Mother to her's, my Mother heard me screaming, a real shrill scream. Total fear (or so I've been told). When she ran into my room I was shivering in the corner saying "there was an old man looking in my bedroom window" (third floor window) A short time later my Mother got the phone call that her Father, my Grandfather, had died at 4:45am give or take a minute or two.

There was one other incident that happened to me, when I was much older, only about 10 years ago, which I remember as clearly as I remember yesterday but I don't think I'm ready to talk about that just yet.

A friend of mine used to live in this really old house. He was renting a room for an older man. The old man said that gnomes lived in the house and they stole stuff. My friend never had a problem with the gnomes but the old man was always going on about how they stole something. Few months later, my friend got an apartment.

A very good friend of mine lives alone in an apartment. The other morning, she said she was more scared than she'd ever been in her life. She said she woke up at 7:00 am to the sound of someone panting really loud, and FELT someone laying beside her. Actually, felt the pressure against the outside of her calf. She said there was definitely an angry air about the room, and she couldn't open her eyes...so she just laid there until she couldn't hear it or feel it anymore. The very next night, she said she woke up coughing and sputtering like someone was trying to choke her.

I definitely believe it could be a spirit and told her she should check with her apartment manager and see if someone died there. She's been there almost a year, and I think it's possible that it could be about the time he/she died. She said she really doesn't want to know if someone died there, and if it continues she will just move.

It's all very bizarre, but very interesting too.

ninnycode, that is really freaky. REALLY freaky. For some reason the fact that it happened at 7 in the morning makes it freakier.

I only go into Tilted Paranoia about once a month... then I get freaked out and don't come back until I forget why I left in the first place.

See ya guys in February.

I think that you should put some thumbtacks on the floor....then that bastard will stop running into your room!!

Seen Amityville? When that dude said "Get Out" They weren't kidding. That is some freaky stuff!

This thread made me start freaking out at night, honestly I think all this stuff is just in our heads. Just a more mature version of monsters in the closet and boogeymen... etc. etc.

now i cant get that damn ghostbusters theme out of my head....
who ya gonna call?....... GHOSTBUSTERS!

sounds like the old hag. Old Hag

Actually, ninnycode, one of the mechanisms of sleep is partial paralysis of the body, so that our bodies don't act out our dreams in our sleep. It sounds like your friend may have been having a nightmare she had tried to wake from before the sleep mechanism wore off. That would explain her being unable to open her eyes as well as feeling a "pressure" (caused by her trying to move her muscles and being unable to.)

REM Paralysis
 

My first post here, but I have some info to share. I've done quite a bit of research myself on things of this nature. What may have happened is something called REM paralysis. Basically it occurs when you are in the zone between being awake and asleep. Your body is asleep but your brain is still awake. It could happen either right when you go to sleep or when your waking up at some point. Usually you start to panic because you feel like someone is grabbing you, or you even see someone approaching you and attacking you.

Personally the reason I researched this was because it was happening to me almost every other night at one point in my life. It was a stressful time in my life so I think that had a direct effect on the occurance. There were times when I'd be laying in bed and feel the presence of someone about to enter the room and I'd actually hear noise. I'd start to become very scared when I noticed I couldn't move at all. I'd try to scream but nothing happened. Sometimes this would last up to 5 minutes until I finally gained control. Other times I'd just see weird alien like beings approach me and stare at me and while I was in pain, yet I couldn't do anything. At the time I was really freaked out because I didn't understand what it was and I thought I was actually seeing ghosts or aliens. I'm still a little freaked out by it but atleast I'm pretty sure it wasn't real, just all in my head. Hope this helps out some people. I'd like to hear some similar stories from others too.

I highly suggest setting up a video camera and just letting it run. Point the camera in the direction where the sound/smell is coming from. You might even be able to catch it on tape. Good luck...

It's back. Last night it started at 1:00. The second time was at 2:00 and my wife decided to go to a different room to sleep. I told her I'd join her later, I went and drank a Mtn. Dew and grabbed a book and decided I'd wait till 3:00 to see if I could see something come in. Right at 3:00 I heard the running start in the hallway and come into the room. As soon as the sound cleared my doorway it stopped and the door slammed shut. I didn't see anything, but I cleared out of the room pretty quick. I'm not ashamed to admit I was scared. We heard the running still going into the room from the room we were in every hour for the rest of the night.

This morning when we went into the room to get ready the blankets and sheet were all shoved up to the head of the bed. My wife won't go back in the room, she had me bring her clothes out and put them in the other room. Our dog won't even come upstairs now. I'm more than a little freaked out too. I've been trying all day to focus on other things because as soon as I think about it I get chills up my back, but finally I decided to face it by writing it here. So, any ideas?

do the camera thing. Or gets some friends and have then wait with you, and then search it out together.

that's very spooky. A lot of people here suggest that you put up a camera or something. I highly recommend that you do this also. I think it might just be your dog running in and out of the room. That might be it.

Please record it and post a video, i want to see it!

kinda funny you mentioned your dog not wanting to go upstairs. does your dog bark at the room or anything?

i had issues in a house i lived at and i swear my dog was sensitive to it. sometimes he'd stand at the foot of the stairs, all his hair on end and barking and growling like crazy. he was not a barker and up until we moved into that house i could have counted on one hand how many times i'd heard him growl over the years. sometimes it matched up with other weird happenings, sometimes not. but i'm convinced he saw or felt something there even when we didn't. once we moved, his barking and growling habits returned to normal.

i also suggest a video camera, or at least an audio recorder. if you can't do that, have some friends stay over. at least if they hear it too you and your wife won't start wondering if you are nuts!

Another long night last night. We slept(as much as possible) in another room. Still every hour the running starts in the hall and ends in our room. I shut the door before we went to bed hoping that would help things but to no avail. I talked my brother into coming over tonight and my wife is going to his house with my sister in law. We'll both have cameras and will try to snap some pics as the sound starts. I'll post them if we get anything. At this point though I'm more interested in stopping it than documenting it.

Wow... Maybe you should investigate hiring a Priest or somethin... So what does the perfume smell like? Have you ever heard this noise before you actually fell asleep?

Scary Stuff

Sell the house dude... not worth getting a new Horror movie made from a slightly true story....

Just wanted to point this user towards another thread if he is still interested:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...leep+paralysis

Not trying to hijack here, sorry about your problem man, I don't know what to tell you except move if it affects your life too much. I think that's what I would do. Either that or call the short lady withthe strange voice from Poltergeist to come in and do some weird shit.

I have had some of the same feelings. my wife thinks i'm nuts but I ear someone else in the room from time to time

I believe you . . . it's real. I am sorry . . . what a thing to go through :eek: . . . Move out or if you don't want to move . . . contact a paranormal individual who will work with this issue . . It needs to be dealt with . . .

i am sorry! poor guy!

Sweetpea

I'm done, we're moving. I'm meeting with a friend of mine today that manages apartments and we'll be sleeping there tonight. The house goes up for sale today as well, though I'm tempted to just burn the thing down.

Last night was the worst night of my life, no details right now, I don't even want to think about it. Thanks all.

C'mon frogza!!! No pics or anything?!? How can you sleep at night knowing you're letting down the whole paranoia board...

...well I guess hearing footsteps would have something to do with that. :D

Good for you!! You have to do what is best for yourself and your family . . . that is just plain scary . . . !! :eek: Let us know if you want to talk about what happened . .. we can be here to support you . . . i am so sorry about what is going on . . . but i am glad that you are deciding to move! just as a note . . . are you sure it's attatched to the house? Or did you buy a peice of antique furniture or anything??

again, let us know what happens . .. we're here for you! :icare: :icare:

sweetpea

tres creepy. moving sounds like a very good plan, no matter what the cause of this crap is.

i figure i'd share my similar scary story, too: last night my two most recent exes walked in my unlocked back door and came into my room (both drunk) and watched me sleep for a while. not scared, but it was kinda weird. i didn't know it happened at all until they told me.

I won't believe this story until I see video of it happening. Otherwise i'm going throw this into the hoax category.

Sounds a bit whacky to me.

Kinda freaky and, as I don't believe this is happening in reality (how could it?), it must be a psychological thing. As someone else asked, are you under a lot of stress lately?
Not questioning your sanity! If you believe this is happening, them something must be happening. But it's most likely some dream related occurance.

Mr Mephisto

As much as I want to believe the story, until I see some sort of proof, I would have to say its a hoax as well...

Glad someone else said it. At first I believed it, but with each post afterward, I was having my doubts. If that same crap was happening to me. I would find out what it was, call the cops, get some friends. I wouldn't just sit around night after night. I'm chicken shit, but even this chicken shit has his limits.

I dunno, I wouldn't call the cops, ghostbusters maybe. Since there was a sound I would at least get a tape recorder and try to capture the noise. If possible I'd video tape as well. Capturing paranormal activity on tape could get you some cash. Deciding to sell your home so quickly seems a little odd. Things would have to get pretty heavy before I sold my home without even TRYING some other solutions. Good story though, gave me the willies!

First three things I would check out:
1. Attic. Maybe the running sound is actually above you and somebody(or an animal) likes running through your attic.
2. Pipes. It could be a noisy pipe under the floor with air trapped in it, possibly hitting against the floor itself.
3. The Dog. Can you be sure that the dog is downstairs, and not running into your room then hiding under the bed or something? It might be a rat doing the same thing too.

Of course your comment about the door shutting goes against all this, unless your door moves around from any slight vibration. Also I don't see these things are emulating the sound of running human footsteps very well, but you never know how your mind might play tricks on you at night when you are scared. As for the perfume, I have no idea.

as cool as it'd be for this to be real, I simply can't believe it unless there's proof we see proof (which there should be apparently). I'm gonna have to call hoax as well.

I used to get this all the time as a little kid. I'd never tried researching it before, but your post sounds just like it. I'd have a nightmare but I wouldn't be able to open my eyes. I'd have to physically take my fingers and force my eyelids open. Could be paralysis due to sleep, or fear I guess.

Of course, one time I lifted my arms to open my eyes and someone/thing grabbed my arms at the wrist and squeezed real hard. I could feel the nails digging into my skin. I didn't open my eyes, I just put my arms down and lay there for probably a half hour before I could work up the nerve to look.

Years later I figure it must've been my mom thinking she was being funny, but she's never admitted it. Quite the opposite actually, she rather vehemently denies doing it.

I would like to know what happened if you aer able to tell us frogza.

I don't give a damn about proof right now, I just want to know what happened. C'mon don't leave me hangin like that...

Hey Frogza let us know what is going on. The TF is a place where friends can talk. Just want to know if everything is okay. Take it easy.

Ditto . . . where is Frogza?? :| Now we're going to have to start a new thread to debate where oh where he might have gone . . . ??? Frogza . . . do tell . . . is everything okay with ya?

Thank you for the concern, we're renting an apartment while the house is up for sale. Nothing strange has happened here, so I hope that means that it is all behind us now.

The last night there was terrible. My brother and I sat in a room at the opposite end of the hall from my bedroom. All the lights were off except a small night light in the room we were in. We each had a camera so we could try and get a picture when we heard the running start. We were just about ready to bag the whole thing and leave. Honestly I was begining to wonder if maybe it had all been in my head, I had to keep telling myself that my wife had heard it to and my dog seemed to sense something as well. Anyway, 2 am rolled around and we heard the running start. At that moment everything went dark, like I had put on sun glasses. The light was still on, I could even see the lights from outside through the window but it all seemed darker. I have never been so scared in all my life. All I could think about was getting out, but I couldn't move. I heard my brother kind of gasping, like he was having trouble breathing. He told me the next day that he heard me doing it as well.

It seemed like that lasted forever but it was probably only a matter of seconds. Finally it seemed to be easing off and as soon as we could we got up and left the house. Once we got outside we realized we were drenched in sweat, and my brothers nose was bleeding. We got in the car and went to my brothers house and told our wives what had happened. That night my wife and I decided to move.

I haven't really wanted to think about it so I have been avoiding this forum and thread. I wish I had pictures or recordings for those who want them but my desire to survive far outweighed my desire to document the whole thing.

It is good to hear from you frogza, I'm glad everything is going better, even though that is because you are pretty much out of the house. That is crazy you have no reason to lie and that is what scares me about your story because it isn't hyped up. It is just a regular story, but a few scary parts, I do believe in things in limbo, but I just hope I don't have to discover that in person. Take it easy.

Holy shit, this just became the most chilling, spine tingling story I've ever read. I'm glad you're out of there. I wonder if you/we can contact some sort of para-normal type researchers to check that place out. People in that field may be very interested in your experience. Glad you and the family are safe man. When you put more time/distance between yourself and these occurences maybe you can post more details. I know I speak for everyone else following your thread when I say that I would love to learn more about it.

-Dost

Don't worry Frogza, no one wants to believe something that scares the poopie out of them. I believe you and think you're right to move! Sweetpea is right though, it could be attached to an antique recently purchased. If so, Don't take it with you to your new house. There are professional paranormal investigators out there who may help. I hope this doesn't follow you to your new home!! Good luck. If you ever want to talk about it, you have more than a few receptive people here to support you.

Thanks Frogza for getting back to us . . .(whew!) Glad to know that things are going to be okay for you . . .
I wonder if you have to warn the future owners of this issue?? Is there anything legally binding that you have to warn of a ghost? :hmm: I don't think so . . . but it sucks for the next owners . .

I think moving was probably the best thing for you to do esp. under the circumstances . . . this has probably changed alot of things for you in your life . . . if you want to talk.... we're here . . . :icare:

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I hope it all works out for ya' frog.

BTW, does an owner/seller have to disclose to the real estate agent that there may be some paranormal activity in the house?

LOL....good one. Unless its a ghost then it might not work on a ghost.

Have you thought about getting the ghost hunters in to debunk your place. :)
Debunking time.

Call a police station. It doesn't matter how crazy it may seem but they will come out to investigate. Because I am agnostic and believe in only that I see (I do have faith in that I shouldn't believe though).

However my friend takes a different stance--he believes very much so in the paranormal. I had an experience that just wasn't fucking normal. The only similarity between you an I Frogza is that my friend may be right. He believes that everything paranormal is human based; that we can manifest these occurances at (and even against our) will. I happen to agree with him on that. Something may be happening in your house that you are unaware off. Some part of your inner mind is warning you of something that your conscious mind cant or wont acknowledge.

Move out for now, maybe get an air ionizer if it would make you feel better(same thing that any "ghostbuster" would use). Later come back and tell what it is. After that, call a "paranormal" investigator. If nothing else they will make efforts to find out what is going on. Stay frosty and sleep tight now.

If your wife is hearing the sounds and smelling the perfume also, then something is wrong. It could be that you have been under a lot of stress lately, it's possible that your mind could be playing tricks, but who knows, maybe it's something more serious.

My fiance says she sometime sees a man with a white baseball cap standing behind the wall of the hallway, and peeking his head into our bedroom. The dog goes crazy, and barks loudy... I don't see it.. but we have only been in the apartment 3 months.... crazy though.....