Michigan Apartment


I'M 19 YRS OLD AND LIVE WITH MY BOYFRIEND IN AN APARTMENT IN MICHIGAN. 

WE BOTH BELIEVE THAT OUR PLACE IS HAUNTED. 

NEITHER OF US HAVE SEEN AN ACTUAL GHOST BUT WE THINK OUR CATS DO! NOW 
I'VE HEARD THAT ANIMALS CAN SENSE THE PRESENCE OF GHOSTS AND I TRULY 
BELIEVE IT NOW! 

THIS IS NOT A BONE CHILLING STORY BUT IT GOT US BOTH TO BELIEVE IN 
GHOSTS. IT ALL STARTED A COUPLE MONTHS AFTER WE MOVED IN. WE ARE ON 
THE SECOND FLOOR AND HAVE A SLIDING GLASS DOOR WITH A WOODEN BALCONY. 

WE ARE ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE BUILDING SO OUR VIEW IS JUST OF THE 
PARKING LOT, THERE IS A DOOR TO GET IN RIGHT NEXT TO THE ROOM BELOW 
US SO WHEN WE ARE WATCHING TV. 

ON THE COUCH (THE COUCH IS ALMOST FACING THE SLIDING GLASS DOOR TO 
THE BALCONY) WE CAN SEE EVERYONE WHO COMES IN OR LEAVES (IF THE 
BLINDS ARE OPEN.) 

NOW ANYONE WHO HAS LIVED IN AN APARTMENT KNOWS THAT THE WALLS ARE 
VERY THIN, YOU CAN HEAR OTHER PEOPLES PHONES RING AND EVERTHING, 
WHICH WE TOOK INTO CONSIDERATION. 

THE DOOR TO GET INTO THE BUILDING HAS A DISTINCT SOUND WHERE EVEN 
IF YOU WEREN'T LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW YOU WOULD KNOW IF SOMEONE WAS 
LEAVING OR ENTERING, SO WE ALWAYS LOOK OUT OF CURIOUSITY TO SEE WHO 
IT MIGHT BE. 

WELL WE STARTED NOTICING THAT WE WOULD HEAR THE DOOR OPEN AND WHEN 
WE LOOKED OUT NO ONE WOULD BE THERE, SO WE THOUGHT SOMEONE PROBABLY 
RAN IN REAL FAST AND WE JUST DIDN'T SEE THEM APPROACHING THE DOOR. 

THEN WE WOULD HEAR THE DOOR OPEN AND WHEN WE LOOKED OUT IT WOULD BE 
STANDING OPEN AS IF SOMEONE WAS HOLDING THE DOOR FOR SOMEONE ELSE 
BUT NO ONE WAS EVER THERE. THIS HAPPENED A COUPLE TIMES BUT WE JUST 
LET IT GO NOT KNOWING WHAT TO THINK. 

NO BIG DEAL, WE THOUGHT! THEN WE BOUGHT TWO CATS (HOUSEWARMING 
PRESENTS TO OURSELVES!) EVERYTHING WAS FINE AT FIRST BUT THEN AFTER 
THEY GOT A LITTLE OLDER WE NOTICED THEY WOULD DO REALLY WEIRD THINGS. 
AT NIGHT WHEN WE WOULD BE WATCHING TV. 

WITH ALL THE LIGHTS OFF, AND THEY WOULD BOTH SIT ON THE COFFEE TABLE 
AND STARE UP WHERE THE WALL AND CEILING MEET MEOWING AND SOMETIMES 
HISSING. WE WOULD LOOK TO WHERE THEY STARE AT THINKING MAYBE THEY 
SEE SOME LIGHT REFLECTION FROM THE TV. 

OR SOMETHING BUT NOTHING. ALSO A COUPLE TIMES WHILE HOME ALONE,& THE 
CATS SLEEPING ON THE COFFEE TABLE, ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY BOTH JUMP UP 
SCARED OUT OF THERE MIND, HAIR STANDING ON END, WITH THEIR TAILS ALL 
POOFED OUT LOOKING ALL AROUND THEM AS IF SOMEONE SNUCK UP BEHIND THEM, 
YELLED AND SCARED THEM AWAKE. 

THEY HAVE DONE THIS A COUPLE TIMES ALREADY TO WHERE I THINK THEY FEEL 
SOMETHING ELSE IN THIS HOUSE. NOW THIS USUALLY HAPPENS AT NIGHT, THEY 
WILL BOTH SIT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LIVING ROOM AND WHILE UP ON THEIR 
BACK PAWS WILL SWAT AT THE AIR, NOT AT EACH OTHER JUST INTO THE AIR. 

THE FIRST TIME I SEEN THEM DO THIS I THOUGHT THERE WAS A BUG BUT THEY 
DO THIS ALMOST EVERY NIGHT LIKE SOMEONE IS PLAYING WITH THEM, SWINGING 
YARN AT THEM OR SOMETHING, THEIR HEADS EVEN MOVE BACK AND FORTH AND 
THEIR PAWS SWAT AT SOMETHING! 

ANOTHER THING NOT REALLY HAVING TO DO WITH THE CATS, AFTER WE TURN ALL 
THE LIGHTS AND TV. OFF AND GO TO BED WHILE LYING IN BED WE HEAR THE TV. 
TURN ON, NO LIGHTS, JUST THE TV. AFTER A COUPLE NIGHTS OF THIS HAPPENING 
WE LOOKED AT THE TV. MANUAL THINKING THE TV. HAD AN ALARM SET BUTTON 
WHERE YOU COULD SET IT KIND OF LIKE AN ALARM CLOCK TO TURN ON AT A 
CERTAIN TIME BUT WE FOUND NOTHING ALONG THOSE LINES. 

THE LAST THING THAT SCARED ME A LITTLE MORE THAN I WAS COMFORTABLE WITH 
WAS WITH A POSTER I HAVE. ON A SATURDAY I DECIDED TO HANG SOME PICTURES 
ON THE WALLS, SINCE WE HAD FINALLY BOUGHT SOME NAILS AND A HAMMER. 

I HAVE ONE OF THOSE FLAGS THAT YOU HANG OUTSIDE ON YOUR PORCH FROM A POLE. 
WELL I HUNG IT UP ON A CLOSET DOOR, PUTTING IT AS FAR TO THE TOP OF THE 
DOOR AS I COULD REACH SO THE CATS WOULD NOT TEAR IT DOWN. I ACTUALLY 
STOOD ON A CHAIR TO HAMMER THE NAILS IN THE TOP.

 IT WAS A FABRIC MATERIAL, NOT LIKE A PAPER POSTER. I JUST HAMMERED THE 
NAILS RIGHT THROUGH THE FABRIC (WHICH TOOK SOME HARD POUNDING TO GET THE 
NAILS IN THE THICK WOOD DOOR.)

 I NAILED THEM ALMOST ALL THE WAY TO THE HEAD OF THE NAIL BUT NOT QUITE 
ALL THE WAY TOUCHING THE DOOR.

 WHEN MY BOYFRIEND CAME HOME FROM WORK HE COMMENTED ON IT BECAUSE IT WAS 
WINNIE THE POOH AND HE TOLD ME TO TAKE IT DOWN (IT WAS TOO BABYISH I 
GUESS!) I SAID NO AND WE LEFT FOR A NIGHT OUT.

 WHEN WE GOT HOME NOT THINKING ANYTHING OF THE POSTER I WENT STRAIGHT TO 
THE BATHROOM WHEN I CAME INTO THE LIVING ROOM HE WAS SITTING ON THE COUCH 
WATCHING TV., 

I LOOKED OVER AND THE FLAG WAS HANGING DOWN STILL NAILED AT THE BOTTOM 
AND THE NAILS WHERE OUT OF THE TOP LIKE SOMEONE TOOK THEM OUT. 

I THOUGHT HE RIPPED IT DOWN WHILE I WAS IN THE BATHROOM BECAUSE OF THE 
COMMENT EARLIER THAT DAY BUT HE SWEARS IT WAS LIKE THAT AS SOON AS HE GOT IN.

THE WEIRD THING WAS THE TWO TOP NAILS WHERE LAYING ON THE FLOOR IN FRONT OF 
THE CLOSET DOOR AS IF THEY WHERE JUST SET THERE (THEY WHERE ON THE GROUND 
BUT THEY WHERE LAYING SPREAD OUT FROM EACH OTHER IN THE SPOTS WHERE THEY 
SHOULD BE IF THEY WHERE IN THE DOOR.)

 I KNOW THE CATS DID NOT PULL THIS DOWN BECAUSE 

#1 THEY WOULD OF PLAYED WITH THOSE NAILS AND THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN JUST 
LYING IN FRONT OF THE DOOR. 

AND #2 THOSE NAILS WHERE IN THERE SO TIGHT I COULD BARELY GET THEM IN WITH 
THE HAMMER HOW COULD A CAT PULL THEM OUT? 

I DIDN'T HANG IT BACK UP I JUST THREW IT AWAY! WE MAY NEVER SEE ANYTHING 
BUT I KNOW MY CATS SEE SOMETHING, BUT IT OBVIOUSLY IS NOT MEAN IF IT 
WILL SIT THERE AND PLAY WITH THEM AT NIGHT AND KEEP THEM OCCUPIED!