Okay. So, I moved into this house about six months ago. I got it for really cheap because the previous owner died (natural causes) and it wasn't in that great of shape. Since I'm poor, but felt like I wanted a place to call my own, I didn't really care. A home is a home, right? I moved in as soon as the loan went through and lived there about a month before the first things started to happen. The first thing I heard was whispering. It was always just quiet that I couldn't make it out, but loud enough that I could definitely make out that someone was whispering. I could usually pin it above me, but it's a one story home and there's nothing above me at all, just the roof. There is an attic but it doesn't extend over the entire home. The whispering continued for a couple of nights, and each time It started I would sneak around the inside and outside of the house trying to catch somebody (I thought I was being screwed with). Then one day it stopped, and nothing happened for about a week.
Then, around the time that I had owned the home for officially two months, I was watching TV and heard something in the kitchen. You can see the kitchen from the living room, there's a door frame but no door. I had just made myself some popcorn and, being me, had left the light on. I turned down the TV and looked back there but didn't see anything. Since there was nothing there, and I didn't feel like getting up to see what had fallen over, I just went back to the TV. A few minutes later the volume started to go up for no reason, to the point where it reached it's max. I couldn't turn it down so I turned it off. In the sudden black of the screen I could see the reflection of the kitchen doorway, and there was a silhouette of a person standing there. I was home alone.
I have a gun in my house, but I keep it in the nightstand drawer in my bedroom, and since I didn't have any other weapons I grabbed my remote and threw it as hard as I fucking could--but there wasn't anything there. I looked back at the TV and sure enough the shadow was gone. I knew someone was there so I called the cops. They looked around but they didn't find any signs that anyone had been there but me, and there wasn't much they could do about it so they told me to call if I heard or saw anything else and left. I didn't call them back though, not after what I saw next.
That night the whispering started again, but this time it was louder. I still couldn't make it out but it was enough to keep me awake. It seemed to be saying the same thing over and over and over again. Almost like a chant. Then, like last time, it stopped. It stopped for about another week.
In that time, I woke up in the middle of the night. I usually sleep straight through the night so this was pretty strange. I just felt uneasy and sick to my stomach. I went into the bathroom to piss and did so without incident, but when I passed the mirror I saw it. There was a man next to the toilet, watching me. He was about six foot I guess, completely nude, and didn't really have any facial features to speak of. He had these really small beady eyes, two slits for a nose, and a really long, thin mouth. He was completely emaciated, like a fucking holocaust victim, and almost looked like he had been burned. All down his body were these cuts full of maggots and his skin was peeling. I'll never forget that, because even though I had just pissed it was the first time since I was six that I pissed my pants, and the first time I have ever screamed out of fear.
I left that night and checked into a hotel. The clerk almost didn't give me a room because I came in with only my lounge pants on but I convinced him that I really couldn't go back home, and after some talking and a bit of bribing he gave me a room. I stayed away from the house for two days before I couldn't afford a room anymore and went back. It was at this point that I called the first psychic. He told me to just pray and tell the man to go away, go toward the light and all of that shit. I could've almost strangled the bastard.
I did what he said though. That night I sat in my living room with all of the lights on and got on my knees and I prayed. Now, I'm an agnostic. I haven't prayed in seventeen years. But I prayed to the Christian God and I prayed damned hard. I got an answer, but it wasn't from a God at all, it was a voice right behind me. It was low and scratchy and strained, and all it said was "Mine." Then I felt this sharp pain in my back that lasted for a good ten seconds and left me writhing on the floor. When I was able to stand I looked in the mirror and scratched into my back were the words "All Mine."
I got on the phone and I called a fucking priest.
Finding a priest into this kind of shit is hard. Most of them just tried to convince me to come to their church or ask for forgiveness, and most of them told me that I hadn't prayed hard enough. There were like five catholic churches in the phone book, and the second to last one was actually legit. I got on the phone with a man, I'll call him 'father priest'. Father priest told me he'd be over immediately, and told me to get out of the house until he got there.
He only took about fifteen minutes, and we stood on my porch while I filled him in on what had happened. He'd been in town for several years, but he hadn't know the previous owner or done anything like this in the neighborhood. He told me stuff like this didn't happen very often anymore, because most of the 'real' cases were solved by fake psychics and everyone went along their merry way. As you already know, when I invited him in he stopped at the doorway and shook his head, and just looked at me and said "No. This is his. He doesn't want me here. He can't hurt me but he can hurt you. I'm sorry. I'd recommend moving."
I told him I was too poor to move again. He gave me a pitiful look and shook his head, said a quick prayer, and walked away. I followed him to his car, and as he was getting in he told me to hire another psychic. He knew one that he could vouch for. He gave me her name and told me to look her up. So I did.
I crashed at a friends house and called the psychic, and she came the next day. Like the priest, we stood on the porch and talked about what had happened and I filled her in on everything. She told me that it was almost like a barrier was around the house. She couldn't see in, and she didn't want to go through it. She said she could almost see it, like a distortion of light. We talked a bit longer and, against her gut, I convinced her to at least take on step through into the house, just to tell me what she felt, so I could have some idea of what was going on. She did.
She walked through the door and instantly rolled her head back, her eyes flipped back into her skull and she started to scream this chant in a language I've never heard. I assume that she'd probably picked it up somewhere but it was extra frightening to me. She started to pour blood out of her nose and I panicked a little, and then I just felt like pushing her out so I did. She collapsed onto the porch and I got her as far away as I could. As soon as I got her into the driveway she came to, and she just cried for about twenty minutes, and then she looked at me and wiped her tears with her sleeve and told me in the kindest voice "You're really fucked."
I almost pissed myself a second time.
After that she just left. I, of course, didn't go back to the house that night, and in fact I haven't slept there since, but since I owned the place I did want to figure all of this out, and I thought that the first step would be figuring out what I was actually dealing with. The friend I'm staying with currently is pretty cool. We took my laptop, and we hooked it up in the house facing the living room and the kitchen. then we used her laptop to Skype it so we could see what was going on. We did this for a few hours and we didn't see anything at all.
Well, we didn't see anything, but we certainly heard a lot. You could pick up the faint whispering that I'd been hearing at night for most of the time I'd lived there, and at times you could hear something breathing directly into the microphone. At one point, the same voice that had said "Mine" said "You're a coward" or "Such a coward". Nothing else really interesting happened the first night.
The second night was when things got very interesting.