Loud Silence

While living at home as a teenager, Karina experienced a strange visit from an
entity who manifested through whispers and other noises. My name is Edwin and he
is Karina. It's true scary story. I think you can attract things.
I kind of have like near death out of body experience, which is why
I feel like I attract certain things. And that's why, uh, like
I was targeted in the house. I was like seven and I got sick
with medingitis and then I got encephalitis and I had to be indused into a
comma, which lasted for three months. It was a scary experience and like
one that changed my life, like completely, like I was. I woke
up paralyzed. I was like not supposed to even be alive. I woke
up like a day before they were gonna take me off of life support,
so off of the machines. So during those three months, like I I
cannot open my eyes, but I could hear everything, like the sounds of
the machines and even my mom like telling me or at night I would come
in and out of consciousness and it was so it's an indescribable feeling of feeling
helpless and trapped because you want to comfort your mom and be like, oh,
like I'm okay, Like you don't have to cry anymore, because like
I was seeing stuff in the hospital. I had to be moved from a
couple of rooms a couple of times, because once I learned how to talk
again, I was like, I don't I don't feel comfortable here. There's
a man here, he won't leave me alone. This happened a couple of
months into moving into our new house. It's a two story house, so
when you walking to the house is like a straight hallway and then immediately you
have the upstairs, and then then you have the downstairs, and then it's
the walkway to the kitchen. And at the time everything was covered in carpet
because it was an old man that lived there, and this happened like years
ago. Right off of that moving in, we were very uncomfortable. I
don't know, we just fell just creeped out, and we couldn't really explain
it. We could not sleep the first night, and my parents just like
dismissed it, Oh, you just need to get used to the new house,
and we're like, yeah, okay, but something just didn't feel right
and things were happen here and there, and it was things like we'd hear
our name being whispered in our ear, or like us hung out to each
other when there was nobody in the room. You know, we just we
didn't even want to deal with it. Were just it's just in our mind.
We just didn't want to even tempt the thought. And one night,
it was me and my sister were sitting in the kitchen. It was pretty
late in the night, and we would usually do that. We would where
kids it was cool to be up late at night, and we were eating
cereal, just in the counter, talking and we hear my mom get up
from her room and we're like, oh, like, we're gonna get in
trouble. So we just sat there and we're like, oh, okay,
we're waiting to get yelled that because it wasn't the first time, and we
didn't hear anything. Soil we both turned to look at the stairs because from
our where we were shitting down, we could see the stairs and the hallway
that led into her room, and so we both turned to look because it
was weird that we didn't hear her start to nag about why we were awake,
and look at the time it was, so we turned and I turned
to my sister and I was like, hey, do you see mom?
She was like no, no, and I was like okay. So we
heard the footsteps coming out of her room and it kind of stopped before coming
down the stairs, and you could clearly see everything, like it was clearly
visible, and we just spros. We're just like we hear something, but
I don't see anything. And then you hear also, my hats is like
very kreaky, like super creaky. You can hear everything, like every step
you can hear. It's so loud it's annoying. So we hear the her
footsteps come down the stairs and we're still looking just staring at the stairs,
and we're just like at this point, we just didn't know what to do
where it's just quiet. And once I got down the stairs, there's another
hallway that goes into the kitchen where we were at and at this point I
looked at my sister and I was like, hey, like I don't see
anything, and she was like me either, like we both didn't see anything.
And so you hear the footsteps comes down, come down the steps,
and then down the hallway into the kitchen where we're at, and there's a
step right before you come down into the kitchen, and the kitchen is a
different floor from the rest of the house, so up until now, all
you hear is creaky footsteps because it was all carpet and the kitchen floor was
tiled, so when we heard it step down into the kitchen, all you
heard was like clocks. It was terrifying. It was crazy because there was
like a couch blocking a little bit of the of when you come down to
the doorway, and so automatically we hear class and we're like, oh,
it's our dog, which is weird because I thought that my sister had put
the dog in the garage, which was what it stayed at night, and
but we both didn't say anything. So as soon we heard that, I
called out to my dog and nothing happened. There was no it was just
pure silent for whatfelver ever. But it was just a few seconds. So
once at that point, like we had stood up because we're chicken the shad
bushy our dog and at the same time we're like creeped out, so we
stood up and then like we hear our dog like start to go crazy in
the garage behind us. So usually as night, we put our dog in
the grauge and it was we had called out to it and it was silent,
like my dog did not make a sound when I called. But it
was like like a few minutes before I'd say, everything just went crazy where
it started to run towards us. We heard our dog start like barking,
like really aggressively, and this was like happening in front of us, and
we're like, oh, like it had dawned on us. That wasn't our
dog. So at the same time that we took off running in the direction
of that sound, because we had to go and cross it to get to
to get out of the kitchen. At the same time that we were running,
we could hear the footsteps, the Klai footsteps like run towards us.
But the thing was that one it didn't sound like it had many feet.
It only sounded like it had two feet, and two those footsteps were like
heavy. We took off. We ran upstairs to my mom's soom and at
this point, like we were like cheering up, we're crying, and we
were like yelling form a mom to wake up. In that moment, it's
the exact moment where you feel your heart dropped like out of your body where
you're like, it's the moment where it hits you that it's real, and
it felt aggressive like it was it didn't even happen. This happened in a
matter of minutes, but it was the silence, and it was the prominent
footsteps where there was way to it enough for you to think that it was
a person, a real person, like heavily walking down the stairs, and
that's what skipped. Apart from that, like that's what made us jump and
run. Like for a long time, we could not talk about it without
cheering out. That was that's how terrified we were. And we're like,
oh my god, like we heard something and but we couldn't even talk from
like how terrified wewhere And my mom basically was like she got mad at us
and was like, Oh, it's your fault for being up this late.
This is what you get for watching scary movies, and like totally dismissed us.
Well, I would have thought I was crazy if my sister wasn't there
to experienced it. And that was like one of the first concrete encounters in
the house, which man the house really messes with your head. Karina then
begins to discover what is going on in her house up next. The house
had been making for seven years, and this was a beautiful house, like
it was in a good neighbord, like it had no reason to be empty
for that long. So I thought that was weird. For a long time,
I would tell myself, you have to be crazy to be here,
because most of the time I was the only one that would experience like hardcore
stuff. This was one of the first experiences where it was me and another
person. We would hear stuff and like small things would happen. It was
things that you could be like, oh, it's in my mind, but
it seemed that I was the target for it. You'd be sleeping or doing
something and you would hear like one of either your name or one of my
sister's names whispered in your ear, but to the point where you could feel
the breath of the person. And I was like, okay, I was
streaming, okay, like maybe I was distracted, and it's happening to everyone.
One of the scariest times was I was in the bathroom and we're having
to cook out every but everybody was outside and usually we come inside to do
things, and I was downstairs. We're just where most of the activity will
happen. So I was in the restaurant, was washing my hands and I
had stopped and I was like drying my hands and I heard lying and I
was like, I called out to my sister. I was like, oh,
I called out, I gotta stop messing with me, like you're scary
me and no answer back. Was like, oh my god, I'm gonna
kill her because we were all creeped out, and so I went out because
our rooms are connected, so my room was connected to hers by the bathroom.
So I walked out into her room. I looked behind the door,
I looked all over her room and there was nobody there. And then I
heard a whisper in my ear and it was like get in and I was
like oh, and I was like okay, and I couldn't move. I
was like frozen. I wanted to run up the stairs so bad, but
I was just like you know that moment where you're so scared, you're like
freezed, but you want to move. I was like that. So I'm
slowly walked out and when I was like in the kitchen, that's when I
ran, and everybody goes outside. My room for some reason, was the
coldest. It would get cold. My room was like the coldest room in
the house, and it would get cold at of nowhere. And so the
reason I tell you is how I found out that it was haunted was these
experiences got so bad that I was literally driving myself crazy, being like,
it can't be real, Like it's all on your head. Maybe you want
to believe something. I fear like maybe you want the attention, or I
was trying so hard to make sense of it. But it got so bad
that and it got so bad that I couldn't like because I could feel it.
I could feel like walking into my room. Like it's hard to describe
it. I could hear it and feel when it would walk into my room.
And that's what was driving me in saying I'm like, how can I
have to be like crazy? Like how am I? How did somebody hear
something come into a room. So the best way I can describe it is
that the sound of silence when it's quiet and you hear like that, like
almost like a light bus. It was like if that light bus would get
really loud, but it was silence, and it was loud, loud enough
it'll be like almost like wing your ear rings, but silence. That's how
I would let me know that it was there. I would hear the sound
of silence, like almost bogging up, and I could feel like walk into
my room because it was like automatically. It was like feeling like when you
know something is when you know somebody's looking at you without you actually seeing them.
It's like that feeling where you happen to look at you feel something.
So I would just happen to feel something like come into my room or wherever
I was at. It drove me insane. I was in a guard place,
like really depressed. I wouldn't sleep throughout the night. I would wait
for the sun to come out to fall asleep. And I was in high
school, so it was really like affecting me to the point where I reached
out to a meetum and I was like, I just need to know is
there something like am I crazy? Or is there something in my house?
I was very skeptical of her and mediums in general. At this point.
I was desperate and she told me things that nobody else knews. I was
like, Okay, she's legit, and she did tell me, yeah,
there was a man and she had to describe them like we had all seen
him, tall, slender around his he was around like sixty three years old,
which I assume was the last owner of the house. And she was
basically like, yeah, like there's not much she can do. Yeah,
because I did try to cleanse the house myself, like and nothing changed.
And she told me she was like, cleansing a house is not going to
work for you. And I was like, I hadn't told her that,
and I had done that a day before I had called her and I was
like, oh, man, like you let her know. Like he he
described my house, who was living there, and how it was even structured.
So my house is thankfully very calm. But I do tend to experience
things more than most, and I guess that would be like due to some
past I've become somewhat more sensitive to it. And I was also told by
the medium that I was sensitive to those things and that I shouldn't feel bad.
I'm not crazy. He was a mean man. He liked to get
a reaction from him. He liked to scare you or just like it would.
It became such a normal thing that like I would get angry, Like
in school, I'd be like I would hear like knocks on my door or
somebody pushing on my door or just random stuff, and I'd just I'd be
angry about and I'd be like, come on, like I got to school
tomorrow, like can we not for me? The house fell. I don't
know, it felt empty, it felt lonely, like it just felt sad,
and so did all my sisters say it felt weird, but in particularly
I felt sad, which wasn't you know, scary at first until it was,
you know, at night. Then you'd be creeped out. They feel
like something belongs to them, so they're gonna stay there. So like at
the same time as I am coming into your territory, so you know,
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