Ok, I should be sleeping right now, but something just happened and I feel the need to write this up.

Over the last year several things have happened in my bedroom that have freaked me out more than a little. The first time anything happened is when I was talking on the phone and my dresser drawer (which was half open) closed itself. See, the track is slightly broken and leans downward, so the drawer is almost always open. The window wasn't open, so no wind did it. It just closed smoothly and silently, against gravity, right before my eyes.

The second time was at night, after I'd tried (without success) to use a handmade Ouija board in my room. I put it away and climbed into bed, turning off my lamp. A second later all four of the items on my desk were knocked over/thrown off VERY loudly. I turned on the light to find my pens and an empty bottle on the floor, and the other bottle knocked over.

Thirdly, an incident that happened just moments ago. I've been sitting in bed, wide awake and praying for sleep since I've got to work tomorrow. I roll onto my tummy and after a moment something cold presses down the side of my stomach. It felt the size of maybe a knuckle and scared the ever living daylights out of me. I checked for stuff on my bed, but there's only me and the blanket. I've racked my brains and I'm still pretty confused.

Finally, if it's worth noting, I've woken up in this house with some pretty interesting scratches. Not the kind you can make with your nail that turn red, I'm talking 1-5 inch shallow cuts. One was bad enough that I found it when it started burning in the shower, it was a perfect V with 2 inches on each side, and one side hooked like a cane. it took up a good portion of my hip. I have woken up with these cuts in the oddest places, and I know it's not my nails since they are very blunt all around (I can't stand them long/sharp).

I really hope I'm not just convincing myself of something funny here. If anyone can think of any reasons I might be fooling myself, I'd be glad to hear them. What do you think? Am I haunted or just jumpy?

The third day in a row with an account of scratching! What is going on here?

When you say unsuccessful, I trust you mean that you didn't recognize any results. Just because an entity didn't respond to you, or answer your questions, doesn't mean that it didn't cross into this plain of existence and take up residence in your room. I certainly do not wish to sound insensitive to your question, but the amount of people that come in here with questions, after foolishly playing with a ouija, is just astonishing. And exasperating. We start to feel like telling them, "you brought this upon yourself...now, deal with it". But we won't.

The drawer incident should have been evidence enough for you to seek immediate help. The way you describe it, makes me believe without reservation, that you are not alone in there. The question now is, exactly WHAT is in there with you? Since your folly with the ouija, it could absolutely be anything. It could be a bonifide demon. Or simply a ghost. It could be aunt Matillda, or the ghost of a serial killer. Try and gather some photos or video of these events. I would also urge you to bring a friend or two into your confidence, as it is always better to face these issues in numbers. The first experiment I would conduct, is to see if there is any adverse reactions to religious symbolisms or imageries. For instance, hang a cross somewhere in your room, a picture of Christ, etc etc. See if activity is increased or even becomes malevolent. Do this, and return to UM with the results. Welcome aboard. ~Jackal

psychokinesis?

Its really hard to say what is going on, but one question here, are you a teen ager? In any case NEVER mess with a Ouija, home made or not, but its a little late for that advice. This "could" be a Poltergeist or a malevolent spirit, who knows? I say the best defense is to STAY away from the Ouija and other items such as that, and there is always benefit of prayer. If this continues you could try taking some photos, just in case there is something in your room. Also when anyone is gets scratched at night, even a deep sleeper will wake up from the pain or burning. Does anyone else in your home experience anything? Sleep tight..JN

Scratchophenesis!!! Please tell me you know about this!!

Well other than the drawer closing one night , has the house been quiet ? If you have experienced other things , have they been worse since you "ATTEMPTED " to use your ouija board . If they have gotten worse , then i'm sure you know what you did . ( Ouija board = evil ) ( evil = scratches,pain)

Is it anything like exema?lol

if I say it real slow, it becomes evident...thanks. lol.

My thoughts on this are that you may have had some type of non malevolent spirit in your home for the drawer to close this is not unusual as there have been many accounts of friends or family that are deceased coming back now and then to visit people they care about, But when you started to use a oiuja board you have possibly enticed a more malevolent spirit into your home. I suggest you start to find a way to deal with this as it seems your problems are getting worse as time goes on, If you need any further help with this please do not hesitate to contact me as I do have some experience of these types of problem.

Hey, everyone, sorry I'm so late to check back here, I've been away from home since I went to work for my sister the morning after I posted this.

Some people have suggested taking photos or video in my room. I've taken a lot of videos/photos in my room for fun, and nothing has ever shown up. I don't know much about cameras, but I have a nikon coolpix (lame name, I know, it isn't a great camera). Plus, these happenings are infrequent and have happened maybe a month or two apart from each other.

I lurk around the boards a lot, and a lot of people prescribe bringing in priests or religious objects to remedy or ward off an evil spirit/demon. Since my mother is a very religious woman I have always kept the cross-stitched picture she made when I was born above my bed. It's a small angel with a caption about the Lord protecting this child (or something), me specifically. I don't know if this counts according to you people or anything. I'm also not about to hang a cross anywhere in my room. I personally haven't been a practicing Protestant for a few years now, and have recently converted to a very different religion.

I probably should have mentioned in the first post, but it completely slipped my mind, there's something else in my house that I have known of for a long time. It's a different being entirely, and it is very, very quiet and faint. I don't notice it unless I'm feeling alert/jumpy, or I look for it. It feels masculine, and he is very calm, even if he feels like he may think about sinister things (haha...). I know it seems odd, but I know he's there when I can really feel something watching me. I don't even have to be alone, my mother could be reading in her chair and I'll know he's right over my shoulder. He likes our stair case and since I've always hated stairs myself, I get nervous and angry when he follows me up or down, especially at night. I've taken precautions to ban him from my room, but I think he stays away out of some kind of respect for me, or perhaps whatever is in there. I mean, there are times when I wake up at night just terrified, perhaps he's too timid to stand up to something like that.

But anyway, if you all agree with me that something is going on, then great. I'm not crazy after all I'm going to be looking around for more answers, and perhaps what I can do to stop the annoying scratches. For now I am staying at my dad's house while my mum is out of town (to answer somebody's question: yes I'm a teenager, I'll be 16 next month.)

Welcome back NoxMyna Glad everything is cool for now. I just wanted to reemphasize, the hanging of religious articles was for an experiment, to see if there was an angry or adverse reaction to this. Not for protection purposes. I'm glad you have another place to stay until you get things sorted out, or find away to come to terms with your guests. Keep us advised of any new developments. Thanks ~Jackal

An experiment? Sounds interesting, actually. I don't see any particular reason a being would have to react to religious items unless it believed it could be harmed. Maybe I'll try it out one of these days.

I don't know about coming to terms with 'guests' at the moment. There's a rather horrible one here that jimmies the freaking door for hours on end when I'm trying to sleep. It's also rather menacing, but mostly it just loudly shakes my bedroom door. I prefer the room at my mum's to the one I'm sitting in now, I'm rather terrified at all times (including now). It's worse since my dad brought back the old portraits of some of our family. There are three, and I have been downright afraid to even look at a certain one of them since the first time I saw it when I was 9 years old. They're leaning against the wall on the opposite end of the basement, staring at my door. Ugh.

Let me just note that the door sits VERY snuggly in its frame when closed. I have attempted to shake it myself to recreate the noise for a friend and was surprised at the amount of effort it took to move it.

Funny that I get stuck living in two houses with bothersome things. It's like I won the stupid prize lottery. Whoopee!

The point of the experiment is to determine exactly the nature of the invading spirit. Is it a ghost? A demon? A poltergeist? Is it a risidual haunting? The placing of religious articles in the room is to find out first and foremost, that it is not a demon. If it is a demon, it will not appreciate the new religious items you have placed in the room. And most likely, will react accordingly. I believe demons to be the greatest threat, so I always address this issue first, and move down the line decreasing in graveness (no pun intended). Unless you know how, I would not advise confronting demon. But I find that other spirits are as easy to deal with as people (which isn't so easy sometimes). So this is the point of the experiment. ~Jackal

and btw...these pictures that you are referring to....we need more information on them. Who are they of?, where are they from?, where have they(the pics) been?, etc etc.

My bet is that you have mice in your house. Makes perfect sense, knocking things over and getting scratches on yourself. BTW no you wouldn't wake up if scratched in your sleep.

No, sorry. No mice.
Have you ever had mice? Even one can manage to poop everywhere overnight.
And they get into the dog food.
At this time I am unable to check []poop and []dog food from my list

Well since there is no such thing as ghosts or hauntings, im betting its something biological. Seriously nothing to worry about.

What is a demon? Do we know? What makes it a demon? Is there any reason it hates religious things? Are we talking about, like, satanic things or what? I'm not sure I quite understand. Many things I've heard of Demons doing I could just as easily blame on the Folk.

I'll take a picture of them tomorrow, then see about installing my camera software on my computer so I can actually post them. All I know about these portraits is that they are dusty, and old, black and white, in oddly shaped frames, one of them is creepy and I believe my dad found them in the recesses of my Great Grandmother's attic where they probably lived for between 50 and 80 years. My Great Grandmother's attic had some seriously small, dirty crawl spaces. We found magazines from the 1920's and a tickets to Disneyland that were signed by some guy that's dead now, that's how long it had been since anyone was in there.
Oh yeah, and everyone in those photos is dead as far as I know.

If I forgot to say anything or I sound snappy, sorry. I'm absolutely terrified right now.

I have two cats that will dig their claws in under my door and along the edges to pull and try to open it as I sleep. The clawing and awful noises can be ceaseless. It's irritating. Is it something like that, or something actually fooling with the doorknob?

I'm sorry, I can't help you with this. Good luck. ~Jackal

As much as I would love one, I don't have a cat :/ I wouldn't know if it were fooling with the doorknob, but since it doesn't lock I don't think it's been turning it. I'm actually in the process of checking how hard it is to shake the door at different points in the day to see if the temperature or vents are affecting it. My room can be unbearably warm, but the rest of the basement is nearly freezing.

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