As we all know I am probably one of the biggest skeptics around these boards and have been for quite some time... Whether or not it adds credibility is not really relevant I guess but worth the mention.

When I was a kid about 12-13 I lived in a small brown house and everything was good. However after a few months I began to notice things.

Every night in my room I could hear a child crying, the first few times i thought it was maybe coming from outside so I cracked my window. When I stuck my head outside I could hear the sound coming from behind me.

After about 6 months in the house things began to escalate however I didn't say anything like for example the lights would flicker off and on, although this could have been due to bad wiring. However given the nature of other such activity like a brand new TV bursting into flames and a room that was perma cold even on hot days I'm not so sure.

The most significant development happened about a year or so after we had moved in to my mom.

We were sitting at the kitchen table and she had a cup of coffee in front of her and I had a bottle of water. We were sitting there talking and out of no where her coffee cup slid all the way across the table towards me and stopped about half way over the edge... anymore and I would have not had a good day. After she seen this I then told here about the noises and then asked her if she noticed the empty room on the main floor was cold and creepy etc.

Everyone who came into the house no matter who you were had some sort of experience some of which certainly defy conventional explanation.

Things got pretty intense towards the end especially in my bedroom where I would see a weird figure on top of my wardrobe with abnormally long arms and legs but without any defining features at all... Even rubbing my eyes and shaking my head would not make it disappear. I am a pretty unemotional person and I'm not scared of nothing, but I will however admit those 2 years we had lived there was the most terrifying time in my life.

The house itself burned to the ground almost immediately after we had moved... All that remains is an empty lot, I know the house next door also had activity as well since I lived there however not so much frightening at all...

If your in the Regina SK. area and you want to check out where my old house is in the ghetto it used to be 1130 Athol st. in the North Central area.

I wont rule out possible logical explanations like hallucinations but some thing like the cup for example are simply uneplainable.

Well first thing is you being a huge Skeptic , makes your post very interesting . As for the tv bursting into flames , the lights flickering and the house burning down , that could very well be tied into bad wiring . BUT , you say the room was always cold , how was the rest of the house ? You also say you saw a weird looking figure in the same room , interesting . You could say it was you imagination , but how do you explain what happened when somebody else experienced it with you . Alot can be ruled as something wrong with the house , but the others are a little on the Paranormal side .

Could bad wiring (REALLY bad wiring) have cause an EMF field that would be percieved by the brain as coldness and hallucinations? That's stretching, but I thought someone should mention it - especially as bad wiring was brought up in you post....

You can prabably explain most of it. But having lived in a very active home myself, when I, my husband, family, friends, and like you, sometimes in a room with 7 or 8 people, some who where not even aware of the prior problems witness it..I moved!!