so many weird things but they're all jumbled up in my mind so this post is gonna be an ugly mess lmao but i feel like typin.
there's a few that stand out in my memory - like the house where I live now, when we first moved here I was like 12 I think, and not long after we moved in I remember I was up on the top bunk playing on my GBA SP (i was up after everyone else had gone to bed as usual damn you gba) and it was night time so the lights were off of course but from the corner of my eye i noticed it was suddenly brighter in the room, so i looked across the room and there was light shining out of the wall. The walls in this house are needlessly high (what is the point of this ceiling) but at first I thought it might have been shining
in from outside the window, somehow, but there was no way - the window faces nothing that would explain any manner of spotlight shining in at the middle of the night, and the light was definitely shining out anyway. I quickly shut off my game and hid under the blanket and while I was hiding I fell asleep.
I think it later that same year that I fell asleep in the living room on the couch, and woke up in the very early morning (it was light-ish outside but I don't think the sun was up yet) to a bleary dark figure leaving through the front door. At the time I thought nothing of it so I drowsed off again immediately afterward but it occurred to me in the morning that no one in my family is that tall, and why would they be going outside at 5 or 6 in the morning anyway. When I asked my mum what she was doing going out so early she said she didn't, and no one else ever copped to it either. Nothing else peculiar ever happened after that iirc, so I sometimes think that if there was a ghost, that was him deciding to show himself out. haha
Before we moved here, though, we were staying at a friend of my mum's, in their basement to be exact. All our stuff was piled everywhere. There was a tall dresser-drawer that had a TV on top of it. One time I was down there by myself on my bed, I don't remember what I was doing, homework maybe (more likely playing gameboy again

), and for no logical reason I glanced up from whatever it was, and there was a shadowy featureless figure leaning out from behind the dresser with the tv on it. I remember it very clearly - it had its hands on the edge of the dresser, leaning only the top half of its "body" out, peeking the way a person would. It was vaguely the shape of a person. It went back behind the dresser, not exactly quickly. I looked back down, not really believing what I'd seen (although i was terrified, too terrified to even move for I don't know how long), but I think i must have eventually convinced myself I didn't actually see it because I was able to get up and go upstairs at some point. But I didn't tell my mom or siblings, and I probably never would have - if my oldest sister didn't a few days later mention seeing a "strange black thing" crouching by her feet at the bed. She said she thought it was our brother trying to scare her at first, but it shuffled across the room, still crouching, and disappeared. I remember a few nights later I woke up in the middle of the night and had to pee.. which meant getting up in the pitch dark and going all the way across the basement and around to the stairs by myself... that was definitely one of the worst physical terrors of my life. even mentioning it now is still scary. I did manage to get up though (sadly I had to) and didn't ever see the shadowy thing again.
I think there was a tumblr post or something talking about "shadow people" - I saw it at the beginning of this year iirc. It said that shadow figures apparently hang around rooms that are extremely messy. Idk if it was some fake **** just to scare people into cleaning up after themselves but I couldn't help but think of that basement, and the things lying everywhere.
uh. To put it simply, I had a spider lodged in my throat. I spat it up and it was dead but STILL.
gggghhuaaa why this