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The least family named the spirit that
had been living in their house. Was

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that a mistake? In this story, we made a special house guest,

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Harold. My name is Edwin.
Here's a true scary story. So we

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lived in as a ribbon area where
there were houses next to our houses,

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and it all just started building on
top of crop land, one after another

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after another. And my parents was
one of the first houses on this block,

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so it was just crop land before
they started to build here. And

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we don't know if our ghosts that
started haunting this house was just died on

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this land or he just found his
way into our home making himself comfortable.

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And my family at the time,
there was only five of us here.

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At the moment, there's only four
of us, and if you count our

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two dogs now it's six of us. But my mother was reading and in

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between a line of her reading,
she heard a knock close to the door,

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but the door was opened. So
normally the role in our house is

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we'd have to knock on the door
or knock on the wall next to the

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door. Her knowing the role of
the house, she told whoever it was

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to come in. A few seconds
later, nobody came in. She had

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forgotten about it, but she heard
a knock again, and she was more

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strict this time, telling whoever it
was to come in, because whenever we

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have nightmares, we'd normally knock on
her door to let us in so we'd

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sleep with her. But when she
got up to sea being agitated, she

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saw nobody there. Now this wasn't
her first encounter with Harold, but this

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was the one she told us like
for the first time in forever. She's

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told us so many before, when
my oldest brother was like little and only

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in middle school, and my sister
and my third oldest brother were just like

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babies, and it really freaked her
out bringing back those memories of when the

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first real encounter she had with our
ghost named Harold. I started thinking that

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our ghost Harold was more active in
my room because when we were young,

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me and my sister used to share
this room and we'd always be afraid of

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our closet. We would never sleep
with it open. We had a dead

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bolt on it. We were afraid
of the closet, and we had a

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dead bill on our closet door because
my parents never wanted us going through it

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in the middle of the night to
get anything. And the more we started

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getting older, the more we started
using it so that we wouldn't have to

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sleep at the door open, and
that we'd feel more safe with the closed.

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The first really big encounter was with
my brother because he could see our

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ghosts. My uncle told my mom
that he had lost his touch just to

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feel anything about people and to feel
any ghosts nearby because of the incident that

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happened with my brother when he got
too close to a garbage bin full of

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glass that broke and it tipped over. But all of a sudden, the

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carvers can just like completely slid it
to the other side of the room without

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anybody touching it. And when they
had asked my brother, do you know

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who did that? Did anybody do
that? He's like, yeah, he

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did that, and just completely pointed
to a ball of air. My mom

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was upstairs doing work and doing the
dishes and going up and downstairs to make

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sure everything gets done for when my
two brothers were at school, and when

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she had gone downstairs she had heard
talking. She thought maybe my dad had

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left the radio on in the garage
on because he'd sometimes use it as an

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alarm to wake them up to get
ready for work. But when she had

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gone in the garage, the radio
wasn't on, So then she started thinking,

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where is they coming from? And
as she went back into the house

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and she crossed the basement door,
she heard the talking coming down from there,

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and then she started thinking, oh, maybe the boys left their radio

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on, as the alarm was just
like the natural radio and we used to

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have that alarm too, but we
had gotten rid of it and it just

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beworre to play the music on radio
stations and everything like that. So she

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thought maybe a radio station is on
and they just forgot to turn it off.

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So she had opened the basement door. She looked down there and started

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listening and realizing that it wasn't a
radio station or it wasn't music. It

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was like two people having a conversation. She was listening in on it,

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and she said like hello. She
had grabbed a knife at that point because

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this wasn't anything that could produce music
or a radio station. It was two

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people in her house that she didn't
know how they even gotten in, and

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she said hello. When she was
waiting for a response, everything just like

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went quiet downstairs. And when she
was like waiting and becoming more scared,

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of what would happen, Like she
felt like something close to her brush up

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against her, like a shock of
wind like blowed past her, and she

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just like slammed the door and locked
it. And when she had ran upstairs

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to go see if my brother was
all right, she had gotten up the

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stairs and was just like sitting there, and when she had turned, a

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piece of her hair was just like
lifting up completely. It wasn't like wind,

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just like blowing past her, and
then like it lift up. It

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was like one piece of hair was
just being held up by something. And

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when she was looking for my brother, my brother came out of his room

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and said it's okay. He said, he says, don't be afraid.

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And my mom was like, who
said that? He had said that the

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guy, And my mom was just
so scared to the point she grabbed my

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sister and my brother and took him
out for a car ride for the rest

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of the day. And she had
called my dad hysterically saying, I'm not

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going in that house. Something happened
when I went downstairs, and I went

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back upstairs and Riley said he saw
something and I'm not going in that house.

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And my dad was trying to calm
me down, and when school had

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gotten out for my siblings, she
had to get them, and then she

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went back to the house, but
she didn't let him go downstairs in the

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basement, and she just waited for
my dad to get home. My dad

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said, maybe maybe the alarm's batteries
ran out the moment you said hello,

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or it was just maybe you left
the TV on, and he tried making

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so many excuses for it, when
my mom was just like, no,

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it couldn't have been that. It
was so distinctive to voices talking to each

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other, it could not have been
a radio in her alarm going off.

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My mom has always asked me because
I've had little encounters of him still,

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like pushing around things in my room
when I'm upstairs or we're downstairs, and

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my Mom's like, you know,
if he ever bothers you to the point

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where you're like done with it and
you want them out, we could always

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get incense and like try and do
something about it. It's not to a

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point where he's like scratching on my
back every night and leaving claw marks through

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my back, or like bruises,
or throwing stuff rapidly across the room.

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It's not that bad to the point
where you want to get rid of him,

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but it's a little bit bad to
the point where it might make you

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like jump every once in a while. When we had first gotten Sophie,

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she wasn't really allowed upstairs so that
she could be used to the house and

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that she wouldn't have any accidents.
But the more we started letting her sleep

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with us and going into our rooms
upstairs, the more she started to become

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attached to my parents closet. And
one day we were looking for her and

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my mom was upstairs, like doing
the laundry. When she went into her

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room, she found Sophie just like
completely looking at the corner of their closet

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that had hangers and like a dress
covering it, and she was just looking

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at it. And when my mom
started calling her, she like completely only

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turned her head around, looked at
my mom, and then like looked back

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at it, and she like start
barking scratching at that corner of the closet.

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It'd be like something was there,
And that freaked my mom out to

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where she like dragged her out of
there and close her room door and everything

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and just stay out of there.
Maybe he's just like migrated to a different

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part of the house, but they
just don't see him there. My dog

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was not the only one who started
doing this. It was my other dog

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too. The more she started coming
upstairs, she'd do the exact same routine

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that Sophia had done, where she'd
look at the corner of the room,

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start barking at it and then scratching
or else. Like she completely just sit

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there until like somebody got her attention
to come downstairs. My dad just like

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started making up random names for it, because we didn't know if it was

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a girl or a guy, or
like any kind of bad spirit in the

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house. And my dad just like
came up with the name Harold, and

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my mom had told him, you
know, it's not good to name spirits

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or ghosts because they'll start to get
more attached to this house or families.

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Sometimes when I go downstairs late a
night to fill up my water or else

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to take something I forgot upstairs,
I feel like I see something in like

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the corners of our living room,
but I just know that's always like shadows

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playing with me or else. When
I look into like my sister's room,

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which is now downstairs in the basement, I always feel like something's looking at

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me through the cracked open basement door
because she leaves it open so that air

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will get down there. And I
always just feel like something's watching me when

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I pass by it, or else
when I just go downstairs and like peep

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down the staircase, I just feel
like something's right around the corner and it's

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just like looking at me. Do
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