The first one was one night last year. I was home alone with my little brother. I was in the kitchen working on an art project, and I kept looking up because I felt like someone was there. I continued to work on it, but I looked up again. I saw this black shadowy figure over in the hallway. I froze. I couldn't move.

I screamed, but my body couldn't physically move. My brother was in his room probably with his headphones on. After I could finally move, I yelled from the bottom of the stairs for him to come here. It was still a little hard to move, I was shaking. My parents got home as I was screaming and yelled at us both. My mom said it was just my imagination. I honestly don't know if it was my imagination or not.

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The next story happened a few weeks after the first. I took my dog outside and turned around to take her back in. As I looked through our window that lines up with the door, I saw something. We do have a white curtain, but it's really thin and it's REALLY see-through at night if we have the lights on, which we did. I saw a man with a white t shirt, baseball cap put on backwards, and shorts. He ran across the window. I got a little scared, but I went in anyway because I knew my dad was sitting on the couch. I knew it couldn't have been my dad because he was wearing a different outfit and the man was a lot thinner. My little brother was the only other boy in the house, but he was really short because he was only 10. I asked my dad if he saw anything and he said no. My brother was upstairs in his room and couldn't have gotten to his room in that amount of time. Also the man ran the opposite way of the steps.

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This next story happened last year too. I was at my mom's work. She is a teacher at an elementary school. No one was at the school because it was a weekend and around dinner time. The janitor wasn't even there. I know this because one my mom told me, and two all the lights were off. We went to her classroom making sure to turn the lights on and off as we reached another hallway because if we were the only ones there and only in her classroom, then there was no reason to waste the electricity.

I was helping her straighten up her classroom. I told her I had to use the bathroom and she showed me where they were. I went alone because there was no reason for her to come with me. While I was in the bathroom, I heard noises like someone was moving furniture around one of the classrooms and bumping the wall multiple times. I don't really like being in public bathrooms alone, unless it's my school where I can hear everyone in the hallways or teachers yelling. I knew I'd only be a minute and I wasn't going to interrupt my mom just for her to take me to the bathroom. I hurried out of there and went down the hall to my mom's room.

We were on our way out to go home and we heard the this door being slammed shut. My mom looked at me and I looked at her. She tried to hurry me out of there, but we found out it was this distinct janitor. She introduced herself and me. My mom told him that we got really scared for a second because we were the only ones in the building. What he said shocked me.

Apparently the last couple night janitors quit because of the creepy things that happen after dark at that school. He said he's experienced things too. He's heard children cheering in the gym as if it were Phys Ed. When he went in, no one was there. We stopped talking and left. I didn't think anything of it, but my mom got really freaked out for a minute. She didn't see the man's car at first, and we were the only car in the lot. Once she saw it, she felt relieved.

In the car she told me that she didn't want to tell me that the school was haunted because I wouldn't go. Then she told me about her experiences. My mom was once again the only one in the school. She was making copies. The old principal used to smoke a lot before he died. She smelled a strong smell of cigarette smoke, thinking it was just the ink. Also her co-worker in the room beside her was freaking out because she left her room for less than 2 minutes and all her blinds were flipped to the other side.

No one was in her room and she thought it was my mom because she was the only one who could have done it, but it wasn't. That's when I told my mom what happened in the bathroom earlier and she said that would make sense. We were both really freaked out when we got home. I told my friends this story and they couldn't explain it.

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The last one is something that's been happening recently. I have a medicine container with each of the days of the week in it. I'm not sure all the pills I take so my mom fills it for me and I'm usually running for the bus, so it makes it quicker. Somehow it always ends up in a drawer that has our measuring cups in it. No one's ever even thought to put it in there, especially because we have a medicine cabinet. I asked the other 3 family members that live there, my mom, dad, and brother. None of us put it there. These last few days my mom has asked how it keeps ending up in there. No one can explain it. I just thought it's kinda strange because it started after I started typing this up.