First of all, I have to say I talk from personal experience and I am going to base all I say on what happened to me, as from 2007 to 2014 I lived with my family in a haunted apartment.
If you want me to, I will be making more posts about that experience. Maybe after I explain why my family and I did those things you understand my point and think: that makes sense, yeah, I would do the same thing, or maybe you still don’t, but I just wanted to share my story and maybe make you think deeper about horror movies and what you would do if what you are watching happened to you.
Number #1 - Not talking about what’s happening.
Whenever you watch a horror movie you usually see all the members of the family having different supernatural experiences and, I know, you get frustrated and think: why the hell don’t they talk about it with each other and just leave. And I know that because I thought that too without realizing I did the exact same thing back then.
Well, the “just leave” part it’s only available for people who have the money to do so, so let’s just get that out of the way right from the start.
In my family, we didn’t talk about nearly anything that happened until we left. I mean, years went by until at least my mom, my sister and I finally spoke about it. I remember I only told my mom two of those things I went through right after they happened and just because I felt so scared I needed to get that out of my head in order to feel good again (and even when I did, my mom didn’t tell me about her own stories as she was afraid they would make me feel even worse because there was no way out. And I get it and respect it).
So, the reason why we didn’t want to talk about it at the time was, first of all: when you are in that situation, you don’t want to believe something wrong is going on and you make up excuse after excuse just to be able to go back to bed and sleep at night. Talking about that with somebody is scary because you are admitting out loud it happened; that it wasn’t just part of your imagination. And a big part of you needs to believe that it was in order to keep on functioning.
Also, when you talk about it you are being open to the possibility that that person also tells you weird stuff that has been happening to them. So, if you realize you are not the only one, then, how can you keep lying to yourself? There’s no coming back from that.
I know it sounds weird and it maybe doesn’t make sense to you but you really have to be in that position in order to understand it. It’s like your main goal is to not believe that it is real because you can’t do anything about it and to live knowing with 100% certainty the opposite: that everything is real, and that you can’t get out of that situation… I don’t know if I could have done that.
Number #2 - Going towards “the creepy” noise
Ok, so. This is one thing I did a lot. Especially during the final years we spent in that apartment.
I have seen a lot of horror movies, I know it looks like the dumbest thing you can do but let me tell you what was my reasoning behind it and why I got to that point.
So, here’s the thing. And this also applies to what I talked about earlier about not talking about the weird things that are happening. I believe in a lot of things, and part of the things I believe in is that if you acknowledge the presence of the entity or you show to them that you are afraid, you are giving that entity more power. Indirectly, but you are. And if that entity knows you are scared of it, it will mess with you even more.
And yes, that’s the reason why if I heard footsteps, a door opening or just something weird going on, I tried to make myself feel as angry as I could, you know, just to gather all the courage I could and after that, I would go to see what was going on. And let me tell you, at least on my part nothing bad happened to me whenever I did that. Maybe I was just lucky but that was my reality.
Let me know if you are interested in knowing the story of the haunting itself. I hope the post at least gave you something to think about.
