Footsteps on the Uninhabited Second Floor of Grandmother's House
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Bump, I love these simple but true-to-life situations. In my grandmother's house, which was in something like an urban-type settlement, there was an uninhabited second floor, it was left a bit unfinished, and they just stored boards and other forgotten stuff there. So I was about 9, in the house were me, my grandmother, and my great-grandmother (her mother). Grandmother sleeps in the bedroom, and my great-grandmother and I are in the living room. I'm falling asleep and I hear what sounds like someone running around on the second floor, and by the sounds, something small, like a child or something. At first I thought, well, who knows, the house is wooden, the boards could shrink from the temperature, all that. But the sound was actually moving, sequentially. First above me, then it "ran" off somewhere into a corner of the second floor, then along the wall to another corner. I bricked myself pretty good, and I ask my great-grandmother, like, are you asleep? She says no, so I asked, what are those sounds on the second floor? Expecting her to somehow reassure me, I was pretty fucking shocked when she, completely calmly, and even sort of with warmth, like about some old acquaintance, answered "Aaah, that's Vanechka)". I didn't sleep the whole night after that, damn, it went on for another 7-10 minutes, but then there was one loud creak, in one spot, like someone jumped, or something, and it stopped
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Бамп, люблю такие простые, но жизненные ситуёвины. В бабушкином доме, который находился в чем то, типа ПГТ, был нежилой второй этаж, его мальца не доделали, и там просто хранили доски и прочий забытый стаф. Так вот было мне лет 9, в доме я, бабушка, и прабабушка (её мать). Бабушка спит в спальне, а мы с прабабушкой в зале. Засыпаю я и слышу, как по второму этажу как будто кто то бегает, причем небольшой по звукам, как ребенок что ли. Подумал сначала, ну мало ли, дом деревянный, от температуры могли доски сжиматься, все дела. Но звук именно перемещался, последовательно. Сначала надо мной, потом оно "побежало" куда то в угол второго этажа, потом вдоль стены к другому углу. Я знатно обкирпичился, и спрашиваю прабабку, мол, спишь? Она говорит нет, ну я и спросил, что это на втором этаже за звуки? В ожидании что она меня как то успокоит, я знатно прихуел когда она совершенно спокойно, и даже будто с добротой, как о каком то старом знакомом, ответила "Ааа, так это Ванечка)". Всю ночь потом сука не спал, еще минут 7-10 это продолжалось, но потом один раз сильно скрипнуло, в одном месте, будто кто то прыгнул, что ли, и прекратилось
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- Topic
- Sounds, Presence
- Setting
- Home
- Region
- Not stated
- Approx. date
- Not stated
- Witnesses
- 2
- Account
- First-hand
- Who was there
- Unidentified
- Witness's own word
- «Ванечка»
Possible ordinary explanations
Suggested by the editor, not the witness. Not a verdict.
- Wooden house boards contracting or settling with temperature changes
- An animal such as a rodent or bird moving around the unfinished floor
- A neighbor's child or someone else actually walking upstairs
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