The author recalls several strange incidents from childhood and the recent past: clattering dishes in the kitchen, a shadow behind the door, a sound underwater in the bath, a female scream at night, sounds of a cat playing while the cat was asleep, and a knock on the door frame. He associates some phenomena with a domovoi and a kikimora.
Domovoi
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Domovoi in a Nakhodka apartment block: duplicated earrings and an egg
Second-hand accountIn a new apartment block in Nakhodka, according to the narrator's mother, strange things happened: a cat meowed at a corner, the brother pointed at an "uncle," items vanished and reappeared, and red earrings multiplied to five. After a mysterious egg appeared and then disappeared, the disturbances in the apartment stopped while the neighbors' got worse.
An apartment resident periodically feels a soft ball underfoot that vanishes when he looks down. He suggests it might be a domovoi.
The author describes six incidents in different places: knocking and footsteps in childhood at his grandmother's, falling objects and footsteps at home, a face in the window, a ghost cat, a black eyeless cat and a domovoi, and a poltergeist in a rented apartment after an acquaintance's fortune-telling.
A first-person account of an apartment where small items—a credit card, a phone, and hair ties—repeatedly vanish and reappear, which the narrator attributes to a domovoi.
Family Legend of a Domovoi with Three Heads and Three Beaks
Second-hand accountThe narrator recounts a family legend about a domovoi that supposedly lived with her great-grandparents: it dragged her great-grandfather off the stove at night, lived in a chest, and, according to all relatives, had three heads and three beaks.
Black Figure in the Room with a Child on Its Shoulders
Second-hand accountThe narrator's father late at night saw a black figure in the room, and the second time — the same figure with his small son on its shoulders. After that, the grandmother performed a ritual addressing the domovoi.
A narrator who was skeptical of family stories about a domovoi in the ancestral home personally hears an elderly whisper by his ear at night after his grandfather's funeral, to which the cat reacts by frantically running around the room.