THE RURAL HOME'S DARK SECRET

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"I grew up in a very old home in rural Wisconsin. It was over 100 years old when we moved in, and the original structure was added onto throughout the years before we moved in. It was originally a one-room house. When I was little, my brother Dylan and I would always see and hear weird [things]. As an adult, we remember them vividly, but when we were kids, we'd brush it off, and our parents would say we were imagining things. One time, Dylan went up to our mom's room to grab something for her and turned around to see a little boy standing in the doorway of our shared room (the right side was always particularly creepy and it was a renovated attic). And when I was a kid, in that same room I would see my Barbies 'moving' on the top of my flat dollhouse. My mom had friends stay over one night, and one stayed on our couch. He woke up in the middle of the night to someone choking him and was like, 'There's something here and I need to leave' and bolted.

"The real clincher is that when I was in high school, we had to get a new septic tank, and my parents couldn't find it anywhere because the records were awful, so they ended up getting a hold of the son of the original owners. He was a million years old, [and] he told my parents where the tank was because he helped dig it out. My mom was like, "I have to ask, we've had some creepy stuff happen here, but whatever it is, [it] seems to like our family?" She asked if the place was haunted, and according to my mom, when she asked him, his face turned white and blank. It was because his brother hung himself as a teenager in our living room." - Sierra

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