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Not sure if I've posted this one before or not, but I'll tell it again because it always scared me and anyone else I've told. Plus as I've gotten older, I've been told more information about everything.

Everything that's happened takes place at my aunt's duplex. She and my uncle divorced when my cousin was a toddler, so my aunt and my cousin were the only two who lived in the house until she remarried about 6 years later. Most of the incidents occured before her second marriage.

My aunt was having a hard time making ends meet and her electricity had been cut off. She was too proud to tell anyone else in our family, so she and my cousin spent several days in the dark. One night it was raining and she got a knock on her front door. She opened it up to a man standing there saying he was from the utility company and her power was back on, even though she had not paid the bill. He left, she called the power company to report it I guess, and they had not sent anyone out to her house.

Another time, my aunt woke up because she heard my cousin crying in his room. By the time she went in to check on him, he had stopped crying, the rocking chair was moving, and she heard a soothing woman's voice singing a song that my grandmother made up and only people in our family know.

One time my aunt had several $20 bills in her drawer and they went missing. As I said, she struggled financially for awhile, so to have this missing money was a big deal. She was upset about it for a couple days, then one day when she came home from work, the money was fanned out across her bed like a deck of cards. No one else had been in the house.

My grandfather was feeding my aunt's cat when she was on vacation one time, so he was by himself in the house. The phone rang and he answered it, but no one was there. He hung up. When he turned around, the phone was off the hook. He hung it up again, turned back around later, and it was off the hook again.

My cousin's changing table was near the kitchen with a view of the basement steps. He remembers seeing the shadow of an old man there all the time, and he'd always point and say "old man, old man" but my aunt never saw anything.

My grandmother was babysitting my cousin when he was in elementary school and she asked him to straighten up his room. She went in his bedroom later and all the clothes were thrown all over the place, including hanging from the ceiling fan. My cousin swears to this day he didn't do it.

One night my cousin was asleep in his mom's bed and he felt himself start to fall out of bed. He remembers feeling strong hands push him back into bed before he could fall out and wonders if maybe the way he would've fallen could have caused a serious injury.

My aunt used to hear children's footsteps running up and down the stairs and also frequently heard a music box playing. She'd sometimes go over to the neighbor's place (since she was in a duplex) to see if it was her neighbor's little girl running or playing with a music box, and it never was.

My aunt ended up having a psychic come in and then the house blessed by a priest. The psychic thinks a woman, her father, and a child lived there (explains the woman singing to my cousin and why she always "watched over" him, the old man my cousin would see in the basement, and the children's footsteps and music box.) The psychic said the spirits weren't evil, but my aunt still had the place blessed. Since then, only a few random incidents have happened, nothing to the extent of what used to take place.