Welcome to my Halloween/paranormal story. I know this is a little late but better late than never. I will start by saying I am far from a professional writer so please be kind with judgments and I hope you enjoy the story.
My mom has never liked newer houses. She has always been a fan of older homes saying they had more character than newer cookie cutter homes. She was very happy to find one that was in good shape for sale near the historical district of our town. She quickly bought it and moved in calling it our new home.
My family has always been a fan of the paranormal. We love a good ghost story or some mystery that cannot be explained. We were all super excited when some small occurrences happened at my mom's house even though they were just little things.
The first thing we noticed was the lights always seemed to come on in middle of the night. When we went to bed we would turn them all off and in the morning you find a good number of them back on. It is true this was probably an electrical issue more than something paranormal but we liked to think it was.
The second occurrence was the fact that all dogs that came over at one point or another would end up looking up the stairs to the second floor and barking at nothing there. After a while, they would settle down and go about their business but from time to time they would go back to staring and barking at the top floor.
These events are far from what people tend to think of when they think of haunted houses but we thought it gave my mom's house a bit of character and a fun conversation piece if nothing else. There were no records of mysterious deaths of anything like that that came with the house so nothing too special but we found some fun in it.
Fast forward and I was in college and living in a cheap apartment at the time with a roommate. The college owned our little apartment as part of their off campus housing program. During the summer, the college had decided to update the apartments with all new faucets, water heaters, and furnaces as well. This meant they were asking everyone to find somewhere else to stay for about a week as they went through and updated everything. If you had nowhere else to go they offered you one of the vacant dorm rooms. I had no desire to stay in a dorm room so I choose to stay at my mom's for the week.
My mom had no issue with me staying with her, as my original room had simply become a guest bedroom when I had moved out. The space was pretty much the same minus some posters and of course my stuff. I packed a suitcase and moved back in for a week.
One night I had gone out with some friends and yes had a few drinks but I was far from drunk when I came home. The rest of my family was asleep so I went downstairs where my room was and watched a little bit of television before deciding to take a shower.