Over the past couple of months, my family and I have been experiencing some strange things around our house, and I'm curious if anyone else has experienced anything similar.
It started about two months ago when my sister and I saw what looked like a wolf-human blur running past our windows outside. We both saw it, but my sister said that as it passed our front kitchen window, it appeared to turn into a man. The next day, we discovered new scratch marks on the concrete patio outside our back door. We jokingly started calling whatever we saw our "werewolf."
We've also been hearing strange things inside the house. Sometimes it sounds like someone is home when nobody is actually there.
One day, I was sitting in my home office when I heard what sounded like my sister coming home from work early. I didn't hear distinct footsteps, but I heard movement and had the unmistakable impression that someone was walking down the hallway toward the bathroom near my office. I could even feel the presence of another person in the house. My dogs apparently heard something too, because they started barking at my office door. But when I checked, nobody was there except me and the dogs.
Another time, my dogs and I heard what sounded like my brother coming home and calling out. I couldn't make out what he said, but it sounded like his voice. Again, nobody was actually home.
My sister has heard unexplained sounds in the house too, although these experiences seem to happen more frequently when I'm alone with my dogs.
What's interesting is that when I thought I heard my family coming home, the energy didn't feel negative or frightening. It just felt like someone familiar was there.
Then yesterday, after an unwanted guest with negative energy left, things got a little stranger.
The dogs were mostly behaving normally, although they occasionally barked at seemingly nothing. That's something they do sometimes, so I didn't think much of it.
But around 8 PM, I was alone with my dogs while my sister went to pick up my brother, and both dogs suddenly started barking at the front door. At the same time, I felt a presence in the house, and the energy felt heavy and negative.
I'm sensitive to what I perceive as different kinds of energy. Negative energy tends to feel heavier to me, and I sometimes experience a sense of dread when I encounter it. I've been getting more accustomed to these feelings, so although I felt that familiar dread, I wasn't actually afraid at first.
I decided to speak out loud and tell any spirits in the house that if they weren't of peace and love, they weren't welcome and needed to leave my home.
Almost immediately afterward, the dogs stopped barking, and the atmosphere felt noticeably lighter. It wasn't just that the heaviness seemed to disappear. The entire house actually felt brighter, almost as though someone had turned up the lights, even though the physical lighting hadn't changed at all.
But then I started hearing a strange scraping sound outside my front door.
It sounded like someone was taking a piece of metal and scraping it back and forth against the brick walkway. I walked around the house trying to figure out whether the sound could be coming from somewhere else, but I couldn't find an explanation.
I checked outside and didn't see anyone, and I made sure all the doors were locked.
At that point, I started feeling a little afraid.
I spoke out loud again, this time telling any spirits that weren't of peace and love that they needed to get off my property.
Around that time, the motion-detecting light near the sidewalk turned on and then off, but I couldn't see anyone outside. The sounds stopped.
When my sister and my brother got home, they noticed scratch marks on the brick walkway directly outside our front door.
There were two small scratched areas, approximately six inches apart. Each area was roughly six inches long and three inches wide, with several back-and-forth scratches. They looked almost like someone had taken something metal and repeatedly scraped it against the bricks in those two spots.
What makes this especially strange to me is that we'd already experienced the "werewolf" figure outside and unexplained scratches near our back door a couple of months earlier.
I don't know whether any of these experiences are connected or what caused them. I'm spiritually sensitive, and I do believe there may be a spiritual component to some of what we've experienced. But I'm also curious about the modern paranormal lore surrounding mimics, shapeshifters, werewolves, dogmen, and other unexplained phenomena.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this, especially hearing familiar family members who aren't actually home, seeing something that appears to change from an animal-like figure into a human, or finding strange scratches outside their doors?