A woman has shared her horror after stumbling upon a chilling clue that her house was the site of a tragic murder.
Recounting her eerie experience on Reddit, she revealed how in her 20s, while living with friends, she discovered old newspapers beneath the floorboards.
Speaking of her shock find, she posted: “I rented a super haunted house and found a newspaper from 1890 underneath a floorboard. The front page had an article about a murderer being hanged. That house was terrifying.”
Her spooky encounters didn’t end with the hidden papers; she also experienced ongoing unsettling disturbances such as ‘strange and unexplained noises. ‘ She elaborated: “We all would hear noises when no one else was in the house. Footsteps running up and down the stairs, back and forth in the hall. We would see shadow figures sometimes too.
“On the first night there, I was home alone and the old cellar door slammed closed by itself. It was enclosed in a covered porch, so I don’t think it could have been the wind.” Increasing their alarm, her friend claimed to have seen a “tall figure of a man” in her bedroom doorway during the night, which led them to decide they needed to leave the property swiftly.
She said: “My bedroom was in the attic across a short hall from my housemate’s room. Our rooms didn’t have doors. One morning in the kitchen my housemate asked if I had someone over last night. I said no – I was alone. She told me she saw a tall figure of a man standing in my doorway the whole night.”
The property underwent a revamp a few years back, and with the area now heavily gentrified. The woman remain curious whether the new owners have encountered similar experiences. She said: “We now own an 1891 folk Victorian and have found nothing except a kids Spiderman glove and some old bobby pins inside a vent. At least one person died in this house but I still haven’t come across anything spooky!”
Reacting to her story, another user shared: “I have a similar story, not a house I owned, but in the early 2000s the construction company I worked for was doing a septic job on an old farmhouse and found the original news articles from this case [Commonwealth v Belenski] that were neatly cut and mounted on boards that we’re tucked away in one corner of the basement.”
They revealed a chilling history: “Turns out the owners of that house at the time were murdered and buried out back. They eventually caught the guy (their farm hand) who was ultimately convicted and sent to the chair. As you can imagine, it turned out to be a very interesting dig for our crew.”