Thriller Thursday3

My friend J has been my closest friend ever since I moved here in '91. We've worked, lived, laughed, and cried together. Just after I moved into my home, J rented a house for her and her family (1 bio daughter, 2 adopted kiddos, cat, dog). I think I only visited it once or twice, mostly I visited her at her daycare business or out and about town. Today's thrilling episode is hers.

The second night after moving in, J said her youngest screamed in the night. She thought he was having nightmares and he complained he was seeing a monster in his bedroom. He'd NEVER talked about monsters until moving into this house.

J said that ever since that second night, S wouldn't go in his room for anything. He would play in his sister's room or outside his room in the hallway. She had a terrible time getting him to bed and eventually he flat out refused to sleep in his room.

When she asked him what he was seeing, S told her the monster looked like a person with blood coming from their eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.

J said that she was never really all that comfortable in the house, like a general bad vibe, but she did not connect it to anything specific. She said the lights would occasionally flicker on and off and they would hear loud bangs and thumps in parts of the house where they weren't. When they'd investigate, nothing was disturbed. The family members each felt like they were being watched when no one (real) was watching them and the dog would startle for no reason and bark at nothing.

J said they had only lived there about 2 and a half months when a fire that happened late at night destroyed part of the house and smoke and water damaged almost all of their belongings. Everyone, including the pets, were able to get out with no injuries.

After the fire, one of J's employees/bio daughter's friends asked J if she knew the history of the place she'd been living in. J said no and the friend said a couple years before J rented it, a teenager lived there with his family. The teenager shot and killed himself in S's bedroom.

Now J and her family had no idea this had occurred until after the fire when the friend told them.

Weirdness factors...

1) S saw a monster specifically in his room and nowhere else.

2) The monster resembled someone with gunshot wounds to the head (a concept he was too young to even know about).

3) J had a uncomfortable feeling the whole time she lived there.

4) J firmly believes the fire had something to do with the history of/influence in the house although the fireman theory is the dog may have knocked over a candle and lit a blanket or curtain on fire.

Now is that thrilling or what? Traumatic for the boy tho.