Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

I’m not sure what this is exactly… can someone tell me?

Ok, so me and my roommate are kind of nonbelievers in these kinds of things, but there have been some really weird things happening in our apartment and I don’t know if someone can help us figure out what this is… because I’m pretty convinced whatever it is its not natural.

I recently moved out into my own apartment. I share the apartment with my friend, Sarah. It is in good condition, its small, 2 bed rooms, one bath room and a main living area with a small kitchen. We’ve been living there for about a year and things have gotten a little out of control. I’ll explain.

First, we started noticing odd smells. The most common smell smells like something is burning, but it never seems to come from just the kitchen, its all over the apartment. Sometimes it smells like something is rotting (first we thought it was bad food…). We’ve checked all over the house, but its impossible to find the source because the smell is everywhere. This occurs more frequently, about every other day from anywhere between a few minutes to 24 hours. The smells were just the first thing, no one in our complex has complained of these smells, and our Landlord doesn’t smell them.

Things have gone missing, and they are never anything normal like car keys, but we’ve had our spoons go missing, cups, food we’ve just bought (like a whole pack of bacon), and recently Sarah has found that her figurines are missing. In terms of food, apples usually go missing more often… not sure why that is. Some items turn up randomly, even the food… we found a strip of bacon in our toilet once.

Whenever there are noises, they usually happen between 3 – 3:30 am and are usually just tapping sounds or just one loud knock. It never lasts for very long, and we’ve only had one incident where all our wall photos fell off the wall around 3 am.

There are a few things we’re worried about. We’ve been finding scratch marks on our floors and a couple on our doors. They don’t seem to be leading anywhere, they look really random, they’re not even in straight lines like animal scratches. They look like someone was hatching the floor. The other thing that has us worried is that we found a number written into the floor near Sarah’s closet : 81812.

I know Sarah isn’t doing this and she knows I’m not doing it. At first we thought the food thing was her, because Sarah sleep walks (usually to the kitchen) and does weird things when she sleeps walks, but people sleep walk, that’s totally normal… Even if she was snacking in the middle of the night, she wouldn’t have eaten a whole pack of bacon and left some of it in the toilet like a month later… that’s just not normal.

The number has us worried because its like someone had to have written that there, we didn’t notice it when we moved in, its pretty small, but we would have seen it before. We have no clue what it means, or if it doesn’t mean anything and we’re just overreacting. Anyways, if someone has experience something similar or has some ideas on what to do, please respond to this!

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