I am 18 years old and live in Sydney Australia. I moved here a year ago
from the UK.
The first "weird" encounter I had was 6 months ago. I read a Water Rats
book which is based on an Australian Television Series. I read the book
from cover to cover. 2 months laster, and seeing as thought the book was
very enjoyable, I decided to read it again to occupy myself during my hour
long train journey to work. I opened the book, and the first page was
missing! There were no signs that the page had been ripped out, there was
nothing! I flicked through the book and noticed the very last page, was
also missing! Upon returning home i questioned my family (mum dad and
brother) about the book and all denied touching the book ever. I passed off
this incident although it still played on my mind a lot.
The next incident
was about 3 weeks later. I was home alone and in my room listening to music
as i regularly do. I was aware vaguely of a screen door opening and closing
(note this was at around 9:30pm) but as we live in a block of town houses
its not rare to hear the goings on in other houses surrounding ours. After
an hour of constantly hearing the door I went to have a look around and see
if maybe somebody had left the door open so i could close it. When i got
downstairs the front door and screen door were wide open, and so was our
fridge. At this point i started to worry in case a burglar had gotten into
the house, but on checking for missing items I found nothing. I closed the
doors and turned all the lights on for some kind of peace of mind. I
decided after a couple of uneventful hours to get into bed as it was now
past midnight. I had been drifting in and out of sleep for about 45 minutes
when the phone rang. I picked up the phone in my room expecting to speak to
my parents telling me they would be home soon/ would be later. It was my
mums friend Betty on the phone wanting to talk to her, before i could tell
her that they were out, my mum picked up the main phone downstairs and said
"I've Got it" so i hung up and laid back down. Ten seconds later the phone
rang again. I picked it up after many rings thinking it strange my mother
wasn't near the phone to pick it up. It was Betty again, saying she had
gotten cut off before anyone had talked to her. I said okay and called my
mum again to tell her to pick the phone up. I got no answer. So i walked
downstairs to look and when i had searched every room in the house i gave up
and told Betty she wasn't home. I thought this strange that my parents
would come in and go straight back out at 1am. i sat up and watched some tv
and at 2:30am my parents came in. I questioned my mother as to what had
happened on the phone to Betty, and she denied touching the phone that
night, talking to Betty or ever returning to the house! I believed her
instantly and she would never play such a cruel prank. In various
photographs i have taken with my boyfriend and of the family, there is what
appears to be globules and mist above or behind us.
I do not know the
history of the house or the land it is built over, or whether any neighbors
have experienced any strange occurrences. The house is not older than 10
years but i could not be sure of an exact amount of years. We are however
surrounded by industrial units which maybe means our house is built over
some old warehouse or building site. I have been in touch with the city
library and a kind lady there is looking into the history of the suburb I
live in and the industrial history.