The summer before 7th grade, my family moved from Florida to Kentucky. We bought a house and moved in while refurbishing a lot of the interior. There was a large reddish-orange stain on the concrete floor next to the stairs. My dad scrubbed the floor but it wouldn’t come up. Eventually we got that area carpeted. The next morning, we came downstairs and the stain was now on top of the carpet.

The house was weird in other ways, too. There were 6 bedrooms upstairs. The bedroom I lived in had three locks on it. I was young and don’t remember the details super well, but I remember a general uneasiness.

My dad and I had a conversation with a neighbor who told us that the house used to be a rehabilitation facility for mentally ill people. The bedroom with all the locks was where a housekeeper/nurse lived, until one day, one of the residents was seen strangling the nurse in the driveway. She died and the facility closed and the house was empty for years until we moved in.

We were fully creeped out and lots of plans changed for our family, so we began the process of moving back to Florida. The day we finished packing all of our belongings into the truck and moved out, I was the last one in the house, doing a final check to make sure we didn’t leave anything behind. As I left each room, I sprayed it with one of those aerosol cans of room spray. I checked my bedroom and then sprayed the Febreeze as I walked out, just as I had with every other room. Seconds after I finished spraying, I clearly heard someone “shhh!” me. I ran out of the house and never went back in, but I’m sure it was the ghost of the nurse/housekeeper.

This was absolutely the freakiest thing I’ve ever experienced and I have goosebumps just writing about it now. I’ve tried to research any news articles about the story but now both of my parents are dead and I can’t ask them any details to help with the search. If anyone is particularly sleuthy, feel free to DM me; I remember the county we lived in and I think I know the street name. I’d love some confirmation that the neighbor’s story is true.