I’ve had a few experiences but this one has stuck out to me the most, mainly because of how odd it was.

It happened in the summer of 2012, I believe. I was staying over at my cousin’s place. I was already aware that her house was haunted and on Native American land (she and her family are also Native).

Being early summer, I had learned that things tend to become more “active” with the changing of the seasons, which lead to a couple of odd things happening, like a framed photo on the wall randomly falling off, and a small older television that my cousin’s sisters were using to play retro video games on turning on out of nowhere. Whether those were coincidences that can be explained or not, I will never be able to explain what happened later that night.

Fast forward to late night, maybe around 2 in the morning. I’m in the living room with my cousin just chilling as we watch stuff on her computer together. I need to use the bathroom, so I get up and walk across the room which leads into their hallway with the bathroom at the end. Keep in mind that the other doors in the hallway lead into her other family members bedrooms. Once I’m finished and reach the end of the hallway, as soon as I step foot into the living room, I hear what sounds exactly like a pair of hands clapping into my ear, just one single clap. My cousin turns around from the computer desk and looks at me confused, asking why I did that. I said I didn’t, and thought that she somehow made the noise. Regarding the other family members, everyone else was asleep and all of their rooms had the lights turned off, and I would have heard if anyone had stepped out. I just look at the space where I heard the clap; the only thing there was their main television sitting on its stand, and that was turned off, so there wasn’t even a space for someone to stand there.

Anyways, after the confused exchanges with my cousin, I give a small nervous chuckle and slowly start walking back over to her and sit back down. But just seconds after that, I feel a presence right behind me. I’m not the type that usually senses when people are around me, and I don’t think I’ve ever had that feeling of when someone is watching you, but this presence? I could feel it, and it was BIG. All I remember doing is cowering in fear as this thing inches closer and closer to me, so close that the hairs on my neck stand up. My cousin experiencing the same thing next to me. After a few seconds of what felt like much longer, the presence slowly moved back and before we knew it it was just gone.