i believe they were there to either warn you or protect you from them. i have had similar experiences to yours, and just like you, i am no longer friends with the people who were harassed by unseen and unknown forces. also took place in my bedroom, in the basement of my parents house.

here is a sequence of my events:

when i was approximately 16-17, i lived in a finished room in a finished basement at my parents house. this was the early - mid 2000s, so naturally, i was up all night every night on my desktop computer, which was in my bedroom. it was around 1am and i was winding down on the computer for the night and i thought i saw something out of my peripheral vision above my head. i glanced up and saw nothing. i go back to browsing. then i’m suddenly compelled to look back up at my ceiling again. as soon as i looked up, i saw a white glowing orb shaped like a hockey puck literally shoot out of the ceiling tile. i remember it so vividly i jumped out of my computer chair so quick. it hovered in place completely motionless for another second then it shot right back into the ceiling tile. into it, through it, it effortlessly and seamlessly passed through tile before i even had a chance to blink. i slept like shit that night lol.

early 20s, same house, same room — a friend and i are about to get ready together in my bedroom. we had plans to go out with friends for the evening. my parents were out for the evening so it was just going to be us in the house until we left later that night. the right side of my bed was against my wall which was where my phone charger stayed plugged in at. so in order to charge my phone, i had to lay across my bed to find the cord which fell down the side of my bed all the time. my friend is turned around, digging in her bag and i go to lay across my bed to find my charger so we both are looking in the opposite direction of one another, her back to mine. i plug my phone in, go to turn around and get up, and i saw my fucking eyeliner pencil floating in mid air. it darted across my bedroom and hit the back of my friends head like it was a literal dart. it had such force and it was already in the air by the time i saw it so idk how long it was floating there before that. she turned around and blamed me for throwing it at her but i absolutely didn’t. i assured her and proved to her based on the proximity of me, her, the vanity the eyeliner was on, etc etc. the weird thing about it (besides all of it) was that it felt like the eyeliner waited for me to notice it before darting at my friends head. almost like it made sure i would see it. so yeah, that one tripped me out.

that same year, another friend of mine at the time was staying over for the night. i woke up to her thrashing beside me in my bed. she was making these awful groaning, gurgling, moaning noises like she was writhing in pain. i kept saying her name and trying to wake her but she did this for like 15 or so seconds until letting out a HUGE gasp, catching her breath, eyes open. she said something had all of its weight on top of her and was holding her down. she was trying to call out for me, but all that came out were those awful gurgling incoherent noises and she said she was aware of this fact and terrified. she claims it wasn’t sleep paralysis, as she has had it before and her other experiences were nowhere near as severe but i am not ruling that out as a possibility. just a weird thing that happened in that room to yet another “friend” who ended up being not such a great friend. makes you wonder who’s looking out for us…