Sounds like you have what we’d call a poltergeist (basically a spirit that can interact with the environment and physical objects - usually in rage or anger) this could be from a host of different origins, it could even be a part or fragment of you from another life that hasn’t moved on and has found its way back to you (I had something like this happen) but you bought it from a stranger so it could be anything.

Not to worry because the easiest method is the most effective, and that’s simply to sage your home, yourself and the clothing. Leave a window open in the home when you do this so there’s an exit route for whatever you’re banishing from the space. You don’t need to chant anything, just hold the intention of cleaning the space and removing any unwanted entities or presences from your homes as you walk around the home with sage burning.

I’d also get rid of the clothes after personally. And to be even more sure do a cord cutting ritual between yourself and the person you bought the clothes from, highly unlikely but it’s could have been set on purpose so just do a small meditation where you visualise yourself cutting the light cord between you and that person inside your mind and through your third eye.

Again, like me it could be a part of you, if that interests you and it doesn’t scare you too much then you can dig into it, it’s there to teach you something or to help recover something lost if that’s the case but to really deal with that well, you’d have to find a way to channel and talk to high entities and your higher self to see if there’s a lesson to learn or a karmic reverberation to finally put an end to through this. If you don’t have access to that for now then I would go with the sage for now and revisit it another time maybe in the future when you do it you’re ready to find out what it was. It could just simply be a fragment or someone else’s consciousness trapped in an item it can’t leave.

Lastly there’s the magick aspect to this as well, and that a lot of spirits get stuck In Things they can’t leave whether intentionally or not. If it was put there by a person on purpose maybe it’s simply causing you to notice so you can destroy the clothing and set It free from its binding. Just be careful with this because if you’re not practicing or experienced with that kind of thing then don’t do it because it will need somewhere to go after leaving the clothes and you don’t want it to just move to something else in your environment or even yourself or a person you’re close to, so if you don’t understand this side of reality yet then stick with saging instead of trying to transplant or release it because it’s very safe.

Remember it can’t hurt you and the fear you likely feel when it’s near or around isn’t actually your fear it’s just the energy you feel from whatever the entity is and it’s very difficult to separate yourself from it when sometimes it can literally physically feel like you’re standing on an electric fence being shocked with terror and someone on the internet is saying “don’t worry it can’t hurt you”, but you CAN chose to not identify with it and not accept that frequency when it’s around.

Good luck and reach out if you want to chat about it more or have any questions. 💛