A few short various incidents happening in and around the house…..not neccesarily scary, but just makes your hair rise
One time my nyab’s mom and one of her sisters got into an argument. Her mom started to cry, but it was more like nyiav’ing (the funeral cry). As they all went outside to see where her sister took off too…they heard from the tree (remember one of the Civil War ghost is by the tree) mocking her mom’s nyiav’ing.
I moved back home and we went back to Wisc for my oldest brother’s college graduation. I still had the house key so we let ourselves in. We ordered pizza b/c my nieces and nephews were hungry. When the delivery guy got there, my niece went to open the door and pay for the pizza… the door was already cracked open. She asked the pizza guy if he opened the door and he said someone opened the door, but then stopped and then she came to the door. She asked us who was the last one to come in….I told her I was, but I locked the door and no one went back outside until the pizza guy showed up.
Remember that spare bedroom off the dining room I mentioned earlier… one night my nyab’s cousin and his family came to visit. They have a 2 year old and one that’s a few months old. Nyab and her cousin’s wife were in the kitchen talking, my brother and nyab’s cousin were in the living room watching some gory horror movie. Their 3 yr old girl and I were in the dining room playing. She kept turning to the TV and ask “what’s that?, what’s that?” I told her it was mee-mow and not to watch. We continued playing with a tennis ball… she goes to stand by the door going into the spare room with her back facing it. After a few mins she makes this surprise face and I asked her what’s wrong. She points into the room and says “mee-mow, mee-mow in there”. I got spooked myself so I tried to play it off and told her it’s just my nephew who’s asleep in there. Everyone who has ever slept in that room has their own story to share…especially the drunks who ends up crashing in there.
Nyab’s dad is one of those people who haus ntshav tes with their girlfriend back in the days. Whenever he’s sick, he’ll see her. One time he got really sick and kept hallucinating. Nyab’s sister was getting tired of her dad hallucinating so she says “koj heev diam lod? Show yourself b*tch” The tv was turned off, but right then the tv zapped on/off really quick and they could see a white shadow of a lady reflected on the tv. My nyab goes “you’re so dumb. You never challenge the dead!” Her sister kept quiet after that.
My nephew gets out of school 30 mins before my brother gets home from school and they’d just leave the house unlock so he could get in the house. One day he got home and heard a little kid crying upstairs. Knowing that no one was home, he went to see who it could be. He checked the spare room upstairs and saw a little girl w/ messy hair crying, but she had her back towards him so he couldn’t see her face. He got scared and came back downstairs to wait until my brother got home. He never did tell my brother or nyab, but he told his auntie. We later asked him about it and he said it was true, but he knew something was not right about it and the little girl didn’t seem real that’s why he didn’t want to say anything to his parents b/c they wouldn’t believe him.
Okay, so all the years that this have been going on in their house…they’ve never told my parents or us. The Spring after we moved in, we came to visit my parents. My nyab finally told my parents about what’s been going on in the house for the past years. My parents wanted to go up to ua ib thaj neeb kho tsev. The whole weekend we kept talking and sharing our experiences about the house. The night before we left was when we started hearing cats outside our house! It was Sunday night and we’re packing to come back home…family members who came to say their good-byes were leaving to go home. My dad and my brother were asleep already. My nephew and nyab’s sister is in my room laying on the bed talking and playing around. I’m in the dining room packing some stuff when I hear this loud non-stop meeeoooowwwing going back and forth between what sounded like two cats. It sounded like it was coming from the sliding doors next to me which led to the deck outside, but then I look in my room and I could see my nephew and his auntie playing around on the bed, laughing so I thought maybe it was just them messing around. This went on 2 or 3 more times and didn’t say anything to anyone. A few minutes later, my nyab was at the dining room table packing her stuff as well. She hears the same cat noise and says to me “is it just me or am I hearing cats meowing from outside? Do you hear it?” I told her I heard it earlier, but didn’t want to say anything. Our backyard is totally fenced in with those high wood fence so there’s no way any cats could’ve gotten inside the yard. Also, none of our neighbors have any cats. We got spooked and decided to call it a night… the four of us is in my room now fixing the beds and what not. All of a sudden, we hear this creepy, loud mmeeeeooowwwin
g right outside my window as if the cats were in heat! Everyone dropped what they were doing jumped on the bed, no one dared to move. My window is on the side of the house so now we couldn’t figure out how the freaky cats got from the fenced in backyard to the side of the house. Finally my nyab goes “okay you guys, let’s all get up and move the two beds together and we’ll just all sleep together so we won’t be scared.” We gathered up enough courage to get up and move the beds together…called it a night. No one wanted to sleep by the window hahaha. When we got back to Wisc, nyab told her mom about our experience that night. Her mom told her that when we went to visit my parents, one or two of them followed us. When we heard those cat meow noise, it was them letting us know of their presence and they didn’t like us talking about them. I told her mom to tell them that we’ll stop talking about them if they stop coming around and make their presence known. Needless to say, we didn’t hear them for a few months.
