Connecticut Woman Moves Into a New Home. She Was Excited, Then Her Dog Started Acting Up.

Moving into a new home and owning a property is a dream many hope to achieve in their lifetimes. Hannah, who moved to Moosup, Connecticut, was a first-time home owner. She was living the dream until she made an unsettling discovery in her new home.

Kaycee (@kaycee_not_anthony) on TikTok read Hannah’s story submission. Initially, Hannah was debating on whether or not to send it to Kaycee but figured that she needed to let the experience off her chest. Mossup is a small village in the east of Connecticut.

“Think old milltown, lots of woods, the kind of place where everyone knows whose car is in the driveway,” Hannah described. She lived alone in her two-bedroom house, which was located in the backroad. It had a big yard and had sprawling woods just behind the property line.

She said that the previous owner was an elderly woman who passed away in the home. The woman’s family sold the home as is, and she got the property below the asking price. Hannah felt like she won the lottery, especially since home prices in recent years have been sky-high.

“First few months were completely normal. Literally, nothing out of the usual,” Hannah said in her letter. She continued, “But then, I started noticing my dog.”

Rue, Hannah’s Shepherd mix, was not known to bark at people or odd noises.

Her dog noticed it first

“But around late September, he would start doing this thing where he would sit at the bottom of the stairs, and he would just stare up,” Hannah recalled. There would be times when Rue would stare up the stairs for around 20 minutes. He would be frozen in place—not listening to Hannah call him, even though she described him as an obedient dog. At first, Hannah speculated that there must be mice in the attic.

Hannah paid an inspector to check if there were mice. Strangely enough, he found no rats in the house. He even said that the attic of the home is cleaner than most of the attics he sees, which was a feat in itself because the house is old.

“Then, the smell started—only in the guest bedroom, only at night, and only sometimes. It smelled like pennies and wet laundry. I would open up the door in the morning, and then it would be gone,” Hannah said. But she didn’t seem bothered by the activity. Hannah burnt candles and convinced herself that it was just one of the vents that made her home smell the way it did.

She got sleep paralysis

Then, Hannah woke up one November morning to Rue growling. He was standing at the foot of her bed, facing the hallway. Hannah’s bedroom door was open, which was normal for her. But she looked down the hallway, and the guest bedroom door was open.

There was a woman standing in the doorway.

“She was not see-through, she was not glowing, she was not floating—she looked like a person, like a regular, real person. Older, maybe in her 70s, wearing a nightgown, gray hair down past her shoulders,” Hannah explained. Unlike other stories where entities look obscure, the woman in question looked human.

“She wasn’t angry, she wasn’t sad, she was just looking,” Hannah continued. During the encounter, Hannah recalled being unable to move or scream. But once she was able to turn her head, the woman disappeared.

An uncomfortable discovery about her home

After the encounter, Hannah thought it was all a bad dream. It must have been sleep paralysis, she concluded, and moved on. But a few weeks later, she was in the basement of her home. Hannah was looking through paperwork, and there were still boxes left by the previous owner of the home.

The family of the previous owner gave Hannah permission to throw some things out. But at the bottom of a box, she found a small photo album. Hannah flipped through it and paused.

There was a picture of the woman. It was the same woman that appeared before Hannah—she had the same face, the same long, gray hair, and the same nightgown. In the photo, she was standing in Hannah’s guest bedroom.

“Somebody had written on the back of the photo in pen, and it said, ‘Mom, the night before.’ I don’t know what ‘the night before’ what meant. I do not want to know,” Hannah said. Despite coming to terms with the unusual, paranormal activity in her home, Hannah has no plans to move away.

(featured images: David Kanigan)

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