Nationality: US American
Primary Language: English
Other language(s): n/a
Age: 22
Occupation: Business Manager
Residence: Orange, California
Performance Date: 11/26/2023

Tags: Ghosts, unexplained

D is 22 years old, and has lived in Southern California for the majority of her life. I had a conversation with her about some mysterious experiences she has had in her home in Orange County.

“Let me set the scene: I’m home alone. My sister moves out, my parents are across the country in an RV, away from everybody, including me. I’m by myself. I’m going about my day-to-day life, which consisted of nothing. I’m in the kitchen, and I’m walking over to the dining room, and I’m facing away from the kitchen. And I hear the little suction pop of the fridge, and I turn around, and it opens. And I watch it just swing all the way open. And I went “No, thank you!” And I walked over and I shut the fridge and I immediately called my mom and I was like “Mom, the fridge just opened by itself!” She’s like, “What do you mean?” I was like “The refrigerator door was shut. It was completely shut. And the way that I know it was completely shut was that I head the suction of the door when it opened… It just opened by itself, I have not touched the refrigerator in hours. What do I do about this?” And my mom was like “D, you are stronger than whatever is in that house.” And I had to live my days, by myself, in the house, with the refrigerator ghost.”

I’ve heard this story before (I heard it back when it happened to D) but this was told to me in this instance over a facetime call. It takes place in D’s house, in her kitchen. She was definitely very freaked out by it, especially when it first happened, but it has since become something that she tells freely. She doesn’t have any concrete ideas about who the ghost is, but she definitely believes her house is a little bit haunted.

I believe this story, because I remember D sending me video evidence of it when it first came out. I think its interesting–D definitely believes in the paranormal, but she’s also very no-nonsense when it comes to interacting with it. She refuses to even consider using Ouija boards or playing Bloody Mary, it’s not something she wants to mess around with. The fact that this was just something that happened to her out of the blue, in the middle of the afternoon, with nothing to follow up or precede it, is very interesting to me. It really makes me understand about how people have been “seeing ghosts” and having strange occurrences happen to them for centuries, and why we came up with ideas about ghosts in the first place.

Nationality: US American
Primary Language: English
Other language(s): n/a
Age: 22
Occupation: Business Manager
Residence: Orange, California
Performance Date: 11/26/2023

D is 22 years old, and has lived in Southern California for the majority of her life. I had a conversation with her about some mysterious experiences she has had in her home in Orange County.

“We were all watching a bunch of scary movies, it was you, me, [N], [M], and [S]. You remember this. We were watching–I think we watched Get Out, and then we were watching Us. And it was like, 10:30, 11 PM, and the hall light started flickering. Which… we all know that that happens on occasion. The hall light in my house likes to be weird. But it’s always creepy when it happens, and on top of that, we’re already watching a creepy f*ckin’ movie, so. N, brave soul that she is, was like “I’m gonna go turn the light off, like I’m gonna go flip the switch to be “off.”” And we were all like “That makes sense, if it’s off it won’t be going in and out because, y’know, technical stuff.” And so she gets up and does it and we keep watching the movie and then like… 15 minutes later we hear, again, clink clink clink. And we look over… And the hall light is back on. Then in another minute it’s back off, again. And I think we all tried to ignore it, because what else were we going to do about it? But it did freak us all out. And as much as people want to be like, “Oh, that’s an electrical thing–” N turned off all of the switches! So it’s not like they were on, and then turned off, and then turned on again, [meaning that it isn’t as if the light in the “on” position was simply faltering,] they were completely off, the light just turns on all the time.”

This story was told in the same instance as another story about D’s fridge opening all by itself. She says “I think it’s the same as the Light Ghost,” which is what she refers to this phenomenon of her hall light flickering. It’s been well-documented by her, as whenever it starts happening and she is particularly unsettled, she’ll record it and send it to her friends over Snapchat. She doesn’t think it’s any particular deceased person, just that her house is a little bit haunted, especially with this story of the light turning on & off when it has no electrical reason to.

I was present for this story. I remember being very unsettled, but, granted, we were also watching some scary movies at the same time, so I’m sure it was magnified by that. There’s always something creepy about that hall light flickering, though, because it’s not like a usual flicker, which is very spastic. When this light does it, it’s very even and measured, like somebody is bored and flicking the light on, off, on, off. I think it’s interesting that so many of us witnessed it, and that none of us have really assigned much meaning to it, beyond that it was vaguely spooky.