Saul Ruelas

Electrician 

Yes, when I was 15, I went to Mexico to visit my aunt, and there was an abandoned house near her. It was empty for over 20 years, and people went there to do bad things. The story around town was that you could hear screams at night. So, my cousin and I went there, and we were told to go at exactly midnight. We were walking around, and a bunch of birds flew at us in the dark and scared us. We stayed a while, and nothing happened. We went back home and were just chilling, and we started hearing footsteps and drawers opening and closing around the house. We thought it was just our imagination. Then the house shook and shuddered, and the drawers and doors were slamming. The noise woke everyone up and scared everyone. We had been videoing everything on our phones, and when we looked at the video in the morning, we saw shadows following us around. I still have that video. 

Daniela Lima 

Project manager 

I was about 7 years old, and my mom, my grandpa and I moved into a house that had this weird vibe. We all felt it. We went to a carnival, and I got a balloon. We had cameras in the house, and we saw the balloon moving up and down and around the house. Balloons shouldn’t move like that. 

Kimberly Vazquez 

Veterinary assistant 

Yes, it was a house that I lived in during the COVID lockdown. My room was near the bathroom, and we had a “dead people’s” table in the hall, with pictures of our dead relatives on the table. I had to walk by the table to get to the bathroom. My grandmother died when I was 15, and I had dreams about her all the time. One night, I had to go to the bathroom, and I had to walk by the dead people’s table, and when I turned off the light in the bathroom, my grandmother came running at me! I blinked, and she was gone.

 

Ava Spalding 

Dance studio manager 

No, I have never lived in a haunted house. But, one night, I was alone in my bed, and I suddenly felt two hands grab my shoulders. I jumped straight up! I wasn’t scared, actually; it was comforting. I’m religious, so I assumed that it was Jesus who was comforting me as I was going through a bad time in my life and telling me that he “had my back.” 

Giovanni Lucchesi 

Golf cart attendant  

I’ve lived in the same house since I was born, and it’s not haunted, so no. But I had a dream about a shooting at a party that my friends and I were supposed to go to. It was a supernatural warning dream. I woke up and thought that it was just a weird dream or nightmare, but I was so convinced that it was a warning, I talked my friends into not going to the party. Well, later, on the news, we found out that there was a shooting at that party, and someone was killed.

 

David Robert is the photo editor of the Reno News & Review. In his first stint as the RN&R’s photo editor, he won multiple Nevada Press Association and Association of Alternative Newsmedia awards...

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