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I'm not really sure if this one belongs here or not and if it doesn't, I very much apologize. When I was 10, we moved into this nice, well sized house. I liked it originally because it had enough rooms for me to have a playroom. Well, before we moved in, we needed to do some touch ups on the inside of the house.

This, I think, is when it started happening. Since I was so young, my parents had me help out by painting small areas like the closets. Due to this, I was by myself quite a bit. After a short time, I kept getting the feeling that something was following me...watching me. I dismissed it at the time because I realized that things might be a little creepy because there was nothing in the house yet.

So, we finally move in. My room was one of the larger rooms. It had two doors, one that went out into the hallway and one that went into the dining room, and two rather large side by side windows. The feeling of being followed and watched kept getting stronger and stronger. It got to the point where I kept both doors shut and very thick curtains over the windows at all times.

The back rooms (one had my playroom and the other branched off of it with no door) were odd as well. My playroom was always cold, no matter what. I would always, and I mean always, play in my playroom with my back either right up against the wall or inches from it. The adjoining room always just felt...odd, especially around the basement door and stairs (but not in the basement).

And then there were the nightmares. I rarely went a night without one in that house. They just kept getting worse. I tried hanging a dream catcher, but it didn't work...actually made it feel like things got trapped inside my room instead. One of my cousins suggested sleeping with a Bible under my pillow. I tried it and it helped immensely. I also got two kittens that would sleep in my room with me. I still felt followed and watched intensely, but the nightmares happened much less.

After a while, I took my Bible out from under my pillow (partly because mom asked me why it was under there) and my kittens had been given away. I had a cat still, but it was an outdoor cat. The feelings got worse...the nightmares slowly started to return. The feelings even started to extend out into the back yard. It didn't help much with what I found under my window one day. I won't go into detail as it may turn someones stomach (I will if asked, however), but it was a small dead kitten that hadn't died of natural causes.

We eventually moved out and all was more or less peaceful, or so I thought. A few months to a year at most, I felt a familiar feeling. I started having nightmares again. The feelings got bad sometimes, but wasn't as bad as they had been. I had dolls displayed in my room, however, and every night I would turn them around to face away from me. My mom thought it odd behavior for a, then, earlier high schooler, but just went with it.

After a few years, we move again, and again the same thing happens. This last time that we've moved the nightmares haven't returned, but the feelings have. It's also spread. I feel it in my car...at my boyfriend's house...I also felt it at my, now, former workplace. I've already turned what displayed dolls I have around like before once or twice.

They don't bother me now, but I keep catching myself giving them a sidelong look sometime. The feeling of being watched isn't coming from them, but I guess, in my mind, since they have eyes they're the first possible cause even though they aren't. It's not a different feeling every house...it's the exact same. As weird as it may sound, I think whatever was in that one house has been following me.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be going on? Questions are welcome.

Hmm...that theory does worry me slightly. I don't know why I didn't put it in the previous post, but it's never been a positive feeling I get. It can get quite scary, actually, if it gets intense enough. It's not always too bad, though. Like right now I just kinda feel like something is just kind of watching me. I have quite often went running into my room because I suddenly get a very strong feeling of something about to rush at me. That one seems to be a popular one since moving out of that house. I'm just glad that, so far, nowhere has it been as strong as it was at that house.

Yeah, sorry about the lack of spaces in there. It's been fixed. I honestly don't know why I didn't fix it before.

The dolls don't bother me anymore. I think what it actually was was whatever it is happened to be over there. I do tend to have things like that in the "central focal point" of my room, so that one's probably my fault.

If it starts to get really bad again like it was in that first house, I may try a psychic, I dunno.

Now that I've gone back over my post (while I was putting some spacing in there) it reminded me of something. About a week and a half ago, I had one of my cats staying in my room because we got her fixed. Thinking that she would probably like to have a window to sit in front of and look outside, I raised my blinds. As soon as I did that, she started growling and was looking at the window. It kind of freaked me out that she did that, so I quickly put the blinds back down. When I did, she stopped growling, but still looked at the window for just a few seconds more even though I had moved.

I don't know if she saw something I didn't, but I remember reading that animals are really good at picking up stuff that we may not.