Moving into a new place is so exciting. It's a fresh start, and it's fun make a new house a home. Of course, when we move in, we hope it's just us and our family. No one wants unwanted guests, particularly the supernatural kind.
A mom from New Mexico got more than she bargained for when she and her girlfriend moved into a new home with their son. They thought the 100-year-old house was filled with charm and character, and apparently, so did someone else. Renee Valdez swears a ghost is living in her home, and when she reached out to the former owner, she allegedly said, "Oh, I've been expecting you." We're officially creeped out.
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Strange things started happening in the family's new home.
In an interview with Inside Edition, Valdez explained that she noticed odd noises in her home. The house is old, so some creeks and squeaks are to be expected. But a doorbell that isn't connected going off repeatedly at the same time every night, well, that is a little unusual.
"The old doorbell is not connected, but every night at the same time, the doorbell starts to ding pretty violently," she says. "It starts slow, and then as it progresses. And that's when we started thinking something was up."
She also set up a camera to capture sounds from the basement. She claims she heard chains rattling back and forth.
It's not just her. Valdez's animals are tuned into the paranormal happenings in the house as well.
Video of the family's cat, Ruth, shows the grey kitty's ears going back as she stares at something in the air. Valdez said that Ruth's reactions freak her out.
Um, yeah, same.
"I don't like her reactions because her ears go back. She's definitely following something that's up there," Valdez says.
The house's haunt seems to like to mess with electronics, too.
We have all heard the conspiracy theories that our phones and other devices, like Amazon's Alexa assistant, are listening to us. Well, at Valdez's house, that may be true. She shared a wild story about a call coming from inside the house.
"One of them went off and started ringing, which I didn't even know they could do this with a call, and it said, 'There's a call coming from inside the house,' like it's in a horror movie. From inside, there's a call coming, and it's ringing," she recalled. "And it's like, 'Do you want to answer it?' We answer it, and it just sounded like whirling on the speaker. We panic, and we're saying, 'Alexa, stop. Alexa!' And it won't stop. So I just go and unplug the device."
We are getting total Scream vibes.
Valdez's son said he saw an actual ghost.
Mom has heard things, but according to her son, a man with a fedora is in his room. Her son explained that he would occasionally peek at him from the bathroom. The ghost isn't scary; it just makes him uncomfortable. Wow, kid, you're way braver than us.
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The old owner had similar experiences.
After the hat story, Valdez said she reached out to the previous owner on Facebook and was both shocked and relieved to hear that she knew about the ghost. The previous owner's son also claimed to see a man and described the same person in a hat. She also showed Valdez a video of flickering lights that her newborn daughter seemingly prompted.
And although it is spooky, Valdez is happy in her home and has no plans to move.
"They're not bothering me. I'm going to let it go. I kind of love him. In his own way, he's the icing on the cake of this creepy 1920s house that I bought," she says.
